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Pentecostalism is a religious phenomenon more visible in the cities. However, it has attracted significant rural populations in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Sociologist David Martin [230] has called attention on an overview on the rural Protestantism in Latin America, focusing on the indigenous and peasant conversion to ...
By 1988, the church would become totally separate from the Los Angeles church. It also began experiencing significant growth in the 1980s, becoming one of the fastest-growing churches in Brazil. [3] Brazil for Christ (BPC) was founded in 1955 and was the first major Pentecostal church to be founded by a Brazilian. Manoel de Mello began as a ...
1596 – Jesuit missionaries travel across the island of Samar in the Philippines to establish mission centers on the eastern side; 1597 – Twenty-six Japanese Christians are crucified for their faith by General Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagasaki, Japan. [140] Full-scale persecution destroys the Christian community by the 1620s.
From this tiny spark, other missionaries from the United States traveled to Colombia to hear the Pentecostal message and spread the word. In Bucaramanga, Larsen and his new wife, Fayette Barnard, founded a new church in a rented house for everyone to practice Pentecostalism in. After some time, the couple decided to travel back to Canada.
Pentecostalism in Brazil (1 C, ... Pentecostalism in the United Kingdom (3 C) Pentecostalism in the United States (6 C, 34 P)
1001 Byzantine emperor Basil II and Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah execute a treaty guaranteeing the protection of Christian pilgrimage routes in the Middle East; 1009 Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem, and then rebuilds it to its current state
This new openness of middle-class Christians toward Pentecostal practices created challenges for both groups. Church music in Methodist and Baptist services began featuring drums and electric ...
Pentecostalism was introduced to Romania in 1922 by Gheorghe Bradin, who set up a thirty-member church in Păuliş, Arad County after living in the United States since before 1910; the new movement responded to a deep concern for spiritual renewal following the trauma of World War I. The church grew rapidly and it was declared illegal in 1923 ...