Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Contrary to widespread perceptions, pentecostalism does not always draw disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic sectors of society. Whether pentecostals and charismatics have higher or lower income levels than the general population very much depends on the country in question. In some countries, including the U.S., the survey finds that renewalist groups do tend to have […]
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Results for the surveys are based on telephone interviews in the U.S. and face-to-face interviews in all other nations, conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The surveys in Guatemala, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. are based on national samples. The survey in Chile is based on a national sample but […]
But Support for Terrorism and Anti-Semitism are Widespread
Remarks of Andrew Kohut to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing
Origins and Growth 1920s-1940s: In 1921, missionaries from the pentecostal United Free Gospel Church, headquartered in Pennsylvania, arrive in the Philippines. An American Assemblies of God (AG) missionary arrives in 1926, followed by Filipinos converted in the U.S. The first resident missionary from the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) establishes the church in the Philippines […]
Few Signs of Backlash From Western Europeans
Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International, which manages the fieldwork conducted by local research organizations in each country. All surveys are based on national samples except in China, India, and Pakistan, where the sample was disproportionately or exclusively urban. The […]