Italy
History of the Assemblies of God in Italy In the early 20th century hundreds of Italian immigrants accepted Pentecost while in the United States. Italian Pentecostals soon began to return to their homeland to share this blessing with their relatives and friends. By 1929 there were 149 Pentecostal churches in Italy. Representatives of these churches attended the first Pentecostal World Conference in Switzerland in 1947 and established an affiliation with the Assemblies of God. That same year the Pentecostal churches in Italy held their first national convention and elected a superintendent and other officers. The government granted them complete recognition in 1959. In 1949 the first American missionaries were sent to Italy. Since then American missionaries, many of them of Italian descent, have worked with the Italian Assemblies of God.
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