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Italy's Need
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following statistics are from ‘Operation World’, 21st
Century Edition, P. Johnstone & J. Mandryk, 2001.
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80% of Italians claim to be
Catholic, but only 10% practice their religion. The church has
lost 10 million to new age thinking, the occult and
materialistic secularism.
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Occultism is widespread. There
are over 100,000 full-time consulting magicians. Satanism is
strong in the north, Turin being one of the global centers of
its activities, which includes praying for the removal of all
evangelical missionaries from Italy.
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Only 1,500 of Italy’s 33,500
communities have an established evangelical witness. The
northeastern Veneto Region has 4 million + people, but only
38 churches and 2,000 evangelical Christians.
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The Friulians are an
unreached minority with their own distinctive
culture and language.
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There is very little outreach in
this region with the good news of Jesus Christ.
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