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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 has its origins in the 1920s with Assemblies of God USA missionaries from the United States coming to Romania to spread the Gospel. The Romanian organization was first known as Christians Baptised with the Holy Spirit (Romanian: Creștinii botezați cu Duhul Sfânt) and was recognized as a religious association.
According to the 2011 census, there are 870,774 Catholics belonging to the Latin Church in Romania, making up 4.33% of the population.The largest ethnic groups are Hungarians (500,444, including Székelys; 41% of the Hungarians), Romanians (297,246 or 1.8%), Germans (21,324 or 59%), and Roma (20,821 or 3.3%), as well as a majority of the country's Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Italians, Czechs ...
The Faith Temple (Romanian: Templul Credința, or Romanian: Templul Hevrah Amuna, or Romanian: Sinagoga Credinta) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 48 Toneanu Vasile Street, in Bucharest, Romania. Designed in the International architectural style, the synagogue was completed in 1926. [2] [3]
The river Ruscova and its tributaries, the rivers Socolău and Cvașnița, flow through Poienile de sub Munte. Obcina [ de ] is a Ruthenian hilltop settlement perched at about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) on a mountain pass without an access road, where farmers live without machines, electricity, or vehicles.
Baptist witnesses did not enter Old Romania until the 20th century, and Orthodox opposition was strong. Nevertheless, a church was organized in Jegalia in 1909. An ethnic Romanian church was formed in Bucharest in 1912 by Constantin Adorian (1882–1954), a Romanian who had previously joined the German Baptist church in Bucharest.
Boca was born in 1910, in Vața de Sus; his parents, Iosif and Cristina, gave him the first name Zian. [2] He studied at the Avram Iancu High School in Brad, Hunedoara County, graduating in 1929. The same year he embarked upon study at the Theological Academy in Sibiu, from which he graduated in 1933.
Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer.