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"Pentecostal" Definitions
  1. connected with a group of Christian Churches that emphasize the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as the power to make sick people healthy again

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Peru's right-wing authoritarian leader, Alberto Fujimori, enjoyed Pentecostal support, but in El Salvador, Pentecostal preachers strike a leftist tone.
Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, is a devout Pentecostal.
Almolonga's Pentecostal believers have brought new energy to their town.
Christianity, as when the Pentecostal attorney general, John Ashcroft, wrote
"I was raised in a Pentecostal Apostolic church," she explained.
Sam Gause Sr., a Pentecostal minister who lives in Atlanta.
In another part of his life he is a Pentecostal minister.
As black, Pentecostal folk there will be the amens and hallelujahs.
His father is a Pentecostal minister, and Mr. Boyega remains religious.
Tita is a Pentecostal Christian, which is a persecuted minority there.
Neo-Pentecostal gangs in Brazil, driving out other faiths at gunpoint.
Has all of this made any impact on evangelical and Pentecostal citizens?
Almolonga, small though it is, has at least a dozen Pentecostal churches.
Politically, too, Pentecostal churches tend to be pragmatic rather than consistently conservative.
On religion I grew up in a Pentecostal Christian family, pretty fundamentalist.
They come in all sizes and denominations: Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical.
Pentecostal ministers, preaching a gospel of prosperity, extolled the benefits of migration.
Police officers arrived at the New England Pentecostal Church after 10 a.m.
My father was a Pentecostal preacher who taught me the importance of faith.
It validates newly established Pentecostal sects offering bizarre "cures" for same-sex attraction.
But many of the 2200% calling themselves "without religion" flit between Pentecostal churches.
Pearson has since left the Pentecostal movement, whose congregations still suffer racial divisions.
A Pentecostal pastor, Mr. Mawarire began a Twitter campaign under the hashtag #ThisFlag.
In Africa, many Pentecostal churches are concerned with "this-worldly" victory, says Mr Gifford.
Pentecostal. He is bald, thin, squinting into the light, a bit shy, with a
American-style Pentecostal congregations are also playing an increasingly muscular role in Brazilian politics.
But in the Pentecostal tradition, as in the evangelical tradition, universal reconciliation is heresy.
One devout Pentecostal Cajun family lives on a poisoned bayou, surrounded by dead forests.
Millie's brother drove me to school in a beat-up blue Pentecostal church van.
The last one I ended up at was a Pentecostal messianic Jewish cult school.
He said his upbringing in the United Pentecostal Church was his strongest musical influence.
I grew up in the Pentecostal Church, and was in church and school choirs.
A Pentecostal minister, he founded an Assembly of God church in a Bronx storefront.
He points out that many pioneering rockers, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Jerry Lee Lewis, came out of the Pentecostal Church; for some preachers, he argues, rock and roll was worrisome precisely because its frenetic performances evoked the excesses of Pentecostal worship.
Born and raised in Montana, the Dolezals grew up in a strict, fundamentalist Pentecostal home.
Still, Pentecostal and evangelical leaders have shown their political muscle in 220 like never before.
Thanks to a shared language, Brazilian neo-Pentecostal churches do well in Angola and Mozambique.
On Friday afternoon, the United Pentecostal Church organization spoke out on behalf of the church.
Anyway, it's definitely going to be the basis of my new religion: Pentecostal squid wrangling.
The adaptation relocates Sophocles' late play "Oedipus at Colonus" to a black Pentecostal church service.
According to the 2016 AmericasBarometer, 26 percent of Costa Ricans identify as evangelical or Pentecostal.
Eugene and his siblings, Karen and Kenneth, were raised as Pentecostal Christians in Kalispell, Mont.
My parents are pastors, and we have been Pentecostal-evangelical for a very long time.
In Nigeria, for instance, Pentecostal Christian preachers fight for converts by offering protection from child witches.
Hours later, the Rescue Rangers regrouped in the parking lot of the First United Pentecostal church.
This attitude has a historical context in the Pentecostal religious tradition in which Hollis was raised.
Instead the 43-year-old housekeeper took sanctuary at Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal in New Haven.
Protestants have often lacked unity, and Pentecostal engagement in politics has been shallow and easily corrupted.
Esperanza's network is over 14,000 Hispanic congregations and community non-profits — from Roman Catholic to Pentecostal.
The musical retells the end of Oedipus' tragic life through the music of the Pentecostal church.
AT HIS PENTECOSTAL church in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, Bishop Never Muparutsa sighs at the empty pews.
Mr. Oepriarto set off a bomb in their family Toyota at the Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church.
A tornado demolished the First Pentecostal Church of Columbus in Mississippi, where Blaylock is the pastor.
Within this category are Pentecostal churches that stem from a revival begun in America over a century ago; subgroups within established churches, which after 1960 began worshipping in a similar way; and newer churches that use Pentecostal style and language, with a fresh stress on prosperity.
The "old guard" and the Pentecostal/Charismatic wing make for strange bedfellows when it comes to theology.
She married Kent White, a seminarian, and the couple started an unsanctioned Methodist Pentecostal church in Denver.
Pentecostal preachers put more stress on individual self-advancement and less on collective action by the poor.
A worshipper at a Lagos-based Christian Pentecostal Mission (CPM) during a church service, March 19, 2000.
"Pentecostal religion promises breakthroughs ... You tithe, you pray and you will get (what you want)," he said.
That area now is so expensive, you could not have a storefront Pentecostal church on 7th Avenue.
The van from the Pentecostal church was struck and overturned multiple times, ejecting some of its occupants.
There is also a small Pentecostal church—an increasing number of Kayapo have converted—and the clinic.
The Faith Church, a Pentecostal Christian group that still receives state funding, provided a telling recent example.
That fire, inside the sanctuary at Vivian United Pentecostal Church, was relatively small and burned itself out.
In recent days the Pentecostal preacher has made controversial remarks and floated conspiratorial theories about the coronavirus.
Watch the video for the single "Names or Labels" below, which features footage of early Pentecostal worshippers.
Protesters included members of the Pentecostal Christian-aligned opposition party, as well as transportation and education groups.
Or how, when growing up, the novelist Jeanette Winterson hid her books from her Pentecostal evangelist parents.
"It is like picking up the phone to God," she told the congregants at the Pentecostal church.
She shocked her lawyer by darting into the Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal here in search of sanctuary.
Mr. Ellis grew up in nearby Mount Vernon, in Westchester County, and was raised in Pentecostal churches.
Ms. Davydyuk, the Pentecostal who arrived in May, was invited to Vancouver by her sister, Lilia Volovodik.
This Pentecostal church has grown rapidly over the past decade, thanks to its charismatic pastor, Jentezen Franklin (pictured).
The multiple religious cultures of South Korea, from Presbyterian to Pentecostal, have also become implanted in Canadian soil.
Correction (August 2nd, 2018): This piece noted that an Eritrean Protestant Pentecostal preacher was recently seen in Asmara.
A MONTAGE of miracles plays on the giant screens in the Perez Dome, a Pentecostal church in Accra.
Until now, though, evangelical and Pentecostal activists have usually been most effective in supporting candidates for legislative office.
But survey evidence indicates that evangelical and Pentecostal citizens were at least getting the message from their leaders.
In many parts of the developing world, the Pentecostal church is the only functioning organisation of civil society.
The pastors of Pentecostal mega-churches promise their congregations God-sent fortunes in return for a 10% tithe.
Douthat was born into Protestantism, wobbling along the seldom-travelled border between Pentecostal fire and the polite mainstream.
ALMOST HOLY One Pentecostal pastor in Ukraine has taken a novel approach to helping drug-addicted homeless children.
A devout Pentecostal Christian, Green believes that capitalism and Christianity not only work together but require each other.
For many worshipping groups in South Africa, such as Pentecostal churches, religious expression is closely tied to water.
Mr. Trump's board is overwhelmingly drawn from the Southern Baptist Convention and various Pentecostal and prosperity gospel churches.
The building houses Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal, and the owner plans to divide the remaining available space for stores.
Many movies are also propelled by a symbiotic relationship with Nigeria's Pentecostal Christianity, which pastors have exported throughout Africa.
Sarah Mitchell's grandfather founded the church, which traces its roots to the Pentecostal movement of the late 19th century.
Pentecostal preaching has taken off of late as well, Ashforth said, with spiritual leaders encouraging fear of Satanic rituals.
In Africa, Pentecostal Christianity spreads rapidly still, with mega-churches often linked to sponsoring institutions in the United States.
In the most recent presidential election of 240, evangelical and Pentecostal alliances were "pulverized" among the three leading candidates.
For the past ten years, in a typically Pentecostal bottom-up initiative, he has been saving kids from gangs.
A final strand of the development of the prosperity gospel was the development of charismatic Pentecostal churches in America.
She grew up in Columbus, Ga., as a pastor's daughter raised in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination.
A group of women in the crowd raised their hands in the air, like believers at a Pentecostal sermon.
Only 16 percent of Southern Baptists and 10 percent of the pentecostal Assemblies of God can say the same.
In fact, the most grass-roots churches in the U.S. — our Pentecostal churches — are often the most racially diverse.
More recently, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, Australia's first Pentecostal leader, has urged the nation to pray for rain.
Immigration officials declared her a fugitive, but federal policy prevented them from entering the Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal church.
But presiding over a Pentecostal denomination of roughly six million members worldwide, he is well aware of his power.
He spoke before Congress, visited President Clinton in the White House and became a popular figure in white Pentecostal circles.
Stark described an incident earlier this month in which a Pentecostal church was overrun by a mob during church services.
He entered the ministry and at the age of 21 he became pastor of the Waldron Pentecostal Church of God.
Yet a Protestant Pentecostal preacher from Ethiopia was recently seen proclaiming his faith loudly on a busy street in Asmara.
But when they'd arrived at the Pentecostal church in Dequincy, scores of pickup trucks and boats filled the parking lot.
But on October 30th Cariocas, as the city's residents are known, elected a Pentecostal bishop, Marcelo Crivella, as their mayor.
Mr Crivella, the first Pentecostal to govern a big city, played down his links to the UCKG during the campaign.
With a low bar to entry and almost no hierarchy, new Pentecostal churches matched the entrepreneurial spirit of the times.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is a Pentecostal Christian like Folau, said it was a decision for RA to make.
That is particularly true of the Pentecostal churches which have gained ground in Latin America at the expense of Catholicism.
I wasn't safe in my family home because my Pentecostal Christian mother upheld Evangelical rhetoric and didn't support my identity.
Raised in the Pentecostal faith, Fox longed to recover an artifact that would validate the biblical stories of her childhood.
Pastor Dominick J. Cotignola, affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of God and the senior pastor at the church, officiated. Mrs.
Though he now attends a vaguely Anabaptist church in his neighborhood, he said he still feels comfortable in Pentecostal settings.
Her parents are Pentecostal pastors, and Ms. Perry, who was born Katheryn Hudson, was raised in a strict religious tradition.
Worshippers at the Pentecostal Faith Church of All Nations in Harlem participate in one of their weekly baptism ceremonies, 1934.
Coel, Susan Wokoma (as the alarmingly uptight sister) and Shola Adewusi (as the Pentecostal mom) trade off dazzling comic performances.
Tucker's trembling was most likely related to dances of spiritual possession, which became part of Pentecostal, Sanctified and Holiness traditions.
Her father was a Pentecostal minister and her mother was entrepreneur who operated the family's home as a rooming house.
The Pentecostal church was led by her grandfather, and the only white people in the church were members of her family.
Defying protests from the Methodist hierarchy, White remained committed to arousing Pentecostal-style "enthusiastic" worship, with singing, shouting, dancing, and fits.
But at the presidential level, evangelical and Pentecostal activism has usually been marked by disunity, with different denominations supporting different candidates.
Born to a Pentecostal pastor father and a studious, Anglican mother, Mugisa attended Christian schools and Bible colleges his entire life.
Almost all the drug-rehabilitation centres in Guatemala City, of which there are more than 200, are run by Pentecostal volunteers.
It is partly from this wing of the faith that the Pentecostal, evangelical and charismatic strands of modern Protestantism have grown.
Research has found that men who become Pentecostal Christians tend to give up alcohol and prostitutes, and that their families benefit.
A study in 2007 found that in Brazil Pentecostal churches had 18 times more clerics per believer than the majority Catholics.
For 2900 years her father had tried to acquire visas for his 220006-member Pentecostal family to leave the Soviet Union.
Oepriarto then drove the van to the Pentecostal Central Church, where, from inside the vehicle, he detonated another bomb, police said.
Wycliffe Bailey, a Pentecostal minister, performed the ceremony at the Dunbarton Chapel at the Howard University School of Law in Washington.
In the yard, between the yellow low-rises, a Pentecostal group is setting up a tent, folding chairs and conga drums.
The episode left members of his Christian Pentecostal Church community in the town of Schaumburg terrified of enforcement actions to follow.
I grew up knowing and learning Pentecostal hymns, which are so evocatively written and full of these strong words and images.
An observant Pentecostal Christian and the son of a police officer, Mr. Morrison grew up in a beachside suburb of Sydney.
A white, wooden Pentecostal church was on one side, one of two churches serving the tiny hamlet of Cove Orchard, Oregon.
On Sunday morning, Ms. Ningsih was at home, having decided to attend the evening services at the Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church.
Luis Garcia, a minister at the New England Pentecostal Church, was shot and killed inside a home in Londonderry on Oct.
I was raised in a bohemian agnostic household and Neal grew up hard-core Pentecostal, so we met in the middle.
The Roman Catholic Church continues to expand in Africa, even as it faces competition from increasingly popular Pentecostal and evangelical movements.
"My father's family grew up in a Pentecostal church, kind of more shouting and a bit more physical exultation," he said.
Billy Porter's first introduction to fashion was in a Black Pentecostal church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he was born and raised.
Many Christians who fall within the evangelical tradition don't call themselves evangelicals, calling themselves Baptist or Pentecostal or simply "Christian" instead.
She received donations of food and supplies from a pantry that had opened across the street in a small Pentecostal church.
Joe Aldred, a Jamaican-born Pentecostal bishop with the Church of God of Prophecy, said that differences extend to beliefs and practices.
On Friday afternoon, the United Pentecostal Church organization spoke on behalf of the Avoyelles House of Mercy in Marksville about the crash.
The big question is whether the millions of individual transformations resulting from Pentecostal conversion can be translated into a deeper societal transformation.
Raised as a Mormon, Folau moved to a pentecostal church in 2011 and has made no secret of his religious beliefs since.
"I haven't done it for a long time and I'm not going to show everyone now," the daughter of Pentecostal ministers said.
Most devout Londoners (88%) worship outside the ranks of the established church whose spires pierce the skyline; about a third are Pentecostal.
The Louisiana district office for the United Pentecostal Church said on Facebook that Karen Descant, wife of Pastor Descant, suffered multiple injuries.
A deacon in my family's Pentecostal church called me over one morning and pulled out a grainy photo from his suit pocket.
He is also a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a neo-Pentecostal sect with millions of followers.
In "Balls Deep," at 11, Thomas Morton travels to Arkansas to see how a Pentecostal tent revival stacks up against secular temptations.
A wall caved in at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Dlangubo, a small village in KwaZulu-Natal province, shortly after 10 p.m.
Assemblyman Michael A. Blake, a Democrat, and Kirsten John Foy, an activist and a Pentecostal minister who is close to the Rev.
A tentative bond takes shape amid the humble pews and reverberant call and response, as the Pentecostal worshipers echo the resounding ministering.
In 2012, Ya and Eli found their way to Canada: a Pentecostal church in Edmonton sponsored them and helped arrange for visas.
She went to San Diego, where she stayed with a group of Eritreans she had met through contacts in the Pentecostal church.
Pelham police said they were called to an active shooter situation at the New England Pentecostal Church at around 10:12 a.m.
The park is bordered by small grocers and restaurants, a Pentecostal church, a public school and rows of three-story apartment buildings.
Muslim, Jewish, and Pentecostal women who adhere to their faiths' requirements of modest dress wear clothing with sleeves, high necklines, and longer hems.
"When he spoke, black people all over the country listened to him," said Shayne Lee, a sociologist who studies the black Pentecostal church.
She was with a boy from her hometown in Jamaica, and they were both discovered by someone from her grandfather's puritanical Pentecostal church.
The academic wants to see everyone uniting against the government, from Pentecostal Christians to sex workers, Bobi Wine supporters to the LGBTQ community.
Beginning in the 248s, however, the ranks of Pentecostal and evangelical clergy, as well as the pews of their congregations, began to swell.
From the early days of Brazil's return to democracy in the 25s, evangelical and Pentecostal leaders have recognized the importance of electoral politics.
"In Guatemala the Pentecostal church is just about the only functioning organisation of civil society," says Kevin O'Neill of the University of Toronto.
Raised to be a missionary by adoptive Pentecostal parents, the 59-year-old writer has often explored gender and sexuality in her writing.
They are evangelists who have built television ministries reaching millions of Americans, and Pentecostal preachers who have turned storefront churches into thriving congregations.
At age 24, Taylor was walking home from Rock Hill Holiness Church for a Pentecostal service in Abbeville on the night of Sept.
Brazil's Pentecostal Christian churches have greatly increased their clout in Congress and are pushing a conservative agenda that opposes abortion and gay marriage.
Residents like the town's mayor, Isabelo Molina, and my uncle Elvin, who heads a Pentecostal church there, are working hard to change that.
Alfred A. Owens, Jr., a Pentecostal minister, is to officiate at the Pawleys Plantation Golf and Country Club on Pawleys Island, S.C. Mrs.
He is a son of two former sharecroppers turned Pentecostal ministers; his bald head and booming baritone project a ministerial — and authoritative — presence.
Paul Lawrence Binion II leads Westside Church of God, a Pentecostal and largely African-American church that draws about 500 people every Sunday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who considers himself a devout Christian and attends weekly services at a Pentecostal church, called Folau's comments "appallingly insensitive".
My dad's side of the family hailed from south Arkansas, which was well in line with the spiritual underpinnings of the pentecostal revival.
Morrison, who is a former immigration minister and Pentecostal Christian, campaigned to keep the economy strong, slash debt and reduce taxes across the board.
Dale Holloway, 37, was charged with first-degree assault after he allegedly opened fire at the New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham on Saturday.
Belton, a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, whose doctrinal statement condemns homosexuality, said he would never vote for Buttigieg because he is gay.
Almost all Pentecostal churches are anti-abortion and anti-gay, but the UCKG has made statements that are pro-choice and comparatively gay-friendly.
But this sort of service has lost its appeal, as some Koreans have switched to glitzier Pentecostal churches and others have fallen away altogether.
On the town's main street, Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church, Bad Boyz Boxing Club, and Lam Gia Thai Restaurant all shared a parking lot.
In 1995, Ross was sued by Jason Scott, a man deemed to be a follower of a pentecostal cult whom Ross tried to deprogram.
Pentecostals are well-represented within Trump's inner circle, too: Paula White, who claims to have led the president to Christ, is a Pentecostal minister.
The road there runs past tobacco fields, a derelict former chicken-processing factory and trailer parks into a downtown lined with storefront Pentecostal churches.
Rhonda Gillam, a friend of Cuthbert's who shared her Pentecostal faith, had been Cuthbert's caregiver when she moved into a facility for the aging.
Low Post, a 1,400-square-foot storefront on Fulton Street, once occupied by a Pentecostal church, has eight flat screens but swatted depressing elements.
The purity ring ceremony — at least as it was performed in my family's Pentecostal church — isn't something that sounds reasonable to most people, I realize.
The church's origins are rooted in the late 19th-century Pentecostal movement that rejects modern medicine and believes in faith healing, according to the Oregonian.
Bolsonaro claims to be a nominal Catholic, yet he attends a Baptist church and has long sought the political support of evangelical and Pentecostal leaders.
The black church, more specifically the Church of God In Christ, the Pentecostal denomination I grew up in, most taught me how to judge people.
Dubai is now a bastion of Pentecostal-style worship, among migrants; the Muslim authorities do not mind as long as local Emiratis are not proselytised.
The "Word of Faith" movement — a Pentecostal version of New Thought that saw positive affirmation as central to financial and material success — became more prominent.
In recent years, Mr. Fatoyinbo has grown his ministry, the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, into a five-city force among the country's many Pentecostal megachurches.
Pentecostal and prosperity gospel preachers, whose denominations have the lowest average income and educational attainment in the country, were more likely to support Mr. Trump.
The Leader Council of the Pentecostal Movement of Norway also issued a statement saying that it doesn't believe Barnevernet officials were discriminating against the faithful.
Mr. Díaz, a Pentecostal minister and former state senator from the Bronx, has been receiving and ignoring calls for his resignation since at least 22021.
The Cottage Avenue Pentecostal Fellowship in Indianapolis installed the concrete statue five years ago after it was donated by the daughter of one of its members.
Alma White was part of a trend: the 1920s producednumerous female preachers, particularly Pentecostal preachers, many of whom could arouse zealous followers through their tent revivals.
That part of the country has a powerful Christian presence, from Catholic to Pentecostal, but it is also a stronghold of traditional animist practices, including witchcraft.
Whatever their style, Pentecostal pastors are culturally closer to their flock than are the learned clerics of the Catholic or Lutheran churches; and they are numerous.
All that is in contrast to Brazil's most famous home-grown Pentecostal group, the newish but ultra-confident Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG).
The director of Them That Follow, about an obscure American Pentecostal sect, remembers feeling pressure to appear more masculine, so she would be taken more seriously.
The building has been bought by a Pentecostal Ethiopian church; the congregation raises its hands in a show of unEnglish ecstasy to praise God in Amharic.
This had led me to the only church with parishioners under 50 in my rural South Australian town, which just happened to be a Pentecostal Church.
The group grew out of Hillsong Church, a Pentecostal ministry founded by Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie, in a Sydney suburb in the early 1980s.
Evan Mawarire, a Pentecostal pastor who rose to national prominence in the past month after starting a Twitter campaign against the government under the hashtag #ThisFlag.
Dusk settled over a clapboard Pentecostal church, where parishioners speak in tongues, and past a red-and-blue circus tent promising alcohol and a strip tease.
Mr. Folau, a former Mormon who is now a member of the Pentecostal denomination Assemblies of God, has a history of making homophobic and transphobic comments.
Fabricio Alvarado, a former television journalist who became an influential Pentecostal singer, will face Carlos Alvarado Quesada, a former labor minister, in the April 1 runoff.
In memoriam: Reinhard Bonnke, 79, a German-born Pentecostal faith-healer known as the "Billy Graham of Africa" for the revivals he held across that continent.
The E.P.R.D.F.'s achievement since 1991 was equal education for girls and boys, rural and urban, leading to greater prominence of women, Muslims and Pentecostal groups.
He began cutting up his jeans and ripping out the crotch, which made him a target at the Pentecostal church that he and his mother attended.
Ten years ago, Michaela Coel was a celibate, ultra-religious Pentecostal Christian who wept when her friends got tattoos and begged them to believe in Jesus.
Last year, Snoga Athletics, cofounded by Candice Safdieh, focused on comfortable and functional leggings with skirts attached for Orthodox Jewish and Pentecostal women who always wear skirts.
And the Catholic Church has been losing adherents in Latin America in recent decades as people leave to join evangelical and Pentecostal churches, or reject religion entirely.
Because I was young and entrenched in the ways of the Pentecostal church, sure, but also because in 2009, the purity ring was a pretty unremarkable thing.
Some of its detail—such as the varieties of religious experience that evangelical churches encompass, from Pentecostal charismatics and snake-handlers to the prosperity gospel—is gripping.
"I had vegetable oil crosses smeared on my forehead [a common form of "anointing" in some Pentecostal communities] more times than I'd like to admit," he said.
On the road between Redemption City and Lagos, other Pentecostal churches, such as the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, are building godly cities of their own.
"Rubber Doll" sounds like something Katy Perry would have released if she was raised by two dominatrix's in Berlin rather than two Pentecostal pastors in Santa Barbara.
And the Christian denominations whose members show the most opposition to abortion -- Jehovah's Witnesses and Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal movement -- largely shy away from partisan politics.
Traditional denominations have lost members to Pentecostal and apostolic groups, many of them promising prosperity to those who truly believe—and open their wallets to prove it.
The Guatemalan-born mother of four was granted a stay of deportation on Wednesday after spending six nights in Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal in New Haven, Connecticut.
Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity is growing more quickly in Asia than most parts of the world, with over 250m adherents in 20093, up from 22009m in 236.
On today's episode of Daily VICE, BALLS DEEP host Thomas Morton shares some of the lingo he learned while spending time at a Pentecostal tent revival church.
The group believes in prophecy, speaking in tongues and divine healings, staples of Pentecostal churches that some Catholics have also adopted in a movement called charismatic renewal.
Luis Vidal Ortiz from the Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal pulled up in a small yellow school bus and delivered packs of chips, cookies and personal hygiene products.
He decided to take an indeterminate break from his Pentecostal church to question its beliefs and create a new narrative he felt needed to emerge within Christianity.
"The prime minister was very excited," recalled Mario Bramnick, the Cuban-American pastor of a Pentecostal church near Miami and a Trump supporter who attended the meeting.
Raised by a mother who's a street-corner Pentecostal minister, Tracey emerges into adulthood both sheltered and sex-crazed, in a constant state of controlled comic hysteria.
The evangelical movement in the United States encompasses dozens of individual denominations, from the Southern Baptist Convention to the Pentecostal movement to non-denominational churches and groups.
Two years later, the charity affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch in Los Angeles has shuttered dozens of colleges and art institutes around the country with little warning.
At the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), the country's largest Pentecostal church, some pastors are allowing MMM promoters to pitch the scheme to members from the pulpit.
The church — in particular the evangelical Pentecostal church — drew them into its fold and wrenched them, prayer service by prayer service, from the tenacious grip of the gangs.
Both his mother and father are Pentecostal pastors, which meant spending his formative years under the strict watchful eyes of what he calls a "very anti-gay" household.
Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic (all branches of the faith emphasise the authority of the Bible and the need for a spiritual rebirth).
The presiding minister, Bishop Oliver Allen, founded the Progressive Pentecostal denomination to which the church belongs; it is now a national fellowship of gay-friendly, predominantly black churches.
His Pentecostal preacher father is very old-timey, having held snakes at his pulpit to prove God's love — that is, before his arrest for possession of child pornography.
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, an influential umbrella organization, promised a thorough investigation into the matter, but closed the inquiry when the pastor failed to appear for questioning.
The record is inevitably a reckoning with the Pentecostal upbringing he's grappled with on record for the past two decades—an attempt to resolve a sense of disconnection.
Like almost everyone I met in the local pot trade, Mr. Metoyer, who is 2420 and grew up in a Pentecostal church, had come to marijuana only recently.
But instead of dropping bills into a collection plate, the congregants at a large Pentecostal church rose and filed toward the deacons clutching hand-held card-reading machines.
By the time this exodus is complete, the Pentecostal congregation at the heart of Come Sunday is mostly black and Pearson's dream of an interracial church seems dead.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is a Pentecostal Christian like Folau, said whether to sack him or not was a decision for only the rugby authorities to make.
It is the audacious autobiography of a street-smart Brooklyn-born cop, the sweet-talking son of a Pentecostal minister who, when he retired, became a minister himself.
The current issue features a poem called "Roadkill" by Megan Blankenship and one by William Woolfitt called "Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, Face of Christ on Tin," for example.
In Saturday's shooting at the wedding, Dale Holloway, 37, was charged with first-degree assault on Stanley Choate, 75, who is a bishop at New England Pentecostal Church.
IT IS A well-established fact among religion-watchers that charismatic forms of Christianity, including the Pentecostal churches, are the fastest-growing variety of the world's largest monotheism.
Rafael Cazarin, a scholar at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, looked at African Pentecostal communities both in his home town in Spain, and in Johannesburg.
Three decades younger than Sunny, she had left the Pentecostal family that raised her on a remote, rocky island off Norway at age 16 to become a punk.
Jeanette Winterson, best known for her autobiographical novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit," grew up in a town near Manchester, England, the adopted daughter of Pentecostal missionaries.
Liberal Anglicans, for example, may not like the strict biblical message of Pentecostal believers, or the social conservatism of The Church of Pentecost, which opposes abortion and gay marriage.
These are among the false messages that have circulated through Brazil's Pentecostal and evangelical social networks in the last few weeks of Brazil's 2018 first-round presidential election campaign.
Wherever complacency has set in, it has instead led to the rollback of past progress by a drumbeat of hatred led by American Pentecostal leaders and their Ugandan allies.
Her grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and while Parton is hardly a fire 'n' brimstone kind of woman, the Holy Ghost still has a firm hold on her heart.
With more rain forecast for Beira on Thursday, Christian worshippers sang hymns on an empty patch of land where a pulpit was all that remained of their Pentecostal church.
That view is particularly pronounced among charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a subset of evangelicalism that puts special emphasis on prophecies, believing that God is omnipotent, immanent and extremely active.
There is some darkness inherent to their work—they harbor, as ever, a pentecostal appreciation for Sabbathian riffs stretched to infinity—but there's something home-y about Life Metal.
The father was behind the wheel of the vehicle that crashed into Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church, detonating a bomb believed to have been in the vehicle, the police said.
He tells that story by directing our attention to three individuals: the engineer and water czar William Mulholland, the filmmaker D.W. Griffith and the Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
Yet, while Franklin lived large, he preached a kind of black liberation theology—Baptist, but inflected at times with the more convulsive accents of the Pentecostal, or "sanctified," church.
Speaking at an Assembly of God Pentecostal church this morning, Brazil's rightist President Jair Bolsonaro opened a new front in Brazil's culture wars: the composition of Brazil's Supreme Court.
As I wrote last year, endorsements from evangelical and Pentecostal leaders and electoral support from lay evangelicals appear to have been critical to Bolsonaro's first- and second-round victories.
Taylor on Mother's Day that year at the Pentecostal church, now known as Abbeville Memorial Church of God in Christ, where she had worshiped the night of the crime.
TRAGIC PHOTO SHOWS PARENTS COMFORTING DAUGHTER HOURS BEFORE HER DEATH Sarah Mitchell&aposs grandfather founded the church, which traces its roots to the Pentecostal movement of the late 19th century.
He's a devout member of the Horizon Pentecostal church in Sydney, which offers passionate preaching and singing and the experience of speaking in strange tongues which marks out charismatic Christianity.
It's spread rapidly through tribes where it used to be uncommon, such as the Navajo, where new religious movements such as evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are also on the rise.
The building's 1,600-seat cinema has been boarded up since its last occupant, a Pentecostal church, was forced to leave in 2008 because of fears that its structure was unsound.
Today, we are excited to share the first trailer for the new season of BALLS DEEP, where Thomas meets up with Pentecostal ministers, high school seniors, tugboat captains, and more.
Pentecostal churches tend to stress members' displays of extreme emotion, as well as a highly charged atmosphere — including music, dancing, and clapping — designed to foster the worshipper's connection to God.
Baldwin's 1953 debut novel was the semi-autobiographical story of a young man growing up in Harlem in the 1930s and the role of the Pentecostal church in his life.
The two met when Ruth was on a religious mission to Romania, said Cristian Ionescu, a family friend who is a reverend at the Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church in Chicago.
On the fourth day, she went looking for a pub on Atlantic Avenue and spotted a Pentecostal church, housed inside a pink building that used to be a movie theater.
"An attack on any house of worship is an attack on all houses of worship," Ismael Claudio, bishop of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ in Brooklyn, told USA Today.
Officials are also investigating a fourth, smaller fire on March 31 at the predominantly white Vivian United Pentecostal Church in Caddo Parish, more than 200 miles north of St. Landry.
Morrison, reflecting many of the characteristics of his electorate, describes himself on his website as a "netball dad" to his two daughters and a member of a local Pentecostal church.
This included a devastating result in the coal-rich state of Queensland, which backed the Pentecostal church-going prime minister by defying expectations and delivering several marginal seats to his government.
Among those who attend church, 29 percent of Catholic church attendees, 38 percent of non-Pentecostal evangelicals, and 46 percent of Pentecostals were aware of their church leaders supporting a candidate.
Their leaders, including Desmond Tutu, a South African clergyman and theologian, have admitted that they have not adapted as well as the less hierarchical Pentecostal churches to the post-apartheid order.
Over 11 tracks, the pair perform Lazarus-level reanimations of some of the dancefloor's longest-running forms, making house and techno that sounds as joyful and unrestrained as a Pentecostal revival.
Nury Chavarria, who is originally from Guatemala and has been living in the United States for 24 years, took sanctuary in a Pentecostal church in a New Haven, Connecticut last Thursday.
The seeds of this charismatic expansion were sown just over a century ago when two movements were started in Brazil, both by Europeans coming from Chicago where Pentecostal fire was crackling.
Now called "I-4 for Puerto Rico," the effort has partnered with faith-based organizations and with the Pentecostal Church of God International Movement, which has 600 churches on the island.
A Pentecostal pastor, Mr. Mawarire rose to prominence in April after uploading a video in which he wrapped himself in a Zimbabwean flag and railed against the country's corruption and poverty.
The small Pentecostal ministry—which was founded by Cam's maternal grandparents, Talmadge and Bernice Wilder, and includes four other small churches—is dedicated to bettering the daily lives of its community.
Could Sophocles have predicted that "Oedipus at Colonus" would finally find its truest rhythm through the musical incantations of a Pentecostal, Black gospel choir nearly 2,400 years after its first production?
This, in turn, gives rise to the trend of "storefront churches," something particularly popular in Pentecostal communities, and "house churches," in which members meet for Bible study at one another's homes.
Lee Breuer's adaptation of Sophocles's play — a sequel of sorts to "Oedipus Rex" — reimagines a Greek tragedy as a Pentecostal church service, creating a soulful and often joyful exploration of forgiveness.
These days, Dulce's mother spends her time either at home or sitting on the blue cotton chairs of their local Pentecostal church, praying for her daughter to return, Ms. Perez says.
Mann told the court that she grew up in an "extremely religious pentecostal cult," adding that she left home when she was 16 to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.
Perhaps it would have been significant to have, say, New Orleans jazz funeral musicians or a Pentecostal minister, or a more local act of mourning, to assert a truly global message.
"In '22008, we wanted the barrier broken, but it wasn't a vote against Hillary," said Michael Butler, a Pentecostal pastor who became the first black mayor of this small city in 262.
Malafaia, a Rio de Janeiro-based Pentecostal pastor with over 1.3 million followers on Twitter, has written books that have sold in the millions and his sermons are broadcast around the globe.
"Speaking in tongues is an essential part of the Pentecostal church," he said, as is a strong belief in miracles and more literal interpretations of the Bible as compared with Anglican denominations.
Among them is his personal spiritual adviser Paula White, a Florida televangelist of the Pentecostal kind who urges followers to make generous contributions to the church and expect material bounty in return.
IN AUSTRALIA, Pentecostal preachers are rejoicing over the emergence of one of their followers as head of government, and urging people to pray that he will prevail in the next general election.
Their mother, with her 12- and 9-year old daughters, then entered another church and detonated a bomb, before the father of the family drove a car bomb into a Pentecostal church.
His father was a Baptist, his mother a Methodist, but for the sake of convenience they often attended a church "less than a mile away," the Spring Branch Fire-Baptized Pentecostal Church.
There are "kilo" restaurants, where patrons pay according to the weight of their food; there is also a series of gimcrack Pentecostal churches, a red-light district, and a few seedy hotels.
To Ihechi, the Ifa practice appears grotesque, where the practices of the Pentecostal church are smoothed out to appear proper — despite the bloody history of how it insinuated itself into Nigerian society.
"The only thing I can do now is remind myself that our fate rests in God's hands," said Ms. Barrios, emphasizing that she is an evangelical Christian who attends a Pentecostal church.
On Sports For the casual, uninitiated baseball fan who tunes in every once in a while, this season's home-run calls must sound as baffling as a Pentecostal sermon to an unbeliever.
The mother and son attended a staid Methodist church, but Claiborne's spiritual life took a turn in high school, when some Pentecostal classmates invited him to a service at their warehouse church.
Thousands of people in the nation of 55 million flock to Pentecostal churches, whose main source of income is "tithe", the 10% or so of income that worshippers are asked to contribute.
The shooting appeared to be revenge for the killing last week of another clergyman in the same congregation, New England Pentecostal Ministries church in Pelham, N.H., about 30 miles north of Boston.
The father was behind the wheel of the vehicle that crashed into the third church, the Surabaya Center Pentecostal, detonating a bomb believed to have been in the vehicle, the police said.
Many of them belong to the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect and have settled into houses on dense blocks with neighbors that include a Catholic school, a Pentecostal church and a Dominican restaurant.
Jackie tries to smooth all this over by saying that the disco song he wrote for Mylene is actually a Pentecostal song that incorporates religious themes with a little bit of Latin flavor.
A Pentecostal church-goer, Morrison took over as prime minister last year when he emerged as the unexpected winner of infighting within the Liberal party, the senior partner within the Liberal-National coalition.
Even so, the tone at the House of the Lord Pentecostal was a measured one, the pleas for justice colored by the racial tension that has somehow reached new heights in recent weeks.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At a makeshift Pentecostal church in one of Harare's poorer western suburbs, dozens of congregants dance during the Sunday service, their hymns echoing off the corrugated iron roof.
On Monday, Florida sheriff's deputies arrested another Pentecostal pastor, Rodney Howard-Browne, who has likewise continued to host large services at his megachurch in Tampa despite public orders urging residents to stay home.
She said that she and her husband, Paul, who is forty-five and used to watch Trump on "The Apprentice," are deeply religious Pentecostal Christians who follow the teachings of Christ's Twelve Apostles.
The recent reforms of Mr. Abiy, who was born to a Muslim Oromo father and an Orthodox Amhara mother and is a devout Pentecostal Christian, have further broadened political participation to underprivileged groups.

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