Articles of Faith, Twelve

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Pentecostal churches in Latin America directly or indirectly originated from the Pentecostal Azusa Street Revival in the beginning of the twentieth century. This movement spread quickly throughout the United States and flourished among Italian Evangelicals in Chicago. Pioneers such as Louis Francescon, Pietro Ottolini, Giacomo Lombardi, Lucia Menna, and many others evangelized among Italian-speaking people throughout the United States and later to Canada, Italy, and Latin America. In 1927, leaders of the Italian Movement met in Niagara Falls, New York, for the first convention of the Italian Pentecostal Movement. During this convention, the leaders agreed and adopted a set of Biblical doctrines that became known as “The Twelve Articles of Faith” (Palma 1987). The main objective of the General Council in that convention was to establish fellowship among the different Italian Pentecostal churches in the United States, by unifying them under one shared set of believes. It...