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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Filipinos of Italy

The Filipinos of Italy, numbering approximately 77,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an Austronesian ethnic community of Tagalog-speaking people who are citizens of, or immigrants from, the Philippines They are an Diaspora people, with Filipino as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Filipino, Central people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Tagalog.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Filipino

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Italy
People Cluster: Filipino, Central
Primary Language(s): Tagalog (tgl)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 77,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG048525
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

80%
%
Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tagalog
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Tagalog Speakers

Media Resources in Tagalog:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

3 films

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Bible Resources in Tagalog:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1905 Ang Dating Biblia✓
2012 Magandang Balita Biblia✓✓✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Tagalog bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Filipinos are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Filipinos:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Filipinos of Italy

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
readMatthew 11:28

Pray for those who are tired, weary, and burdened by the weight of sin to encounter Jesus and experience the rest that only He can give.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that the gospel will advance among those who don’t know the good news of salvation in Jesus so that they might believe and trust in Jesus.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
read2 Corinthians 12:10

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will embrace their weaknesses, hardships, and difficulties, having hope because Christ's power is made perfect in their weakness.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
readEphesians 1:13-14

Pray that God will work through believers near and far in bringing the lost to Himself, giving them what they need to do the task He has set before them, and helping them rest in Him because He has given them His Spirit.

Filipino, Tagalog Across Countries (ROP3 - 109692) reported in the following countries:

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20 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
FilipinosPG046410FilipinosOman96,500No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050594FilipinosMacao33,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050588FilipinosHong Kong198,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050297FilipinosPalau2,900No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050231FilipinosAmerican Samoa1,300No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050226FilipinosNorthern Mariana Islands16,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG050222FilipinosGuam23,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG048525FilipinosItaly77,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG046415FilipinosQatar255,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism
FilipinosPG000630FilipinosUnited Kingdom95,500No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG046407FilipinosKuwait212,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG043393FilipinosCanada438,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG043239FilipinosUnited States2,525,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG042440FilipinosGermany67,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG042343FilipinosSpain38,500Engaged yet UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG020255FilipinosAustralia160,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism
FilipinosPG018439FilipinosSingapore174,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG018269FilipinosMalaysia875,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
TagalogPG007783TagalogPhilippines36,800,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosPG047593FilipinosNew Zealand17,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishRoman Catholicism

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