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.

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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

Bible Resources in Tagalog:

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

2 entries

Or check out the Tagalog bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
readGenesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia."
readRomans 16:5

Pray for houses to be meeting places for Christians and that God will advance the gospel and grow His Church through natural familial and community relationships.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in what God has done for them and will help others know how they can also be reconciled to God.

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
readPsalm 149:3

Pray that God will send His people across cultures to share the gospel so that those who don't yet know the truth about Him might praise His name and share the hope of Christ with others.

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

Strategic Progress Index
All

20 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TagalogTagalogPhilippines36,800,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosMacao33,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosUnited Kingdom95,500No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosHong Kong198,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosPalau2,900No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosAmerican Samoa1,300No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosNorthern Mariana Islands16,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosGuam23,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosItaly77,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosNew Zealand17,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosQatar255,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism
FilipinosFilipinosOman96,500No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosKuwait212,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosCanada438,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosUnited States2,525,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosGermany67,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosSpain38,500Engaged yet UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosAustralia160,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism
FilipinosFilipinosSingapore174,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosMalaysia875,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism

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