PENTECOSTALS IN ROMANIA Author: Bianca Ioana RUSU and Daniela TARNOVSCHI Address: Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center 3400 Cluj-Napoca 21 Tebei St. Romania Tel: +40 264 420 490; Fax: +40 264 420 491 E-mail:
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[email protected] Contact person: Ryan Nelson Acknowledgements This report was commisioned by the Refugee Documentation Center, Ireland and it was produced in cooperation with the Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Cluj, Romania (EDRC). It was researched and written by Bianca Ioana Rusu and Daniela Tarnovschi, researchers of EDRC. It was edited by Levente Salat, executive president of EDRC and Maria Kovacs, English language editor of EDRC. EDRC would like to thank all persons who generously provided information and/or documents, and/or gave interviews to their researchers. The responsibility for the report’s content, though, lies only with EDRC. We welcome all comments sent to: Refugee Documentation Center, 3rd Floor, Montague Court, 7-11 Montague Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, contact person is Ryan Nelson. E-mail address:
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[email protected]. 1 PENTECOSTALS IN ROMANIA Contents I. Presentation of the Pentecostal cult 1. Introduction of the Pentecostal cult in Romania 2. Members of the Pentecostal church 3. Structure of the Church – how it works 4. Territorial distribution of the cult 5. Demographic data a. Believers b. Churches c.