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Gypsy Evangelical Mission in France (Life and Light)

Evangelical mission in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ3557882 ↗
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The Gypsy Evangelical Mission in France (Life and Light) (Mission évangélique des Tziganes de France (Vie et Lumière)) is a Pentecostal church active among Roma.

History

The denomination has its origins in a mission founded by the Pastor Clément Le Cossec in 1952 in Brest. In 1954, the "Gospel Mission of the Gypsies of France" held its first annual national convention.

In 2015, it would have 100,000 members and 260 churches.

It also is present in several countries outside Western Europe. In several countries the GEM faces persecution.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gypsy Evangelical Mission in France (Life and Light)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.