- Nearly 60,000,000 souls
- 90% of Italians identify themselves as Roman Catholic; although only about 1/3 of these would describe themselves as active members
- Only 5% of Italy’s 33,500 communities have an established evangelical witness
- Northern provinces of Umbria, Trentino, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna have less than 0.1% evangelicals
- Wealthy, materialistic northern cities of Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Venice have few churches
- Little more than a dozen independent Baptist missionaries in Italy.