Gypsy Evangelical Movement (GEM) is a Protestant church active among Roma living in several countries that was founded in 1950. Currently, it has about 200 churches in France. The Gypsy Evangelical Movement is present in several countries throughout Western Europe. It also is present in several countries outwith Western Europe. In several countries the GEM faces persecution.
Famous quotes containing the words gypsy, evangelical and/or movement:
“You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.”
—Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“She had to lean away.
She dared not stir a foot,
Lest movement should provoke
The demon of pursuit
That slumbers in a brute.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)