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  2. Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is the largest religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population. According to the 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom, an estimated 48.1% of the population are Protestant (including evangelical Christians and the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth) and 47.3% are Catholic ...

  3. Catholic Church in Kongo - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Congo. The Catholic Church arrived in the Kingdom of Kongo shortly after the first Portuguese explorers reached its shores in 1483. The Portuguese left several of their own number and kidnapped a group of Kongo including at least one nobleman, Kala ka Mfusu, taking them to Portugal where they stayed a year, learned Portuguese and were converted to Christianity.

  4. Kingdom of Loango - Wikipedia

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    [clarification needed] [9] It is therefore unlikely that there was a major power on the coast of Central Africa north of the Congo River. The earliest reference to Loango in a documentary source is a mention around 1561 by Sebastião de Souto, a priest in Kongo, that King Diogo I (1545–61) sent missionaries to convert Loango to Christianity. [10]

  5. Kongo religion - Wikipedia

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    [5] The Kongo people had diverse views, with traditional religious thought best developed in the northern Kikongo-speaking area. [5] There is plenty of description about Kongo religious ideas in the Christian missionary and colonial era records, but as Thornton states, "these are written with a hostile bias and their reliability is problematic ...

  6. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    In 1483, south of the Congo river they found the Kongo people and the Kingdom of Kongo, which had a centralized government, a currency called nzimbu, and markets, ready for trading relations. [26] The Portuguese found well developed transport infrastructure inlands from the Kongo people's Atlantic port settlement.

  7. Religion in the Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    However many people in the country many of whom are Muslim are not native-born and not included in government statistics. [2] According to the CIA World Factbook, in 2007 the people of the Republic of the Congo were largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening/Revival churches (22.3%), Protestants (19.9%), and none (11.3%).

  8. Barambu people - Wikipedia

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    The Italian explorer Giovanni Miani, who visited the Uele region in 1872, was the first European to mention the Barambu people. [2] A 1948 account by S. Santandrea summarized what was then known of the Barambo and other peoples of the Bahr el Ghazal basin. [3] The Zande call them Amiangba or Amiangbwa, but this may also cover the Pambia.

  9. Kingdom of Kongo - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo Dya Ntotila [6] [7] [8] or Wene wa Kongo; [9] Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa.It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [10] southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. [11]

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