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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 ...
A broad overview of various Christian groups including a historical context. See also Christianity by country , Islam by country , Judaism by country , Protestantism by country , Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world
Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population. [2] Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of the world's Christians at 33%, [5] 36%, [13] 36.7%, [2] and 40%, [3] while in relation to the world's population at 11.6% [2] and ...
This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch. Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450
During the 1960s, Tenrikyo, a Japanese religion, was introduced to the Republic of the Congo. Alphonse Nsonga and his brother became the first Congolese, and African, Tenrikyo converts in 1962. Alphonse Nsonga later became the head minister of Africa's first Tenrikyo church, the Tenrikyo Congo Brazzaville Church, on April 26, 1975. [5] [6]
Map of prevailing religion by country Map of relative importance of religion by country, based on a 2006–2008 worldwide survey by Gallup Countries with a state religion: Christianity (unspecified)
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
The legalized church, known as the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu (Église de Jésus-Christ sur Terre par le Prophète Simon Kimbangu—EJCSK), has since succeeded in becoming one of the only three Christian groups recognized by the state, the other two being the Catholic Church and the Church of Christ in Congo ...