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Kongo religion (Kikongo: Bukongo or Bakongo) encompasses the traditional beliefs of the Bakongo people. Due to the highly centralized position of the Kingdom of Kongo, its leaders were able to influence much of the traditional religious practices across the Congo Basin. [1] As a result, many other ethnic groups and kingdoms in West-Central ...
Christianity (95.4%) Traditional faiths (2.6%) Islam (1.5%) None (0.4%) Others (0.1%) Holy Ghost Cathedral in Kindu. Christianity is the predominant religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Catholicism and Protestantism being its main denominations. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a secular nation and freedom of religion ...
Christianity is the majority 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.
King James Only movement. The First Page of the Book of Genesis in the 1611 printing of the KJV. The King James Only movement (also known as King James Onlyism or KJV Onlyism) asserts the belief that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. Adherents of the King James Only movement, mostly ...
Christianity is the predominant religion in the Republic of the Congo, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. Different sources give varying population figures for various denominations. The 2012 census reported 55% of the native-born population is Catholic, 32% Protestant, and 2% Muslim. [2] However a government survey of the same ...
The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely varied, reflecting the great diversity and different customs which exist in the country. Congolese culture combines the influence of tradition to the region, but also combines influences from abroad which arrived during the era of colonization and continue to have a strong influence, without destroying the individuality of many ...
Nzambi Mpungu was recorded as the name of the God of the Kongo people as early as the early 16th century by Portuguese who visited the Kingdom of Kongo. [1] [2]European missionaries along with Kongo intellectuals (including King Afonso I of Kongo) set out to render European Christian religious concepts into Kikongo and they chose this name to represent God.
The Kalûnga Line in Kongo religion is a watery boundary between the land of the living (Ku Nseke) and the spiritual realm of the ancestors (Ku Mpemba). Kalûnga is the Kikongo word "threshold between worlds." It is the point between the physical world (Ku Nseke) and the spiritual world (Ku Mpemba). It represents liminality, or a place ...