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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. Simon Kimbangu - Wikipedia

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    Members of the Kimbangu Church of Portugal celebrating New Year on May 25, 2013 outside Lisbon, Portugal. Simon Kimbangu (September 12, 1887 [1] [2] – October 12, 1951) was a Congolese religious leader who founded the Christian new religious movement Kimbanguism.

  4. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    The fragmented Kongo people in the 19th century were annexed by three European colonial empires, during the Scramble for Africa and Berlin Conference, the northernmost parts went to France (now the Republic of Congo and Gabon), the middle part along river Congo along with the large inland region of Africa went to Belgium (now the Democratic ...

  5. Kimbanguism - Wikipedia

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    Kimbanguism (French: Kimbanguisme) is a Christian new religious movement professed by the African initiated church Jesus Christ's Church on Earth by his special envoy Simon Kimbangu (French: Église de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu, EJCSK) founded by Simon Kimbangu in the Belgian Congo (today the Democratic ...

  6. 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%).

  7. Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    The Baháʼí Faith in Democratic Republic of the Congo began after `Abdu'l-Bahá wrote letters encouraging taking the religion to Africa in 1916. [20] The first Baháʼí to settle in the country came in 1953 from Uganda. [21] The first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was elected in 1957. By 1963 there were 143 local ...

  8. 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.

  9. Pre-colonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    The most infamous militia were the so-called Zappo Zap, a subgroup of the Basongye people. They had a habit of eating their fallen enemies, and were said to consider human meat a delicacy. [ 16 ] These warrior cultures were also used by both the Leopoldian forces as well as the Arab slavers during the Congo-Arab war.