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In 2016, the CIA World Factbook estimated that 50 percent of the Congo's total population were Roman Catholic. [8] In the same year, the Pew Research Centre provided the estimate of 47.3 percent or over 31 million people, or 2.8 percent of the world's Catholic population. [9] In 2020, that estimate was steady at 47.3%. [10]
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%).
Other Christian groups include Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Greek Orthodox Church. [6] 62 of the Protestant denominations in the country are federated under the umbrella of the Church of Christ in Congo or CCC (in French, Église du Christ au Congo or ECC).
For earlier history see Catholic Church in Kongo.. The church's penetration of the country at large is a product of the colonial era. [4] The Belgian colonial state authorized and subsidized the predominantly Belgian Catholic missions to establish schools and hospitals throughout the colony; the church's function from the perspective of the state was to accomplish Belgium's "civilizing mission ...
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% ...
The Methodist movement is represented by 60–80 million people [verification needed] (a figure including adherents but non-members), found in denominations including the following; [23] [190] the World Methodist Council (WMC) is the fifth largest communion. [191] Not all of the following churches are member churches of the WMC.
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 ...
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.