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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 ...
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 ...
Texas has the highest number of immigrants from the Republic of the Congo at 6,230. [22] Immigrants from the Republic of Congo took up the largest share of a state's population in Kentucky at 0.041%. [23] As of 2023, the Top 10 cities with the most immigrants from the Republic of the Congo were as follows: [24]
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 ...
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.
[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 ...