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	African Initiated Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethiopian African Initiated Churches, which are recently-formed Protestant congregations, mostly in southern Africa, arose from the Ethiopian movement of the late nineteenth century, which taught that African Christian churches should be under the control of fl people.
		Zionist churches, such as the Zion Christian Church, trace their origins to the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, founded by John Alexander Dowie, with its headquarters at Zion City, near Chicago in the USA, and are found mainly in Southern Africa.
		The churches that have been called Messianic focus on the power and sanctity of their leaders; often the leaders are thought by their followers to possess Christ-like characteristics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_Initiated_Church (1390 words)

	Kimbanguism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The church's name is the Kimbanguist Church (fully Église de Jesus Christ sur Terre par le Prophète Simon Kimbangu, or The Church of Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu), and is a large, independent African Initiated Church with an estimated one to three million believers.
		The church was formally recognised by the Belgian colonial authorities in 1959.
		The three key dates in the Kimbanguist are April 6 (marking the date of the start of the ministry of healing), October 12 (marking the day Kimbangu died) and March 25 (marking Christmas).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kimbanguism (304 words)

	Churches and Councils
		The Church of the Lord is a member of the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), the OAIC, the AACC and the WCC.
		The organisation of the Church is hierarchical and centralized.
		Even though the constituent churches practice their own doctrines the main concern of the Council is to see to it that a particular church worships the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit before it is accepted into membership.
	www.pctii.org /wcc/churches96.html (6441 words)

	(CMS) Church Mission Society \| Mid-Africa Region - About Us > The Church in The Democratic Republic of Congo
		It forms part of the Church of Christ in Congo, which encompasses tens of Protestant churches and is one of three officially recognised religious groupings in Congo (with the Roman Catholics and Kimbanguists).
		The Anglican Church in Congo is particularly strong in the east of the country - the area hardest hit by the recent war.
		The Anglican Church in Congo is led by Archbishop Dirokpa Balufuga Fidèle.
	www.cms-uk.org /mar/about/drcchurch.html (545 words)

	Christian Fellowship Church of New Georgia
		The beliefs and practices of the Christian Fellowship Church Loarnieva are somewhat reminiscent of those of the Kimbanguist church in Africa.
		Silas Eto (1905-84) had trained to be a pastor in the Methodist Church under the famous New Zealand missionary J.F. Gouldie.
		Following Eto's death in 1984, the church was placed under the authority of Sam Kuku.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/westoc/cfcng.html (182 words)

	Zaire - The Kimbanguist Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Kimbanguist Church, an indigenous Zairian religion, emerged from the charismatic ministry of Simon Kimbangu in the early 1920s.
		The Kimbanguist Church deliberately rotates its officials outside their areas of origin in order to depoliticize ethnicity and centralize power, a policy taken directly from the state.
		In many ways, the Kimbanguist Church and the Roman Catholic Church have exchanged places in their relationship with the state; the former outlaw has become a close ally and the former ally an outspoken critic.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-15050.html (525 words)

	Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Evangelists, Teachers
		Churches that claim Harris as their founder are still active in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
		After the prophet's death in 1951 the Kimbanguist church survived under the leadership of his son.
		The clergy in the Christian churches had their origin in the apostles and in the "seventy" appointed by Jesus Christ to carry his teachings "into every town and place" (Luke 10:1).
	www.angelfire.com /home/AllenAndYeya/AnointedOnes.html (1261 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zaire - The Roman Catholic Church \| Zaire Information Resource
		Conflict within the church exists between the lower clergy, who are in day-to-day contact with the population, and the higher clergy; the former argued for a more radical structural critique of the regime, while the latter prevailed in arguing for a more limited, moral criticism.
		In addition, the church continued to depend on grants from foreign sources; as of 1976, none of Zaire's forty-seven dioceses was financially self-sufficient, a situation of dependency that appeared little changed by the early 1990s.
		Finally, while church officials generally sided with the populace against the government in labor disputes, tax revolts, and individual cases of injustice, they sometimes made common cause with the regime; in its management role in Catholic schools, for example, the church found itself siding with the government against striking underpaid teachers in the early 1980s.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/zaire/zaire89.html (1181 words)

	ASR97-Churches.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Churches were at the front-line of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and church leaders have taken courageous stands opposing repressive regimes in Kenya, Malawi, and Zaire.
		While on paper churches may be organized in a strictly hierarchical fashion, in practice the numerous groups, institutions, and individuals that function under the auspices of each church operate with a considerable degree of autonomy.
		Tutsi sought refuge in the churches in part because the local Christian parishes represented the clearest embodiment of a moral authority in their communities, and the church buildings themselves possessed at least some aura of holy ground, and as a result, those threatened by ethnic violence in the past had found safety in church buildings.
	vassun.vassar.edu /~tilongma/ASR97-Churches.html (9278 words)

	Simon Kimbangu & Kimbanguism
		Simon Kimbangu was entirely orthodox in his teaching, down to a strong advocacy of monogamy, which the Kimbanguist church still maintains.
		The Kimbanguist church calendar is dominated by three main dates April 6 marks the date the ministry of healing began, October 12 was the day he died in prison, and Christmas day, the birth day of Christ.
		Her bias is to defend the orthodoxy of the Kimbanguists.
	www.bethel.edu /~letnie/AfricanChristianity/SSAKimbangu.html (956 words)

	CESNUR 2001 - AIC in Germany (Simon)
		A church which is based totally upon the traditional mother tongue has to deal with problems of acceptance as well as problems of tolerance.
		The Kimbanguists are an AIC which begun in the 20th of the last century and were founded by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu.
		Besides the Kimbanguists who still remain in the stadium of seclusion and the CL which is taken as an example of a church in the stadium of openness, I want to present the All Christian Believers Fellowship (ACBF) as example for Inculturation.
	www.cesnur.org /2001/london2001/simon.htm (2744 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| Bishop Antonious Markos: An African evangelist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And of all Africa's contemporary churches, the Ethiopian is the closest to the Coptic.
		The Elders of the Ethiopian Church were yearning to cut the umbilical chord between the Egyptian and Ethiopian churches and it was eventually severed, though the final cut was largely at the hands of politicians rather than the clergy.
		The Egyptian Church "received a surprise request" from the Ethiopian Church to consecrate the Ethiopian patriarch in May 1971 without waiting for the enthronement of the new Egyptian pope.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/620/profile.htm (2553 words)

	Christianity is as vital as ever - in Africa, Asia and South America
		This recently became apparent in the Episcopal Church, when two Americans were consecrated as Anglican bishops of Singapore and Rwanda and sent to establish evangelical Anglican parishes in the United States.
		Churches in India support 15,000 to 20,000 cross-cultural missionaries, probably surpassing the United States as a mission-sending nation, Sunquist said.
		The Kimbanguist Church, founded by the Rev. Simon Kimbangu of the Republic of Congo, has about 7 million members, which makes it much larger than the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA) combined.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20000423easter2.asp (1303 words)

	Kimbangu, Simon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Church of Jesus Christ through the Prophet Simon Kimbangu
		Sociologically, the prophet and his church offered a new model of social authority; religiously, Kimbangu expressed God's love through the mediation of African symbols; and psycho-culturally he set in motion a grand narrative of the fl people's special place in God's world.
		For missionaries, for Western scholars of Kimbanguism, and for the theologians of the Kimbanguist church itself, it has always been theologically difficult to define who Kimbangu was.
		Oral history has been collected in W. MacGaffey, "The Beloved City: Commentary on a Kimbanguist Text," JRA 2 (1969): 129-147, and in Kuntima Diangienda, L'Histoire du Kimbanguisme (1984), written by the youngest son of Kimbangu, the late head of the Kimbangu Church.
	www.dacb.org /stories/demrepcongo/kimbangu3_simon.html (464 words)

	anb417-e02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The presence of these Churches in the capital goes back to 1990, to a time when the precursors of this new current criticised the traditional religions (Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Kimbanguist) for their abstruseness, their torpor, indeed for being completely out of touch with the people’s aspirations.
		On the other hand, the traditional Churches were dying despite an ever-increasing appeal to such aids to religion as rosaries, crucifixes, statues, holy water, etc. The use of which, according to some, is clearly against one of God’s Ten Commandments and could be construed as idolatry.
		The Kimbanguist Church took Papa Wemba to court and he had to pay a fine and to publicly apologise to the Church.
	ospiti.peacelink.it /anb-bia/nr417/e02.html (1517 words)

	Burundi Réalités - Actualités (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Secondly, there are church denominations that have refused membership of CENB for various reasons: The Associations of the Assemblies of Pentecostal churches and other charismatic church denominations, The 7th Day Adventists and the Emmanuel Churches.
		By “nightmares” we mean the church’s failures in her prophetic roles and mission in handling issues of social justice.
		Bujumbura church congregation was asked to pray for peace in the country, but nothing was said about what really had happened nor about the plight of church members in the area in question (Gunilla Nyberg 1995, 44-45).
	www.burundirealite.org /burundi/display_news_f.cfm?loc=1051 (4238 words)

	Adherents.com: Largest Religious Bodies
		The limited geographical spread of most regional churches of this type is primarily through the emigration of its members, not through the conversion of indigenous populations.
		The Kimbanguist Church (primarily in central Africa), Balinese Hinduism (primarily in Bali, Indonesia), Lingayats (primarily in southern India), Tenrikyo (primarily in Japan), Druze (primarily in Lebanon, Israel and Syria) and the Anglipayan Church (primarily in the Philippines) are other examples of this type.
		Although the church at Constantinople is called the "first among equals," in a very real sense it is the highest seat of leadership for the entire Orthodox Church, and the archbishop there is the spiritual head of this worldwide organization.
	www.adherents.com /adh_rb.html (5270 words)

	Simon Kimbangu - Independent African Christianity
		Despite the fact that this action of spiritual rebirth initiated by Simon Kimbangu took place in the official churches, the church was divided in their definition of the role of Simon Kimbangu.
		In 1969 the Kimbanguist Church was the first independent Church ever to become a full member of the World Council of Churches.
		Today the Kimbanguist Church is home to 17 million Christians worldwide in DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Zambia, Burundi, Kenya, Belgium, France, USA, South Africa, etc. The Kimbanguist Church is also a member of the African Council of Churches and the South African Council of Churches.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /his/Kimgangu.html (3472 words)

	Angola
		The Roman Catholic Church claims 5 million adherents, but such figures could not be verified.
		The largest syncretic religious group is the Kimbanguist Church, whose followers believe that a mid-20th century Congolese pastor named Joseph Kimbangu was a prophet.
		Church groups are key members of the country's civil society movement and are consulted regularly by Embassy officials.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35338.htm (1123 words)

	A Christian Family Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is especially the case with the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Church of the East, all of which claim first-century origins.
		Also called Church of England; known in different countries as: Episcopal Church, Church of Ireland, Church of South India, etc. and became one of the three main branches of "mainline" Protestantism.
		The original Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht) separated from Rome because it disputed the doctrines of papal infallibility and the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary.
	members.aol.com /djpursiful/tree.html (1546 words)

	Election in a multi-faith perspective - Dean Michael Pitts
		In December last year, when the Montreal Council of Churches was preparing a service here in the Cathedral, some of my ecumenical colleagues were surprised at my knowledge of the Kimbanguist church of Zaire: I had known and studied with a member of that church in Geneva all those years ago.
		It is easy to see why the true church needed to define itself over against the false, why the community had to define its boundaries against the outsiders.
		But once the Western Church came into a position of power, this self-understanding of being the truly chosen people of God became the root of the disdain and persecution of the Jews, of the crusades against the Muslim people, which turned into crusades against Eastern Christians.
	www.montreal.anglican.org /cathedral/dean/dean_proper3_2002.htm (1084 words)

	Modèle
		In December 2004, the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra celebrated ten years of existence and has become a large group of two hundred members male and female vocalists and instrumentalists, from 6 to 40 years of age.
		The Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra is a first in sub-Sahara Africa, in that, all its members are presently fl Africans with the majority being Congolese.
		Grandson of Simon Kimbangu, the founder of the Kimbanguist Church, and sixth son of His Eminence Joseph Diangienda Kuntima who headed the Kimbanguist Church from 1959 until his death in 1992.
	www.oskimbangu.org /English.html (1151 words)

	Angola
		In March 2001, Minister Tjipilica announced that colonial-era law granting civil registration authority to the churches is to be put back into effect.
		The post-independence Government was a one-party state until 1991 and had nationalized all church schools and clinics; however, since that time, all schools and clinics have been returned to the churches, and the Government permits churches and missions to start schools.
		During a Catholic bishops' conference in March 2001, the Government asked the Catholic Church for assistance in implementing the Peace and Reconciliation Fund and for support in carrying out social programs in the country.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5511.htm (870 words)

	100 years later, Azusa Street Revival still reverberates - The Clarion-Ledger
		The largest Pentecostal denominations in the United States are the Assemblies of God, the United Pentecostal Church International, the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.), the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and the Church of God in Christ - considered by many to be the biggest African-American denomination in the United States.
		The first Mississippi Pentecostal church to attract white believers was founded in 1917 in Lee County, said the Rev. Coy Hill of Amory, whose father pastored the church on and off for 65 years beginning in 1932.
		A replica of the original church building is being built on the grounds of the United Pentecostal Church International Mississippi district headquarters in Raymond.
	www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/FEAT04/604220329 (1277 words)

	Kimbanguist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Among the African churches it was the first to be admitted to the world council of churches in 1969.
		The church has its beginnings in April of 1921 when Simon Kimbanguist started a mass movement of miraculous healing and Biblical teachings in Africa.
		The institution of communion was not introduced to the Kimbanguist church until 1971.
	www.alientravelguide.com /history/religion/christ/kimbangu.htm (122 words)

	Congo - Spirituality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Many missionaries fled or were killed during the civil war in the 1960s, and the churches have since been largely Africanized.
		Religious instruction was banned in schools, Christian names were replaced by African ones, church schools were nationalized, and religious holidays were secularized.
		Pope John Paul II visited the country in 1980 as a sign of reconciliation between Congo and the Christian church.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/congo/spirit.html (423 words)

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