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Kimbanguism (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on Kimbanguism, read directly for this pass, which states that Simon Kimbangu inaugurated the movement in April 1921 among Bakongo communities in the Belgian Congo, that Belgian colonial authorities imprisoned him and he remained incarcerated until his death in 1951, that the church was formally recognized by the Belgian colonial authorities in 1959, and that the World Council of Churches withdrew the church's membership in June 2021 on doctrinal grounds.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 1921 founding, Kimbangu's arrest and 1951 death in custody, and the church's 1959 formal recognition are settled twentieth-century history independently corroborated by a search aggregate citing Britannica and the Dictionary of African Christian Biography for the same dates, with no live dispute over any of them; the 1969 World Council of Churches admission and 2021 withdrawal are noted separately as ecumenical-relations context, not as claims about the Congolese state's own recognition. NotesCited for the 1921 founding and colonial-era suppression, the 1959 formal recognition by Belgian colonial authorities, and the 1969 World Council of Churches admission and its 2021 withdrawal.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbanguism
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