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	Mennonite World Conference. "Global Map: Democratic Republic of Congo." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 27 March 2021. https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map.		Mennonite World Conference. "Global Map: Democratic Republic of Congo." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 27 March 2021. https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map.
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		+	Mennonite World Conference. "Membership, Map and Statistics. 2024 Web. 4 September 2025. https://mwc-cmm.org/en/membership-map-and-statistics/

	Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. [Broken Link].		Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. [Broken Link].

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+| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Members'''<br />
 '''in 1978'''
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 '''in 1990'''
-| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Membership'''<br />
+| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Members'''<br />
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 '''in 2000'''
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+| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Members'''<br />
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+| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Members'''<br />
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 The three Mennonite churches in Congo are situated in a land of great potential, and they are confronted by formidable problems. Economic inflation and devaluation of national currency have been steady since the 1970s; dishonesty and graft have surfaced at many levels of public life. All of this exerted tremendous pressure upon the Christian community of the country. In the midst of grievous social and economic problems, however, it is heartening to note that wherever pockets of stability and integrity are found, invariably they are church-related. Both in terms of political development and church growth on the continent of Africa, more will be heard from Congo and its Mennonite churches in coming years.
-= 2020 Update =
+= 2025 Update =
-Between 1978 and 2020 the following Anabaptist denominations were active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
+Between 1978 and 2024 the following Anabaptist denominations were active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
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-{| {{table}}
+{| class="wikitable"
 | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Denominations'''
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 '''in 2020'''
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-| [[Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]]||align="right" | 101||align="right" | 18,086||align="right" | 228||align="right" | 46,906||align="right" | 468||align="right" | 76,640||align="right" | 582||align="right" | 95,208||align="right" | 874||align="right" | 101,626||align="right" | 526||align="right" | 95,044
+| [[Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]]|
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-| [[Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Communauté Evangélique Mennonite]]||align="right" | 33||align="right" | 3,462||align="right" | 145||align="right" | 16,000||align="right" | 160||align="right" | 21,000||align="right" | 150||align="right" | 21,060||align="right" | 96||align="right" | 23,576||align="right" | 92||align="right" | 12,499
+| [[Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Communauté Evangélique Mennonite]]
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-| Communauté Evangélique Mennonite du Congo ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | 13||align="right" | 1,142
+| Communauté Evangélique Mennonite du Congo
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-| [[Communauté Mennonite au Congo]]||align="right" | 400||align="right" | 38,000||align="right" | 350||align="right" | 50,000||align="right" | 522||align="right" | 85,400||align="right" | 780||align="right" | 100,000||align="right" | 798||align="right" | 110,000||align="right" | 789||align="right" | 109,960
+| [[Communauté Mennonite au Congo]]
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-| Communauté Mennonite de Kinshasa||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | 13||align="right" | 2,100
+| Communauté Mennonite de Kinshasa
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-| Communauté Mennonite Réformée au Congo||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | ||align="right" | 24||align="right" | 800
+| Communauté Mennonite Réformée au Congo
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-| '''Totals'''||align="right" |''' 534'''||align="right" | '''59,548'''||align="right" | '''723'''||align="right" | '''112,906'''||align="right" | '''1,150'''||align="right" | '''183,040'''||align="right" | '''1,512'''||align="right" | '''216,268'''||align="right" | '''1,768'''||align="right" | '''235,202'''||align="right" | '''1,457'''||align="right" | '''221,545'''
+| '''Totals'''
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 To the west in Bandundu Province, where a cluster of small faith missions were having difficulty coping with the new postwar era, opportunity also came to the CIM to acquire two new mission posts. Near the Angolan border in Kahemba territory was Kamayala, a mission post established under the auspices of the Unevangelized Tribes Mission in 1930 by two extraordinary sisters, Bertha and Mary Miller. This mission, like others, also made an appeal to other organizations to assume responsibility for ongoing ministry. The CIM responded in 1952, thus beginning its first ministry among Chokwe and Lunda people.
-Between Kamayala and [[Mukedi (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Mukedi]] was Kandala, a station which had been started in 1926 by a pioneering Canadian Baptist couple, Percy and Rosalie Near, and was also situated among the Baphende people. The Nears approached CIM about assuming leadership for the work. Terms were agreed upon and the first CIM personnel arrived on the station in 1954. CIM and Mennonite Brethren (MB) areas lay side-by-side in Congo and eventually gave rise to three autonomous Mennonite churches. All are part of the national Congolese church, the Eglise du Christ au Congo. Stemming from the work of the CIM were the [[Communauté Mennonite au Congo|Communauté Mennonite au Congo]] and ECZ: [[Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)]]. The church which grew out of the work of the Mennonite Brethren came to be known as [[Communauté des Ëglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]].
+Between Kamayala and [[Mukedi (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Mukedi]] was Kandala, a station which had been started in 1926 by a pioneering Canadian Baptist couple, Percy and Rosalie Near, and was also situated among the Baphende people. The Nears approached CIM about assuming leadership for the work. Terms were agreed upon and the first CIM personnel arrived on the station in 1954. CIM and Mennonite Brethren (MB) areas lay side-by-side in Congo and eventually gave rise to three autonomous Mennonite churches. All are part of the national Congolese church, the Eglise du Christ au Congo. Stemming from the work of the CIM were the [[Communauté Mennonite au Congo|Communauté Mennonite au Congo]] and ECZ: [[Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)]]. The church which grew out of the work of the Mennonite Brethren came to be known as [[Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]].
 CIM and MB missionaries were partners in several cooperative ventures across the years, notably in a four-year teacher training school at Nyanga in the early 1950s; a missionary children's school at Kajiji, 1954-60; and a pastoral training school, also at Kajiji, 1963-68. Both Mennonite missions were founding partners of the Theological Institute of Kinshasa (Institut Supérieur Théologique de Kinshasa; ISTK), a venture in which 10 other mission groups originally shared. Both CIM and BOMAS provided teaching staff for this school after it opened. All three Mennonite churches sent pastoral candidates there for training.
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-| [[Communauté des Ëglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]]||align="right" | 101||align="right" | 18,086||align="right" | 228||align="right" | 46,906||align="right" | 468||align="right" | 76,640||align="right" | 582||align="right" | 95,208||align="right" | 874||align="right" | 101,626||align="right" | 526||align="right" | 95,044
+| [[Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites au Congo|Communauté des Eglises de Frères Mennonites au Congo]]||align="right" | 101||align="right" | 18,086||align="right" | 228||align="right" | 46,906||align="right" | 468||align="right" | 76,640||align="right" | 582||align="right" | 95,208||align="right" | 874||align="right" | 101,626||align="right" | 526||align="right" | 95,044
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 | [[Communauté Evangélique Mennonite (Democratic Republic of Congo)|Communauté Evangélique Mennonite]]||align="right" | 33||align="right" | 3,462||align="right" | 145||align="right" | 16,000||align="right" | 160||align="right" | 21,000||align="right" | 150||align="right" | 21,060||align="right" | 96||align="right" | 23,576||align="right" | 92||align="right" | 12,499

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 Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. [Broken Link].
-Mennonite World Conference. "World Directory 2012: Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Related Churches." Web. http://www.mwc-
+Mennonite World Conference. "World Directory 2012: Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Related Churches." Web. [Broken Link].
 ''Mennonite World Handbook Supplement''. Strasbourg, France, and Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1984: 19-21.

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 Lichdi, Diether Götz, ed. ''Mennonite World Handbook 1990: Mennonites in Global Witness''. Carol Stream, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1990.
-Mennonite World Conference. "2000 Africa Mennonite &amp; Brethren in Christ Churches." Web. 2 March 2011. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2000africa.html. [Broken Link].
+Mennonite World Conference. "2000 Africa Mennonite &amp; Brethren in Christ Churches." Web. 2 March 2011. [Broken Link].
 Mennonite World Conference. "Global Map: Democratic Republic of Congo." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 27 March 2021. https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map.
-Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. <span class="link-external">[http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006africa.pdf http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006africa.pdf]</span>. [Broken Link].
+Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. [Broken Link].
 Mennonite World Conference. "World Directory 2012: Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Related Churches." Web. http://www.mwc-

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 Wikipedia. "Democratic Republic of the Congo." Web. 7 March 2011. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo].
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