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Simon Kimbangu and the Spiritual Resistance That Shook the Belgian Congo
In the early 1920s, as the Belgian Congo was being exploited for rubber and minerals, a Baptist preacher named Simon Kimbangu began healing the sick and preaching a message of hope and defiance in the village of Nkamba. His rapidly growing following terrified the colonial authorities, who saw in him a threat to their control. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Kimbangu's life: his trial and death sentence commuted to life imprisonment, the brutal suppression of his movement, and how his church survived underground to become one of the largest independent African churches, with…
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