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    An African-initiated church (AIC) is a Christian church independently started in Africa by Africans rather than chiefly by missionaries from another continent...
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    Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is one of the largest African-initiated churches operating across Southern Africa, and is part of the African Zionism movement...
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    a Christian new religious movement professed by the African initiated church Jesus Christ's Church on Earth by his special envoy Simon Kimbangu (French:...
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    from denominations. 60 million people are members of African-initiated churches. Zion Christian Church – 15 million[citation needed] Eternal Sacred Order...
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  • Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) – 1.2 million[citation needed] 60 million people are members of African initiated churches. Zion Christian Church –...
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    Isaiah Shembe (category South African Charismatics)
    founder of the Ibandla lamaNazaretha, South Africa, which was the largest African-initiated churches in Africa during his lifetime. Shembe started his religious...
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    Protestantism (33.4%) Catholicism (20.6%) Evangelicalism (20.4%) African-initiated church (7%) Other Christian (4.1%) Islam (10.9%) Other religion (1.8%)...
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    Baptist Church (Alternatively called "The Nazarite Church" "iBandla lamaNazaretha") is the second largest African initiated church based in South Africa, founded...
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  • and traditional African religious beliefs Some denominations hold isiguqo prayer circles Christianity portal African-initiated Church Oosthuizen, G C...
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  • Apostles of Johane Maranke (category African initiated churches)
    Marange is an African Initiated Church movement that was started by Johane Marange (1912–1963) in Southern Rhodesia in 1932. The "Apostolic Church of John Marange"...
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    the CCC church has utilized the internet as a means of evangelization, thus allowing the many existing branches of the church within the African diaspora...
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    denomination. The Zion Christian Church (or ZCC) is the largest African initiated church in Southern Africa. The church's headquarters are at Zion City Moria...
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  • HIV/AIDS infection in the world. The MRTC has been classified as an African-initiated church; a highly diverse category of religious movements that stem from...
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    Pretorius and Lizo Jafta, "A Branch Springs Out: African Initiated Churches" in Christianity in South Africa, edited by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport...
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    Adventist church (the Seventh-day Adventist Church), the largest Methodist church (the United Methodist Church) and the largest African initiated church (the...
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    (evangelicalism) Anderson, Allan (2001). African reformation: African initiated Christianity in the 20th century. Africa Research & Publications. pp. 172–173...
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    predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of...
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  • of Mary")—also known as Legio Maria of African Church Mission, and Maria Legio—is an African initiated church or new religious movement among the Luo...
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  • International Pentecost Holiness Church (or IPHC) is the largest African-initiated church in South Africa. The church was founded in Meadowlands, Soweto...
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  • Pentecostal church that has developed from Pentecostal missionary origins with African beliefs to a synchretic African initiated church. With 1.5 million...
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  • Ethiopian movement (category African initiated churches)
    African Initiated Churches (AICs). In 1888, an evangelist, Joseph Mathunye Kanyane Napo, seceded from the Anglican Church to form the Africa Church or...
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  • Holy Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement (category African initiated churches)
    and Seraphim Movement Church is an Aladura church originating from Nigeria. It is one of the first African initiated churches established back in 1925...
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  • Aladura (redirect from Aladura church)
    Church of Christ Church of the Lord (Aladura) Christ Apostolic Church African Initiated Church New religious movement "Aladura Churches in Nigeria". rlp...
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  • Apostolic Church is a South African Pentecostal church founded in 2000 by Simon Mokoena. The church was founded in 2000 in Qwaqwa South South Africa by Apostle...
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  • diaspora., A Anderson. African Reformation: African Initiated Christianity in the Twentieth Century. Lawrenceville, NJ, Africa World Press, 2001, 116...
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    to return to Nyasaland in 1937, he initiated the Mlondo or Watchman Healing Mission, an African initiated church entirely independent of the Watch Tower...
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  • they denounced the African-initiated churches. They connected to the preachers of their new religion and started their own churches and ministries. However...
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    Christ Apostolic Church. The Church of the Lord (Aladura) is an African Initiated Church founded by Josiah Olunowo Ositelu in 1925, and inaugurated in 1930...
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    Church and the native African leadership. Following the installation of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a black African leader of the Anglican Church and...
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  • renounce their multiple marriages. The Celestial Church of Christ, another African initiated church, permits polygamy. Mswati III, the Christian king...
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