In 1921 Kimbangu was a young man preparing to join a Baptist church when he felt called of God to preach the gospel. He responded and the revival movement he soon led so alarmed the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) government officials seized him and sent him to jail for life. The movement only spread farther and faster.
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