The short answer
The Living Bread maps 368 Christian churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.the Democratic Republic of the Congo in context
The churches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are Roman Catholic and a large Protestant and Kimbanguist presence.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Pew Research Center (2020); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
