Country/Region of Manufacture: Rwanda
Culture: African
Title | Mituku Statue |
Types of object | Statue |
County of origin | Democratic Republic of congo |
People | lega |
Materials | Wood |
Approximate size | 39 cm-- 15 inches high/weight |
Mituku
People
Affinity
Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Affinity
Bloc: Sub-Saharan African
People
Cluster: Bantu, Central-Congo
Language: Mituku -
(zmq)
Alternate
Name(s): Kinya-Mituku
Primary
Religion: Christianity - Roman Catholicism
Country: Congo
(Kinshasa)
Also found
in:
Population:
101,000
Global
Population: 101,000
Progress of
the Gospel: Engaged yet Unreached
Global
Status of Evangelical Christianity: Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP
Activity
Overview: The
Mituku of Congo (Kinshasa), numbering 101,000, are Engaged yet Unreached. They
are part of the Bantu, Central-Congo people cluster within the Sub-Saharan
African affinity bloc. This people group is only found in Congo (Kinshasa).
Their primary language is Mituku. The primary religion practiced by the Mituku
is Roman Catholicism, the largest branch of the Christian church and one of the
oldest religious institutions in the world. Roman Catholicism teaches that it
is the one true Churches founded by Jesus Christ and that its bishops are the
successors of Christ.