Christendom in crisis: The Catholic Church and postcolonial politics in Central Africa

In contrast to its minority status in most of the African continent, the Catholic Church is the dominant religious community in the Central African nations of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After a century of evangelization and a half-century of independence, two-thirds of the population of Burundi is Catholic, and around half of Congolese and Rwandese claim the Catholic faith.4