Prophet Simon Kimbangu. Jailed, condemned, tortured to death by the Church and Belgium.
Prophet Simon Kimbangu.
Jailed, condemned, tortured to death by the Church and Belgium.
A prophet whose name means ‘The one who
reveals hidden things’, was born in Nkamba, central Kongo on the 12th
of September 1887.
When he was 23 years, he began to hear the
call of Yahweh’s spirit that asked him to ‘cater to his flock’. He refused to
take heed until 11 years later when he returns home disillusioned after having
worked for no pay. He arrives on the 6th
of April 1921 in Ngombe Kinsuka
and the spirit of Yahweh gives him an order to resuscitate a young girl, Nkiatundo, who had just died.
His arrest:
On the 12th of September 1921,
Simon Kimbangu is arrested and summarily judged and condemned to death.
However, his sentence was changed by his Belgian Christian capturer King Albert
I (the 1st).
He was kept in custody for thirty (30) years
in a small cell in Elizabethville (Lubumbashi) and dipped in a deep well of
cold salty water in order to speed up his demise.
Two (2) days before his death, on the 10th
of October 1951, Simon Kimbangu announced his death to his co-detainees. He
said that he would die two (2) days later on Friday the 12th of
October 1951. Certainly so, at 15h00 on Friday the 12th of October
1951, the Greta Prophet hit himself three (3) times with his fists on the right
and left ribs. Simon Kimbangu peacefully passed away lying down on his blanket
on the floor, he passed away after prophesying terrible ordeals for Belgium
and the West in the future to come.
Kintuadi
Simon Kimbangu founded a Spiritual movement
known as Kintuadi.
This community was devoted to the total
liberation of Black Man.
Members of this institution suffered numerous
persecutions and deportations from their native Central Kongo. Over one hundred
and fifty thousand (150 000) members of Kintuadi were deported between 1921 and
1959. These people died in exile, in hard labour, under whiplash and never-ending beating.
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