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Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (born June 25, 1966) is a former basketball player. He played 18 seasons in the NBA. He has become well known for his humanitarian work.

He began his career with the Georgetown Hoyas, and is regarded as one of the best-shot blockers and defensive players of all time, winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times; he was an eight-time All-Star. He surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the second most prolific shot blocker in NBA history and he averaged a double-double for most of his career.

After the 2009 NBA playoffs, he announced his retirement. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

He was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. His father worked as a school principal and then in Congo’s Department of Education. Mutombo speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and five Central African languages, including Lingala and Tshiluba. He is a member of the Luba ethnic group. He decided to work on his basketball career. He moved to the US in 1987 to enroll in college.

His older brother, Ilo, began playing college basketball for the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. The brothers played against each other in a 1990 game at the Capital Centre.

He married Rose and they have three children together. They adopted four children from Rose’s deceased brothers. His son, Ryan, was ranked as the 16th-best center in high school and committed in 2021 to play at Georgetown.

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by the State University of New York College at Cortland for his humanitarian work in Africa. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Georgetown University.

A well-known humanitarian, he started the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to improve living conditions in his native Democratic Republic of Congo. He participated in the Basketball Without Borders NBA program. He paid for uniforms and expenses for the Zaire women’s basketball team during the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. He is a spokesman for the international relief agency, CARE and is the first youth emissary for the UN Development Program. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Today's Prompt Is...

ilunga (tshiluba) - (n.) a person who is ready to forgive and forget any abuse for the first time, tolerate it the second time, but never on the third offense

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The BIG ASK 2025

We wish you a joyful and Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! Thanks to your support, 2024 ended on a high note. We are deeply grateful for your generosity and partnership. May God’s blessings be upon you and your loved ones this holiday season.

As we celebrate, let us remember that Jesus is the reason for the season. We pray you find joy in His free gift of salvation and cherish meaningful moments with your family and friends.

In 2024, many came to know Christ as their Savior, and some followed in obedience through baptism. What a year of transformation! With your continued prayers and financial support, we eagerly anticipate expanding this mission in 2025.

Thank you for walking this journey with us. Together, we are making an eternal impact!

As we enter our 34th year of fulfilling the Great Commission, we remain steadfast in our mission: sharing the Gospel through evangelism, discipleship, training pastors, planting churches, and strengthening Christians. Our conferences for young people, women, and men are a source of encouragement and renewal, while our Academy provides students with a solid education, Bible training, and chapel preaching.

There are many ongoing and upcoming projects that need support, and we humbly ask you to continue partnering with us. Your generous hearts enable us to fulfill the shared desire to advance world missions through our organization, transforming lives through Jesus Christ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The DRC is rising from the ashes of devastating conflict, which claimed over 6 million lives since 1998—many lost to hunger and disease. Your support is vital to bringing hope to this nation.

Our “BIG ASK 2025” is to sustain Rise Congo’s operations across eight provinces and beyond. We are praying and trusting God to provide $30,000 to meet this need. Will you join us in prayer for this ministry of hope? Will you commit to giving to this ministry of transformation?

Thank you for your love, generosity, and friendship. Together, we are making a lasting impact.

We are now in eight provinces marked in red on the country map:

1. Kinshasa 2. Kwilu 3. Kwango 4. Kasaï 5. Kasaï-Central 6. Kasaï Oriental 7. Sankuru 8. Lomami. We desire to expand beyond these provinces.Pray!

The language used in our 5 Bible colleges is French. Other languages in our 33 churches are Lingala, Kikongo, and Tshiluba. We are always in need of Bibles and of printing songbooks.

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DIMANCHE, LE 22/10/2023.

MÉDITATION DU JOUR :

MATTHIEU 23: 15.

THÈME : L' ACHAT DES ÂMES

TEXTE : V15 " Malheur à vous, scribes et pharisiens hypocrites! parce que vous courez la mer et la terre pour faire un prosélyte, et, quand il l'est devenu, vous en faites un fils de la géhenne deux fois plus que vous "

Ces acheteurs ont battu en brèche l'exhortation de Jacques dans son épître universelle de Jacques 3:1. Ils sont partout, ils parcourent les villages, les villes, les quartiers, les rues, chacun attire selon sa ruse.

C'est esprit d'achat des âmes est autrement appelé : Le Prosélytisme. Achat des adeptes. On trouve ces soi-disant serviteurs partout au monde. Ces tendeurs de pièges savent où les chercher et comment les attraper. Une fois les avoir eu, ils les rendent plus malheureux, ils les isolent des autres, les exploitent et les pillent sans tenir compte de leur rang social ( veuves, orphelins, démunis, handicapés physiques..). La paie de dîmes et offrandes est obligatoire. Ils contrôlent les économies des autres, la vie des autres. Ils leur imposent les jeûnes et longues prières qu'eux - mêmes ne les font pas. Ils imposent les préceptes sur préceptes. Ils hôtent à leurs adeptes les vrais sens de vivre, leur l'indépendance spirituelle et les rendent plus misérables qu'avant.

Ils ouvrent les hangars partout sans même tenir compte des autres. Leur souci majeur est d'avoir plus d'adeptes pour rendre heureuse leur vie personnelle.

Ils laissent ceux de Kinshasa se nourrir des herbes poisons et sont ailleurs en Afrique du Sud, au Canada , aux Etats- Unis. Non aux villages, non et non pour ramasser quoi ?

Les vrais adeptes sont dans les grandes villes, les pays développés ou riches du monde. Chez les pygmées non qu'est-ce qu'on peut attraper là. Dépenses inutiles.

Certains ont leurs prosélytes dans les grands marchés. La question, où ils mettent ces gens qui semblent se convertir chez-eux? Ils leur interdisent d'aller dans d'autres églises de peur d'être gagné là bas. Bref, chacun a ses adeptes, ses novices, son champ d'exploitation pour sa survie et tout le monde parle au nom de Jésus Christ. Esaïe 4:1.

Ces âmes achetées sont cachées pour l'enfer.

Quelques méthodes employées.

1. Lavage de cerveau : chaque jour, ils sont là pour flatter : Tu vois chez-nous.., Dieu a dit...

2. Ils prophétisent pour n'importe qui et en tout lieu. Les vrais cibles sont les femmes.

3. Ils s'arrangent avant pour que l'un d'entre-eux, témoigne les mensonges.

4. Ils appellent les gens en vue de témoigner des faussetés par média. Venez nous sommes sur cette adresse, nôtre numéro téléphonique.... , Venez, chez-nous il y a solutions de tous vos problèmes, il y a la guérison, prenez votre miracle.. que sais -je encore.

Ce sont les vendeurs d'illusions .

Même en pleine ville, nous rencontrons beaucoup de ces hangars où on ne prêchent par exemple à Kikongo, ou à Tshiluba, ou à Swahili, vous nous direz peut-être que ce n'est pas mal. Mais dans une église qu'on ne trouve qu'une seule tribu? Pourquoi Jésus-Christ est -il mort sur la Croix ? N'est-ce pas pour réconcilier, faire de toutes les tribus une seule nation, une seule langue et un seul peuple? Au village c'est passable.

La Bible leur profère les malédictions à leur endroit : " Malheur à vous, les scribes et pharisiens hypocrites ! parce que vous fermez aux hommes le royaume des cieux, et vous n'y entrez pas vous -mêmes et vous n'y faites pas entrer, ceux qui en veulent "

Ils privent les gens de savourer la joie de vivre en famille , de partager leur amour avec les gens des quartiers et de communier avec les autres chrétiens, ils les font cloués toujours à l'église pour les jeùnes qui ruinent la santé, les longs cultes qui se terminent par les offrandes aux familles des pasteurs, des dîmes et autres assistances. Pasteur, je dois jeûner 10 jours à sec parce que tu veux aller en Europe ? Oh africains ? Pourquoi priver les autres de leur liberté ? de leurs droits ? La Bible vous autorise t- elle ?

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Lyrics Cicatrice d'amour - Tshala Muana

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Discovering the world

Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩

Basic facts

Official name: République démocratique du Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Capital city: Kinshasa

Population: 102.2 million (2023)

Demonym: Congolese

Type of government: unitary semi-presidential republic

Head of state: Félix Tshisekedi (President)

Head of government: Judith Suminwa (Prime Minister)

Gross domestic product (purchasing power parity): $150.88 billion (2023)

Gini coefficient of wealth inequality: 42.1% (medium) (2012)

Human Development Index: 0.481 (low) (2022)

Currency: Congolese franc (CDF)

Fun fact: It is the most biodiverse country in Africa.

Etymology

The country’s name comes from the Congo River, which was named after the Kingdom of Kongo. The word “Kongo” probably derives from the root konga, which means “to gather”.

Geography

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is located in Central Africa and borders the Central African Republic to the north, South Sudan to the northeast, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi to the east, Zambia to the southeast, Angola to the southwest, and the Republic of the Congo to the west.

There are five main climates: tropical rainforest and tropical monsoon in the center, dry-winter tropical savanna in the northernmost part and south, and monsoon-influenced humid subtropical and subtropical highland in the east and southeast. Temperatures range from 8 °C (46.4 °F) in winter to 32 °C (89.6 °F) in summer. The average annual temperature is 24 °C (75 °F).

The country is divided into twenty-six provinces (provinces), which are further divided into 145 territories (territoires) and 33 cities (villes). The largest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are Kinshasa, Mbuji-Mayi, Lubumbashi, Kisangani, and Kananga.

History

500 BCE: Bantu expansion

1390-1914: Kingdom of Kongo

1585-1889: Empire of Luba

1665-1887: Kingdom of Lunda

1620-1882: Anziku Kingdom

1885-1908: Congo Free State

1908-1960: Belgian Congo

1959: Léopoldville riots

1960-1964: Republic of the Congo

1960-1965: Congo Crisis

1964-1971: Democratic Republic of the Congo

1971-1997: Republic of Zaire

1996-1997: First Congo War

1997-present: Democratic Republic of the Congo

1998-2003: Second Congo War

1999-present: Ituri conflict

2004-2009, 2012-2013, 2015-present: Kivu conflict

2009: Dongo conflict

2013-2018: Batwa-Luba clashes

2016-2019: Kamwina Nsapu rebellion

2018: Yumbi massacre

Economy

The Democratic Republic of the Congo mainly imports from China, the United States, and Zambia and exports to China, Zambia, and South Africa. Its top exports are copper, cocoa beans, and gold.

It has abundant cobalt, copper, diamonds, and gold reserves. The primary sector represents 44.2% of the GDP, followed by services (33.1%) and industry (22.6%).

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a member of the African Union, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the Economic Community of Central African States, la Francophonie, and the Southern African Development Community.

Demographics

The largest ethnic groups are the Luba-Kasai (7.7%), Kongo (6.9%), Mongo (6.9), Luba-Katanga (5.5%), Lulua (5%), Tetela (4%), Nande (3.7%), Ngbandi (3.1%), Ngombe (2.9%), Yaka (2.9%), and Ngbaka (2.8%). The main religion is Christianity, practiced by 95.4% of the population, the majority of which are Catholic.

It has a negative net migration rate and a fertility rate of 5.6 children per woman. 46.8% of the population lives in urban areas. Life expectancy is 61.8 years and the median age is 16.7 years. The literacy rate is 77%.

Languages

The official language of the country is French, spoken by 51% of the population. Kituba (8.8%), Lingala (59%), Swahili (8.8%), and Tshiluba (11%) are recognized as national languages.

Culture

Congolese culture reflects the diversity of the 250+ ethnic groups. All of them place a great value on music, as a result of which the country has a rich musical tradition.

Men traditionally wear a dashiki shirt and pants. Women wear a top and a long skirt, and a headdress in bright colors.

Architecture

Traditional houses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are made of mud, sticks, straw, and tin.

Cuisine

The Congolese diet is based on cassava, meat, potatoes, rice, and vegetables. Typical dishes include chikwangue (fermented cassava wrapped in leaves), liboké (chicken, fish, and vegetables wrapped in banana leaves), mikate (deep-fried dough balls), moambe chicken (roasted chicken braised in palm nut with onion and tomato and served over rice), and pondu ya madesu (a stew of cassava leaves and beans).

Holidays and festivals

Like other Christian countries, the Democratic Republic of the Congo celebrates Christmas Day. It also commemorates New Year’s Day and Labor Day.

Specific Congolese holidays include Martyrs’ Day on January 4, which celebrates the beginning of the independence movement; Laurent-Désiré Kabila Assassination on January 16; Patrice Lumumba Assassination on January 17; Kimbangu’s Day on April 6, which commemorates the memory of Simon Kimbangu; Liberation Day on May 17; Independence Day on June 30, and Parents’ Day on August 1.

Kimbangu’s Day

Other celebrations include the Festival of Masks, the Makala Festival, which gathers poets and writers, and the Yam Festival.

Yam Festival

Landmarks

There are five UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Gatamba National Park, Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Salonga National Park, and Virunga National Park.

Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Other landmarks include the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the Matupi Cave, Mount Nyiragongo, the Our Lady of Peace Cathedral, and the Palais de la Nation.

Our Lady of Peace Cathedral

Famous people

Bodys Isek Kingelez - sculptor

Clémentine Nzuji - poet and writer

Emmanuel Kabongo - actor

Godelic Van den Brandt - actress

M’pongo Love - singer

Maître Gims - singer

Marie-Antoinette Katoto - soccer player

Moseka Yogo Ambake - painter

Muteba Kidiaba - soccer player

V. Y. Mudimbe - poet and writer

Bodys Isek Kingelez

You can find out more about life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in this post and this video.

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Introducción al pueblo Luba R.D. del CONGO ZAMBIA#BaLuban #DepresiónUpemban #MuLopwe #tshiluba #africa #Zambia

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Tshiluba Bible, 1966.

Housed at the Quayle Bible Collection.

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Ceremonial presentation of the Muyun. zaïre by Angelo turconi ) #zaïre #vintagecongo #village #africanvillage #africanoccult #congolese #congordc #muluba #tshiluba #luba #blackgirlmagic #love #africanhistory #africantradition #africantravel #africantribes

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Why Is French So Popular? Know Its Popularity

In many African countries where numerous languages are spoken, French serves as a valuable bridge language. While French became the language of government during their time as French or Belgian colonies, the language has remained as an official language so that no local cultural or ethnic group's language takes precedence over others.

While French is the official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lingala, Swahili, Tshiluba, and Kikongo ya leta are all recognised languages spoken throughout the country. Unlike these regional languages, French's international reach permits it to serve as a linguistic bridge to the rest of the globe. French language institute in Pondicherry offers you the class in right way.

The (Relative) Ease of Learning French

While there aren't as many native speakers of French as there are of Mandarin, Arabic, or Hindi/Urdu, many students find it easier to learn. This is especially true for pupils whose first language is a European language, which accounts for roughly a quarter of the world's population.

Indeed, the Foreign Service Institute compiled a list of languages ranked on their ease of learning. French is in the first category, which is the easiest, while other significant languages such as Mandarin and Arabic are in Category 5 – the most difficult!

While other languages are useful for business, the ease with which you may study French may tip the scales for many students when making that selection.

Many people choose to learn French not only for business or to communicate with people all over the world, but also for its tremendous cultural value.

Conclusion

As a result, French has a reputation for being somewhat 'refined,' and some English-speakers choose to use French terms and phrases to add refinement to their statements. While learning any language can make you appear intelligent, mastering French is especially so!

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Tshala Muana - Vuluka Diloolo

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Languages of the world

Luba-Kasai/Tshiluba (Cilubà)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 6.3 million

Official language: Democratic Republic of Congo

Script: Latin, 23 letters

Grammatical cases: 0

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, SVO

Language family: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern Bantoid, Bantu, Luban, Luba languages

Number of dialects: 3 main groups

History

1897 - first grammar

1906 - first dictionary

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the alphabet: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p s t u v w y z.

Q, r, and x are also used, but only in loanwords and foreign names.

Grammar

Nouns have fourteen classes, two numbers (singular and plural), and no cases. Although there is no masculine or feminine gender, some words and expressions are used to refer to a man or a woman in any situation.

Numbers 1-6 take the class prefix of the noun they accompany, while 7 and 8 have a particular structure.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood (imperative, indicative, and subjunctive), person, and number. Actions can be presented from an objective or subjective point of view.

Dialects

There are three main dialect groups: Eastern, Western, and Bakwa. Eastern Luba-Kasai comprises Lubilanji and Mbuji Mayi, while Western Luba-Kasai includes Luluwa and Kananga. The standard language is based on the Lubilanji dialect.

Differences between them are mainly minor and can be found in tones and vocabulary.