Christmas comes late to DR Congo
By John James BBC, Kinshasa
Friday, 25 May 2007

Millions of members of a Democratic Republic of Congo sect have been celebrating Christmas.
Members of the Kimbanguist church believe Jesus Christ was born on 25 May and not 25 December.

Followers, wearing green for hope and white for purity, have spent the day eating, praying and dancing at a centre in the capital, Kinshasa.

The church has around three million believers, mainly concentrated in central Africa.

It was founded in 1921 by Simon Kimbangu, a self-styled healer and prophet, who was educated by Baptist church missionaries in the west of what was then the Congo Free State. the rest