ABSTRACT
Protestant missionaries arrived at San Salvador in 1879 to find that all that remained of the Portuguese efforts were the ruins of a Christian cathedral, a crucifix among the King's other fetishes, and confused memories of the earlier teaching. Unlike the evangelization of the Congo coasts by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, the nineteenth-century missionary movement into the Congo interior was undertaken by both Protestants and Roman Catholics simultaneously. When the All Africa Conference of Churches was established at the Kampala Assembly in 1963, the Congo Protestant Council sent an African delegate, nine Congo 'Churches' and one 'mission' sent African delegates, and one 'Church' sent a European missionary. On the Protestant side, however, there has remained a great deal of fear and suspicion during the post-war years. A conference held at Leopoldville in 1902 was the first of a series of General Conferences which drew representatives from most of the Protestant societies working in the Congo.
