Zionist Churches are a group of Christian denominations that sprang from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois. Missionaries from the church came to South Africa in 1904 and among their first recruits were Pieter Louis le Roux of Wakkerstroom and Daniel Nkonyane of Charlestown, who continued to evangelise after the Zionist missionaries left in 1908.
The Zionist Churches proliferated throughout southern Africa, and became African Independent Churches; research in 1996 suggested that 40% of all black South Africans belonged to a Zionist church.
The church is unrelated to the Jewish political movement of Zionism.
Read more about Zionist Churches: Origins, Succession Disputes, Characteristics of Zionist Churches
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