François-David Ekofo
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François-David "Franck" Ekofo Bonyeku is a Protestant pastor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was forced into exile after he publicly criticized President Joseph Kabila in January 2018.
Ekofo is an ordained minister in the Community of Disciples of Christ, one of the member denominations within the Church of Christ in Congo. He received his Master in Sacred Theology (STM) at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis then earned a PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Strasbourg in France. The title of his dissertation was "Iesus Pais Theou: :L'interprértation d'Ésaïe 53 par Jésus et par l'Église Primitive" .He returned to Congo in 1987, after 8 years outside the country. He became a professor of New Testament at the Protestant University in Congo and also served as a pastor at the International Protestant Church in Kinshasa. He also served as dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Protestant University.[1]