President Edgar Lungu says he has no intention of hijacking the church but that he wants to incorporate it in the duties of the state.
Speaking during a celebratory mass at Divine Mercy Catholic Church President Lungu said his intention to have a Minister of Religious Affairs for Faith and National guidance was to harmonize the relationship between the State and the Church.
“How can I surely abuse the Church? The church exists independent of the state. We are believers in Christ and the Church and for us who are believers the State is subordinate to the Church,” President Lungu said.
He announced that the Secretary to the Cabinet had been tasked to speak to the three Church mother bodies to look into ways the new ministry would operate.
President Lungu re-echoed the importance of having Christian faith in the country and in politics.
The church must just accept him as any member, NOT to give him the pupit. Where is the holliness of the pupit for you to give it to every Jim & Jack. Is it hunger men of God????
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful weapon the control people.
Religion should not be mixed with politics!
Now the political parties taking advantage from the brainwashed Zambians and religion to win the elections.
People should boycott those political parties who play religious card and should choose the one who interest promises the development of the country.
The Catholic Church continues to appease and harbour the tribal PF. The domination of the Catholic clergy by Bembas and Nyanjas means that the Catholics aligns with PF, their tribal party. Telesphore Mpundu started this scandal with Sata, his mulamu, and it continues unabated. The Catholic Church should be ashamed of this creeping evil.
The church is part of the entities in a nation that help keep a check on the government, making sure the government is not abusing it’s power by denying justice to the citizens, especially the poor who are the most vulnerable. The church’s prophetic message is needed to speak out against corruption, injustice, civil and human rights violations by the government. It acts as the conscience of the nation, holding the politicians morally accountable. But once the church allows itself to be manipulated by politicians, once it becomes bedfellows with the state, and walk hand in glove with the politicians, it loses it’s prophetic authority, and thus loses it’s relevance in the nation. While Zambia is constitutionally a Christian nation, the church shouldn’t allow the politicians to…
(Continued)… turn Christianity into a state religion, meaning religion controlled by the government. There should always be some form of distance maintained between the church and the state, meaning the state should have no authority over the affairs of the church. Because like I said, if that happens, then the church loses it’s unique ministry, authority and identity as the moral compass and conscience of the nation. The church and the state shouldn’t appear to be one and the same thing. So the government creating a ministry of religion is not a very good idea at all, because it undermines the role of the church, which is holding politicians morally accountable, and it also cunningly disarms the church of it’s authority.
There is Lazy Lungu doing what he does best on Sunday pretending to be humble and holy…have you noticed that for this act he removes his expensive wrist watches to play this part.
Here comes the politics of our politicians to make a victory. They are now using religious people for their victory.
We are more interested in you not abusing the constitution which you are doing right now, hand over power to speaker and let the petition go on without bias. You are such a fake pretender
RE-INTRODUCTION OF MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS IS A GOOD MOVE IN ORDER TO CURB NOTORIUS DUBIOUS PASTORS WHO HAVE DONE ALOT OF MISCHIEF IN ZAMBIA, AND HOPE THE REGISTRAR OF SOCIETIES CAN FALL UNDER THE SAME MINISTRY IN 0RDER TO LEAVE THE COMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY STAND ALONE.
The slave catchers enslaved Africans whilst holding the bible the whip and the gun!!!!!
@ Kakoromero
You mean that your ancestors, “the slave catchers” had three hands? One for holding the Bible, one for whip and one for gun?
LT please refer to him as PF president. Do not call someone who has not been sworn and has very serious irregularities behind his perceived victory as President of the Republic. Someone who does not respect the very constitution that gave him power in 2015 to rule Zambia. Let him stop wasting people’s time and handover power so that the truth and justice and prevail.
Upnd again were given a window dresser by concourt. The judgement will be in favour of Ecl and Upnd will have nothing to cry about. The concourt are merely treating you like under5 babies but Monday will be last for you because petition will be discontinued. Elections are won at polling stations not in courts and Ecz are the only organ in the land to declare a candidate winner.
They must be strictly in Counsel to him as in advising on instilling equality and fairness for the poor. However, it looks like the Church Mothers had a different idea by going off on their own direction to criticise on Media temporary closures. Care must be taken not to empower Tambourine basing folk into wading into Politics. That’s not God’s purpose otherwise we may as well ask sub prime Bankers to be advisors to the gov’t and we all know what happened to the security of our homes …..
Look at this crook masquerading as a man of God. He goes to church but has just instructed PF thugs to camp outside the high court drinking beer to intimidate the judges.
What a sham leader this lungu is.
It’s better not to turn the church meetings into platforms for politics. Let the politicians attend church and talk about salvation and Christ. The church meetings are now becoming political platforms. It’s not good. Why can’t we go to church just to worship go? Christ talked about the Pharisees who prayed publicly and said they already for their prize.
Any one know which is Edgars real church? I mean is he Catholic, Pente or SDA or what?
He does not believe in cross. Just check at the back of one USD. At the top of the pyramid there is the eye. That is the sign he worship together we inscription, “In God We Trust”!!!
I was just reading that Miles Sampa has congratulated Mr Lungu on his re-election and I notice some people are already abusing him. Free advise to UPND leaders, please publicly urge your supporters not to demonize those people that stood by you during the last election even when they have decided to move on, especially people like Miles who has not said anything bad about your party or anybody. It just shows how mature and cultured the young man is. These are moderate people whom the country needs more than ever. Both the PF and the UPND need to use these people to unite the nation.
Miles Sampa minister of foreign affairs
“Mother” Teresa Was No Saint!!! The woman was a monster. I once watched a documentary about her abuse on the dying…
Father Picard · 10 weeks ago
May mother Theresa burn in hell for all eternity for allowing innocent babies to suffer and wallow in their own feces.. It’s time to spit on her grave. Heartless biitch that she was… Thank god she is dead…
This is rubbish, how can an elections thief promote Christianity?
I will also steal cash and donate it to a church! Or maybe I should change to Islam, because it seems Christianity is too compromised!
Of course you do not intend to abuse the church!!!
That dirty work you are going to entrust to the minister in charge of religious affairs.
prophecy is being fulfilled,revelation 17 is about to be fulfilled were a church will ride or control the beast(government) and the result will be blood shed against Gods church.Notice that the Woman(apostate Church)was drunk with blood of the saints and (martyrs) and the beast(government) was red(Rev 17:3) because it had drunk the blood of martyrs(those who protested its doctrines i.e Sunday observance).WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO THOSE WHO WONT AGREE TO THE DECISION OF THE STATE-CHURCH OF MAKING SUNDAY THE OFFICIAL DAY OF WORSHIP?JEWS KILLED THEM,CATHOLICS KILLED THEM,YOU ALSO WILL KILL THEM)
MATH 24:8-13..LUKE 11:47-52…..LUKE 13:34….ACTS 7:51-52……REV REV 6:10-11.
Notice revelation 6:10-11,’until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were,…
……should be fulfilled.’MEN and WOMEN WHO WILL SPEAK AGAINST THIS UNITED CHURCH-STATE WILL BE KILLED AND THIS WILL BE THE LAST THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND GOD WILL SURELY AVENGE THE BLOOD OF HIS SAINTS)…He who has an ear let him ear,away from any church which is uniting itself to the Government,it will surely shed the blood of those groups or individuals who wont worship it.REV 14:9-12 and Rev 13.