President Michael Sata this morning attended mass at the Catholic Cathedral of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido in Japan.
Hokkaido is a northern Japanese island located over 1000 kilometres from Tokyo.
President Sata was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Given Lubinda, Agriculture Minister Emmanuel Chenda and Tourism Minister Silvia Masebo.
Others included Zambia Ambassador to Japan, Ng’ona Mwelwa Chibesakunda and other government officials in the presidential delegation.
The president was offered an honorary first seat in the sector reserved for eminent persons.
President Sata said he was happy to find that the Catholic Church has finally penetrated Japan that has been predominantly Buddhism.
He said the penetration of the Catholic Church into Asian nations shows that the church has been growing steadily worldwide.
And Kita 1 Joue Catholic church priest, Father Ken Sleyman, said the cathedral was greatly honoured to host President Sata at the English Sunday mass.
He described President Sata as a model in showing his faith and love for God so publicly and that he has made the Catholic Church to be proud and encouraged in living the catholic faith life in Japan.
Father Sleyman said President Sata is the first president to attend mass at the cathedral of Sapporo since it was established 10 years ago.
Father Sleyman asked God to bless President Sata as he endeavors to bring joy, peace, prosperity and health to all the people of Zambia.
In his sermon, Father Sleyman urged congregants not to allow habits, values and possession to hinder them towards eternal life.
Meanwhile, President Sata is tomorrow expected to wind up his official working visit to Japan.
He is later in the afternoon expected to fly to South Korea.
During his working visit to Japan, President Sata met emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as well as that country’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
The president’s visit has culminated into the signing of a US$41.77 million loan agreement with the Japanese government for the financing of the construction of the Kazungula bridge project.
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LT this should not be news
I am doing my research on my PhD and reading this
Please stop disturbing me
Thanks
Imwe ba Mushota, you do not do research ON your PhD!!!!! It would probably sound correct if you used FOR, and not ON. Which university are you studying at?
kikikikikikiki ulishilu iwe
Ba Mushota so you think just because you studying your Pull Him Down (PHD) Only those things that are in your dull head should be reported. I m sure you are not even doing any studies. Sata is not an ordinary citizen like you. This is news . In journalism circles news must have promince so they cant come and cover you with your studies because you are a nobody
mushota u stil leave i was counting among the dead,hiv no longer kills quickly
Could someone enlighten me why my flag change, it shows British when I am at home, and at work it shows another flag, yet I am in Scotland!
Someone claimed looked Ukrainian flag, LT Scottish colors are blue and white and ‘we’ have our own flag does Scotland and I would love to see that instead of the Union jack
Thanks
Now I believe you
Grammar,grammar please.I doubt your academic qualification.At 27 years, you can’t construct a simple sentence(the second paragraph) ki ki ki ki ki ki.No wonder you are bitter chap.Always bragging about stuff you don’t have.PhD not with that kind of grammar.
Don’t critize President Sata’s attending church mass in Japan because he is not like u who never rememba who created u. To those who sees nothing wrong to him, never mind my message.
Mushota, you do not do research ON your PhD!!!!! It would probably sound correct if you used FOR, and not ON. Which university are you studying at?
ba PHD CHIZUNGU…..EYI
Don’t criticize President Sata’s attending church mass in Japan because he is not like u who never rememba who created u. To those who sees nothing wrong to him, never mind my message.
Bravo! Mr President
king cobra in church. the serpent in literal sense. dont do your dont kubeba on the lord because you stand to regret
@mushota being disturbed for your studies!!! Hahahaha PhD in bed, overseas, abroad, walipena mwaiche iwe we hule we, foolish ma rubish.
Good. But a bit tight space wise in the pews,eeh? or is it just a case of bigger visitors than the usual local Japanese size?
The Japanese are naturally small. when I was there in 1998 I felt like a giant.
Very true guys, small people here
like that pentes plus hh puppies ll conderm. Why ve born agains come to hate mcs?… Pride, pomposity thinking when they know one verse from the bible they are next to THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN. THANX MR PRESIDENT FOR PRAYING FOR US.
I agree with mushota. This is not news_worthy and a waste of reading effort. They is nothing special about a president going to a church of no significance to the Zambian and japanese people. That deligation is chewing tax payers money and should have been working even today and not attending stage managed church services at an insignificant church no other president is intrested in. The title should have been catchy like “Sata advised against appetite for worldly possessions”
you’re a fool, God is important in our lives and MCS is praying for all os us and that his trips yields good results
Umuntu kupepa
the locals must have shuned mass after went round the cobra was in the house
if he was in CHina or India, we will be left in the dark about his dark errands.
God fearing leader. Ua wise HE MCS
coment no. 1, 2, and 8 where, were u guys born?in zambia or in UK?if u were born in zambia then u are folish pretending to be BRITISH.as for comment no.1 &2 ,i tell u this every time you write ,yoiu talked about your qualification,the topic not related to discussion.follow the story line and comment accordingly.or else just keep away from your computer.iam dissapointed with writer called MUSHOTA,follow the topic or the heading,please every one has PHD,MBA, AND so on,stop fascinates yourself,once again follow the topic,you all about yourself not about the country u were born which was ZAMBIA at a time ,if im not mistaken.you still a zambian by blood girl,so do u tell your parents that i dont know U now ,since i now live UK now or SCOTTLAND?
Mushota with your poor 19 points.wich univ ar?and wich univ accepted u with your poor results.And u cant be on BC
No. 1,2, and 8. Most of these guys who pretend to be abroad are actually home with most of us seeing the sun set at the same time. Who cares if your Scotish Flag looks like the union jack you moron. You are such a dull person that is why you are doing research on your own PHD as it was bad and you are researching ON it as to why it never got you are mark. Were you born with a flag around your neck or you had to strugle in an old people’s home to gain that residence. I really hate to say, but most people out there who want us to believe they are abroad in small “match-box” town houses or council houses and happy are actully not happy. I number of them, of course are doing a great job and making us proud as Zambians. People like Mushota, should smell the coffee and be real
To GOD be glory he is above all things God bles you Mr president.
Haha,ba sinful catholics.It actually reminds me of a joke about the south also commonly called the”bible belt”.It goes “Jews don’t recognize Jesus,moslems don’t recognize the Pope and Baptists don’t recognize each other at the liquor store”
LT chooses the topics and lets blog accordingly,to our comrades abroad make plans of empowering us your relatives here at home and desist from talking ill about your mother country and its leaders because they are choosen by God if you even read the bible like us here in zambia.Lets be positive about issues bloggers.
Mushota you really make my day. Your husband is lucky to have such a funny person
If any one logs in with your name, but is in another coutry, the flag of that country will show. using your name and in Australia flag shows that you are in Aussie.
Fantastic Sata, I start to like him. And good this time he asked the bodyguard to be in suit and those ugly uniform which makes him look like working for a dictator.
The most important is to believe in Jesus Christ as your person saviour before you die. May the Living God show His Ex. MCS the truth about salvation and that he opens up his heart in faith in the Lord Jesus the saviour of the world.
Peace and prosperity to mother Zambia.Â
Oi……..that’s for the brainwashed blind followers.. are you forgetting that christianity was forced upon africans by the whip & the gun? You worship an imaginary muzungu . lol.. malabishi
MUSHOTA, IF THIS IS NOT NEWS, WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS FOUND ON THE ZAMBIAN BLOG(S)? I WILL ANSWER THIS FOR YOU. IT IS BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU DO WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WHOEVER YOU DO IT WITH YOU DON’T GET ANY SATISFACTION AS YOU REMEMBER HAVING BEEN GETTING WHEN YOU USED TO BE IN ZAMBIA. IN SHORT YOU ARE BORED AND YOU MISS ZAMBIA AND ZAMBIANS- ABANA BANSEKO. MWAICE GO BACK TO ZAMBIA UKAE SEKAKO INSEKO ISHACINE. NOT ISHI MUSEKA ISHA PLASTIC.
IT CAN ONLY BE MUSHOTA WHO DOES RESEARCH ‘ON HER PhD. BY THE WAY MUSHOTA, ARE YOU A MAN, WOMAN, OR BOTH?
Is given lubinda catholic or every who accompany ukwa becomes a catholic
Please Ukwa twapapata. u went to Church in japan. remember the 10 commandements u promised to rule us with. You have broken most of them.
so hopefully u avecome a changed person and NOt full of hate and vengence.
Fire GBM and Wyter maize Kabimba on your return. They are corrupt. also Sakeni and Kambwili.
I LIKE COMENT #26,WE NEED TO TELL MUSHOTA THE ZAMBIAN TRUTH.MUSHOTA IS SO NEEDIE PERSON ,me PHD, me CPA, me MS. lots of zambians have PHDs please MUSHOTA, U ARE BORED BEING IN UK,U MISS ZED LIFE.
could mushota tell us which school or university does she attend in uk or scottland?cause the way she sounds,she sounds damm. u do not do research for PHD,u can use it for, and not on.they are lots educated zed abroad ,not just u MUSHAOTA.
not worry!This ka Mushota is boring!Mafiyobe.Uk !Uk i fyabupuba!Which PHD ka Grade 2 iwe
# 29 Leave uncle GBM alone!Get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor boy Lubinda forced to go to church when it doesn’t make sense to him. The other time he was forced to knee down at a rally. Politics politics… you really have to be a perfect boot licker. I don’t go to church but I am better than… At least I honor my promises and if I can’t fullfil then I don’t promise
Going to church is just window dressing, it is what is in the heart and actions that God considers. Allowing police to brutalize opposition, refusing others to hold rallies, taking development projects to one province, allowing corrupt leaders to continue serving, calling others names (cabbage, nyama soya, under 5, Chanda Chiimbwi etc) indeed requires serious repentance.
I heard our Sata is the first heard of state to visit that church.i think has lived upto his new name” vasco da gama”.stil exploring the world
Well done your excellency MCS for doing us proud! # 35 Bitter pill, even your name need repentance, just like Mushotas self consuming self centredness! You are both inordinate narcissists with excessive self love and vanity. # 9 Brabus, it is smaller space as the normal congregants are smaller in stature. The entourage should also watch out on buying mens’ shirts as they tend to have shorter sleeves unless bought from designer shops, where they will be assisted properly. All the self righteous above, we all need GODs’ grace & mercy daily, as we are fallible!
Vasco Da Sata!
MundiaM #37 above, I see truth hurts, urgue with facts. Going to church will not save anyone but actions and our relationship with God will. Which pride did Sata do to you? Religion is personal, worry about your own salvation.
The pews have no kneelers yangu!
God is good all the time. Mushota ba kusansa.
pretender Vasco Da Gama da Satan
The Holy Bible says you shall know them by their fruits!!
Eya eclassia wesu……..
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