THE Church has called on all stakeholders in the constitution-making process to embrace one another and warned that the lack of love and unity that is emerging in the country is a recipe for disaster.
Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation director, Rev Reuben Daka said this at Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka yesterday during an interdenominational thanks-giving prayer service to mark Zambia’s 43rd independence anniversary.
Minister of Home Affairs, Ronnie Shikapwasha was the Government’s chief guest at the prayer meeting that attracted hundreds of worshippers from a cross-section of society.
In a moving sermon anchored on unity, Rev. Daka said he was concerned at the disagreements between the State and the Church on the constitution review process.
The service, dubbed: “forging a common future anchored on national pride and sustainable development through citizens’ participation,†Rev Daka said politicians were now exchanging insults because of envy and pride.
“We are so proud that we don’t want to listen to each other.
We have started keeping records of wrongs…evil is eating us away and we are always suspicious and not trusting each other,†he said.
“When you cannot trust one another that is a recipe for disaster.â€
He said love should not be removed from the constitution-making process because doing so would lead the nation into trouble.
“Love must not be removed from whatever political struggles we are going through as a nation.
Love never fails.
There is nothing that can stand in the way of love not even the constitution-making process.
If you don’t have love then you are nothing,†Rev Daka said.
He said love should not be sacrificed despite the misunderstandings the nation was facing.
He called on all Zambians to embrace one another because that was a command from God.
“Let us not be self seeking.
Let us not keep records of wrongs…let us forgive one another and be humble and see where we are going as a nation,†he said.
He said Government was duty-bound to love because it had taken the position as a parent for all the people in the nation.
“You must allow love to dominate you.
The country will develop and take on the challenges if we stand as ‘One Zambia One Nation,†Rev Daka said.
Lieutenant General, Shikapwasha who represented President Mwanawasa took up the first Bible reading from Psalms 133:1-3.
In an interview later, Gen. Shikapwasha said he enjoyed the sermon and agreed there was need for Zambians to love one another.
Chief Justice, Ernest Sakala, Deputy Speaker, Mutale Nalumango, ministers of Labour, Ronald Mukuma, Foreign Affairs, Kabinga Pande, permanent secretaries, diplomats, senior MMD officials among others attended the service.
Opposition leaders were conspicuously absent with only All People’s Congress, president Ken Ngondo in attendance.
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Anonymous,
So when Joze mutates and starts writing on the blog about umudikudiku nuisance in his parents’ bottom to you its perfect gentlemanship typical of a good entertainerâ€? Read # 17 and # 25 under “Corruption reduces in land ministry – Machila†thread.Take your foolishness out of here before we expose and bleach your privacy in a dangerous manor. You have been insulting and impostering Veteran, Pragmatist and FACT without realizing their evident distance from your IP.
#1
tHE COACH NOW IS bESTON cHAMBESHI
Stop building expensive church buildings and starting building houses for the homeless in Zambia. Jesus never built buildings he built churches in the hearts of people.
Joaquim Chissano, the former President of Mozambique, has been announced today as the winner of the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The largest individual award in the world, it comprises:
• US$5 million over 10 years and US$200,000 annually for life thereafter
• Up to US$200,000 a year for 10 years towards the winner’s public interest activities and good causes
#5 Easy
How close was Chiluba to winning this prize?.
#2 I doubt very much if u yourself really understand credibility and intellectualism, the way you exhibiting your ignorance over issues that comes. Read the above topic very careful and contribute wisely, not the way you are showing your ignorance on the blog. You are shameless foolish man, so you are one and the same man who have been impostering in the names FACT,Veteran, Pragmatist, Ba Jose, Kuku and SAGE.
#3,But one of our newspapers reported that his contract at Chambishi united has been extended.Its some how a confusing article.
Anonymous (7),
Regretably you like many here are immoral fools. This blog lost it the very day insults on Levy became the norm or modus operandi for some of you.You cannot expect the side of a ruling party to kiss that nuisance or hope that they would not see the pervasive work LT became from the word go.Look at you, you are calling a blatant pervert, a good entertaining Gentleman. You must be a worst pervert.
In addition to that, systematic Sabotaging of any medium deemed promoting pervasion as Lusaka Times has proved is in the people and institutional interest. It is morally prudent to do so without excuse and does not require far reaching intellectual skills or sophistications but decision and consistency beyond which option B is worse. If a blog could propagate ukwipa intungulushi nefyanso (Joze July 2007) and you find insults on parents as entertainments, the vigilant must destroy it or take off
If a blog could propagate ukwipa intungulushi nefyanso (Joze July 2007) and you find insults on parents as entertainments, the vigilant must destroy it or take off both period
I would like to know if Zambians are aware of the Islamic interest in the Constitution making process? If Zambians are aware the you need to ask this Question to yourself, What has a Moslem (Islam) to do with an independent state like Zambia in the making of their own constitution? Honestly I do not trust the Islamic interest in the constitution making process. If they are just traders in Zambia like they have been over the decades then let them be, Zambia is Zambia vry Christian!!
Why do cheap opportunistic politicians like Mr Sata still manage to fool some some people?
#13 HEY.If LPM can manage fool Zambians then it`s a piece of cake for SATA.
I foresee Sata’s blatant political opportunism in international politics curving him into some unscheduled graveyard. Mysterious or fatal international political prostitution doesn’t hold.Certainly sata is not sophisticated for the hell predominant at that level. He is better off fooling Zambians than gambling on the international scene where Gold digging mafias of fortune and big money are aplenty and active.
Hey (13),
Watch the space Sata is too desperate but on his way to hell.International politics is full of Gold digging mafias of fortune and big money is aplenty.
I’d like to see how Taiwan ‘ll be fooled by this shallow and unsophisticated gimicks of Sata.If anybody can fall for this then they are not feet to run a 4th grade.I can’t imagine how some pipo even have confidence in such louse leader.Pipo wake up for once demand something that ‘ll beneit you and not just take part in hate game.when are we going to stop these politician from getting a free pass?
All you folks insulting Sata for asking for donation from Taiwanese are being biased and naive. Sata is asking well wishers with money to spare to him fund his party while the MMD are using Zambian tax payers money. I dont think the Taiwanese are under any illusion that they are buying anything real other than playing a psychological game with china. There’re no real consequences to worry about. These are not zero sum games, Zambbians can only gain from a vibrant opposition or direct cash flows
Francis (18),
You are very dumb. I find you no different from Guy Scott whose businesses are on Dr.Chuchu’s payroll to survive. When Sata is knocked tawakaletepe no musula obe pachililo. Why are you bent on using my Presido as a pone of international hegemony?
Joze stop insulting that is clearly uncalled for. Learn to respect each other as learnt pipo. LPM is not the govt and does not pay pipo from his pockets it is you pipo who pay politicians for your hard working though in many cases you get nothing especially in decision making process or governance of zed.All you do is to support your bent political parties even on cases which are straight forward to understand.Asking for donations is not new or criminal offence whether in developed countries
Kambilombilo stop abusive language.
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