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CCZ welcomes women Bishops in the Anglican Church

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The Council of Churches in Zambia has welcomed the decision of the Church of England at their General Synod meeting recently held in York, England, to appoint women bishops.

This decision comes 20 years after the church commenced ordaining women as priests.

CCZ General Secretary Reverend Suzanne Matale said the Church in Zambia is looking forward to the appointment of the first woman bishop of the Church by the end of this year as has been promised.

Reverend Matale said the momentous action can be described as progressive and is a recognition that women have great potential and resilience.

“When women and men work as partners the impact on the growth of the body of Christ in the world is enhanced. We encourage more and more women to answer their calling without reservations so as to fulfill God’s message of justice, love, joy and peace in the world by all of God’s people,” Reverend Matale said in a statement.

She added, “There is need for the church worldwide to embrace the emergency of women church leaders because time has come for women to take up greater roles and responsibilities in the work of God.”

3 COMMENTS

  1. According to the Bible a woman, Eve, bequeathed us problems including death, we die because Eve disobeyed God’s law and influenced her husband to follow her way of disobedience. So it isn’t surprising that Zambian woman is in support of something the Bible says shouldn’t be done, a woman preaching, men marrying other guys and vice versa.

  2. Ba Susan UK has no religious moral campus to lecture to the world on faith issues.
    We have followed this debate closely and has been thrown at British people like same sex marriage and re difination of marriage.
    Britain just doesn’t get it on this. Ba Susan, we are better off believing what we do than claiming the bible is wrong and needs correction to meet our modern society goes the argument. How do we loose our humanity with such hypocritical inconsistency?

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