Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) president Most Rev. Ignatius Chama has observed that all efforts to bring about a peaceful Zambia cannot bear much fruit if people who want to take part in peace building do not have what it takes to be peace builders.
He said people cannot go into peace building without knowing their roles and place they would occupy in the process and the driving rationale.
Archbishop Chama said this when he opened a ZCCB Peacebuilding Webinar which attracted a wide range of participates from across all the Catholic Dioceses in Zambia on Monday 31st May,2021.
Archbishop Chama also said the Catholic Church has all it takes to involve itself in peace building needs and should from time to time to remind itself to brush up and dust up old positions so that its responses to being a peace builder are relevant to the Kairos -which is the right time to do the right thing.
“We are a Church that has all it takes to involve itself in peace building. But we need from time to time to remind ourselves to brush up and dust up our old positions so that our responses to the needs of the Church being peace builder are relevant to the Kairos,” he said.
“I see this workshop as a moment of revisiting and time turning our roles as a Church that is fully involved in peace building as well as brushing up strategies that will equip us in being peacemakers,” Archbishop Chama added.
Archbishop Chama further urged workshop participant to prepare the ‘laborers’ for peacemaking in Zambia, and their efforts be supported by the power of God so that the agents of peace building may become effective drivers and mediators of peace.
The workshop which will close on Thursday, 3rd June,2021 is being held under the theme; Towards Peaceful Zambia-The Role of the Church.
ZCCB held a similar workshop last November and drew participants from various levels of our church which included Bishops, Pastoral Coordinators, Caritas Directors, and Communication Secretaries from Dioceses and Archdioceses.
With all the incidents of child molestation all over the world, the catholic church should not get involved in any peace building. I wouldn’t trust them with anything!
Zambia is peaceful. It’s only that evil tribal party upnd which is very unpeaceful. Let us get rid of it for nation’s sake
“We are a Church that has all it takes to involve itself in peace building. But we need from time to time to remind ourselves to brush up and dust up our old positions so that our responses to the needs of the Church being peace builder are relevant to the Kairos,” he said. Indeed what the bishop omitted was to agree that they also have all it takes to bring chaos in the country like they did in Rwanda and elsewhere. Zambia can develop without emerging from any war or civil strife. We do not need the catholic church to bring strife in Zambia. They better put their acts together. Zambia is a peaceful nation and by God’s grace the majority of Zambians intend to remain so.
NOWHERE IS PEACEFUL IN ZAMBIA
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Where is the church body when people were being gassed, arrested without trial or kidnapped ???
The catholic church should not get involved, all the incidents of child molestation all over the world, they are corrupt, exploiters and brainwashing of people. I see that last week in Canada over 215 children were found in mass unmarked graves, that was a school run by the church for 70 yrs. wonder how many are dead in Zambia I wouldn’t trust them with anything!