Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) says it not fair that the church should heed calls for prayers by political leaders, while they completely ignore the wise counsel of the Church.
In a statement obtained by QFM today, CCZ General Secretary Reverend Suzanne Matale says the church’s role is not to pray for empty pursuits but to pray according to the will of God and also pray wisdom through faith.
Reverend Matale says while the church is not against the call for prayers, a fair deal would have been that when the church calls on political leaders to listen to its moral and ethical voice, politicians should honour and respect such a call.
She says the church would have been happy to heed the call for prayer had it been prayers to thank God for using political leaders to calm the nation by heeding the call of the Church in the first place by putting their own houses in order and not to call upon God to stop the violence, when politicians themselves are the perpetrators of this violence and they know it themselves.
Reverend Matale says the power to stop the violence is in the hands of the Zambian people themselves.
She points politicians have failed to fulfill the commitments they made to end political violence during the interparty indaba facilitated by the church mother bodies held on 29th March,2016.
Reverend Matale reminds politicians that the commitments were made in the presence of church leaders, and God was a silent listener to those commitments.