{"id":1266,"date":"2013-03-15T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-03-15T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:55:20","slug":"joint-press-statement-issued-by-the-three-christian-church-umbrella-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/15\/joint-press-statement-issued-by-the-three-christian-church-umbrella-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Press Statement issued by the Three Christian Church Umbrella Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), <\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) <\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>and the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC)<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><strong>&#8220;I have seen the Miserable State of my People &#8230; I have heard their Cry&#8221;<\/strong> (Ex 3:7)<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>We the three Christian Church Mother Bodies namely: \u00a0the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) are repeatedly\u00a0 saddened at the rampant political violence that keeps on popping its ugly face especially in the \u00a0recent by-elections. As people who have a God given mandate of exercising the prophetic mission in our nation and in our time, we cannot tolerate such abominable and immoral acts being committed right before our very eyes. Our nation today, stands at the crossroads and we are in a crisis. We face many challenges related with governance and survival, among which, are increasing levels of poverty among the majority of our people, a pervading cancer of rampant corruption, escalating youth unemployment, the growing gap between the rich and the poor, an education system that is falling apart, a poor health service delivery\u00a0 coupled with the\u00a0 unclear constitution making process, the gagging or muzzling of people\u2019s freedoms, the arrests of the opposition party leaders and human rights violations. As Zambians, we all need to examine our conscience, seek the truth and work towards bringing back hope to our people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a title=\"Joint Press Statement \" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/joint-press-statement-three-christian-church-umbrella.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/i><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) &#8220;I have seen the Miserable State of my People &#8230; I have heard their Cry&#8221; (Ex 3:7) We the three Christian Church Mother Bodies namely: \u00a0the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28,38],"tags":[343,793,1483],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","category-zambia-sector","tag-church-umbrella-organizations","tag-justice-and-peace","tag-zambian-episcopal-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}