{"id":5882,"date":"2014-11-08T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2014-11-08T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:17:19","slug":"burial-ceremony-of-archbishop-james-spaita-kasama-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/08\/burial-ceremony-of-archbishop-james-spaita-kasama-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Burial ceremony of Archbishop James Spaita, Kasama, Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"James-Spaita<\/a>A vigil Mass\u00a0for Archbishop James Spaita<\/strong> took place on Thursday 6th<\/sup> November 2014 at 18 hours, in the Cathedral of St Johns, Kasama. The Funeral Mass and burial was at the Cathedral of St. Johns, Kasama on Friday 7th<\/sup> November.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Let us all join together in praying for this great pastor and servant of God in the Zambian Church.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
May he rest in perfect peace.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Christopher Chileshe, M.Afr<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Saturday Post <\/em><\/span><\/a><\/address>\n
Kasama Diocese Archbishop Ignatius Chama urges politicians not to tear Zambia apart – <\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
By\u00a0<\/em>Salim Dawood in Kasama<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Updated: 08 Nov, 2014 <\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
\"Archbishop<\/a>Do not tear the country to pieces because of the desire to become president, Kasama Diocese Archbishop Ignatius Chama<\/strong> has told politicians. Speaking during the burial ceremony of Archbishop James Spaita at St John\u2019s Catholic grounds yesterday, Archbishop Chama said the country could only be ruled by one elected person at a time.\u00a0\u201cNow let me turn to my friends, the politicians, I appeal to you to lead us in common desire to be ruled by an elected president after the death of Michael Sata, the president of our country,\u201d he said. \u201cThe country can only be ruled by one candidate at a time, so allow us to have a president that is elected in a peaceful, free and fair election without tearing this country into pieces.\u201d Archbishop Chama said politicians must allow eligible Zambians to vote for a candidate they wanted without intimidation. Archbishop Chama also thanked the government for the support during the funeral of Archbishop Spaita.\u00a0 And speaking on behalf of government, home affairs minister Dr Ngosa Simbyakula described the death of Archbishop Spaita as a double tragedy because of the death of president Sata. \u201cGovernment deeply mourns the late Archbishop whose death came to us with deep shock. We shall miss him as a caring shepherd for his priests and Christians in Kasama and the country. We interacted well with him and took advice from him on many issues concerning the development of the country,\u201d said Dr Simbyakula. Archbishop Spaita who died on November 4 aged 80 was buried yesterday within the St John\u2019s Catholic grounds. Among those who attended the burial were mines minister Christopher Yaluma, commerce deputy minister Miles Sampa, Eastern Province minister Malozo Sichone and his Northern Province counterpart Freedom Sikazwe. Others were FDD president Edith Nawakwi, ABZ president Frank Bwalya, NRP president Cosmo Mumba, Kasama member or parliament, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba and his Kabwata counterpart Given Lubinda. Meanwhile, Sampa and 11 others, including this reporter, were yesterday forced to make an emergency landing after their chartered plane developed a mechanical fault mid-air. The Lusaka-bound plane was returning from Kasama where government officials attended Archbishop Spaita\u2019s burial. The pilot Steven Terblance said he was not sure what caused the fault as nothing of that nature had ever occurred in his seven-year flying experience. One of the engines on the Nkwazi Air-charter aircraft failed 10 minutes after take-off from Kasama Airport. After realising the failure, the pilot U-turned to Kasama on one engine where he made an emergency landing. Those on the plane included Lusaka lawyer Anthony Kasolo, Cosmo Mumba and some journalists. <\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
See more at:<\/span> http:\/\/www.postzambia.com\/news.php?id=3843#sthash.4S1zjf9r.dpuf<\/a> <\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A vigil Mass\u00a0for Archbishop James Spaita took place on Thursday 6th November 2014 at 18 hours, in the Cathedral of St Johns, Kasama. The Funeral Mass and burial was at the Cathedral of St. Johns, Kasama on Friday 7th November. Let us all join together in praying for this great pastor and servant of God […]<\/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],"tags":[140,143],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-archbishop-ignatius-chama","tag-archbishop-james-spaita"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","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=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}