{"id":9555,"date":"2016-06-27T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2016-06-27T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:36:33","slug":"new-blog-created-by-evans-k-chama-m-afr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/new-blog-created-by-evans-k-chama-m-afr\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog created by Evans K. Chama, M.Afr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/evans-png.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-9563 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/evans-png.png?resize=186%2C196\" alt=\"Evans-PNG\" width=\"186\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m Evans K. Chama, Zambian, and member of the<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africamission-mafr.org\/menugb.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of the Missionaries of Africa<\/a>. <span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019m currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Before that I worked as missionary in Democratic Republic of Congo, precisely in Kinshasa and Goma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I enjoy writing! So far I have written two books:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/works\/OL13657342W\/We_fought_wrong_fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>We fought wrong fight<\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">and<\/span>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/works\/OL16673274W\/A_woman_like_mum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A woman like mum<\/a><\/em>. <span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have also contributed a number of articles to The Southern Cross, a Catholic weekly in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-885\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/a-woman-like-mum-front-page.jpg?w=364&#038;resize=182%2C300\" alt=\"A Woman Like Mum front page\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/a-woman-like-mum-front-page.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/a-woman-like-mum-front-page.jpg?resize=182%2C300&amp;ssl=1 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/>I believe in humanity. Every person, given the right conditions, is capable of giving birth to the best of one\u2019s humanity. That is why I consider the fight for social justice as a struggle to create conditions that liberate and allow the human spirit to excel to its heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I identify myself with the words of<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terence_(given_name)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terence<\/a>: <span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me.\u201d It is, indeed,\u00a0human to let oneself be touched by what is happening to another person. That is why promoting our single humanity is something that naturally belongs to a human person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I also believe that every tradition, religious or cultural, has a mine of resources to enable a human person to bring out the best of his humanity. That is the single world project that should keep us all busy. And that is exactly my intention in starting this blog:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/singlehumanity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/singlehumanity.com\/<\/a>. I lay my brick, and I wait for yours, so that together we can build our common humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singlehumanity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-9562 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?resize=629%2C276\" alt=\"Single Humanity Logo Blog\" width=\"629\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?w=1235&amp;ssl=1 1235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C132&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?resize=1024%2C449&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?resize=768%2C337&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?resize=900%2C395&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>Yes, this is our space where we can act together in favour of our common humanity. If you have a story, a reflection,\u00a0a proverb,\u00a0a testimony or a picture that can encourage others to rise and act in favour of our single humanity,\u00a0this is the place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Note: the book<\/span> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/2013\/01\/26\/a-woman-like-mun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A woman like mum<\/a><\/em> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">is available for sale at the Provincial House in Woodlands, Lusaka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Evans K. Chama, Zambian, and member of the\u00a0Society of the Missionaries of Africa. I\u2019m currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Before that I worked as missionary in Democratic Republic of Congo, precisely in Kinshasa and Goma. I enjoy writing! So far I have written two books:\u00a0We fought wrong fight\u00a0and\u00a0A woman like mum. I have also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9562,"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":[3,28],"tags":[48,512,1308],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-publications","tag-a-woman-like-mum","tag-evans-k-chama","tag-single-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/single-humanity-logo-blog.jpg?fit=1235%2C542&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","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=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}