Bishops don’t want Zambia called Christian nation-CathNews NZ/Pacific

Bishops don’t want Zambia called Christian nation

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

The Zambian Catholic bishops are opposing a proposal to identify Zambia as “a Christian nation” in the preamble to a new national constitution.

A statement from the bishops’ conference says “a country cannot practise the values and precepts of Christianity by a mere declaration” and, in any case, it would contradict the fact that “Zambia is a multi-religious country”.

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