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Pastor Chiluba condemns insults against Catholics

Pastor Chiluba condemns insults against Catholics
By Patson Chilemba
Wed 25 May 2011, 04:01 CAT

PASTOR Moses Chiluba has condemned the insults against Catholics by those in government. Featuring on Radio Q FM’s Night live programmes on Monday, Healing Word Ministries overseer Pastor Chiluba said the clergy in the country deserved respect.

“In my view, if what education minister honourable Dora Siliya said about the priests was correct that they should have their own children, I know we are in politics, I didn’t hear her say that but I read through the press. If she said that you know, let us have morals. Let’s have dignity,” Pastor Chiluba said.

“Politics should not dehumanise us and make us lose our cultural heritage of respecting elders. And I stand here as a pastor again.

I don’t practice the Catholic faith, I am a Pentecostal, I’m protestant. But when you talk against the Church, the priests, the clergy, today you are insulting the clergy, tomorrow you will insult me.”

On the parallel vote tabulation, Pastor Chiluba said Radio Icengelo in Kitwe accurately conducted PVT on the Copperbelt during the last presidential elections.

“I don’t know which country we are living in. This is primitive thinking. In my view, there is nothing wrong with PVT,” he said.

Pastor Chiluba said people would start smelling a rat if President Rupiah Banda’s government insisted on criminalising PVT.

He said it was a shame and an embarrassment to God if some members of the clergy had been compromised to issue statements.

However, Pastor Chiluba said there was nothing wrong with Christians involving themselves in politics.

“Politics, though they have said is a dirty game, is not dirty only that it has been handled by dirty hands,” Pastor Chiluba said.

He said it was unfortunate abuse of funds had continued as highlighted by the Auditor General’s report every year and that there were no prosecutions.

He said President Banda should take up every Auditor General’s report very seriously, saying money was being stolen but controlling officers were still continuing in office.

Pastor Chiluba said political contestants should talk about issues, rather than other people’s noses, or their red eyes and said it was satanic for people to affiliate themselves to a political party on the basis of tribe.

Labels: CATHOLIC CHURCH, MOSES CHILUBA

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