"Oppression is sin and cannot be compromised with," they say. "It must be overcome. God takes sides with the oppressed."They enter the political arena, calling for a new, "people-driven" constitution. Let the revolution begin!
They suggest that young Zimbabweans see their leaders "habitually engaging in acts and words which are hateful, disrespectful, racist, corrupt, lawless, unjust, greedy, dishonest and violent..."
The language of the letter might have been expected from Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, but is extraordinarily harsh for a formal joint statement from the country's Catholic Bishops' Conference.
The letter says black Zimbabweans are today fighting for the same rights they fought for during the liberation struggle.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Solidarity Redux?
The Catholic Church spoke truth to power today in Zimbabwe, as the rest of the world hems around, deploring the regime and bemoaning the coming starvation conditions from another failed harvest. Will the Church be able to break the Mugabe regime from within? Zimbabwe's bishops are quoted on AllAfrica:
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The Catholic Church's past millenia of behavior lends rich irony to this story, so maybe I risk gilding the lily by pointing out the tyranny of this same organization in telling the hundreds of millions of its followers in developing nations that condoms do not help to prevent HIV.
Maybe you should read the story from Friday on the Ugandan experience:
1990 - 1994: almost no condom advertising => huge drop in new HIV infections.
1994 - 2004: Condom advertising plus "churchy" methods => stable HIV rates.
2004 - present: lots of strategies => rise in HIV infections.
I'm not saying condoms are bad; but the data says that condom-based advertising doesn't work.
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