By AARON CHIYANZOCHURCHES are free to decide whether to open or not because President Edgar Lungu’s guidance is not mandatory, State House has clarified.Special assistant to the President for press and public relations, Isaac Chipampe said President Lungu’s pronouncement on churches opening should not be mistaken for a directive for all churches to open.Mr Chipampe said the decision on whether to open or not still lay with individual churches as long as health guidelines were followed.“State House would like to clarify that the President has not directed churches to open. Use of MAY CONTINUE being undertaken normally SUBJECT TO ADHERING TO PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES AND CERTIFICATION, means that the President is not directing churches, rather he is giving those who still want to congregate during this period an option,” he said.Mr Chipampe said those who do not want to go to church were free not to go.He said it was misleading to say President […]
Opening churches not mandatory – State House
