Sat, 20 May 2017 10:32:33 +0000 Dear Editor, You cannot avoid the Pentecostal churches in Zambia. They are omnipresent and growing and their prayer sessions are both rapturous and solemn. Largely originating across borders in DR Congo, Malawi and Zimbabwe, including South Africa and Nigeria, and encouraged by the liberalisation of Zambia’s laws in the 1990s allowing freedom of association and worship, congregations of the gullible, unemployed desperadoes, childless married couples, need to feed and the need to marry individuals jam into any available space in the country. If you listen carefully to the words spoken from the pulpit in these churches, you could be forgiven for thinking that its local and foreign pastors have an undeniably political agendas. As expected recently, scores of Lusaka residents flocked to Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) to witness the arrival of South Africa-based Malawian Prophet Shepherd Bushiri who had publicly dared the Zambian government that he would forcefully […]
