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7:46 CAT | 06 Sep 2018
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Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Wednesday challenged religious organisations to assist in fighting and preventing the evils that affect society, and particularly those that damage young people.
Speaking at the opening of the 129th annual conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Rosario pointed to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, drug consumption, the excessive consumption of alcohol, and crime as evils that must be combated to ensure the well-being of the countries of the region.
He also challenged to churches to make their contribution to the campaign to prevent child marriages.
“We encourage religious denominations, particularly the Methodist Church to continue their efforts against the ills which particularly affect the youth of our countries”, he urged.
Rosario also called on the churches to continue working to preserve and promote peace. He declared that peace is a “divine gift and a product of the efforts of all of us”.
He appealed for “all of us to continue exalting the noble values of forgiveness, reconciliation and tolerance to cherish and preserve peace”.
Happy are those who sow peace with their daily actions, with attitudes and gestures of fraternity, dialogue and mercy, said the Prime Minister. “It s from small gestures in the family and in the community that peace is born at national, continental and world level”, he claimed, reaffirming the commitment of the government to promote permanent dialogue with all living forces of the country, in order to preserve peace.
Participating in the three day conference are the presiding bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Ziphosihle Siwa (who is also President of the South African Council of Churches), and delegates from the other countries of the region
Source: AIM
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