Maputo, 17 October, 2025 / 2:50 pm (ACI Africa).
Bishop Inácio Lucas Mwita of the Catholic Diocese of Gurué in Mozambique has expressed concern about the country’s worsening economic situation amid mounting external debt, which he says is “unsustainable.”
Speaking on Friday, October 17, during a Thanksgiving Mass for graduates from the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM), Bishop Mwita lamented that Mozambique’s development is being stifled by external financial obligations.
“We won’t move forward like this. Our country is in a bad state. We have to pay France; we have to pay Italy; we have to pay America, and other developed countries. Everything we save to distribute to our citizens is not enough,” the Mozambican Catholic Bishop said during the Eucharistic celebration that was held at St. Anthony of Lisbon Cathedral of Gurué Diocese.
He warned that the debt crisis is blocking national progress and restricting vital investments in salaries, roads, schools, and infrastructure. “Our debt crisis is unsustainable,” Bishop Mwita said, and encouraged the graduates to take up the cause of debt relief for impoverished countries.
“You, as new graduates, must be agents defending the forgiveness of external debt for poor nations,” he said.
