Cabinda, 27 February, 2024 / 4:01 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba of the Catholic Archdiocese of Saurimo in Angola has bemoaned the fostering of “inhuman” tendencies in the Southern African nation.
In his February 25 homily at Holy Spirit Parish of Angola’s Cabinda Diocese en route from participating in the Episcopal Ordination of the Archbishop of Pointe-Noire in Congo Brazzaville, Archbishop Imbamba highlighted some of the inhuman tendencies in Angola, and urged the practice of compassion after the example of Jesus Christ.
“Our society is making tremendous efforts to make us inhuman. This society is making efforts to elevate us to animalistic levels, to the state of indifference,” he lamented, and added, “We are not moved by our brother's suffering.”
The Angolan society, the Local Ordinary of Saurimo Archdiocese, who doubles as the President of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) said, is no longer concerned about the “thriving of injustice, oppression, hatred, resentment and envy.”
It is a society “that values demerit, that values vice, that values everything that doesn't humanize us,” the Angolan Catholic Archbishop lamented, adding that he finds it regrettable that Angolans are not concerned about the fostering of vices.
