Lusaka, 01 October, 2025 / 12:15 pm (ACI Africa).
The Local Ordinary of Zambia’s Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka (ADL) has cautioned against what he describes as a growing “politicization of ethnic identities” in the Southern African nation.
In a Monday, September 29 statement, Archbishop Alick Banda warned that the vice poses a serious threat to national unity and to the values upon which Zambia was founded.
“The current drive to politicize our ethnic identities constituting our nation and republic, aimed at establishing a hegemony inimical to our unity of purpose, will be resisted by every citizen of good conscience and will,” said Archbishop Banda in the one-page statement he addressed to the people of God under his pastoral care, whom he urged to pray for the nation.
He added, “I, therefore, in good conscience, wish to urge you all and ask that you find time in your communities and parishes to pray for our country, Zambia, through the intercession of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the messengers and defenders of the nation of Zambia.”
The Zambian Catholic Church leader reiterated the need to safeguard the ideals and spirit of unity of purpose on which the country was founded and for which it is renowned.
