Lusaka, 19 December, 2025 / 6:17 pm (ACI Africa).
The Archbishop of Zambia’s Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama has expressed concern that the institution of the family in the Southern African nation is facing serious threats that are undermining its role as the foundation of faith, love, and moral formation.
In his Thursday, December 18 homily during Holy Mass for the closure of the National Catholic Forum at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus in the Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka, Archbishop Ignatius Chama lamented that widespread economic, social, and spiritual challenges are diminishing the family vocation.
“The family, which truly is a domestic church and the lungs of any human society, is being punctured and choked to prevent it from being the first school of faith, love and human dignity,” Archbishop Chama said during the event, which coincided with the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishop’s (ZCCB) conclusion of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope at the national level.
He added, “In our society, where there is so much economic, social, and spiritual poverty, the family is being put under so much pressure that its vocation in the world is being diminished.”
The Zambian Catholic Church leader decried a society where truth and justice have been turned into “commodities for sale to the highest bidder,” leaving families with “nowhere to turn to claim its proper role in the Church and society and to seek and find refuge.”
