Tsvangirai meets with top church leaders

Source: Tsvangirai meets with top church leaders – DailyNews Live

Fungi Kwaramba      25 May 2017

HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai met with top leaders of the World
Council of Churches (WCC) to discuss justice and peace ahead of the key
2018 elections.

Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka confirmed to the Daily News
that the MDC leader met on Tuesday with top leaders from the Geneva-based
WCC.

“I will not give much details save to confirm to you that indeed, the
bishops met…Tsvangirai at their request. It speaks to the wide national
engagement that is taking place to ensure the country is back on the
rails,” Tamborinyoka said.

MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa also confirmed the meeting with leaders
of the WCC, representing about a quarter of the world’s 2,2 billion
Christians.

“We had a meeting with different churches. The delegation was from the
WCC,” Chamisa said.

A high powered delegation of the WCC led by the body’s secretary general
secretary, Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit, and including local church leaders
and clergy from Europe, North America and across Africa has been on a
two-day trip to lend support to long-suffering Zimbabweans who are
groaning under President Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule.

In a statement posted on WCC website, Tveit said their mission was to
fight for justice.

“We make this solidarity visit to Zimbabwe to express our commitment to
work with the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), including our member
churches and all peace-seeking people of Zimbabwe, and to support their
tireless efforts on the ground to secure justice and peace in the
country,” Tveit said.

Member churches of ZCC include the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe, Methodist
Episcopal Church, African Independent Church, African Reformed Church,
Anglican Church, United Methodist and the Salvation Army, among others.