Zimbabwe summons Vatican envoy to explain Catholic bishops’ criticism
Harare takes offence at accusations that the government lacks the knowledge, skill or stability to rule
20 August 2020 - 17:41
Zimbabwe’s government has sought a meeting with the Vatican representative to understand whether Catholic bishops who accused it of human rights abuses and cracking down on critics were speaking on behalf of the Holy See.
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on Wednesday described a pastoral letter written by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference, an organisation that represents all Catholics in Zimbabwe, last weekend as “inappropriately prescriptive and grossly disrespectful”...
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