YOUTH, Sport, and Arts Minister Elvis Nkandu says government doesn’t expect the church to be praise singers, but they should praise it when it does something good. On Tuesday, Council of Churches in Zambia General Secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya said while some people expected the church to act as praise and worship singers for government, that was not its role. “You know, the challenge that people have sometimes is that they want us to be praise and worship singers, we are not. We are the church of Jesus Christ mandated to promote human dignity, mandated to promote justice, mandated to promote and preach unity. Mandated to condemn wrong things, and we are ably founded on the scripture. We have a...

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