TANZANIA: It is Better to Die of Hunger Than Receiving Aid Attached to Homosexual Conditions, Says Cardinal Pengo
H.E. Polycarp Cardinal Pengo, Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
His Eminence Polycarp Cardinal Pengo, the Archbishop of Dar es Salaam has implored the Tanzanian government not to accept aids from western countries which come with conditions of homosexuality.
He said that recent during the Holy Mass of harvest in Dar-es-Salaam Archdiocese, which was held at Msimbazi Centre Dar-es-Salaam.
The Cardinal said that there are some threats from developed countries alleging that “they will stop support us if we are against homosexuality. It is better to die of hunger than to receive aid and be compelled to do things that are contrary to God’s desire,” Cardinal Pengo said adding that “the sin of homosexuality was the cause of destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and that, these things are contrary to God’s plan in creation and should not be accepted at all.”
He thanked the Tanzanian Government for its position on the matter while stressing that all Tanzanians should say no to homosexual which apparently is encroaching very fast in African countries.
H.E. Polycarp Cardinal Pengo and Rt. Rev. Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa,
Auxiliary Bishop during the Mass of Harvest in the Archdiocese
“We cannot accept such displeasing things to God; and if we are starving because we have refused to engage in such acts, then we would rather die with our God. Accepting homosexual is denying God,” Cardinal Pengo further expressed.
It should be noted that recently, the Minister for Internal Affairs, Kangi Lugola, stated that homosexual acts should be shunned by every human being created in the image of God because the act is against human nature and consequently the Government of Tanzania will not accept it.
Cardinal Pengo becomes the second bishop in Tanzania to condemn homosexuals in public. The late Bishop Evaristo Chengula of Mbeya Diocese was the first to warn Tanzania government to not accept homosexual acts several days before he died.
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By Sarah Pelaji, TEC
