{"id":21509,"date":"2025-01-03T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=21509"},"modified":"2025-01-03T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:35:15","slug":"zambia-catholic-archbishop-warns-against-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/zambia-catholic-archbishop-warns-against-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Catholic Archbishop Warns Against Bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Radio Icengelo <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Ndola in Zambia, Most Rev. Benjamin Phiri, has condemned bribery and corruption, describing them as theft and a grave sin.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing congregants during the end-of-year Mass for the Ndola Archdiocese Curia team at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Archbishop Phiri decried the growing culture of exploitation in public offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attitude among workers in public service bothers me. Each one given a job to serve the people becomes like a small god and exploiting each other has become normal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many public officers demand bribes for services they are already paid to deliver, calling such practices dishonest and sinful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go to an office, and if you want to be served quickly, you must pay the officer. This is theft and it&#8217;s displeasing before God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Phiri urged workers in public and church institutions to uphold honesty, dedication, and integrity in their service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are honest and committed, we will not only sustain ourselves but also earn credit in Heaven,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>END.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Icengelo The Archbishop of Ndola in Zambia, Most Rev. Benjamin Phiri, has condemned bribery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21511,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions\/21511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}