{"id":21620,"date":"2025-01-19T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=21620"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:51:05","slug":"malawi-zomba-prelate-dares-new-laity-leaders-on-excellent-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/malawi-zomba-prelate-dares-new-laity-leaders-on-excellent-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"MALAWI: Zomba Prelate Dares New Laity Leaders on Excellent Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Luke Bisani<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Prelate of the Diocese of Zomba Rt. Rev. Alfred Chaima has challenged the newly elected laity leaders to work towards excellent leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a handover ceremony held at the Bishop\u2019s residence this week, Bishop Chaima encouraged the incoming Laity Council to take the Church to greater heights.<\/p>\n<p>He further urged the new leaders to continue the vision set by their predecessors from past years.<\/p>\n<p>The prelate also applauded the outgoing leadership for their exceptional service over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) approved an election calendar that indicated the completion of three tenures of the leaders who served the Church in various roles.<\/p>\n<p>The elections started with electing leaders at the small Christian community level in the first week of September and ended with ushering in leaders at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, voting of leaders all eight dioceses in Malawi has been completed, with the new leadership taking charge during the first weeks of January this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Bisani The Prelate of the Diocese of Zomba Rt. Rev. Alfred Chaima has challenged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea","category-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620","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=21620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21621,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions\/21621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}