{"id":22951,"date":"2025-08-22T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=22951"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:04:27","slug":"zambia-national-movement-of-catholic-students-hosts-climate-change-debt-justice-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/zambia-national-movement-of-catholic-students-hosts-climate-change-debt-justice-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: National Movement of Catholic Students Hosts Climate Change, Debt Justice Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sandra Kunda<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference on climate change and debt crisis, held at Evelyn Hone College in the presence of notable National Movement of Catholic Students (NMCS) alumni, including former NMCS Zambia President Ms. Michelle, Mr. Nobert Mofya, and Mr. Chanda, aimed to ignite student engagement on pressing global and national issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the highlights was the interactive Debt Justice session, where Catholic students actively participated, demonstrating a renewed sense of purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discussions rekindled a collective conviction among young Catholics to engage not only in climate and debt matters but also in other social justice issues, after a period of noticeable inactivity in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference also featured a presentation on the Catholic Church\u2019s Jubilee Year celebration, tracing its historical roots, explaining the current phase, and outlining when the next Jubilee will be marked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the event, Mr. Nhundu Pardingtone, the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Pan-African Coordinator, gave an overview of the history of IMCS and challenged Zambian Catholic students to take a more active role in NMCS affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additional presentations came from Mr. Mputa of Fight Inequality Alliance Zambia and Mr. Raphael of <em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em> Movement Zambia, who shared valuable insights on social justice advocacy and environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NMCS Zambia leadership expressed gratitude to all speakers and participants, emphasizing their intention to extend such engagements to other regions across the country as part of a broader strategy to revitalize the movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Kunda The conference on climate change and debt crisis, held at Evelyn Hone College&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22953,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951\/revisions\/22953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}