{"id":23881,"date":"2026-01-23T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=23881"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:03:10","slug":"zambia-zccb-pastoral-support-continues-as-archbishop-phiri-visits-catholic-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/zambia-zccb-pastoral-support-continues-as-archbishop-phiri-visits-catholic-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: ZCCB Pastoral Support Continues as Archbishop Phiri Visits Catholic Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sandra Kunda<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Catholic Students\u2019 Community (CASC) at The Copperbelt University (CBU), Riverside Campus, welcomed Archbishop Benjamin Phiri of the Archdiocese of Ndola, who celebrated Mass with Catholic students at the institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visit marked the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 (ZCCB) growing pastoral engagement with Catholic students nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on behalf of the National Movement of Catholic Students (NMCS)\u2013Zambia, National President Samuel Mushapa expressed gratitude for the bishops\u2019 continued support and called for similar pastoral outreach in other dioceses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recalled Pope Francis\u2019s message of July 22, 2022, during the centenary celebrations of the international Catholic students\u2019 movement, in which the Holy Father emphasized that Catholic students were \u201can integral body of the Church\u201d as they lived their mission as students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement also reflected on the Mass celebrated on March 27, 1999, by the late Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe at the University of Zambia (UNZA) Chapel, which institutionalized the Catholic Students Movement in Zambia and encouraged students to \u201cstand together for what they believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NMCS\u2013Zambia reaffirmed its commitment to working closely with ZCCB to strengthen a Catholic student movement rooted in the true teachings of the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years, Catholic students have also hosted Bishop Clement Mulenga of Kabwe, Archbishop Dr. Alick Banda of Lusaka, and now Archbishop Dr. Benjamin Phiri, reflecting increased episcopal closeness to young people in higher learning institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Kunda The Catholic Students\u2019 Community (CASC) at The Copperbelt University (CBU), Riverside Campus, welcomed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23881","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\/23881","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=23881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23883,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23881\/revisions\/23883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}