{"id":4871,"date":"2016-09-23T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:59:28","slug":"zambia-champion-reconciliation-bishop-lungu-urges-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/zambia-champion-reconciliation-bishop-lungu-urges-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Champion Reconciliation;- Bishop Lungu Urges Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Mwenya Mukuka, Communications Office, ZCCB<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chipata Diocese Bishop George Lungu said priests should be at the centre of reconciliation among the people. He said this during the Silver Jubilee Celebration of three Priests that was held at St. Mary\u2019s Junior Seminary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Lungu said priests play an important role in society. \u201cA priest is at war and the type of war is difficult because we fight with an invisible enemy. It\u2019s easy to fight with someone who is visible because you can see where to throw your punches, but if your enemy is not seen, it means you have to go through a special training so that you win that war against an invisible enemy. A priest cannot manage to win this type of war without reconciling with God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Lungu said priesthood is centred on reconciling people with Christ, promoting unity and oneness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe core of priesthood is to remain united with Jesus Christ who is the Chief Priest, Bishop, fellow priests, the religious and Christians themselves. Where there is unity there is oneness, so it is important that during this feast we reconcile between ourselves and our colleagues who are doing their jubilee so that we start a new life of love, unity and that of reconciliation in our calling,\u201d Bishop Lungu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>-Ends-<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mwenya Mukuka, Communications Office, ZCCB Chipata Diocese Bishop George Lungu said priests should be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}