{"id":68226,"date":"2018-07-09T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68226"},"modified":"2018-07-09T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T06:54:17","slug":"dont-be-partisan-peter-mutharika-tells-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/dont-be-partisan-peter-mutharika-tells-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be partisan, Peter Mutharika tells Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MANDY PONDANI:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Peter Mutharika on Sunday advised \u00a0Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) not to act as an opposition party but help him build the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Livingstonia Synod is one of Mutharika\u2019s fierce critics who accuse him of widespread corruption and nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s build the nation together,you are not in opposition. You and us should work together, not fighting and castigating each other,\u201d Mutharika said at Katawa CCAP church where he attended a church service.<\/p>\n<p>President Mutharika is on a two-week official visit to the northern region where among other activities is expected to officially open the Mzuzu-Nkhata Bay<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvoid tying yourself to political parties or supporting political candidates,\u201d Mutharika said.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika said partisan politics should have no place in the church especially now when the country gears for the 2019 tripartite elections.<\/p>\n<p>Government according to him is not in a tag of war with the church which he said sometimes conducts itself as though it is in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we are wrong tell us but in a respectful manner, we will do the same when you make some mistakes\u2026,\u201d Mutharika added.<\/p>\n<p>Conspicuously missing during the service was General Secretary for the Synod Reverend Levi Nyondo, a well-known critic of the Mutharika administration.<\/p>\n<p>Taking his turn synod moderator John Gondwe reiterated Mutharika\u2019s sentiments saying the roles of the state and the church are complementary to each other.<\/p>\n<p>He then cautioned ministers and members against using the synod structures to practice partisan politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Livingstonia synod does not believe in partisan politics while its members are free to join and support parties of their liking,\u201d Gondwe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever there are issues we encourage use of proper channels established by government and the church in order to iron out misunderstandings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MANDY PONDANI: President Peter Mutharika on Sunday advised \u00a0Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) not to act as an opposition party but help him build the nation. Livingstonia Synod is one of Mutharika\u2019s fierce critics who accuse him of widespread corruption and nepotism. \u201cLet\u2019s build the nation together,you are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68232,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226\/revisions\/68232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}