Zambia: Mbikusita –Lewanika leads
EU Parliamentarians in prayer
December 2, 2010
Lusaka Times.com
Zambia’s
Ambassador to the EU, Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika yesterday
led scores of European members of Parliament (MEPs), royal
families and other dignitaries from across Europe in fervent
prayer for secular Europe to return to the God of the
Bible and Christian values on which the European continent
was founded.
At a packed annual prayer breakfast for members of the
European Parliament held at the EU parliament in Brussels,
Dr. Mbikusita-Lewanika beseeched God on behalf of Europe
to remember the continent in mercy and save it from a
moral crisis and economic woes.
The prayer breakfast, also a global event held in major
cities of the world, was a gifted opportunity for the
Zambian Embassy in Brussels to connect with several members
of the European parliament.
Speaker after speaker on the prayer breakfast’s
theme: Serving like Jesus in public life, lamented Europe’s
fall from moral grace and challenged members of the European
parliament to take a stand for Jesus Christ in the public
sphere so that Europe could return to the faith of its
founding fathers and mothers and the Christian values
that enabled it send missionaries across the world where
they pioneered education and health sectors.
This is contained in a statement to ZANIS from the Zambian
mission in Brussels signed by Assistant Secretary for
Press Samuel Ngoma.
And in his main message, Liechtenstein’s former
Ambassador to the EU, Prince Charles-Louis de Merode,
regretted that prayer in the high strata of society was
now more seldom and rebuked those who were putting Jesus
Christ on the back-seat of public life.
He challenged Europe’s secularists to take a cue
from its wintry dark weather under cloudy skies which
by no means meant there was no sun behind the clouds.
“In the same way, we may not see God but that does
not mean He is not there. Faith is an act of realism,”
said Prince Merode.
One after another, the European dignitaries warned that
for as long as there was no morality, there would be no
real values in Europe as God had been taken out of the
public sphere and the huge onus was on MEPs to now let
their light shine.
Later, Dr. Mbikusita-Lewanika was chosen to be a panelist
in a continued discussion after the breakfast within the
EU premises where discussants shared similar cries, burdens,
values, fire and hope for Europe to stand up against the
continent’s vices such as drug abuse, hedonism,
teenage delinquency, abortion and gay marriages.
ZANIS
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