CEDEP faults Malawi churches on demo ‘for life and family’: March against corruption, lack of drugs in hospitals, joblessness and blackouts
Human rights advocacy body, Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) has criticised plans for Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) alongside Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) to hold a demonstration against abortion law and homosexuality to be held on Tuesday 6th December in all districts across the country.
In what they are terming ‘citizen march for life and family’, ECM and EAM has received backing from Nkhma Synod of the CCAP who have said they will joing thje pro-life demonstrations to serve as a reminder to all people and institutions that human life is sacred and also that the dignity of the human being is the foundation of moral vision for society.
But CEDEP has said the faith groups move is meant to deflect Malawian’s attention from the suffering they are going through with the current economic turmoil.
“There are other things the groups can deal with at congregationa level with their followers than trying to divert Malawians’ attention from the many challenges the country is going through,” Cedep boss Gift Trapence said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times.
He said there are many social evils happening in the country that needs Churches to denounce them and even hold demonstrations against such malpractices.
“We have blackouts, water shortages, our economy has crumbled, corruption is on the increase and the government is not concerned either. There are the issues that EAM could have demonstrated against,” said CEDEP.
CEDEP statement specifically blames EAM which does not condemn governance and other social evils that has political connotation.
The rights group is asking the religious leaders to hold demonstrations against lack of drugs in hospitals, loss of business due to electricity blackouts, and increasing levels of unemployment instead of abortion.
Proposed abortion law is expected to be tabled in Parliament this coming seating of Parliament and advocates of the legislation have been arguing that by denying women of the freedom to procure abortion legally, it is costing government more in treatment effects of unsafe abortion complications.
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These issues are as controversial those of death sentence and .org ICC. The west come to us to abolish death sentence while in their own countries they did not abolish it. Some states of the USA do still carry out death sentence as we speak now but they want Africa and other parts of the world to abolish it, what is their motive would it not be fair that they led by example????. In the same USA some states still criminalises abortion and yet they want us to entirely decriminalise it, what is their motive???. In the same USA they do not subscribe to the International Criminals Court despite being a permanent security coucil member. and yet they expect us to part and parcel of it. What is their motive again????. Those who want to dectate to us how we should live are not going to succeed because with the increasing number of literate people individuals now know that europeans are hypocrites thus why they employing our own in the name of civil society in order to cheat us as though the views expressed by them were those .org Malawians in general. Those who want to use rape as an excuse are just very lazy to think. Immediately after being raped you are asked to report it and the first thing they do is to take u to a clinic, they pump out every singile sperm from the body so that there is no such a thing as unwanted pregnance. Therefore rape is not a valid reason for abortion find something else. Life begins at pregnance so terminating it is the same as killing someone with a knife or any other object. Ask if you would have existed if your mother had that stupid idea of aborting u.
THE MISGUIDED SOUL
Am deeply worried that a Man of your age till today has missed the very essence of civilization which for all intents and purposes should not be yet far from life. The argument that the churches should have demonstrated on the issue of electricity and not as it did is wholly a childish argument better yet a lucking argument for want of a better word. Per adventure, some would wish to know that even today the medical people in exceptional circumstances would make a decision to either save the mother than it is the unborn because in that humanity would still benefit from the mother per se. Suffice to say, the legalization of abortion is more a flood gate opening of moral lapse and gap, a thing every sane society should refrain from doing. Mr Trapence, you should be schooled that your mind is far too cheap that you have allowed the white to bulldoze your wanting soul as they please.
It is clear, that if it had not been for your unpopular views on same sex marriages maybe you would not have driven the car you drive. of course i would be wrong to attribute your achievements to the advocacy you do, but thinking in that line would only make me a reasonable and yet a contextual person. Indeed, many have said the very reason why abortion is not what I want or at least a good number of Malawians want.
Your luck of understanding on human rights and the difference of schools of thought on human rights is in my view the reason why you cannot distinguish cheap political statements from better yet a just pursuit no matter pushed by who. I mean talking of the individuals and the bishops one would indeed point fingers on them for hypocrisy but i think the point should not be missed here, in a position of a fiduciary you would basically do things for the common good in the higher sense and not to seek the selfish quests.
Yes the move of the enemy is obvious that he so desires that Malawi should be hell on earth and indeed fear not God. Yeah much so, but woe unto him through which the offense comes through. It is common place that some would argue within the shrines of the right of a woman to do with her pregnancy as she wills, that seems cool and well accommodating but pause a minute if every person was allowed to do with their person as they will, trust me society would not be a place to live. Culturally some have aborted and have had the somewhat unsafe abortions and that some would argue that it is no duty of any person to argue against what our girls should do. But Mr Trapence some things are better done than said, if you were asked to let your girl child go about and get pregnancy knowing that she would safely abort without you considering that as wrong and sinful as a parent, then we should believe with you that you live in utopian world. In any case, a good number of us we say no to abortion and no to same sex marriage because that is a pursuit of souls which are misguided.
The demos were well organised and now the ball is in the hands of parliament! Lets save life!
Have you seen demonstrations by churches? They were well patronized. Not those prepared by civil societies like Billy Mayaya and Trapence which attract only family members and fellow officers and few imbibers.
We need abortion and our MPs should support the Abortion Bill. Women and girls are already aborting and government is wasting so much money due to complications arising from unsafe abortion. This money can be used to develop our country. Women and girls should have the right to decide whether to keep a pregnancy or not. Selfish men and the church SHOULD SHUT UP! Let people ignore these senseless demonstrations so that the church should be shamed! Well done Mr. Trapence
Last days…..or ataloleza kut dzitayani mimbazo inu mungataye?pot panopa anthu akutayabe …komasikut analoleza otaya ndalama basi. …zilingati kusuta chamba sikuti atalolezakut zisutani inu mungamasute chifukwa aloleza kusuta penapalipo?
Trapence has turned to mzungu’s good boy.
Pakazakhala zinthu zofuna mademo anthu sazakutengani serious chifukwa chofuna kuti boma livomeleze kupha ana.
Mr. Trapence, the nonsense you are talking about has been heard because you have got life! You should abort yourself first then we will believe in your nonsense. Otherwise between electricity and life, I will choose life. What will you choose yourself Mr. Trapence, if I may ask? Don’t cheat people, everyone on earth is pro-life. That’s the reason you are talking about drugs in hospital. Or are you saying drugs for abortion? Wise up, don’t be enslaved in your own country.
And you, Trapence, why don,t you yourself advocate for a crackdown on corruption, generation of adequate electricity and improvement of the economy??? Instead of doing what you want others to do, you are busy glorifying abortions and same sex marriages. Are you not a hypocrite??
Trapence is a Goof! a white man’s good boy.Malawi is not a sugar plantation,where is your humanity, silly billy?Find something else better to do with your life,please!
It’s a shame some one like Trapence is supporting issues which are against the Bible. Mr Trapence, ARE YOU BORN FROM THE ACTION OF MAN & MAN OR MAN & WOMAN? These Educated savages are just doing these kufuna kudyetsa mimba zawo basi. They know this is wrong, they would not accept these in their own families.
Mulugu azakulangani zinthu….
In the first place Joseph u don’t carry pregnancy and u are not raped. It’s people like u men who rape women. Do u want a woman to carry and give birth to a child who raped her? Church or Bible says a child should be born by love. Rape is not love. It’s a woman who should decide wether to keep pregnancy or not. Until when men start to be pregnant they shall decide. It’s a woman’s body. Churches are double morals. They preach false to people. It’s churches who have raped women. Growing churches in Malawi is danger to civilisation and development. There is HIV in Malawi a raped woman risk double getting HIV and her unborn child is effected. Is church going to take care of these two? Many women are poor and with HIV and a child how can these two survive? It is true they should demonstrate for hunger, and economic problems which is more dangerous for the people. Abortion is very little issue in Malawi. These churches are bribed by the government. The government is afraid for raising of people. I support demonstration for better life for Màlawians.
How many women in Malawi are raped and end up getting pregnant from the unfortunate encounter?Have U done any studies that show that many of the kids you want aborted are a result of rape?Bring out the statistics and people will help U understand better cause U seem to be missing the point.
If you are really serious with your research, what is the ratio of women or girls getting pregnancies through rape?
I think this guy called trapence is either ignorant to the fact that there is no law which promotes corruption; drug shortage and unemployment or he just wants to show that he is the prescriber of what Malawians need. Churches are targetting the pending law which will promote termination of pregnancy. How many people has he himself employed? We all know of drug theft, lets all gurd against theft (we don’t need to go to the streets to guard against drug theft).
MAY THE GOOD LORD FORGIVE MR { TRAPENCE}.
The Church nothing else is the only carrier of truth. Do not temper with it. Otherwise you fight against your won Creator. Do not condole anything which your own evil culture forbids. You mean human life is not important than economic problems. Azungu asamakuputseni. Culture is more devilish than ours.
it is so pathetic that the very same people tell their girlfriends and their daughters to go for abortion when they do not want embarrassment now the government says we are here to legalize abortion so that you do not need to do it in secret any more, they are the very same people going against it, kuzolowera chinyengo ndi za mu mdima eti?
Somebody has got their priorities all very wrong. Debilitating economy, dysfunctional electricity provision, poor water supply, ailing health system, crumbling education system Versus pro-life and pro-family, really; the choice is clear.
Ku Central medical stores trust corruption under Buy Malawi campaign. Manufacturers ku chita overcharge mitengo za mankhwala ndi medical supplies by 5 times normal price. Ma manufacturer wena aku chita import mankhwala ndi ku chita labelo made in Malawi.
Know it all trapence
Iwe Trapence, what ever you call yourself and your misguided fellows, do not
tell Malawians what to do or not to do. Malawians have chosen to match on this
evil issue you call safe abortion. If you want organize people to match on those
My friend he is mad, People should fight for money that are being stolen instead of life of people that will be killed before born.
Am ashamed of you .