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Anglican Priest Sues Church
Anglican priest Richard Luonde has dragged his church to court demanding that it gives him back his portfolio and pays him what is due to him.
He said he was called by God and wanted to die as a priest.
Father Lounde, a former St Peter’s Anglican Church priest-in-charge in Kitwe asked the Ndola Industrial Relations Court (IRC) to order the church to give him back his portfolio and pay him to his satisfaction.
“I was called as a priest and I want to die a priest. I want the church to give me back my portfolio and pay what is due to my satisfaction and what else the court will deem fit,” he said.
Fr Lounde said this during his testimony in a case in which he has sued the Anglican Church and the Northern Archbishop Albert Chama for damages and unlawful dismissal of employment.
He told the ICR chaired by Jones Chinyama yesterday that his dismissal was dubiously done alleging it did not conform to the church rules as no reasons were given.
Fr Luonde said his contract as a priest was terminated in August last year and that the conditions of service for his pension did not attest to the Zambian labour laws.
He said he had suffered economic hardships from the time his contract was terminated and rated himself as ‘a victim of circumstances’.
Fr Luonde said he was transferred to Mwinilunga in North-Western Province by Bishop Chama after his parishioners locked up the church and raised grievances against him.
“I do not know what was happening. I found the church locked up with graffiti stuck around the building. Father Chama later gave me a transfer letter to Mwinulunga saying I should not repeat what I did.
“I did not understand him because I did not know what was happening. I refused to go to Mwinilunga because I did not have anything to answer to the people that side if they asked me why I went there,” Fr Luonde said.
The case has been adjourned to September 8 this year for continued hearing.
Posted by Kunda
on August 7, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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ss
August 7, 2014 at 4:56 pm
you were employed not sent by God to preach the gospel. ok if God sent you or called you to serve Him why being contracted by fellow people. billions and billions of people are dying in sin in the streets why can’t you go in the streets and preach to them if you have a calling.
Thanks
Denkete
August 7, 2014 at 10:16 pm
mu street umutuulo tawafula elo priest afwaya ku room ukwakuti ngapunda ati amen, ninshi ukuboko nakufika kale pebeele aletonya.
munyololo
August 7, 2014 at 8:34 pm
ndeloleshafye
Ndeloleshafye
August 7, 2014 at 9:14 pm
Its time for the church to fight ahahhahahhahahhahahahahha Chimwemwe priest ummm amachurch yamo kuwawafye
SANKATA
August 7, 2014 at 9:16 pm
Does anyone of YOU that has a case against the other dare to go to court before unrighteous men, and not before the holy ones? Or do YOU not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by YOU, are YOU unfit to try very trivial matters? Do YOU not know that we shall judge angels? Why, then, not matters of this life? If, then, YOU do have matters of this life to be tried, is it the men looked down upon in the congregation that YOU put in as judges? I am speaking to move YOU to shame. Is it true that there is not one wise man among YOU that will be able to judge between his brothers, but brother goes to court with brother, and that before unbelievers?
kabila wa ngunja
August 8, 2014 at 7:43 am
Why are you still insisting to be taken on bord as a priest at Anglican Church. If truly chosen by the Almighty God You can as well apply for that post to any church in Zambia. We know that you survive on Umtulo. Infact you re n’t a true man og God. Uli Chipuba
kabila wa ngunja
August 8, 2014 at 7:50 am
you suffered economic hardship because taulebomba uli lofwa. fwayako fimbi ifya ku panga. kano umotulo fye? awe fyakanika.Infact adjourn the case to sepatember next year so that this kama prist can truly start cultivating
tongabull 2
August 7, 2014 at 9:50 pm
What are you talking about?