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Macha Chiefdom Bans Crusades
By Chomba Musika
GATHERINGS such as overnight prayers, crusades, and church camp meetings have been banned in Macha chiefdom in Choma as they have been identified among drivers of HIV/AIDS in the area.
Night gatherings, which have been deemed as a platform for HIV-risk behaviour, will only be held under special circumstances with the permission from Chief Macha.
This is according to a policy declaration and leadership commitment on HIV/AIDS for Macha chiefdom which was launched on Friday through Support to the HIV/AIDS Response (SHAReII) in Zambia, a USAID-funded project.
The royal establishment and the community identified drivers of HIV/AIDS in the chiefdom and how to counter them.
“As Macha chiefdom, we recognise that gatherings such as overnight prayers, crusades, church camps and other big gatherings that attract people from different areas eventually lead them to engage in unprotected sex which predisposes them to HIV infections and other STIs.
We, therefore, discourage all forms of night gatherings unless under special circumstances with special permission from his royal highness Chief Macha,” the declaration reads in part.
The chiefdom has also banned “wrong doctrinal teachings” by which prophets encourage HIV patients to only pray for healing at the expense of seeking and taking anti-retroviral therapy (ART), a practice the chiefdom says promotes HIV-drug resistance and subsequently promotes high mortality among those infected with HIV in the chiefdom.
Sexual cleansing rituals have also been banned.
And the chiefdom has also decreed to ensure that any person caught in adultery is encouraged to undergo voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) while those who refuse to undergo VCT will have their adultery penalty increased.
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Lizzie Dobweda
April 22, 2015 at 8:07 am
Yes plZ BAN useless “Overnight” prayers that helsp no one but the thieving pastors that collect money from brainwashed id!ots!!
Amazing
April 22, 2015 at 8:13 am
Let him close the bars instead of acting foolishly against good things
Lizzie Dobweda
April 22, 2015 at 8:26 am
IFYABUPUBA!!!!!!!!
UCZ= Useless Churches of Zambia
April 22, 2015 at 8:44 am
Bars are “more decen”t than those useless churches full of con-men stealing from blind-fools in broad-day-light!
Candy
April 22, 2015 at 4:48 pm
If you can’t see any sense in what the chief has said then your are the one who is foolish. Which good things are talking about? Are you one of those people who go to crusades to promote HIV infection? Think before comment my dear.
tb joshua
April 26, 2015 at 5:09 pm
chinyo chobe candy
MCCM
April 22, 2015 at 9:01 am
U ARE THE WORST BRAINWASHED CHARACTER
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:25 am
Religion is a kind of mass hysteria that tends to affect humans as a species. Even people who are otherwise sane are sometimes stricken with this form of insanity.
Amazing
April 22, 2015 at 8:09 am
The chief is out of his senses and acting foolishly
UCZ= Useless Churches of Zambia
April 22, 2015 at 8:44 am
you are the blind id!ot
Shaka Zulu
April 22, 2015 at 9:20 am
The chief is right.Aba Tonga too much sex, even at church gatherings.
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:30 am
“Without God, life is everything.” –
New Educated Zambia©
April 22, 2015 at 8:16 am
And when i personally call for the declaration of zambia as a religious tolerant nation instead of Christian, some idiots go on a rant. Let us not give Christians an upper hand when they are the biggest hypocrites in this country committing crimes. We have other regions too . Funny thing is zambia was declared Christian by a short chap who went on to notoriously steal
B
April 22, 2015 at 8:21 am
Words of a fool
UCZ= Useless Churches of Zambia
April 22, 2015 at 8:49 am
Why overnight, What is wrong with praying on weekends and during the day? They do it at night so that the so-called pastors get more time to confuse and extort money from ‘hypnotized’ Zambians? What obscenities you guys are committing against the people, in the name of Jesus!!
lunda
April 23, 2015 at 8:07 am
They are only scared of how they are going to practice witchcraft with all the prayers around. Remember light and darkness can not combine. How many bars are there in Zambia where you find naked young girls patronizing with men squeezing there private parts in public as compared to what can happen in a spiritual gathering? Useless ka chief!
Nikambeko
April 26, 2015 at 8:43 am
@lunda, you are very right. Why ban overnight prayers instead of overnight drinking and witching?
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:27 am
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.”
MCCM
April 22, 2015 at 9:06 am
NOT JUST WORDS OF A FOOL BUT OF A SATANIST AND FREEMANSONS/
TRIBALISTS WHO HAS NO REGARD FOR HIS CREATOR.WE WILL NEVER VOTE FOR SATANISTS UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCE
spoken
April 22, 2015 at 10:50 am
“As to the book called the Bible, it is blasphemy to call it the word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions, and a history of bad times and bad men. There are but a few good characters in the whole book.” — Thomas Paine
major chileshe
April 22, 2015 at 9:23 am
We have other regions too? Madam What do u mean by that?
New Educated Zambia©
April 22, 2015 at 10:15 am
a person with 5 senses would quickly realise that was an error meant to say religion. Common sense is indeed not common within the pf ranks. But then again I expect it. Hope that clears your confusion ba major kiki
major chileshe
April 22, 2015 at 9:24 am
We have other regions too? Madam What do you mean by that?
ntimbwi nationalist
April 23, 2015 at 6:03 am
But ftj stole together wit your president hh!that’s why am saying that you have wapped brain nez!
LUNGISAN
April 22, 2015 at 8:48 am
amazing thats true let him close all the tarvens,ban the production of kachasu,stop pple from polygamy,you are such a foolish chief who is after pleasing non christians you are just destroying your reputation.And you foolish ones with no morals no one is forcing you to be a christian if you cant stand that go to xenophobia country or nigeria perharps egypt.gud moning
Judge Joe Bidden
April 22, 2015 at 8:51 am
Yeah thats Anti-Christ for you.
MCCM
April 22, 2015 at 9:08 am
THE CHIEF IS A WITCH
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 9:20 am
For the message of the cross is foolishness to THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING,but to us who are being saved it is the POWER OF GOD
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 9:21 am
1Corinthians1:18
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:28 am
“A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle”
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:23 am
religion is bullsh!t!!!!!!!!
Christianity is Insanity.
April 22, 2015 at 9:21 am
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion”
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 9:36 am
For since,in the wisdom of God,the world through wisdom did not know God,it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe
1corinthians 1:21
Religion is Bullsh!t
April 22, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RUBBISSSSSSSSSSSSSH!
Christianity is Bullcrap!!
April 22, 2015 at 9:32 am
“I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.” — W. Somerset Maugham
poly
April 22, 2015 at 9:35 am
@NEZ,I still do not understand why suddenly you have resorted to using foul language. Anyway, I may not know that you are still experiencing after-shocks after your party’s defeat on 14.04.2015.
New Educated Zambia©
April 22, 2015 at 10:17 am
please point out in my comments above where i have uttered foul language. Should you not be able to do so, can we agree that will earn me the right to call you a foolish idiot? deal?
mbaluso
April 22, 2015 at 9:37 am
Banning all night meetings is not a solution.Let the word of God be preached without any hindrance.If a chief is allergic to the word of God,his time is near.Let him not hide behind issues to do with HIV/AIDs.After all,this disease is more spiritual than physical.Fornication and adultery will be any where,whether all night prayer meeting are being conducted or not.
The chief should repent and not resist the word of God.He not supposed to stand in the way of GOD.Let the weed grow together with wheat.And during harvesting time,the weeds will be separated from wheat.
The chief is abrogating freedom of assembly and association as enshrined in our constitution.He has imposed a curfew which is not constitutional.He needs to be taken to court.
false prophets/pastors
April 22, 2015 at 10:12 am
Give them lies and they pay you money. That’s how a church works.
Remember, jesus told you to go in a closet and pray in private. off you go….
Christianity is Bullcrap!!
April 22, 2015 at 9:38 am
Adam and Eve munch on the Forbidden Fruit. We are not told if it was an apple, banana, or perhaps a watermelon. Hey, if there can be a talking snake and magic trees then there can be a watermelon in this story.
God gets angry and starts punishing folks.
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:29 am
Its u who has not recieved a revelation that u do not always eat by mouth.Let me explain to u since u have asked for it
spoken
April 22, 2015 at 10:52 am
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:34 am
The Serpent is the missing link btn man and chimpanzee.He was the closest to man(made like man except that he was a beast/animal) and as an animal he had no SOUL.The soul is what differantiated him from man
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:40 am
The serpent was more SUBTLE and CUNNING than any other creature.Meaning he was able to TALK(Genesis 3:1-5)
Lord of Nigga's
April 22, 2015 at 10:56 am
A writer on Listverse does an excellent job with a top-10 list of Christ-like figures who predate Jesus and how they share similar stories. It’s also well known that early Christians adopted aspects of other religions in an attempt at conversion, and that goes even further to explain the similarities in the story of Jesus. It’s much easier to convert people when there isn’t much to convert from. Some of the similarities include a Dec. 25 birthday, a miraculous birth/virgin birth, death and resurrection after (specifically) three days, healing the sick, walking on water, and so on.
Here’s the top-10 list of Christ-like figures he gives:
Buddha
Krishna
Odysseus
Romulus
Dionysus
Heracles
Glycon
Zoroaster
Attis
Horus
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:44 am
The serpent was male and used to walk uprightly b4 being cursed Genesis3:14
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:05 am
Eve first had eaten with the Serpent b4 she ate with Adam.What is eating?One can eat by the mouth,eyes,ears and private parts etc.What were the resultant of this kind of eating=TWO SEEDS.
1.Seed(posterity-ubufyashi) of a Serpent
2.Seed(posterity-ubufyashi) of a woman
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 9:42 am
One key component is mossing in u,that is FAITH.
Its by faith and not by thoughts.So its not for u why bother.Christ does not force but says whoever is willing,if u are not willing give it a blind eye,u will reap what u sow
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 9:43 am
missing
false prophets/pastors
April 22, 2015 at 10:19 am
Nothing fails like prayer.
kakolwe
April 22, 2015 at 9:57 am
Why wouldn’t I be suprised if this bafoon of a chief banned ALL international transporters, trackers & tourists from stopping or even passing through Choma?
Next he will Zweletini all “foreigners” from Tongaland.
Or he may go ahead and encourage the “burning” of every deeeck from church people?
LUNGISAN
April 22, 2015 at 10:16 am
you are a looser kind of a chief who deserves to be in the opposition.
poly
April 22, 2015 at 10:36 am
@NEZ,in your earlier contribution on this article(some idiots go on a rant)is in your sentence.
New Educated Zambia©
April 22, 2015 at 11:26 am
idiot is not a foul word. It is another term for a fool. If you said fool on any national broadcast it would not be censored.
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:40 am
The serpent was more SUBTLE and CUNNING than any other creature.Meaning he was able to TALK(Genesis 3:1-5)
I GOD
April 22, 2015 at 10:47 am
“Question: How do you know you’re God?
Answer: Simple. When I pray to GOD, I find I’m talking to myself.”
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:48 am
The serpent used to walk uprightly as he was so close to a man(he had a stature of a man except the fact that he dad no soul).
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 10:54 am
Since man was created in the image of God(spiritual man was CREATED and not the physical man that was FORMED-the physical body of a man is in the image of a beast/animal thats why it goes back to the soil where it came from)
IF NOT
April 22, 2015 at 10:59 am
Whatever you ask with faith in prayer you receive. Matthew 21:22. I am for Christ and in God i TRUST.
consciousness
April 22, 2015 at 11:00 am
“if jesus did exist I bet he screamed like a b!tch when they nailed his áss to that cross!
prayer is superstition
April 22, 2015 at 11:08 am
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:11 am
We know that a woman in herself poseses no seed of her own but a man therefore this was spoken of JESUS CHRIST who was to bruise the serpent at the cross for he was not fathered by adam,but beggotten of the father by a virgin girl(no natural reproduction involved)
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:19 am
Therefore this promised seed was to come through the lineage of Adam who was a son of God.Eve recieved 2 seeds in her,from the serpent and from Adam within a short space of time.The eating was SEXUAL IN NATURE proverbs 30:20.She had sex with the serpent then Eve and concieved from the two and bore twins Cain and Abel.
The Sage
April 22, 2015 at 11:20 am
Africans must throw away the bible. It is poison that control them to grow, a self slavery trapped in the old master feet.
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:29 am
punishment was not directed at the mouth of a woman but at the place were sin entered the world i.e the PRIVATE PARTS of EVE
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:38 am
Cain had blood of man and a beast(he was a hybrid kind of a person-he was a giant and had the DNA of a serpent in him-thats why he was so evil).NOTE! both children of God And children of satan are born worshippers except that the later has no revelation
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:45 am
whenever theres cross breeding the resultant is a giant by-product.In the time of Noah these two breeds
1.(the decendants of cain who was of the serpent-had genes of an animal) were mixed with
2.Seith’s decendants-sons of God(who had the DNA of Adam-who was the son of God)
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:48 am
the resultant of crossbreeding were giants who were so evil.God hates cross breeding
(Hybriding).What He created was perfect and was good in His sight
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:55 am
God was disgusted by this cross breeding of the sons of God and the daughters of men(cain’s daghters who had blood of the beast in them also) and reduced man’s lifespan to 120yrs.God was sorry that He made mankind and destroyed them except 8 souls
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 11:45 am
whenever theres cross breeding the resultant is a giant by-product.In the time of Noah these two breeds
1.(the decendants of cain who was of the serpent-had genes of an animal) were mixed with
2.Seith’s decendants-sons of God(who had the DNA of Adam-who was the son of God)
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Now since the blood of the serpent and Adam were already mixed,even after the flood the TWO SEEDS continued to exist side by side and were always at war with each other.
1.Cain of the serpent(devil) killed Abel of Adam(adam was of God or was son of God)
2.In Abraham
Ismael an Isaac.
The seed of GOD was through Isaac
3.Isaac’s sons Esau and Jacob
God’s seed was through Jacob(israel).
Esau persecuted Jacob
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:11 pm
God was in Christ reconcilling people to Himself,Satan also came on the scene and was in Judah Iscariot.In the New Tesrament church God came in form of Holy Spirit,Satan also came in the church as an evil spirit(spirit of ABTI-CHRIST)
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 1:25 pm
spirit of Anti-Christ
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:16 pm
In the time of Moses,Janes and Jambres rose to offer opposition to Moses.
Moses performed miracles-they also perfomed same type of miracles except that their were not genuine.So it is with these denominations,
they have miracles but without the true Word of God
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:17 pm
In the time of Moses,Janes and Jambres rose to offer opposition to Moses.
Moses performed miracles-they also perfomed same type of miracles except that their were not genuine.So it is with these denominations,
they have miracles but without the true Word of God
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Next time I will speak about heresies that are taught and practiced by these denominational churches
Judge Joe Bidden
April 22, 2015 at 12:29 pm
You are such a fool even me as a christian I find this stupid and foolish this is not a landfill you need to come and dump your school R.E. notes.
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:53 pm
As far as I am concerned theres no Christian who is a drunkard and a womaniser.What type of Bible do u read?Christian-
means Christ like,apostles were called so in Antioch.Read Acts.
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 1:00 pm
A drunkard has no place in the kingdom of God 16:9-10,
Galatians5:19-21
Judge Joe Bidden
April 22, 2015 at 1:59 pm
Am I a Galatian?
New Educated Zambia©
April 22, 2015 at 1:33 pm
kiki interesting to watch the little clueless kids arguing. silly chaps
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 12:41 pm
COMMON FALSE DOCTRINES WHICH ARE TAUGHT BY MANY PASTORS
1.TRINITY-A catholic dogma introduced ar the Council of Nicea in 325AD
2.JESUS ONLY
3.Water BAPTISM IN A TRIUNY FORMULAR-i.e in the Name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Spirit-people were only bapyised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
4.Women preaching-Bible forbids
5.Pulgatory
6.White Horse Rider of revelation to be Christ when actual sense its the Anti-Christ
7.Lords supper being taken in the (morningwhich is breakfast instead,
In the afternoon which is lunch)
8.Dress cord-women adopting men’s dress cord
9.Make up(only a prostitute in the Bible used to do this-JEZEBEL)
10.Nicolaintantism
AM 4 CHRIST
April 22, 2015 at 1:06 pm
@Bidden ,u are already committing another sin by claiming that u are a Christian when u are not coz u av openly told us that u are a womaniser and a drunkard,how u slept with a prostitute in mzanzi etc.A Christian has the spirit of Christ in him.Its Christ who begins to live in them,not themselves
Judge Joe Bidden
April 22, 2015 at 2:05 pm
I bonked my woman in Msanzi how did you translate that to a prostitute? Kiki uletekanya, and who said sliding in only 4 Heineken bottles is drunkenness? Utekanye saaana. Am I not entitled to having sex with my woman? Judge not.
KARODS
April 22, 2015 at 1:29 pm
CHIEFDOMS CAN ONLY BE BUILT AND ESTABLISHED WELL WHEN THE NAME OF GOD IS UPLIFTED,BAN SUCH GATHERINGS LIKE SDA CAMPMEETING AND YOU WILL SEE HOW THE GOOD LORD SHALL REACT FROM HEAVEN.THERE WILL BE NO RAINS IN THAT AREA,NO PIECE AT ALL.HIV/AIDS WILL NEVER FINISH SINCE NOBODY WILL STOP PEOPLE FROM ADULTERY PRACTISES,ARVS ARE HERE TO FINISH BLACKS.
PROMOTE HERBS WHERE CURE LIES NOT IFIMITI FYA KU FOJA.ITS LIKE UYU CHIEF NALYAMO MULI BA SHARE?
Fulu fulu
April 26, 2015 at 7:25 am
WTF? No rains? Did you learn about the water cycle? Only in primitive cultures do they still believe rain is controlled by the gods.
Godless
April 26, 2015 at 5:18 pm
Hahahahahaha that’s backward Zambians for you!!!
Hideous Beauty
April 22, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Ba Chief,u need some sort of education 4 u to sober up! As long as people have D.I.C.K.s and V.I.R.G.I.N.A.s you can’t stop promiscuity. Every adult z horny. I guess The Chief was equally horny when uttering such nonsense! Maybe still he is getting jealous of such gatherings. Secondly.salvation is personal. Ba Chief,you are going against our constitutional right; Freedom of assembly and association…Ba Sibuku,u need to face the law for gross misconduct!
Perry M. Chisamu
April 22, 2015 at 4:48 pm
Unfortunately such a declaration will die still-born! The basis under which it is couched is shaky! Religious Liberty is a fundamental freedom that has been enshrined in most of constitution. So any law that is incosistent to the const. To the extent of its incostence shall be null and void. Belief and manifestation thereof is not for anyone to tamper with. M. Perry Chisamu.
MCCM
April 22, 2015 at 6:21 pm
OKEY SINCE U HAVE DENIED BEING A GENTILE READ
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10.
REMEMBER PAUL SAID THESE ARE GOD’S COMMANDMENTS 1CORINTHIANS14:33-36,
(As the law says GENESIS 3:16 man shall rule over a woman)
1TIMOTHY2:11-15
KAPOWELA WAMU P*U*S*S*Y
April 22, 2015 at 8:14 pm
HMM AM 4 CHRIST,U REALLY UNDERSTAND THE WORD,EISH YOU MUST BE A GREAT BELIEVER..KEEP IT UP
Dackson
April 22, 2015 at 9:23 pm
ba chief twapapata before u lose it all ask for forgiviness u re not punishing those who attends those crusades,overnight and so on but crucifying the only lord jesus christ by denyin the gospel to reach your subjects that are lost .remember king nebukadnezah so watch out atleast in nebukadnezah time there was fresh grass but u shall eat cows dung if u fight the almight God.close bars and shabeens that promotes nyere and not wat u re thinkin.
Dackson
April 22, 2015 at 9:28 pm
ba chief twapapata before u lose it all ask for forgiviness u re not punishing those who attends those crusades,overnight and so on but crucifying the only lord jesus christ by denyin the gospel to reach your subjects that are lost .remember king nebukadnezah so watch out atleast in nebukadnezah time there was fresh grass but u shall eat cows dung if u fight the almight God.close bars and shabeens that promotes nyere and not wat u re thinkin basa
cyprus
April 26, 2015 at 12:45 pm
11. the bible – as the only form and sacred law of god.