{"id":4578,"date":"2026-06-06T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:23:47","slug":"govt-church-encourages-democratic-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"GOVT, CHURCH ENCOURAGES DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Information and Media Permanent Secretary, Thabo Kawana, says government and the Church share the mandate of ensuring that citizens are sensitised on their democratic participation, particularly the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kawana emphasised that both the church and government have the responsibility to educate young people about the right path of life, teach them essential life skills, and foster good values.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during his visit to the Highlands District Congregations\u2019 fundraising meeting held at Chitukuko Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mtendere East.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Mr Kawana donated K50,000 raised among some Permanent Secretaries towards the purchase of land intended for building a permanent campsite for the church.<\/p>\n<p>And District Pastor, Joseph Kaboleka expressed gratitude to the government and Mr Kawawa for taking the time to attend the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Information and Media Permanent Secretary, Thabo Kawana, says government and the Church share the mandate of ensuring that citizens are sensitised on their democratic participation, particularly the right to vote. Mr Kawana emphasised that both the church and government have the responsibility to educate young people about the right path of life, teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,16],"tags":[49,26,119,25],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","category-latestnewsleft","tag-church","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-ministryofinformationandmedia","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}