Powerful church body denounces Constitutional Amendment Bill

*Pastoral Statement By The Zimbabwe Heads Of Christian Denominations On The Constitutional Amendment Bill No.3*

Powerful statement by the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (which is the umbrella body for almost all churches in the country) condemning the proposed Constitutional Amendments and calling on all Christians to prayerfully and non-violently take action to resist them.

The Church says that the Amendments are “broadly inconsistent with the foundational values underpinning the people driven 2013 Constitution, the inherent dignity of citizens and the demand of justice”.

The Church calls on all *Christians* to:
• pray for wisdom, courage and peace
• ⁠engage your MP to urge them to act with justice
• ⁠take action—grounded in truth, nonviolence, and love—to express our concerns
• ⁠draw strength from biblical witnesses who resisted unjust decrees

The Church calls on *Members of Parliament* to “stand on firm moral ground and decline to endorse these amendments”.

The Church calls on *the President* to “resist the temptation to amend the Constitution for selfish ends”

And the Church commits itself to “strategic, non-partisan engagement … to ensure Zimbabwe does not regress but advances toward the entrenchment of constitutional democracy”

The statement ends with a profound prayer:

“May the God of peace grant us courage to do what is right, wisdom to preserve justice, and love to bind us together as one people.”

Amen