Zambia’s Religious Leaders Call for Civility in Political Rhetoric

The Episcopal Conference of Zambia has called on all political parties and their presidential candidates to take steps to curb politically motivated violence ahead of the country’s August 11 presidential election. The organization of Roman Catholic bishops met Tuesday with all political parties and their candidates. Father Cleophas Lungu, secretary general of the conference, said the meeting made a number of proposals to deal with some of the root causes of the political tension and...

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