Ekklesia | Mozambique

July 5, 2017

Audit raises questions over $2 billion loans to Mozambique

A summary of the independent audit into the secret loans to Mozambique has been released by US company Kroll. While information is still lacking in many areas, it offers a strong critique of the deals, providing further evidence of why the Mozambique people should not have to make one dollar of debt payments, says Jubilee Debt Campaign.
March 24, 2017

Mozambican campaigners demand cancellation of secret debt

Campaigners in Mozambique have called for secret debts to be cancelled before the IMF lends to the country again, alongside a range of measures including public disclosure of the audit into the debts, mechanisms to hold leaders accountable for actions and greater tax collection from megaprojects in the country.
May 22, 2012

Debt threat returns to global south

Startling new research has found that debt burdens in impoverished countries have increased significantly since the debt cancellation of the 2000s.
March 11, 2009

Christians enjoy better relations with Mozambique government

Relations between Christians and the government in Mozambique have improved in the country since the independence struggle, when the church was often seen or portrayed as reactionary.
July 24, 2008

Methodist African woman bishop makes history

The Rev Joaquina Filipe Nhanala was elected on 23 July as the first female United Methodist bishop in Africa. From 1 September, she succeeds Bishop João Somane Machado, retired leader of the Mozambique area.
February 10, 2008

Sponsor a child in Mozambique - child sponsorship

After Mozambique's war of independence with Portugal, it entered a gruelling twenty-year period of civil war. The ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) party officially laid aside its Marxist ideology in 1989, and multi-party elections were held the following year. Support the vital work of ActionAid today, and sponsor a child in Mozambique here
January 31, 2008

Burundi church leaders and ex-president seek negotiations with rebels

Christian leaders in Burundi have called on a church-sponsored group led by former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano to reach out to the rebel Palipehutu-Forces for National Liberation, the last remaining insurgent group.
January 14, 2008

Food shortages threaten as floods hit Southern Africa

Extreme rainfall in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe has caused severe flooding with devastating consequences - including food shortages to come as farmers’ crops are washed away, warn international church and development bodies.
January 12, 2008

Sponsor a child in Mozambique

In 1992, 16 years of civil war came to an end in Mozambique during which time more than one million people were killed, 1.7 million fled to neighbouring countries and over 4 million were internally displaced.To find out more about child sponsorship, and sponsor a child in Mozambique, visit the World Vision sponsor a child website
September 27, 2007

Shock at archbishop’s condom poisoning allegation

Anti-AIDS activists, including those working with church-backed groups, have expressed amazement at outrage about claims made by the head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique that some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately.

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