A church that steps into a political vacuum does not fill it. It simply becomes another institution that future reformers will need to rebuild trust in.
THERE is a scene that plays out in collapsing democracies with striking regularity. The opposition fractures or is broken. Civil society retreats under pressure. The media is captured.
And into the vacuum left by the absence of organised political resistance steps the church, robed, scripturally armed, and loudly convinced that God has called it to do what the MDC, the CCC, and every other opposition acronym has failed to do.
Zimbabwe is living that scene right now.
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC), the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD), and virtually every organised religious formation of consequence has submitted detailed, clause-by-clause legal analyses of Constitutional Amendment Bill No.3 (CA3).
