{"id":241291,"date":"2026-08-17T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-conference-of-catholic-bishops-pastoral-statement-on-the-conduct-and-climate-of-the-2026-general-election\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:08:26","slug":"zambia-conference-of-catholic-bishops-pastoral-statement-on-the-conduct-and-climate-of-the-2026-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-conference-of-catholic-bishops-pastoral-statement-on-the-conduct-and-climate-of-the-2026-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Conference Of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Statement On The Conduct And Climate Of The 2026 General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Lusaka \u2014 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ and people of goodwill. Peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all!<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">1.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has followed with grave concern the conduct of the General Election of 13th August 2026 and the events that have unfolded in its aftermath. We, shepherds of the Catholic Church in Zambia and moral voices in the life of this nation, cannot remain silent while the integrity of a process so central to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608160014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka \u2014 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ and people of goodwill. Peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Introduction 1.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has followed with grave concern the conduct of the General Election of 13th August 2026 and the events that have unfolded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690158:a8a14aa25c117237cbdb7f62f0dab241:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,11244,10991,6239,6343,5739,3119,6768,257,23636,254,6065,4709,881],"class_list":["post-241291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishops","tag-catholic","tag-climate","tag-conduct","tag-conference","tag-election","tag-general","tag-news","tag-pastoral","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690158:a8a14aa25c117237cbdb7f62f0dab241:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}