Blantyre, 14 July, 2023 / 9:20 pm (ACI Africa).
Religious leaders in Malawi have expressed their disapproval of same-sex relationships through peaceful protests in the Southern African nation’s major cities.
In the Thursday, July 13 demonstrations that members of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) spearheaded in collaboration with the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), and the Muslim Association of Malawi, the protesters called on President Lazarus Chakwera to resist the external pressure to legalize same-sex marriages.
Speaking before presenting a petition to Government spokesman, Moses Kunkuyu, in Lilongwe, MCC President, Rev. William Tembo, said same-sex relationships are "strange, and we are not ready to accept these unfamiliar phenomena in Malawi".
"We are a family-oriented nation, a nation that fears God, and that is why the church stands against same-sex campaigners," Rev. Tembo during the peaceful protests in Lilongwe that Archbishop George Desmond Tambala spearheaded.
In Blantyre, Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa of the Catholic Archdiocese of Blantyre condemned said same-sex unions as sinful, and added, “If we change the way we live as a family, it means we will cease to exist.”