KUTAMA, Zvimba - The increasingly insecure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has savaged Catholic bishops for what he said continued criticism of his tyranny through their pastoral letters and accused them of peddling the MDC agenda. A Catholic himself, President Mugabe says he has done a lot to support his church and the general populace of Zimbabwe and was the author of the upgrading of Kutama Mission, his former school and birthplace. Last month, Mugabe went to the Vatican, in Rome, Italy for the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II. An EU travel ban forbids him from visiting member states but the Vatican, where the ceremony took place, is a sovereign state and not in the EU. A Vatican spokesman said Mr Mugabe had not been personally invited but as the head of a state with which the Vatican has relations he was entitled to attend.
Mugabe [said] that while other churches where he is not a member, are grateful and appreciate his contribution to various communities and the country as a whole, his own church through the Catholic bishops pastoral letter takes every opportunity to criticise him.
In one of the pastoral letters, the Catholic bishops have called on Mugabe and his party Zanu PF to fully implement the GPA including the issue of the appointment of RBZ Governor and Attorney-General Johannes Tomana, and he has categorically denied that these issues were part of the GPA and that they will never be implemented. He said by peddling the MDC agenda, the Catholic bishops are dabbling in politics and siding with the MDC which was created by the British to effect regime change in Zimbabwe.
He said Zimbabwean nationalists, including himself, sacrificed their all in the struggle for independence, to ensure the total freedom of the people and not for money, adding that he remains committed and dedicated to preserving that freedom and independence.
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http://www.zimbabwesituation.org/?p=19327
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