CHAPTER 3
Democratic State
The Change
The Scottish Missionaries finally realized that the nation’s leadership was not working for the good of the nation. Abale Phiri observes that “Although for a long time the CCAP Blantyre Synod in Malawi appeared to be ideologically captive to Dr. Banda and his single party regime, things took a different turn on the 8th of March 1992. The One-Party government under Dr. Banda was exposed to unprecedented opposition from the influential Roman Catholic Church in Malawi, with the publication by its bishops of an open letter (Pastoral Letter) titled, ‘Living our Faith’ criticizing the state’s alleged abuses of human rights.”1
On March 27, 1992, Livingstonia and Blantyre Synods met “to discuss what to do with the ...
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