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Church in the WorldDowling 'sickened' by African leadersZimbabwe Ellen Teague - 1 September 2007The standing ovation given to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe by Southern African leaders has been denounced as "sickening" by a bishop in South Africa, writes Ellen Teague. Regional leaders, including President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, applauded Mr Mugabe at a meeting of the Southern African Development Community last month. Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg told Catholic News Service that the endorsement given to a leader who "has destroyed a country" showed an utter lack of concern for the plight of Zimbabweans, and said the Southern African leaders' failure to put public pressure on Mr Mugabe showed a dereliction of duty. Meanwhile, the Church has launched its own investigation into the adultery allegations against Mr Mugabe's most prominent church critic, Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo. In a report in the Harare-based Financial Gazette newspaper on 22 August the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference, Fr Frederick Chiromba, referred to a "process" currently under way regarding Archbishop Ncube's case. |
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