Odds and Ends

We have had some nights without power and that has created some difficult situations. The national power company is having grid problems, but the outages have damaged motors and left the entire country in the dark. A complication is that the outages are occurring during the Africa Cup games, which keep people glued to their television screens. Zambia won their first game against Sudan so they move forward.

The Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar sent us an information piece for Heikima College, the English speaking Jesuit theologate in Nairobi. Yesterday, the rioting and violence came very close to the college. Pray for a peaceful solution to the violence and political impasse.

Zambia is in the midst of a National Constitutional Convention. The Zambia Episcopal Conference is not participating because they feel that the representation was too limited. In today's newspaper one member of the convention said that the Catholic Bishops were trying to destroy the country and to create war. Fortunately, the Post newspaper, gave a very strong editorial in defense of the Bishops and the history of the Church.