Zambia’s Ambassador to the EU, Dr. inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika today led scores of European members of Parliament (MEPs), royal families and other dignitaries from across Europe in fervent prayer for secular Europe to return to the God of the Bible and Christian values on which the European continent was founded.
At a packed annual prayer breakfast for members of the European Parliament held at the EU parliament in Brussels, Dr. Mbikusita-Lewanika beseeched God on behalf of Europe to remember the continent in mercy and save it from a moral crisis and economic woes.
The prayer breakfast, also a global event held in major cities of the world, was a gifted opportunity for the Zambian Embassy in Brussels to connect with several members of the European parliament.
Speaker after speaker on the prayer breakfast’s theme: Serving like Jesus in public life, lamented Europe’s fall from moral grace and challenged members of the European parliament to take a stand for Jesus Christ in the public sphere so that Europe could return to the faith of its founding fathers and mothers and the Christian values that enabled it send missionaries across the world where they pioneered education and health sectors.
This is contained in a statement to ZANIS from the Zambian mission in Brussels signed by Assistant Secretary for Press Samuel Ngoma.
And in his main message, Liechtenstein’s former Ambassador to the EU, Prince Charles-Louis de Merode, regretted that prayer in the high strata of society was now more seldom and rebuked those who were putting Jesus Christ on the back-seat of public life.
He challenged Europe’s secularists to take a cue from its wintry dark weather under cloudy skies which by no means meant there was no sun behind the clouds. “In the same way, we may not see God but that does not mean He is not there. Faith is an act of realism,” said Prince Merode.
One after another, the European dignitaries warned that for as long as there was no morality, there would be no real values in Europe as God had been taken out of the public sphere and the huge onus was on MEPs to now let their light shine.
Later, Dr. Mbikusita-Lewanika was chosen to be a panelist in a continued discussion after the breakfast within the EU premises where discussants shared similar cries, burdens, values, fire and hope for Europe to stand up against the continent’s vices such as drug abuse, hedonism, teenage delinquency, abortion and gay marriages.
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