Golden Jubilee For Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference
and their impartial administration and implementation.
Empower and capacitate the clergy
and the laity to understand, promote
and implement STC in their lives for
the fulfilment of human potential
and growth.
ô Assist in the formation of the
seminarians, clergy, religious, the
laity and Christ's faithful through
the popularisation and sustaining
STC.
ô Facilitate and disseminate STC.
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The aims of the CCJPZ are to inform
people's consciences, to make people
Mr. Arkmore Kori
aware of their rights and duties as
Programmes officer
citizens, to encourage love, to
investigate allegations of injustice and to
take appropriate action. It also seeks to keep in contact with other organisations
with similar objectives, and to advise the Bishops' Conference on the human
rights situation pertaining from time to time.
Underlying the work of CCJPZ is the Social Teaching of the Church (STC),
which influences its civic education and learning experiences on peace building,
conflict management, conflict resolution, human rights, research, advocacy and
lobbying. The STC sheds the light of the gospel on issues that affect our lives in
society and offers the Church's wisdom, insight and experience in dealing with
them. The CCJPZ has recorded crucial chapters of Zimbabwe's history in
reports and publications since before independence in 1980. The Commission
began its life by researching and reporting on areas of the system which could be
the cause of discontent among the majority of the people. As a result of the
research carried out by the Commission then, three major reports were issued
entitled: The Man in the Middle, Civil War in Rhodesia and Rhodesia the
Propaganda War. The Commission was viewed by the then Rhodesia
authorities as 'anti-Government', especially after documenting and publishing
the atrocities perpetrated on ordinary citizens by the Rhodesian army in Civil
War in Rhodesia: The Man in the Middle (1975) which was published and
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