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. ô 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 37

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