Africa-Press – Angola. Five religious denominations that operate illegally in Zaire province will be closed in the coming days, announced this Wednesday in Mbanza Kongo, the director of the Provincial Office for Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, Nzuzi Makiese.
Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of a meeting with women from various social strata, the official said that one of the reasons for this decision is that they allegedly encourage practices that deviate from the norms of good social conduct.
Without giving names of religious formations or the date of their closure, Nzuzi Makiese said that his sector is studying the methods, in partnership with the local Command of the National Police, to be used for the execution of this administrative measure.
He stressed that the main objective of the decision is to control the unbridled growth of the religious phenomenon that disrespects legal norms and healthy coexistence in society, including the bylaws that govern the exercise of the gospel.
The director of the Provincial Office for Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports of Zaire did not advance the number of churches that the region controls, stressing that religious sects in the region appear every day in the form of “mushrooms”.
He recalled that it was the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, through its Institute of Religious Affairs (INAR), to legalize churches based on legal criteria.
In this meeting with the women, the head of culture in Zaire also spoke about the escape from fatherhood and motherhood, another phenomenon that proliferates in the region, including domestic violence, sexual abuse of minors, juvenile delinquency and early pregnancy.
The meeting discussed the theme referring to the “role of religious women in family harmony” and brought together more than two hundred women in the amphitheater of the second building of the provincial government of Zaire.
Data from the National Institute of Religious Affairs (INAR), show that until 2018, this department had control of 94 churches not recognized at national level.
In the same year, according to INAR, there were 81 recognized churches in Angola, four platforms and 61 ecumenical.
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