Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Revolutionary Government Of Zanzibar Meets with Christian Leaders

 
After a series of unexpected ambushes done by the suspected Islamic NGOs members known as Uamsho (Revival) mostly against Christian Instutions like Churches and Schools and some Bars in Zanzibar which have caused alot of millions of losses of properties also caused big disturbance to the innocent citizens in Zanzibar who were busy looking for their family daily breads but failed to do so for the sake of the security of their lives.
 
It was yesterday planned that today would be a special meeting of all Christian leaders regardless of their denomination background then come together and discuss in details over the ongoing riots and so-believed to be a long timely strategically-planned violence in which Churches and Christians are people who are originated from Tanzania mainland are believed to be the big target of the members of this group.
 
The Organization which is believed to the masterpiece of the violence was registered for the religious affairs in the Islands of Zanzibar but surprisingly in what is believed to be was a underground secret agenda its leaders were slowly slowly said to be involved with political affairs claiming to provide and give good understanding of  Civic education to all citizens especial for better know-how of the soonest Referendum of new Constitution of the United Republic Of Tanzania, instead many Citizens were surprised to see them using their platforms in creating seeds of hatred and religious differences in the aims of creating disunities and conflict between people from Tanzania mainland and Islands, Christian and Muslims ,Government and its Citizens.
 
Bad enough is, although all of these openly symptoms of national disunities and break of peace and stability of security in the Country were seen for more then three Months but no any reasonable and earliest actions were taken to prevent them and even the responsible Authority has admitted to be the big mistake they couldn't ever predicts of its negative outcomes. For the Uamsho organization were organized  cheap DVDs of their speeches and were offered to people as their target to raise awareness of their underground agenda which were carried all any sensible man can see as the great threat which was on the way.
 
Now we are where are and many properties have been destroyed and if that is not enough you can imagine hundreds of young men and women who are now walking with seeds of hatred against the people of the same country but looking at them as they so now used to call "Black Colony Of Tanganyika" and Enemies of their religion. So there are all the reasons to accept the big price to pay and long way to go with strong efforts to be made in order to uproot arsenal-seeds planted in their mindsets to the normal and pure conscious and love to one another like it was.
 
It was unexpected comfort to Christian leaders who were intended to have their meeting as minority community and the big victims of the currently violence in Zanzibar with some official government leaders among them is the Inspector General  Of Police IGP Hon. Said Mwema but surprisingly there came also the first Minister from the Revolutionary Government Of Zanzibar ,Hon.Moh`d Aboud who is the Minister Of State ,in the Office of Second Prime Minister of Zanzibar and with them there also came Regional Commissioner of Urban West Region of Unguja together with Muslim leader from the Office of Mufti and other official government leaders and represantive from American Embassy Dar es Salaam in Zanzibar Affairs Office and almost all Christian national leaders in Zanzibar.
 
The Hon.Moh`d Aboud showed his sincerely deep sympathetic feeling on behalf of the Government of Zanzibar and used that platform to address the Bishops and all Christians and every citizen that his Government has touched with the situation and is doing all he can to stop this from happening again and that security forces have been ordered to spread to every Churches and its project to ensure security and peace and he declare the ban to any religious organization including Uamsho to do demonstrations, political involvements without a permission from concerned office and that serious measure will be taken against any person who will dare disobey this order and laws, and that strong investigation is still going on to arrest any person who is believed to have any link to the past violence and any criminality activities and upto now about 30 people have been arrested to appeared in Court.
 
The Leaders of the Christians have responded positively to the speech made by the Government of Zanzibar but have put their focus on the actions to be taken in exchange to that promise from the authority
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Following of violence and tregedy whereby many
 
Shalom shalom
....Jesus Christ can never fail in anything...

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The Long Way The Church Was And Is to Go

Zanzibar Island is the informal designation for the Islands of Unguja and Pemba situated in the Indian Ocean.



However during the Age of Exploration ,in 1498 the Portuguese Empire was the first European power to gain control of Zanzibar, and kept it for nearly 200 years until in 1698 Zanzibar fell under the control of the Sultanate of Oman and obviously ( build the Mosque of Allah is believed by the Islam so ever influenced the mode of belief of the entire generations of the Zanzibaris until today ).

Muslim traders from the Persian Gulf had settled through southern hemisphere of Unguja early in the 10th century after monsoon winds propelled them through the Gulf of Aden and Somalia. Zanzibar archipelago united with Tanganyika to form the present day Tanzania in 1964.

The rise of the minority Christian community relies on different means of their introductory causes ,as Christianity has diverse rich forms of denominations therefore there were some denominations which were being introduced in Zanzibar through historical factors like Colonialism period whereby the Colonial empires which were established in the forms of the national denominations were easily made their side by spreading their belief such of these are Anglican Christians through British Empire and Roman Catholic through Portuguese, Lutheran through German Empires .

How ever in 1974 there were other Christian Churches were introduced in Zanzibar after Independence of Zanzibar then the United Republic of Tanzania such these Churches were the Lutheran Christians and Evangelical Christians (Pentecostal) etc.

Praise God, as from the Church Rev.Leonard Masasa was pastoring were rose men who decided to go out and established new churches of different denominations such as Elim Pentecost, Tanzania Assemblies of God, Zanzibar Pentecostal Church, Free Pentecostal, and many other churches have been established in Zanzibar Islands.

In 1995 Rev.Leonard left the church he used to pastor since 1984 and established a new Church which "The Evangelistic Assemblies of God Zanzibar (EAGZ)" and was started until this day he is pastoring that Church.

The EAGZ Church has succeeded by the grace of God to open other Churches.How ever more efforts is done as to equip these churches and also pray hard to find up some means we can do more in other places, if God may open doors.

The recent research have shows that Islam religion has 95.% followed by Hindus and others 2.05% ,Catholic and Anglican 1.% ,Lutheran 0.01%, Evangelicals 0.05% of all people.

Please when you visit the Islands of Zanzibar feel free to visit us too and as you are still afar we therefore requesting your fervent and effective prayers so that this work may go forward and so many Zanzibaris could find their chance to know and believe in Jesus Christ...Amen.



Matthew 20:19-20
"19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ina the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (NIV)

Matthew 24:14
"14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come" (NIV)

Roman 8:28
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.(NIV)"

Matthew 19:26
"Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."