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35 J. Church & St. 537 (1993)
Church-State Relationship in Mozambique

handle is hein.journals/jchs35 and id is 543 raw text is: Church-State Relationship in Mozambique GJ. ROSSOUW EUGENIO MACAMO, JR. In the development of modem church-state relations in Mozambique, there are two distinct phases: the first from 1975 to 1982; the second from 1983 to the present. During the first phase, the relationship between the churches and the state was extremely tense and often unfriendly. This was especially true of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the state. In the second phase the relationship between church and state became much more relaxed and friendly. The aim of this essay, on the one hand, is to come to an understanding of the reasons for this change in relationship and, on the other hand, to look at the prospects of this relationship for the future.' THE ATTITUDE OF THE FRELiMO GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THE CHURCH IN MOZAMBIQUE, 1975-1982 When the Frelimo2 government came into power in 1975, SG.J. ROSSOUW (B.A., M.A., B. Th., D. Phil., University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is author of Christian, Communis and Socialist in the new South Africa and Business Ethics: Made in South Africa (forth- coming); and is editor of Think Skillfully. His articles have appeared in Journal of Business Ethics, South African Journal of Philosophy, Latin American Report, and Church, State, and Society, among others. Special interests include church-state relationships in (formally) communist countries and business ethics. EUGENIO MACAMO, JR. (B.A., Eduardo Mondlane University; Ph.D., Karl Marx University, Leipzig, GDR) is lecturer in economics at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. Special interests include social movements and the informal sector of the economy. 1. Much of the material presented in this essay was drawn from interviews con- ducted by the authors with a number of leading government and church officials as well as several scholars in Mozambique, including Job Chambale, head of the State Department of Religious Affairs; Iray Baptista, Department of Anthropology, Eduardo Mondlane University; Boaventura Zitha, Christian Ecumenical Organiza- tion; Salimo Omar, Islamic Ecumenical Organization; Rafael Chivale, head of Igreja 12 Aposteleo de Africa; William Humbane, United Methodist Church; Te- odosio Wate, Eduardo Mondane University; Shafurdine H. Khan, Mozambique's ambassador to Zambia; and Joaquim A. Mabuiangue, Monsenhor, Catholic Church. 2. Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Mozambican anticolonial insurgency).

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