CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN THE PEACE KEEPING PROCESS.

THE Catholic bishops of Mozambique reaffirm their full availability to continue to work on ongoing activities in the country, aimed at maintaining peace. Recently, the bishops sent in this context, formal letters to the President, Filipe Nyusi, and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama, in which they reiterate their full readiness to participate in the country pacification actions. This was said on Thursday in Beira by Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna during a Press Conference,in that provincial capital of Sofala. At the time the religious leader revealed that last Sunday,he had a meeting with Afonso Dhlakama, whom, he said, reaffirmed his commitment to peace. The Beira archbishop statement comes after the events in that metropolis,where the Defence and Security Forces(FDS) disarmed the Renamo leader's guards at his home in the neighborhood of Palmeiras,Beira,act preceded by a meeting between the mediators and Afonso Dhlakama, in the company of influential personalities in the national political landscape. The Beira archbishop called for all to promote and enhance all the gestures and actions that contribute to preserving and strengthening the much desired and threatened peace.