Batshu Engages Churches To Address Moral Decay

Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Edwin Batshu
Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Edwin Batshu

As a way of trying to address the issue of moral decay and loss of family values, the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs says it has engaged religious organisations to help them on those issues.

The Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs Edwin Batshu told Ntlo ya Dikgosi on Friday that he met church umbrella organisations, such as Botswana Council of Churches (BCC), Evangelical Fellowship of Botswana (EFB) and Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), to address the challenges of unprecedented levels of moral decay and loss of family values.

“This is done in line with the implementations produced by the committee that was led by Kgosi Puso Gaborone,” Batshu said. Batshu was answering a question in which Kgosi Thabo Masunga wanted the Minister to explain what his Ministry is doing to empower the voice of the Christian church in Botswana to face the challenges of unprecedented levels of moral decay and loss of family values.

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