"We invite all believers to the Day of Prayer and Fast for Zimbabwe, on 14 April, which will be followed by a moment of prayer, every week on Friday, in all parishes". Those were the final words of the pastoral letter of Zimbabwe bishops, entitled "God Listens to the Cry of the Oppressed", which is going to be read on Palm Sunday, in all the parishes in the country. In the document sent to Fides Agency and available at www.evangelizatio.org, – the Bishops’ Conference of Zimbabwe analyses the crisis affecting the country. Among other things, it asks for the elaboration of a new Constitution to let the country go out of the current situation. As a matter of fact, Zimbabwe is going through the worst humanitarian crisis since the time of its independence. The roots are to be found in several causes, among which there is the autocratic regime of President Robert Mugabe, whose social reforms sharpened domestic tensions. Exactly in these days, the leader of the opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested again, shortly before taking part in a press conference set up to denounce the degree of repression in the country. "The crisis of our country wrote the bishops is essentially a crisis of government skills, a leadership crisis as well as a moral and spiritual crisis".
