Value Transformation: Recent submissions
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What is The Church's Social Teaching Saying About Human Trafficking
(2010-12)Trafficking in persons (Human Trafficking) has become a well documented issue although it remains in some way invisible to our eyes. The stories of human trafficking we hear about are often of people who have been rescued ... -
What is The Church’s Social Teaching Saying About Corruption?
(2010)Corruption in Zambia is widespread and continues to grow, despite the fact that Zambia is a fairly democratic and peaceful country. Nearly every day, there are significant number of corruption cases involving huge sums of ... -
Catholic Social Teaching And The Aids Epidemic
(2011-01)The Church’s social teaching refers to a body of teaching on social, economic, political and cultural matters developed over a long period by the Catholic Church, but proposed more explicitly and systematically in the years ... -
Hiv And Aids: A Justice Perspective
(2006-04)Almost twenty-five years have passed since the publication of the first report on what was to develop as the AIDS pandemic. During those years HIV and AIDS have expanded at an accelerating rate in every continent and now ... -
Church’s Social Teaching And The Economy In Zambia
(2003-11-29)Since we are going to be talking about Zambia in great detail this afternoon, I want to open with a phrase I use more and more these days: "Zambia is a very rich country, a very rich country indeed, but Zambia is a country ... -
Catholic Social Teaching And The AIDS Pandemic
(2011-01)The Church’s social teaching refers to a body of teaching on social, economic, political and cultural matters developed over a long period by the Catholic Church, but proposed more explicitly and systematically in the years ... -
A Church in The Modern World of Africa: The Zambian Experience
(2005-03)Zambia became independent of British colonial rule in 1964, one year before that greatest document of the Second Vatican Council, Church in the Modem World (Gaudium et Spes), was published. The Catholic church in Zambia ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2019
(2019)January 2020 marks the beginning of the implementation of the new JCTR strategic plan. As JCTR we want to continue to be active in promoting an enculturated faith, values, environmental stewardship, human rights and ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2019
(2019)We are blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all the articles presented in this issue of JCTR Bulletin. In this editorial allow me to briefly share with ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2019
(2019)Like in our previous issue of JCTR Bulletin, we are once again blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all seven articles presented in this issue of JCTR ... -
JCTR Bulletin 1st Quarter 2019
(2019)This is the first issue of JCTR Bulletin this year. We are blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all seven articles presented in this issue of JCTR Bulletin. ... -
JCTR Communications Strategy
(2007-09-10)JCTR began in 1988 as a project of the Zambia-Malawi Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). In the work of social justice, the quality of communication and how widely it is done is very critical. This communication ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2011
(2011)We have come to the end of 2011! This has been an eventful as well as a defining year for Africa’s political landscape. The innate yearn for justice by peoples in their respective countries manifested itself in gallant ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2011
(2011)A few weeks ago Zambia witnessed yet another relatively peaceful change of government, the first having been in 1991 when multiparty democracy was introduced. Needless to say, this phenomenon is unprecedented in the African ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2011
(2011)Three months ago, the constitution making-process in Zambia came to another halt when the proposed Constitution Bill did not get the two-thirds endorsement it required to pass in Parliament. This was an inauspicious ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2010
(2010)The key event in the third quarter of 2010 at JCTR was the blessing of the new JCTR Offices and the installation of the new JCTR Director, Fr. Leonard Chiti, S.J., on 10 September. After working as JCTR Director for ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2010
(2010)The second quarter of 2010 in Zambia presented very interesting challenges in the governance situation in Zambia. Three key situations presented themselves. First, the Draft Zambian Constitution was released on 18 June ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2009
(2009)As I stood on a dusty, sunny, and crowded arena in Chikuni Mission, Monze, watching the flamboyant dance and attires of the Mukanzubo Kalinda Cultural Centre, I couldn’t refrain from thinking about how culture (traditional ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2009
(2009)The second quarter of 2009 was an interesting one but also an annoying one. Debates on the global financial crisis and development aid occupied most of the second quarter in Zambia. The quarter was interesting because ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2017
(2017)This is the final issue of JCTR Bulletin this year. We are blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. Arguably there is an underlying theme of active citizenship running throughout all the articles. An ...
