ENI – Two of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian synods in Malawi which are at loggerheads with one another over boundaries, have rejected offers from the country's civil society to act as arbitrators.
Turning down the offer, Nkhoma synod moderator Chatha Msangaambe told a newspaper that the church could not allow civil society to mediate in the wrangle because the matter is “ecclesiastical.”
The two synods have disputed their boundaries for the past four decades. However, the issue reached boiling point earlier last year when Livingstonia synod opened a church in Lilongwe, the headquarters of Nkhoma synod. Some Livingstonia congregants argued that Nkhoma was encroaching on its territory in the north of Malawi.
