The Independent

Prominent Clergy Compromise and Desecrate the Prayer Breakfast in A Quest to Earn Favors from a President Who has Destroyed Zambia’s Democracy

By the Independent Political Correspondent Wednesday, 22nd April, 2026 The Third National Prayer Breakfast has long been framed as a solemn gathering—an opportunity for reflection, repentance, and unity under God. But as this year’s event approaches, it does so under a cloud that cannot be ignored, raising uncomfortable questions not only about politics, but about the moral voice of the Church in Zambia. At the center of the controversy is the troubling report of the body of former president Edgar Lungu that has been frozen in the morgue for almost a year for simply because the Preesident insists on wanting…