CHURCH ADVOCACIES

In the study of Raistrick(2004), he emphasized the important of church advocacies in promoting

social action. Raistrick believed that the church and government must cooperate in each other
to promote a common good and to address the different vital issues facing by many other
countries. In his example, like in many African countries, the church had established a strong
reputation and degree of credibility than the government. Aside from this, when a senior church
leader in Africa speak out on issues on the society they tend to carry huge amount of influence
and support from the people. The government of Africa cannot ignore it because it could have
an effect or impact to the action of the government. The Catholic advocacies together with the
senior church leaders a wider network of influence than the government. Majority of school,
hospital and non- governmental organizations are run by the church. The church leaders in
Africa used thus kind of tactics to have a valuable position or stand with the government and to
maintain its political influence. Besides the church advocacy can be easily disseminate by the
church officials through local church than the government policy. Lastly, church advocacy in
Africa have significant moral weight in providing right platform