Malawi celebrating 60th Independence anniversary with national service of worship 

Presidential adviser for religious affairs Reveland Brian Kamwendo says the 60th Independence anniversary national service which is held today Saturday at Bingu International Convention Center (BICC) in Lilongwe.

Speaking in an interview on Friday Kamwendo says due to the context the nation is going through President Lazarus Chakwera has directed that the country will not have the celebration this year instead will going to have a national service of worship.

Kamwendo discloses that the main activities to be done during the event will be prayers and the rehearsals have already been done under the leadership of the chairperson of the ministerial committee Honourable Harry Mkandawire and the chairperson of the technical committee who is also the secretary of Defence Jame Chiusiwa.

Kamwendo revealed that all the senior official clergy that are going to work at the event are already in town saying the preparations and everything are in place.

He states that all the clergy from the southern, central, eastern, and central regions and those that are coming from the mother bodies such as the Evangelical Association of Malawi ( AEM), Episcope Conference of Malawi ( ECM), Malawi Council of Churches ( MCC), Muslim and the Rastafarian community and other members of the faith groups are going to present at the day of the event.

He added that the event will be spiced up with a cross-section of choirs including Mitegeli, for the first time New Apostolic church choir which uses violin when singing, and many more.

Minister of Defence Harry Mkandawire is the ministerial chairperson of the committee of this year’s national service of worship.