The chapter I was led to was Hebrews 11, which talked about faith, I read it 3 or 4 times before I eventually slept at 1 a.m. I could not understand the faith of those whose names were found in that chapter until my problems began. Two hours later there was a knock on his door. The police bundled Chiluba into a waiting vehicle for detention on grounds of wanting to overthrow the government. Every Sunday he goes to church.
Cabinet meetings start with a prayer.
Christian values guide his actions, and Chiluba takes every opportunity to attend religious crusades and other religious functions. His MMD won 131 of the 150 seats in the National Assembly. This was a remarkable performance for a government that has led the country through difficult economic reform to create the foundation for sustained high growth. Those elections, held without violence, were seen as a model of democratic transition, and Zambia became Africa's first English-speaking country to oust a president by the ballot. Kaunda had been a national hero when he led Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia, to independence from Britain in 1964.