A Zimbabwean Catholic Woman's Cry to Pope Francis and the Church for Solidarity with Women and young people in Zimbabwe

Amainini Regina Matambanadzo, a Zimbabwean Catholic woman, nurse, and mother calls on Pope Francis and the Church in Africa and in the world to make common cause with the women and young people of Zimbabwe at this critical time in the nation's history.  Zimbabwe is currently emerging from many years of political, social, and economic challenges. She claims that the lay members of Christ's faithful in Zimbabwe are not being consulted particularly in this synodal process.  According to Amainini, changes in the Church should emerge from listening to the voices of Catholics at the grassroots and laywomen like her who inhabit the existential peripheries in countries like Zimbabwe.  She prays and hopes that the Church in Zimbabwe will open the synodal process to the participation of all people, especially women.