Decisive week for the Lutheran church

The current episode could duly be named “Battle for Churches”. The High Authority of Transition and its supporters got a move on to conquer the FLM (the Lutheran Church of Madagascar). During the latest weeks before the synod, priests held as supportive of the opposition were replaced by Andry Rajoelina and his supporters throughout the province of Antananarivo, some secret talks have taken place in a capital city hotel but did contribute to massively change the odds. The arbitrary replacement of priests was rejected and condemned by the FLM’s direction, and the HAT’s supporters remain a small minority in the synod. The vote is deemed to take place in the run of this week.

Let it be recalled that the HAT and its supporters suffered a memorable blow a short while ago as an outcome of the FJKM Reformed Church’s latest synod. Protestants remain generally for the former president Marc Ravalomanana. So, Andry Rajoelina tactically tries to collect support from Catholics. Not even this is actually nowhere near to a done deal yet, for every layer of the society has to pay the price for his transitional rule. Catholics are themselves much divided about this issue