IMBISA TEAM PROFILEIMBISA:The Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa.

known as IMBISA is an organ of Liaison and Pastoral Cooperation between Episcopal Conferences of Angola and São Tome & Principe (CEAST), Lesotho (LCBC), Mozambique (CEM), Namibia (NCBC), South Africa which is made up of Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland (SACBC) and Zimbabwe (ZCBC).

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The Justice and Peace Desk:

The Justice and Peace desk was established because justice and peace has always been the concern of IMBISA right from its beginning. This has been witnessed by the themes of some of the Plenary Assemblies. The tasks of this desk are:

To impart to the Coordinators of the Catholic Commissions for Justice and Peace (CCJPs) clear Christian Ethical Vision in their approach and dealing with social issues so as to accomplish a proper Christian Mission.
To train the CCJPs in the Social Teaching of the Church, to enable them to spread the Gospel values within the society

Previously the Director of IMBISA organised a Regional Meeting of national Justice and Peace Commissions every three years and also participated in the continental Justice and Peace meeting of 1988 in Lesotho. It was then decided that the Assistant Director of IMBISA would be given the special responsibility for regional justice and peace issues. Fr. Juan José Luna as the Assistant Director of IMBISA was appointed to this post in 1997. His appointment led to various initiatives in the region, particularly on pastoral approaches to the promotion of human rights and on economic justice. After the expiry of Fr. Jose Luna’s contract Fr. Antonio Nunes Wauwaya took over as coordinator of the desk with Sr.Basilia Dembetembe as Assistant. As of 1st August 2009, the department has a new coordinator, who is Fr. Claudio Dos Reis, from the archdiocese of Maputo, in Mozambique.