José Manuel Imbamba, who was speaking at the end of the audience granted by the President, João Lourenço, said as he left the Presidential Palace, in Cidade Alta, that the meeting "was necessary due to the current situation in the country".
"It is a meeting that was imposed by the moment we are living, we are in an election year and it was the topic that occupied most of the time, the proper advice that we as a church had to give", said the archbishop to journalists.
According to the president of CEAST, the councils of the Catholic Church arise so that the moment we are living "raises in the dignity of citizens, in the dignity of brothers who know how to live together in difference, in the dignity of those who want to build together an inclusive country, a country for all".
Angola holds its next general elections, for the fifth time in the country's political history, in August this year.
The meeting with João Lourenço, said the Catholic leader, also served to "launch paths of cooperation in relation to problems that have to do with poverty, misery, hunger, means of communication".
"Therefore, all these ways must be available to everyone to reduce some social problems that our communities face", concluded the also Archbishop of Saurimo, Lunda Sul province.
José Manuel Imbamba was at the meeting accompanied by the Archbishop of Luanda, Filomeno Vieira Dias.
