Leaders recognized both the challenges and opportunities represented in trends such as growing secularism and indifference to faith and religion and the need to revise the theological language used to proclaim the word of God in the different cultural realities in predominately Roman Catholic countries.
Wakati wa kukusanya maoni, Zanzibar walijikita zaidi kwenye Muungano, maoni mengine kwa kiwango kikubwa yametoka kwa Watanzania Bara na katika kuandika Katiba ya Tanganyika sioni kama watabadilisha chochote kuhusu misingi hii ambayo ni; tunu za taifa, maadili, malengo na haki za binadamu.”