Even in Mbare you need to use “politically correct language.” I have learnt that handicapped people want to be called “differently abled”. At least those fluent in English – the Shona speakers don’t know what the fuss is all about. “AIDS orphans,” I am told, is discriminatory, even though it describes ...

By Joe Arimoso SJ   Football again! Yes, football, the madness that has dogged me from the time I was at Makumbi mission in 2003. With the help of KitAid (a charity organisation in the UK) I now run three registered soccer academies in Norton, Kuwadzana and Mbare. Involving about 300 ...

We recently wrote about some traditional healers and pastors encouraging Zimbabwean families to be more attentive to their relatives’ spiritual life. This story made me think of making a personal appeal to all of my fellow Zimbabweans. Really, whether you are a Muslim or a Pentecostal Christian, traditionalist or a Rasta, ...

The seminary to most people is a place where aspiring priests are quietly inducted into theology and scriptural studies, full stop. The Roman Catholic Chishawasha seminary is venturing into research and reflections through a journal Vera Humanitas (True Humanity) which is the first publication of such kind since the seminary was ...

Mai Fungai has not been seen in church or at any other community function for some time. She has never been in good health, but now the mother of five grown-up daughters, all single mothers with babies, is worse. She can hardly breathe. She desperately needs to be seen by ...

Okay. This article that surfaced on Nehanda Radio last week (and of course has no name attached to it) is too overstreched to say the least. Just read the following: It is generally rumored among Zimbabweans that, Comrade President was sexually molested by one of his Jesuit mentors. Which seems consistent ...

We were about to reprint Clayton Masekesa’s juicy article “Christians during the day, hookers by night” that appeared last month in The Standard when I routinely googled one of his source’s names. The search revealed to me that a story about Mutare sex workers hit the media already in 2010. In fact, ...

Last month, Bishop Nolbert Kunonga of the Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe criticized the Prime Minister, complained about the visit of the controversial Nigerian prophet TB Joshua and expressed his criticism about the draft of the new constitution. Is there any Good News left in this world, Nolbert? According to ...

Writing from the United States, Ken Mufuka in his essay “Roman Catholic struggle for identity!” invoked Zimbabwean Christians recently to sympathise with the trials and tribulations of the US Catholic Church. Mufuka argues that the gender discourse in America became so polarizing that the country’s Catholics risk either losing their faith ...

Efforts to revive traditional dance in some areas of the country are being derailed by religious beliefs among some sections of the community whose values go against traditional practices. The trend has added on to the multitude of challenges threatening the survival of the traditional dance sector in Zimbabwe, chief among ...