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Zimra guns for Magaya

February 7, 2019
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has garnished Walter Magaya’s Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries accounts for alleged tax arrears amounting to $22 million. According to a Zimra source, the tax collector yesterday issued a garnish order against the church accounts held with a local bank and wants the youthful ...

Magaya fined $700 over Aids drug

February 7, 2019
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya was yesterday convicted by a Harare magistrate and fined $700 for illegally publicising his new-found HIV and Aids drug without following due process. Magaya, who pleaded guilty to contravening section 40 (1) of the Medicine and Allied Substances Control Act on ...

Mudzidzi Wimbo dies

July 12, 2018
Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, commonly known as Madzibaba Wimbo, has died. He was 96. Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs Advocate Martin Dinha confirmed his death. ...

Prophet Freddy hosts prophetic conference

June 26, 2018
Goodness and Mercy Ministries (GMM) will next Friday host a convention dubbed Know before It Happens Prophetic Conference Part 4 in Glen View. Several pastors led by GMM founder and senior pastor, Prophet Tapiwa Freddy, will take part in the three-day conference. According to Prophet Freddy, the conference — which is in ...

Pastor in court for fondling congregant’s private parts

June 6, 2018
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor based in Highlands, Harare, appeared in court yesterday on allegations of fondling a female congregant’s private parts while praying for her to pass her driving test. The cleric, Benny Hwata (57) denied the indecent assault charge levelled against him before magistrate Francis Mapfumo granted ...

Pastor ‘impregnates’ maid and wife’s relative

June 6, 2018
AN Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) pastor has disappeared from his home in Bulawayo after allegedly impregnating a maid and one of his wife’s relatives. Pastor Toni Kandiye of the AFM Tshabalala Assembly, who resides in Nkulumane 12 suburb, allegedly had extra marital relations with his housemaid and his ...

Churches pray for peaceful elections

June 6, 2018
VARIOUS church leaders in Masvingo held an inter-denominational meeting at Mamutse Stadium on Sunday, where they called on political leaders to campaign peacefully ahead of next month’s general elections. Eleck Mabhena of the Zion Apostolic Church denounced bloodshed and violent campaigns. “Let the one with the most votes lead the ...

Prophets drug congregant, take turns to rape her during ‘mermaid cleansing ceremony’

June 4, 2018
TWO prophets took turns to rape an adult church member while claiming they were cleansing her of a mermaid spirit that had troubled her for years, a Harare court heard on Friday. Blessing Chimbadzo, 28, and his friend Wellington Kadzutu, aged 29, were arraigned before Harare magistrate Edwin Marecha over ...

Zaoga Braeside hosts successful seminar

June 4, 2018
Zaoga Braeside Christian Centre International held a highly successful and fully subscribed second edition business seminar on Africa Day geared towards grounding Christians on how to run thriving business. The business seminars are the brainchild of the founder and visionary of Zaoga Forward In Faith International, Professor Ezekiel Handiwangu Guti, ...

Pastor in trouble over witchcraft

June 4, 2018
A Harare pastor has been dragged to court after he accused a congregant at his church of being a witch. Noah Daka (54), from Deeper Life Bible Church, Dzivaresekwa, appeared in court on Friday facing charges of contravening the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. Magistrate Edwin Marecha remanded Daka ...