Next week on Monday, Matabeleland South chiefs are to meet with the president of the Chiefs’ Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira, and his deputy, Chief Mtshana Khumalo, to discuss the unprocedural invasion of the Njelele Shrine by people believed to be Zanu-PF sympathizers. Reports from Mat South province indicate that between November last ...

Christians in Bulawayo have welcomed the arrival of yet another Christian magazine Gospel Times that hit the streets of the second-largest city in February this year. Gospel Times is published by a newly established Bulawayo-based media company, Chayah Media Services, the publisher of the Southern Star newspaper. Leslie Phiri, the magazine’s editor ...

Tragic reality continues to be the order of the day in Domboshawa, as members of Marange Apostolic church have developed a makeshift maternal “clinic” to help expecting mothers and cure disease. The clinic, situated just a few meters away from the main road linking Bindura and Harare, is surrounded by ...

Bulawayo residents have reacted with anger over the scepticism of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) towards the upcoming visit to Zimbabwe of Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua.  An Apostolic Faith prophet, operating from Nkulumane, who spoke on condition of anonymity said that TB Joshua was definitely a threat to their trade. He said ...

reprinted with additions from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #172, a Jescom publication based on information provided by Fr Tony Bex SJ Fr James Berry SJ died after a short illness on Sunday, 4th March, at the House of Adoration where he was chaplain to the senior Dominican Sisters.  He was very well-known in ...

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), one of the UK’s leading development and relief agencies, is seeking a strategic leader to oversee the management of its development programme in Southern Africa. You will be an empowering people manager, a skilled networker with an excellent track record of working in Livelihoods, ...

reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #172, a Jescom publication Just before Easter a team of Redemptorists, among them Fr William Guri CSSR, Fr Raymund Mupandaseka CSSR, Fr Joseph Musendami CSSR, preached a mission in the Jesuit St Francis Xavier Parish in Braeside, Harare. Long before, they had started visiting families and ...

reprinted with corrections and additions from Nehanda Radio Several church leaders aligned to Zanu-PF have attacked popular Nigerian prophet TB Joshua claiming he was not welcome in Zimbabwe and his teachings were “judgmental, partisan and unorthodox.” Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai invited TB Joshua to be the guest speaker at the ...

The journalism fraternity should keep late veteran journalist and former editor of The Standard  Bornwell Chakaodza’s name alive and encourage future journalists to emulate him. This was the take-home message at a memorial service held beginning of May at his home in Bluffhill, Harare. “There are some names which should not be ...

Khula Sizwe Trust, a Christian community-development organization operating in several Southern African countries, was overwhelmed by people making enquiries at its Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) stand recently. The organization, whose mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in the spiritual, economic and social transformation of ...