Robert Mugabe

Ecumenical Peace Observation initiative takes peace campaign to Matabeleland

May 27, 2013
The Ecumenical Peace Observation Initiative is this week engaging political parties and churches in Matabeleland. The organisation’s Director Peter Tendai Maregere told RelZim in a telephone interview from Bulawayo that they have taken their peace campaign initiative to Bulawayo, where they are scheduling to meet the region’s political heavy weights. ...

Churches pray for peace

May 27, 2013
On Saturday churches from across the country congregated to pray for peace as the country goes towards elections. Since 1998, Intercessors for Zimbabwe, a grouping of churches, has dedicated May 25, as a national day for prayer, seeking repentance, reconciliation, revival and restoration of Zimbabwe which has fresh political wounds ...

“God made the constitution making a success”, says President Mugabe

May 27, 2013
President Robert Mugabe praised the lord for making the constitution making process a success before assuring the church that the state values its role in uniting the nation. The Zimbabwean leader made the remarks at the State House on Wednesday when he was signing the draft constitution into law. The ...

“Mugabe is king” says Vapostori leader

May 14, 2013
The apostolic church in Zimbabwe is encouraging members to register as voters at the same time the sect leaders say President Robert Mugabe is a king who should not be contested in an election. The head of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) Johannes Nyamwa-Ndanga say Mugabe is God ...

100 prophets claim Mugabe election win

April 22, 2013
ROBERT Mugabe will win the next elections and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai will lose leadership of his MDC-T party, Zimbabwe’s largest church organisation claimed on Sunday, citing “prophecies”. Bishop Johannes Ndanga, leader of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) – an ecumenical body of over 100 indigenous apostolic ...

Mugabe in Rome teaches journalists, invites Pope to Africa

March 24, 2013
President Robert Mugabe arrived in Italy recently for the inauguration of Catholic Pope Francis I. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the Vatican does not issue invitations. “Those who wish to come, can,” he said. “No one is refused. No one is invited. We welcome those who want ...

Catholics speak on death penalty in Zimbabwe

March 7, 2013
Human rights groups are expressing grave concern at the news that the Zimbabwean prison service has employed a hangman. Currently there are believed to be 74 men and two women on death row. Zimbabwe’s last hangman retired in 2005. Noel Kututwa, Amnesty International’s Southern Africa director, said in a statement, ...

An urgent letter to God: From a Zimbabwean in the year of elections

February 22, 2013
I haven’t written to you before, although I always speak to you, I thought this time I would write you and I pray that you will reply my letter soon. Dear God, I want to thank you for the blessings that you have endowed upon Zimbabwe, my country. I want ...

MDC draws attention to African Apostolic Church leader’s ‘political’ prayers

February 21, 2013
A 95-year-old church leader commanding a million-plus flock of believers has crossed swords with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, which accuses him of undermining the party amid concerns that Zanu-PF is abusing churches. The MDC is denouncing Paul Mwazha, leader of the massively-followed African Apostolic Church, for allegedly propping President ...

An open letter to Prophet Makandiwa

January 31, 2013
Dear Apostle/Prophet Makandiwa, You were recently named the most influential young person of 2012. This was high praise indeed and a testimony to the force of your expanding influence. I am a religious woman and I too have flirted with the Pentecostal persuasion. I point this out for no other ...