The Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA), comprising Catholic leaders from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome e Principe, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, has called on the Sothern Africa Development Committee (SADC) to act decisively against the armed conflict and ailing economies that threaten human survival in the
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IMBISA presents IMBISA open day Date:26 May 2013 Venue: 88 Broadlands, Avondale There will be a choir competitions and lots of entertainment. Food is food and share. All are welcome
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Roman Catholic Bishop Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa of Mutare represented Zimbabwe at a conference on human trafficking and democratic change in Mozambique recently. Catholic nuns have become active in many countries trying to rescue human trafficking victims. Women and girls are often tricked into agreeing to be taken to foreign countries on the
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Unpacking the Pope’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia recently in Harare, Fr Lawrence Daka SJ urged everyone around to make peace with God and accept those who are in “irregular” unions and help them grow. The pontiff’s exhortation which was inspired by deliberations of two synods on the family conducted in 2014
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The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP – national office), Heads of Denominations (an inter-church body which includes ZCBC) and the Evangelical Alliance, all put out statements urging people to vote YES at he recent referendum for the Draft Constitution. The Zimbabwean Catholic Bishops (ZCBC) and the Bishops of Southern
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The transition from the old to the new generation of Zimbabwean Jesuits continues. Fr Ignatius Tambudzai SJ takes over as parish priest of St Peter’s Mbare, where Jesuits have been working since its beginning in about 1910. He replaces Fr Oskar Wermter SJ (71) who has been requested by the
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Fr Constantine Mashonganyika, a Roman Catholic priest of the Gweru Diocese, died at Driefontein Mission on December 11 after a battle of ten years with cancer. He was born in the Christian village at Driefontein Mission in Midlands Province. The family was later moved to Mvuma and then to Sibolela villages
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RelZim.org articles about Roman Catholics in Zimbabwe Roman Catholics in Zimbabwe number about one million (about 8% of the population) and are organized into eight dioceses. After occasional missionary efforts in earlier centuries, Catholic religious orders have been continuously present in Zimbabwe since 1879. Social and Pastoral Work Roman Catholics
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