Parishioners, family and friends of Fr. Tafadzwa Ronald Kushamba, congregated at Holy Name Mabelreign parish on Sunday the 17th of January to celebrate Fr. Kushamba’s “home-coming” mass since his ordination on the 26th of June 2015 in Madison Diocese in the United States of America. The new priest urged the ...

Holy Name Parish, Mabelreign recently witnessed the first group of Missionary Childhood children take their ‘vows’. The guild was introduced by Fr. George Bwanali after he had preached on the need to mobilize Catholic kids and teach them to evangelize from an early phase. In his homily, Br. Alexio Matsika ...

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 ...

In the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Harare are about 500,000 Catholics (about 10% of the population in that area).  Since 2004, the archdiocese has been led by Archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu. He is the current president of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC). The seat of the archbishop is the ...

Congregants at Holy Name Parish in Mabelreign organised a liturgy workshop dedicated to providing accurate and current liturgical information to the laity on 18th of June. The workshop was facilitated by Fr Joseph Mahlahla, a lecturer at Chishawasha Major Seminary in Harare.  Fr Mahlahla said the chief purpose of liturgy ...

Members of Couples for Christ Zimbabwe convened at St Francis Xavier Braeside Parish on the 18th of June to celebrate the group’s 35th anniversary through a cleanup campaign and culture night. Couples for Christ is a movement intended for the renewal and strengthening of Christian family life with members committing ...

St Stephen’s Catholic Church Dzivaresekwa recently witnessed numerous catechumens drawn from Holy Name Parish (Mabelreign), St Ignatius Centre, St Augustine Centre and lastly, St. Stephen’s Church for the sacrament of confirmation by His Grace Robert Christopher Ndlovu of Harare. The church hall was filled to capacity, with the archbishop presiding ...

Catholic youths from St Alois and Agnes guilds in Dzivaresekwa, Mt Pleasant, Hatcliffe, Marlborough, Emerald Hill, Cathedral and Rhodesville parish joined their hosts in Mabelreign, Harare for a day-long commemoration of the life of St Agnes that is celebrated worldwide annually on January 20. The theme of the celebrations was ...

reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #172, a Jescom publication Key posts in Zimbabwean province are being taken over by young Jesuits. Earlier this year, Fr Gibson Munyoro SJ took over as director of Silveira House and Fr Sylvest Kasirori SJ as parish priest of Mabelreign.  Now Fr Ugenio Phiri SJ has been appointed rector of St Ignatius ...

reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #162, a Jescom publication Tony Berridge was born in Kadoma in 1950. He had a twin sister and a brother. He was educated at St George’s College and joined the Society of Jesus in the UK in 1969. He studied philosophy in London, taught ...