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Harvest House International hosts Christmas concert in Bulawayo

In the spirit of Christmas, Harvest House International Church (HHI) hosted the Christmas Carol Night on Sunday where various choirs performed in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The concert began with a powerful praise session by a combination of HHI choirs. These included Hosanna, Harvest Tabernacle Choir, Community Churches ...

Bulawayo prays for good rains and industry revival

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in conjunction with the Christian community of Bulawayo convened a prayer day for good rains and the industry.  The prayer initiative comes after days of heavy downpours in and around the city, with hopes of a better rainy season. Heartfelt prayer and supplication for the rains ...

Bulawayo water crisis and prayer

Earlier this month, Mayor Thaba Moyo appealed to the churches and Bulawayo residents to pray for the rains ‘because God is the owner of the rains.’  Around that time, the Christian Alliance leader Useni Sibanda spoke about religion and politics in the following terms, “Churches have been hesitant to vote. We want to encourage everyone to ...

Bulawayo mayor: pray and be good stewards, conserve the little water that we have

Water woes bedevilling the city of Bulawayo will only be solved through prayer. This is the belief of Bulawayo mayor Thaba Moyo. Looming drought and the decommissioning of two dams leave residents to endure 96 painful hours of water shedding each week. Speaking at the 2012 Annual Review in Bulawayo ...

Christian Alliance: Bulawayo’s water problems – government policy of marginalisation. Risk to peace

A coalition of church organisations have warned government of massive protests in Bulawayo as people revolt against the water crisis being experienced in the country’s second largest city. The water shortages have also caused the closure of several companies, resulting in hundreds of employees being redundant. Christian Alliance, a coalition ...

Bulawayo to ban open-air worship

In a move that is likely to see the ban of open–air worship in Bulawayo, the city council has summoned apostolic sect members for dialogue upon which will determine their fate. Debating during a full council meeting last Wednesday, councilors said apostolic sect churches have invaded almost every vacant council ...

Latter-Day Saints donate 10 boreholes to BCC

The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints donated ten boreholes to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), a move which is expected to go a long way in alleviating water shortages currently gripping the city. Speaking at the hand-over ceremony in Nkulumane last Wednesday, the church’s country director of charities, John Benich, said ...

Apostolics to be banned from open-air worship in Bulawayo. Moved to council schools

The Bulawayo City Council suggests African Indigenous Churches (AIC) use council-operated schools as places of worship. The open-air worship, practiced by such AICs as Vapostori has been criticized for noise pollution and considered a health hazard. Apostolic sects have converted many of the city’s bushes into places of worship. Bulawayo Mayor Thaba Moyo, ...

Mayor’s Guta raMwari Church celebrates anniversary of Bulawayo

Bulawayo residents recently converged at the Guta raMwari church in Lobengula suburb (the incumbent Mayor Thaba Moyo’s place of worship) for a divine service to commemorate the 68thanniversary of Bulawayo’s attainment of city status. Bulawayo was declared a city on November 4, 1943 and every year a civic and divine church ...

African Indigenous Churches

RelZim.org articles about the AIC in Zimbabwe. This page on “African Indigenous Churches” surveys those churches which are aimed almost exclusively at African converts, use local traditions more extensively, and have a healing focus on African issues like barrenness and bewitchment. Some have pentecostal components but some do not (e.g. the ...