In the Churches Blog

On religion and spirituality: Divided we stand

July 10, 2014
The police and apostolic sect fiasco in Budiriro high-density suburb in Harare has resulted in as many jokes on the social media networks, yet the result of the State and religion interaction and friction could have far more negative consequences in relation to religious liberties and freedom of worship. As ...

Shunning drugs: Christian heads spot on

July 7, 2014
Last week, the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations launched a scathing rebuke at church leaders who are calling on their congregants to stop using conventional medicines in favour of faith healing. Speaking at a two-day conference held under the auspices of the National Aids Council (NAC), the General Secretary of ...

Religion not a means to oppress the vulnerable

July 3, 2014
Religion is defined by the Concise English Dictionary as, “the belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.” Religion entails faithfulness to a given set of principles. Most people have real strong attachments to their religious beliefs and any attempt to take them ...

Unfortunate but necessary to regulate Vapostori beliefs

June 30, 2014
Barely a month after the ugly scenes of Vapostori violence rocked Harare’s Budiriro suburb, it has emerged in yet another disturbing development that H.I.V positive members of Vapostori sect are shunning use of the life-saving antiretroviral drugs(ARVs) opting, instead, for faith healing. The regrettable incident of last month, precipitated by ...

Zimbabwe not forsaken before God

June 26, 2014
The tea-pot shaped land lying between the Zambezi and the Limpopo has witnessed watershed moments from its days as colonial Rhodesia to today as independent Zimbabwe. That white rule forbade blacks from walking the capital’s streets and denied blacks privileges in their motherland is a memory well-documented in history. That ...

The faithful under siege from religious leaders

June 23, 2014
Notwithstanding that Zimbabweans are of diverse religions and faith, our Constitution says we are a Christian nation. The charter also provides for the right to freedom of worship. That we are a Christian nation makes the goings-on in churches matters of national interest. Recently a group of men from an ...

Zimbabwe’s churches ‘fragmented’

June 23, 2014
In an address to prelates of the Catholic Bishops Conference in Rome, Pope Francis heaped praise on their work. He said, “The church in your country has stood fast with her people both before and after independence and now in the years of overwhelming suffering as millions have left the ...

What future does religion hold for Africa?

June 18, 2014
According to Vladimir Lenin, religion is the opium of the people. Religion solves those problems that men of science and logic fail to. The concept of God or a supreme being varies in definition the world over in application and definition. In Africa the major religions are to be Christianity, ...

Water baptism is scriptural

June 13, 2014
Religion is defined by the Concise English Dictionary as, “The belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.” Religion entails faithfulness to a given set of principles. Most people have real strong attachments to their religious beliefs and any attempt to take them ...

Religion not a means to oppress the vulnerable

June 10, 2014
Religion is defined by the Concise English Dictionary as, “The belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.” Religion entails faithfulness to a given set of principles. Most people have real strong attachments to their religious beliefs and any attempt to take them ...