Religion & Society Blog
World Youth Day – an elite event for the Catholics?
August 1, 2011
My Catholic friends, here is a question that has been tormenting me since I first heard about the enormous efforts done by the parish in Entumbane to raise enough funds to send their only representative to Madrid for the World Youth Day this month. Is this spiritual event, in the ...
New book studies healing ministries in Zimbabwe
August 1, 2011
Pretoria-based Orthodox deacon Stephen Hayes sent me this link about a recent publication by Unisa Press on healing ministry in Zimbabwe. Entitled African Initiatives in Healing Ministry, this book is a fruit of collaboration between Lilian Dube, who was the first African woman to earn a D.Th. (1999) from Stellenbosch ... Is Christian business in Zimbabwe good business?
July 11, 2011
It is amazing how many businesses in Zimbabwe, manifest their Christian identity. I am thinking of prayers on intercity buses before the beginning of the trip or Bibles available for clients at companies’ reception halls. Some time ago, I remember there was this debate at the European parliament about the ...
Spiritual writings by Francisca Zinyemba
June 29, 2011
In her recent article in The Herald, Tendai Manzvanzvike reviews a spiritual book Entering into a New a Season of Holiness, Massive Breakthroughs, Fruitfulness by Francisca Zinyemba. An executive director with Standard Chartered Bank in Harare, Francisca Zinyemba proffers answers on deep questions of life: how to handle life’s storms, predicaments and difficult circumstances. ... The NY Times article on Kunonga deciphered
June 23, 2011
At the end of May, RelZim.org replublished the NYT article on the situation in the Anglican Church in this country. Several days later a blogger tmatt posted his reading of the article on Getreligion.org with lots of thought-provoking ideas. Eventually, he concludes that “the Times team didn’t really seem very interested ...
Church and AIDS: still stigmatizing?
June 4, 2011
A couple weeks ago, The Herald published the reflections of their “Divine Appointments” columnist Tendai Manzvanzvike on the attitude of the Churches towards HIV/AIDS. Most fully, in an article entitled “Church shouldn’t stigmatise”, Tendai Manzvanzvike gives an interesting quote from a representative from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Dr O ...
The colonisation of the mind? African traditional religion in Zimbabwe vs ‘exotic religions’.
May 27, 2011
Bulawayo 24 has recently run a story on the scramble for lost souls among the Churches. There we learn about some curious ideas of a social commentator Prof. Claude Mararike. He thinks that Africans have their own culture which does not need any conversion and teaching. “People, particularly Africans, should ...
Reflections on Mugabe and the Vatican
May 18, 2011
James Kirchick, who has reported from Zimbabwe, in a recent article entitled “Love the Sinner. Why is Robert Mugabe visiting the Vatican?” analyzes the uneasy relationship between the Vatican and Zimbabwe’s President. “Robert Mugabe has long been an admirer of the Catholic Church. Born at a Catholic mission station in ... The Purpose of the Thematic Committee on Religion in the Constitution-Making Process?
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Last Friday, The Financial Gazette ran a story about the Thematic Committees analysing data collected during the controversial outreach exercise for the constitution-making process. One of the 17 committees is to deal with religion and rights of minorities. Does anyone know what they discuss? ...