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Four vacancies at Catholic Relief Services – Zimbabwe Program (Deadline: Nov 21)

November 14, 2012
Catholic Relief Services – Zimbabwe Program, an international humanitarian and development organization seeks qualified candidates for a USAID-funded, multi-year food security, nutrition and agricultural development project in Zimbabwe. 1) Gender Specialist (50% field office, 50% Harare) The Gender Specialist will be responsible for integrating a comprehensive gender strategy across activities ...

Probes of child abuse at Methodist school in Marondera

November 14, 2012
Zimbabwean authorities are investigating allegations of child abuses at the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe-run Waddilove Primary School in Marondera (72 km east of Harare). A pupil was sexually assaulted on July 18 this year. A 13-year-old boy was convicted of sodomy by a Marondera magistrate earlier this month. The case follows reports ...

Catholic university in Italy awaits 2013/2014 Africa Scholarship applications

November 14, 2012
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a Catholic university in Italy, as part of its mission to foster relationships with developing countries, has developed a special program for students from the African continent. This program will enable students to study on partial scholarship for degree programs taught in English at Cattolica’s ...

California Christians to launch micro-finance program for Mutoko orphanage alumni

November 13, 2012
Volunteers from the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church in the US state of California are making plans to launch a micro-finance program to make loans that provide a more sustainable future to young entrepreneurs as they “age out” of an orphanage in Mutoko, Mashonaland East. There is hope that they are inspired by an ...

Archbishop Emeritus Karlen of Bulawayo dies aged 90

November 12, 2012
Thousands of Catholics attended the funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Henry Ernst Karlen, CMM in Bulawayo recently. Archbishop Karlen, who became the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Bulawayo in 1994, died aged 90 at Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday, October 28. Known as the “Father of Bulawayo Diocese” for his work building the church in Matabeleland, Karlen ...

UMC missionaries visit Zimbabwe, Malawi

November 12, 2012
A group of seven people visited  the village of Mutambara in Manicaland  for a week last September, where they checked in on the Hope Center that Acworth United Methodist Church helped build. Along with Rev. James Gwin, senior pastor of the US state of Georgia-based church, the group included Shirley Rose, who has represented ...

Video: The Upper Room daily devotional guide for Zimbabwe

November 9, 2012

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Pastor Phillip Musharu, Deputy Administrative Assistant to United Methodist Church Bishop Eben Nhiwatiwa
 and Conference Connectional Ministries Director has a vision. Phillip hopes to see a self-sustaining ministry through which 10,000 copies of each issue of The Upper Room daily devotional guide consistently reach the people of Zimbabwe.  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTnae8rqXA0] ...

Kunonga: I joined politics to stop MDC giving land back to whites

November 8, 2012
Ex-communicated Anglican Bishop Nolbert Kunonga says he joined politics because of the emergence of the MDC as a political party in 1999. In an interview Kunonga said he would not have taken the stance he took were it not because the MDC was threatening to “hand over land back to ...

Christ Embassy takes to Bulawayo streets with free devotional book

November 7, 2012
It was jubilation on the streets of Bulawayo, as the Christ Embassy faithful sang, danced and chanted the name of Jesus in their quest to spread the gospel through their Rhapsody of Realities. The reach-out campaign was slated for Basch Street Terminus popularly known as Godini. There passers-by were given free copies of ...

Makandiwa’s divorce – sign of Christians lowering the standard

November 7, 2012
Couples experiencing marital problems usually run to the church – but a leading Harare preacher is proving that marriages are also collapsing in the church. Pastor Tawanda Makandiwa, the brother of the controversial Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, is divorcing his wife of five years, Lovejoy Choto, citing what he describes as her ...