On 5 September, the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mother Theresa (Missionaries of Charity) commemorated the 15th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, their foundress, with a Holy Mass. The mass was celebrated by Fr Stephen Buckland SJ, Jesuit Provincial Superior for Zimbabwe, at the sisters’ Home of Love in Ardbennie, just across ...

The Church and Civil Society Forum (CCSF) in conjunction with Bulawayo Agenda held a Peace Concert in Plumtree’s Ezemnyama village (by the border with Botswana) on Saturday. In a bid to foster peace in the village which was traumatized by election violence the Christian and civil society saw it fit to ...

Zanu-PF Mhondoro-Ngezi Member of Parliament, Bright Matonga, is partnering with various church leaders in his constituency preaching the gospel of peace ahead of elections likely to be held next year. “Basically the meeting was meant to encourage communities not to fight. We are preaching the message of peace and sensitizing ...

Churches have vowed to mobilise their followers countrywide to vote against the draft Constitution at the referendum if the document does not outlaw homosexuality and same-sex marriages. This follows revelations by Copac co-chairperson Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana that Copac deliberately left the draft vague on homosexuality after failing to agree on whether ...

The UK-based Living Waters Pentecostal Fellowship is starting a collection for new or used Bibles in response to a need their minister identified while recently visiting churches in Zimbabwe.    Pastor Tapiwa Kundoro said, “I was recently in Zimbabwe ministering in various places and one of the biggest challenges I found ...

Midlands State University’s trip to the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) world cup finals in the United States hangs in the balance after the losing team, the Catholic University of Zimbabwe, challenged its disqualification. The SIFE finals are set for September 23 in Washington DC, USA. Initially CUZ won the ...

In a bid to alleviate poverty among the senior citizens, church-led Freedom for the Elderly People has come up with a project to assist the residents of Bulawayo. Under the programme managed by this Mount of Olives church-supported organisation, the elderly in the second largest city of Zimbabwe are put into groups ...

Bulawayo-based gospel outfit, Worship Addicts, has launched a double Praise and Worship album. “Worship Addicts Volume 2” has a soul-searching touch with lyrics meant to create a Godly atmosphere. The ten-track album has tracks such as Agere Pachigaro, Mwari Inzwai and Prayer for Zimbabwe, a song of hope and cry for ...

The recent 2012 ManWorld Convention with charismatic prophets Emmanuel Makandiwa and Uebert Angel transcended denominations, as men from different churches stampeded to watch the high-flying church leaders in action. The convention meant to create real men with the financial stamina to last trying times. At the stage they put a tractor and ...

Acting United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative, Marc Rubin, says his organisation is going to make a scrutiny of the controversial health-seeking behavior of the  members of the apostolic groups to come up with an evidence-based program. “This support will ensure that operational research on a wide range of development aspects (ranging ...