Outside Howard hospital in Chiweshe (Mashonaland Central), drums throbbed as hundreds of local people — who had gathered there earlier in the day to protest a decision made weeks before to remove the hospital’s head doctor — grew violent, some lobbing rocks through the air as others reportedly overturned a Salvation Army truck. ...

This video by the Short Term International Medical Missions Abroad is a short interview with a Zimbabwean woman whose sister had just given birth. They made a 3-hour trip to receive treatment at Howard Hospital in Chiweshe (Mashonaland Central). For over 16 years, Dr. Paul Thistle and his medical team have provided advanced medical ...

Bishop Caleb Mutingwende, the leader of the Zion Church of God has dismissed the newly emerging churches as fly-by social groups that will not survive beyond the present generation. Mutingwende said the sprouting Pentecostal churches thriving on preaching the gospel of prosperity in times of economic hardships were set to ...

Below is a slideshow containing photographs of the late founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe, Rev Morgan Sengwayo. The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe Church (AFM) is one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in Zimbabwe. Until independence in 1980, it was part of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South ...

The Zimbabwe Supreme Court has jailed 10 members of the Noah Taguta-led Johanne Marange Apostolic sect sect for an effective 16 months each for fighting over a dead body. Two factions from the same Momberume Taguta family substituted Bibles for rocks and engaged in bloody battles over ownership of the ...

The Standard deputy editor Walter Marwizi was granted an exclusive interview with Archbishop Robert Ndlovu. Archbishop Ndlovu heads the Harare archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church which covers 63,555 square kilometres and boasts a Catholic population of close to 500,000 people. Below is the second part of the interview. WM: Young charismatic leaders like Emmanuel Makandiwa and ...

Yesteryear musician Knowledge Kunenyati of the famous Kasongo Band, recently left ZAOGA congregants shocked as he narrated his promiscuous past experiences, at a service in Chitungwiza. Kunenyati is a member of the ZAOGA church where he also works as a messenger. “I cannot recall the number of women I slept with during my ...

CAPS United goalkeeper, Muzondiwa Gonese, has quit football to answer a higher call. The 35-year-old conceded his last goal in United’s 1-0 defeat to Highlanders on July 8, and says he has lost heart for the game – not least because of a raging power struggle at the club. As Gonese ...

At least 40 Zimbabwean healers were de-registered by the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council for improper and disgraceful conduct since 2010. They were charged and fined up to USD 200 each for contravening the Traditional Medical Practitioners Act, which regulates the practice of Christian and traditional healers. Their offences included misrepresenting to ...

The 2011 International Religious Freedom Report by the United States government showcased evidence that Zimbabwe’s inclusive government of continuing to politically intimidate and harass religious leaders critical of its policies. “The government did not demonstrate a trend towards either improvement or deterioration in respect for and protection of the right to ...