Distressed companies in Zimbabwe hope to leverage on superpopular church leaders like Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa as well as get free prison labour from government.  Speaking at the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting in Victoria Falls recently, TN Holdings chairperson Tawanda Nyambirai said business should engage churches which ...

A branch of the United Assemblies Africa Church situated in Chivhu (146 km south of Harare) has embarked on a project to rescue children who are facing abuse in the local community while also caring for orphans. A total of 23 children aged between 2 and 18 years are currently under the ...

Court officials in Zimbabwe say two self-confessed witches who claim to have flown on a magical grain-threshing basket are to undergo medical and psychiatric examinations. Prosecutors said the two women were arrested last month after they had been found naked in the yard of a home in Chinhoyi, 110 kilometers ...

The Zimbabwe Catholic Council for the Laity is to hold the first ever pan-Zimbabwean congress in Harare in September this year and there are expected to be around a million Catholics attending the gathering. Rev. Samson Mutsvanga of Masvingo Diocese confirmed the event which is expected to take place at the ...

Silveira House, a development education centre run by the Society of Jesus 20 km east of Harare, recently gathered national political leaders, representatives of civil society organisations, church organisations and media houses for a conference “Consolidating our efforts in promoting peace in Zimbabwe.” Held on May 31, 2012, the conference attracted the ...

Both Jesuit Communications publications , Mukai/Vukani and In Touch with Church and Faith, are given away for free. But the production of both is costly. The publications are supported by generous donors, but their donations are not sufficient.  The time has come to work towards self-support in the spirit of self-reliance. If ...

The Africa Apostolic Faith Mission [probably what the author meant was the African Apostolic Church, one of Zimbabwean AICs, not the Pentecostal Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe] has criticised Zanu-PF leaders who bulldoze their way at religious gatherings in order to preach party politics. Leader of the church, Isaiah Murove,  said  partisan ...

President Robert Mugabe has been drawn into the fight for the control of the Anglican Harare diocese, with some politicians promising members of the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) that they will facilitate access to him. The feud between the Bishop Chad Gandiya-led diocese of the CPCA and the Anglican ...

As “racism” takes centre stage in the Roman Catholic St Charles Lwanga Parish in Ruwa (22 km south-east of Harare), parishioners have threatened to wash “dirty linen” in public and expose the priest’s alleged shenanigans. This followed alleged failed attempts by parishioners to seek audience with Father Fermin Rodriguez to get ...

A Mutare woman, who last month sold a family residential stand without her husband’s consent for USD 20,000 and donated USD 6,000 to the church, was convicted of fraud.  Martha Chiseko of the Celebration Church donated the money that she obtained from illegally selling a stand in one of Mutare’s opulent ...