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Lutheran Bishop Dube visits US friends

June 13, 2012
Lutheran Bishop Stephen Dube flew nearly 27 hours to be there. While on the ground, about a dozen local Lutherans gathered at the Rochester International Airport (in the US state on New York) to show Bishop Dube and his wife Effina the same hospitality many of them received when they visited ...

Video: Mrs. Efinna Dube about the Women of the Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe

June 13, 2012
Lutheran Bishop Stephen Dube, accompanied by his wife Efinna Dube, was recently on a visit to more than a dozen of the 180 Lutheran Churches in the Upstate New York Area in the USA.  The video below is Mrs. Efinna Dube’s speech about the Women of the Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe that ...

Harvest House International partners with Sunday News

June 13, 2012
Harvest House International, a Pentecostal church, enters into partnership with Sunday News.Copies of the weekly newspaper were seen being sold at the Pentecostal offices on Sundays. As part of the unique deal, Harvest House International will retain 10% of the amount generated by the newspaper sales. In return, Sunday News will provide the church with ...

Relative spirit persecuting woman in Bulawayo

June 12, 2012
A Bulawayo businesswoman has allegedly abandoned her office in Bulawayo city centre and home after a suspected ghost reportedly dragged her out in broad daylight on numerous occasions. It seems there is more to what meets the eye, as reliable sources have disclosed that the ghost was the woman’s late ...

Gandiya spokesman: Despite the Dossier, Anglicans continue to suffer

June 11, 2012
Critics charge that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is sitting on a dossier of human rights abuses in the Anglican Church while Bishop Nolbert Kunonga continues to strip the church, as the police watch. In an interview with RelZim, Precious Shumba, spokesperson of Bishop Chad Gandiya, said, that Mugabe hasn’t yet acted on the dossier that Archbishop Rowan ...

Celebration Music comes up with two fresh albums

June 8, 2012
“We do not have to be ashamed of anything, we are a great people, let us love, respect and celebrate one another.” These were the words spoken by Pastor Tom Deuschle, the President and Founder of Celebration Ministries, the ‘mother’ of Celebration Music, when he launched two albums from the stable ...

Makandiwa gets green light from Chitungwiza municipality

June 7, 2012
The Chitungwiza municipality has cleared Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church to complete construction of its mega church in the town. “Council also acknowledged and accepted your application for the allocation of 19770 in retrospect, where you are already constructing a church. Council has also agreed that you continue ...

Celebration Church’s Tom Deuschle: homosexuality insults respect of God

June 6, 2012
Homosexuality should never be legalised because God frowns at such vices, Celebration Ministries International founder Pastor Tom Deuschle said recently. The founder of one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Zimbabwe was addressing about 15,000 congregants during annual conference. Pastor Deuschle said there was no way the country could legalise ...

Singing Video: Vabati Vevhangeri – Shingirira

June 6, 2012
Singing Video: Vabati Vevhangeri – Shingirira The rise in popularity of Apostolic choral gospel music is usually associated with a group called Vabati VaJehovah. Their albums “Mweya Mutsvene WaMamwari” and “Wauya Mucheki” were on the frontline paving way for other albums. The emergence of Vabati VaJehovah was followed by several groups like Vaparidzi Veshoko, Vabati Vevhangeri and Chiedza Chevatendi who successfully advocated for the ...

Mbare entrepreneurship inspired by Vapostori practices

June 5, 2012
Vendors in Mbare, high-density suburb of Harare, are making brisk business by selling cloths used in sewing church regalia or performing religious rituals, as more people turn to religion in the midst of increasing socio-economic problems.  The enterprising vendors have taken advantage of the proliferation of Apostolic sects in Mbare ...