Pentecostal churches around the world are increasingly embracing the visual asthetics forged by the Western blockbuster culture. The video below is a good example of such trend. A promotion tool for the 2012 Pastors and Leaders Conference held in the United States at the beginning of this month, this video uses  Zimbabwean Bishop ...

Prophet Bothwell Phiri sternly warned Bulawayo pastors against criticizing popular Nigerian prophet TB Joshua. Instead, River of Life Church leader urged the men of the cloth to focus on preaching the Gospel of Christ rather than vilify other men of God. Prophet Phiri gave the caution during a national peace prayer at Barbourfields Stadium ...

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 ...

Prophet Bothwell Phiri of River of Life Churchsays politicians who will perpetrate violence in the next election in Zimbabwe, will not go unpunished unlike in 2008. The man of God said this while addressing thousands who had gathered at Bulawayo’s giant Barbourfields Stadium for a national peace prayer last Saturday. The prayer, ...

A woman from Chitungwiza, Chipo Chafa (33), is involved  in a desperate battle for her husband of 16 years with a sangoma. Munyaradzi Chafa (38), left his matrimonial house in January this year to cohabit with a sangoma in Murisa Resettlement area in Dema.  The sangoma has been identified as Mbuya ...

The National Insurance Company of Zimbabwe Diamond has launched Christian Sure, a comprehensive insurance package designed for the Christian community in Zimbabwe. Launching the new product in Bulawayo last week, Nicoz Diamond Marketing Manager and Head of Public Relations, Odeline Kava, said the vision of  her company was to use ...

Dean of Norwich, the Very Rev Graham Smith, visiting Zimbabwe recently sent a message of hope to the Anglican community in the country, donating a throne for when they return to the cathedral, with words engraved: “in exile.” Reflecting on the visit, Smith said, “I went to remind the people they are ...

Last March Voice Of God Recordings, Inc. (VGR), a US-based inter-denominational ministry, delivered a container to 35,000 Christians of  Zimbabwe. Inside the container were about 160,000 books and tracts, 11,000 8×10 pictures, and 1,400 MP3 sets. There were also a few things like new fuel and air filters for the VGR truck, a set of ...

Next week on Monday, Matabeleland South chiefs are to meet with the president of the Chiefs’ Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira, and his deputy, Chief Mtshana Khumalo, to discuss the unprocedural invasion of the Njelele Shrine by people believed to be Zanu-PF sympathizers. Reports from Mat South province indicate that between November last ...

Christians in Bulawayo have welcomed the arrival of yet another Christian magazine Gospel Times that hit the streets of the second-largest city in February this year. Gospel Times is published by a newly established Bulawayo-based media company, Chayah Media Services, the publisher of the Southern Star newspaper. Leslie Phiri, the magazine’s editor ...