The Bulawayo City Council suggests African Indigenous Churches (AIC) use council-operated schools as places of worship. The open-air worship, practiced by such AICs as Vapostori has been criticized for noise pollution and considered a health hazard. Apostolic sects have converted many of the city’s bushes into places of worship. Bulawayo Mayor Thaba Moyo, ...

After a long period of speculation, there is now solid data about the religious affiliation of Zimbabweans in the recently released Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2010-11. The study reports only on those aged 15-49: “The majority of the respondents (74 percent of men and 93 percent of women) are ...

reprinted with minor corrections and additions from Nehanda radio by Fungai Lupande Founder of the United Family International Church, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, is building a house for Chief Kasekete Changara of Mashonaland Central. The three bed-room house is being built at the chief’s homestead in Gweshe Village, Muzarabani South. Construction ...

This year’s Easter celebrations brought the city of Bulawayo to life, as Christians from all walks of life and various denominations went all out for their Easter festivities. In Christianity, Easter is celebrated to mark the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday or Resurrection Day is typically the ...

“It is high time the church of the Living God in Zimbabwe taught women economics and financial matters if the nation is to achieve its goal of totally empowering the group that was previously disadvantaged by patriarchy,” a senior government official said. Addressing thousands of women during Maximized Lifestyle International ...

Thousands of Catholics from around Bulawayo and its surroundings fully-packed St Mary’s Cathedral last Tuesday for their annual Chrism Mass celebrated by His Grace Archbishop Alex Thomas. Chrism Mass during which chrism oil is blessed while priests also renew their vows is a significant occasion in the Catholic calendar celebrated during the holy week, ...

Greg Takavarasha,  a 23 year-old Christian from Harare, has a hard time promoting his creative work because of its message. “The scripts I write carry Christian messages and most production houses criticize them. They say they don’t sell because people prefer love, horror and action not something Christian.” He further ...

reprinted with minor corrections from Nehanda Radio by Jennifer Dube United Family International Church (UFIC) leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa, on Friday night restricted his sermon at the highly publicised Judgment Night at the National Sports Stadium to spiritual matters, contrary to expectations that he would predict a perilous future for the ...

reprinted with additions and corrections from The Standard ‘Diesel n’anga’  Nomatter Tagarira, alias Rotina Mavhunga, who made headlines in 2007 after misleading President Robert Mugabe and other prominent Zanu -PF politicians that she had powers to extract diesel from a rock, was recently released from prison and is now a ...

Despite shunning traditional health practitioners (THP) during the day, church pastors are visiting tthem in a Nicodemus-like manner to boost powers, Elisha Mutanga, a traditional medical practitioner, told RelZim. Mutanga, who is also a member of Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA), voiced his remarks at a recent consultative meeting held by ...