A multi-million dollar hospital project in Chiweshe at Howard Hospital hangs in the air after failing to meet the Ministry of Health requirements. This forced patients to remain in overcrowded wards at one of the biggest hospital in Mashonaland Central. The new hospital that was completed in 2006 failed to take in patients after ...

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was addressing a prayer meeting on March 9 organised by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Zimbabwe Pastoral Fellowship Association at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo. According to the New Zimbabwe, this is when he came up with a wise step towards reconciliation with President Mugabe’s supporters. He energetically corrected a newspaper sympathetic to ...

The people of Matabeleland will reject any constitution that is silent on Gukurahundi as endorsing such a document would be total denial of certain realities that affected the region in history, a local church leader has said. Speaking during a civic society discussion on the leaked new constitution draft in ...

With elections expected any time in Zimbabwe, Professor Welshman Ncube, Industry and Commerce Minister in the inclusive government, has called for Christians to pray to God asking for an opportunity to freely elect their leaders. Prof Ncube, who presides over a faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-N), was ...

President Robert Mugabe last week  was cited declaring that he has outlived Jesus Christ, a statement that was roundly condemned by Zimbabweans. In power since 1980, Mugabe is the oldest African president and one of the longest serving. He is Catholic but what he stated in  the recent televised interview does not ...

World Vision-Zimbabwe, a heavy-weight Christian organisation operating in the relief and humanitarian aid, is this year set to renovate and rehabilitate 20 of over 70 public toilets in Bulawayo at an undisclosed cost. According to the latest council minutes, World Vision secured funding for the project, which will run up ...

Catholics living in and around Fatima Mission in Lupane, along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway, have expressed concern over the setting-up of a beer hall at Fatima Primary, a former Roman Catholic school. Fatima Mission, previously comprising, a mission house, convent, primary school, high school and a hospital, had the two ...

by Sinikiwe Mlambo and RelZim staff The church is spending more time burying its members than baptising them because of its silence on HIV/AIDS, according to Maxwell Kapachawo, an Abandoned Grace Ministries pastor. In 2005, he became the first religious figure in Zimbabwe to go public about being HIV positive.  Kapachawo spoke ...

A total of 12 students recently graduated from the Theological College of Zimbabwe (TCZ) in Bulawayo at a colourful ceremony attended by Christians from across denominations. Of the twelve, four were from women’s programme, two graduated with advanced Diplomas in theology while seven were capped with the Bachelor of Arts ...

Nehanda Radio reports that Chitungwiza housing director Jemina Gumbo recently appeared in court charged with 46 counts of criminal abuse of office after she allegedly allocated commercial and residential stands without following laid down procedures. According to the State, Gumbo allocated two stands to Prophet Makandiwa‘s United Family International Ministries (UFIM) church on ...