reprinted with amendments from The Sunday Mail by Pamela Mwachumo Passengers hustle to take their seats on a bus that is ready to depart from the Road Port bus terminal in Harare for Johannesburg, South Africa. Vendors are also not to be outdone as they push their way out of the ...

Some Zimbabweans complained about the way local preparations for the 2011 World Youth Day (WYD) were organized (see World Youth Day – an elite event for the Catholics? and Over 30 Bulawayo youths to participate in the World Youth Day in Madrid). But the event that took place in the Jubilee Hall of ...

Vice President  John Landa Nkomo, has paid tribute to missionaries for setting up schools in the country’s rural areas, saying that has boosted Zimbabwe’s education system which is ranked among the best in Africa. The Vice President was speaking in Nyamandlovu (a semi-arid marginalised area in Matebeleland North) recently during the ...

Over 34 pastors from across the country have been trained to preach about HIV and AIDS in their churches. This topic has been swept under the carpet in conservative Zimbabwe. Speaking last Thursday at the wrap-up of the Support to Faith-Based Organisations Seminar Peter Bare, Programmes officer of the Evangelical ...

According to Nehanda Radio that quotes the Daily News, President Robert Mugabe’s party, Zanu-PF, spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said the fact that prophet Temitope Joshua, a Nigerian clergyman, was predicting recently the death of an African head of state made the prophet’s claim unpalatable and absurd. “It goes against tradition. You do not ...

Child representatives have raised concern over religious discrimination at some boarding schools where students regardless of religion are forced to attend the school church. In an interview Child Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Tomuseni said that the religious requirements of some schools are tantamount to foisting beliefs on children. “We do not ...

Water Resources Development and Management Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo says that there is need to perform traditional rituals in order to appease angry mermaids at a dam in Gokwe that is meant to provide water to a local township. Nkomo who was presenting evidence on the water supply situation in ...

Controversial gospel musician Hosia Chipanga says that ministers and ordinary Zimbabweans should join his new church that is called Mapipi in order to take the country from the current economic problems. “God is universal and I am calling for government ministers and other ordinary men and women to join my ...

Dear Religion in Zimbabwe Reader, by answering the questions in this poll You will help us understand what our fellow countrymen and countrywomen deem the most important cause to be supported by their hard-earned cash. We would like to find out how often Zimbabweans help others and whether it’s just ...

Presidential hopeful Dr. Raymond Chamba says that he has been catapulted by God to stand as an independent. Chamba called on churches in Zimbabwe to assume a more active role in the country politics during the launch of his bid for presidency. He also  said that God has a special plan ...