THE battle to control the Guta RaJehovah shrine in Hlohla Village under Headman Nyamagura in Zvimba district has split the church into two factions and resulted in violence that allegedly saw two huts being torched. The Sunday Mail Religion last Tuesday visited the shrine after receiving information that tension had ...

GOSPEL musician, Joel Chiweda, who cut his teeth in the industry during a fruitful stint with Zimpraise, recently launched a monthly programme called Gospel Soul Nights to create space for music, spoken word and dance by gospel artists. The programme premiered two weeks ago at Utano Restaurant in Avondale, with ...

ROMAN Catholic youths across the country have been encouraged to go on a fast of WhatsApp for 40 days during the Lenten season. During the Lent season, Catholics relive the experiences that Jesus Christ went through before and after his crucifixion, right up to resurrection. It therefore leads into and ...

PRESIDENT Mugabe has revealed that the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education is not introducing Islam in the country’s education system through the new curriculum Responding to a question on the controversies surrounding the new curriculum being implemented by the Government during his birthday interview with ZBC-TV last Tuesday night, ...

THE trial of an anti-government pastor who is accused of abusing the national flag continued Tuesday with the cleric arguing that he never wore the banner around his neck, but a lookalike piece of cloth. Pastor Patrick Mugadza, who is custody for separate charges of prophesising President Robert Mugabe’s death ...

THE Gweru branch of Nigerian televangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy Church, has been taken to court over rental arrears and outstanding water bills amounting to $53 000. According to summons filed at the Bulawayo High Court this week by the property managers, Central Real Estate, the church, also known ...

WHEN “protest pastor” Evan Mawarire returned to Harare on February 1, he was detained at the airport and charged with subverting a constitutionally elected government, which could result in a 20­year sentence. After another court appearance last Friday, he spoke about the spontaneous eruption of the #ThisFlag movement, its structure ...

THE rape trial of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya is expected to kick off at the High Court today. According to the High Court roll, the matter has been set for the whole week under Justice Clement Phiri. The last time Magaya appeared in court was ...

South African based-artiste and renowned Joyous Choir member Mkhululi Bhebhe  will be the main attraction at the inaugural Honde Valley Gospel Music Festival slated for this Friday. Speaking to this publication,  one of the organizers Victoria Samushonga  said preps were at an advanced stage to host what could be a ...

MEMBERS of a Zionist Church were left shocked after a 16-­year-­old boy sneaked out of an all­night prayer to have sex with a 14 year old girl congregant at the same venue in Jambezi outside Victoria Falls. The boy and girl, names withheld, were part of the congregation that had ...