A group of women from different Christian denominations embarked on three days and nights of fast and prayer  in Bulawayo last week, during which they interceded for unity between different Churches and for the general welfare of Zimbabwe.    Religion in Zimbabwe visited the Baptist church in the city centre, where ...

Thousands of Christian women from across Zimbabwe thronged to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair grounds for an interdenominational three-day conference in Bulawayo last week.    Woman Unlimited is a grouping of predominantly Christian women from across denominations, who want to challenge stereotypes about women and make a difference in all ...

Pardoned serial rapist Madzibaba Godfrey Nzira of the Johane Masowe WeChishanu Apostolic Church has died. He was 58. A family relative Madzibaba Simbiso Mhike told ZBC TV channel that Nzira passed away on Sunday evening after a long battle with hypertension and heart ailment. Nzira began ministry in 1977 and is survived by ...

Child marriages are becoming more prevalent among members of the Apostolic sects. This often involves young girls joining polygamous unions, a research by Plan International, a child-centred community development organization, has revealed. Tinotenda Hondo, organization’s gender advisor in Zimbabwe told RelZim.org  that Apostolic sect members from Johane Marange, Johane Masowe,  Johane Masowe WeChishanu ...

Tongai Moyo Dhewa, a gifted Zimbabwean musician, who had been giving this nation hit after hit for over a decade, left a void that will certainly be hard to fill. He was faithful to the grave and during his last days on earth he engaged the celebrated Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa. ...

Below, RelZim.org provides full text of the ten-page Dossier about the persecution of the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa that Archbishop Rowan Williams submitted to President Robert Mugabe at the meeting in Harare last week. As reported by The Herald on October 12, Rev. Admire Chisango of the Church of the Province of Zimbabwe ...

A consortium of Christians in Bulawayo have established a monthly Christian magazine that is set to hit the streets of Zimbabwe in November. RelZim.org caught up with the magazine’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Wellington Mugwagwa, who explained to us that the publication Set Alight is meant to be propagating nothing but Jesus ...

In the ongoing debate about the death penalty in the new Constitution, a strong religious argument was given by former High Court Judge Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe, who described capital punishment in Zimbabwe as ungodly and a disobedience of the creator’s commandments. Matambanengwe, who sent several people to the gallows when ...

The MDC-T, led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, say that Churches in Zimbabwe have ceased to be places of worship but, instead, are places of torture. Speaking after the party’s National Executive Committee met in Harare on Wednesday, the party’s spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora said, “Churches have ceased to be a place ...

Finance Minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabweans should be praying hard to get the country out of the prolonged financial crisis.  Minister Biti said this in Bulawayo on October, 10 during the 2012 national budget consultation meeting and the launch of the US$ 40 million Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (DiMAF). The fund ...