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ZAOGA brings relief to Ngaone community through infrastructure project

June 9, 2011
According to The Herald, ZAOGA-FIF Ministries celebrated its 51st anniversary recently. This religious community, led by Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, rehabilitated 29-km road stretching from Gombati to Ngaone in Chipinge West. According to the report prepared by the Ngaone Development Association (NDA), the road is the life-line for the entire community, and was destroyed in ...

Hope for a Child In Christ continues to feed orphans in western Zimbabwe

June 9, 2011
Hope for a Child In Christ (HOCIC), a Bulawayo-based Christian non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services and World Food Programme, is distributing food hampers to more than 50 orphans in four wards of Zimbabwe’s second largest city. The allocations are done in Wards 8 and 29 in Magwegwe, ...

Tensions within the Anglican Church persist

June 8, 2011
According to SW Radio Africa, the fight over property in the Anglican Church continues unabated as Bishop Nolbert Kunonga expelled by his Church, his minority of violent supporters and the police, continue to gang up against the rest of Anglicans in Zimbabwe. A total of 16 Anglicans were arrested as police ...

Rector of St George’s College put in charge of Jesuits in formation

June 8, 2011
According to In Touch, an e-newsletter of Jescom Zimbabwe,  Fr Chiedza Chimhanda SJ, rector of St George’s College, was appointed Delegate for Formation, succeeding Fr Anthony Berridge SJ who held that position for ten years.   The Delegate for Formation assists the Jesuit Provincial Superior in all matters relating to the formation ...

Celebration Church opens a centre of worship in downtown Bulawayo

June 7, 2011
Celebration Church recently opened a centre of worship in downtown Bulawayo as part of their expansion plan, says, Gerald Chirinda, this Pentecostal Church’s public relations officer. Prior to the commissioning of the auditorium situated in the George Silundika Street, between 12th and 13th Avenues, the church had been congregating every ...

South African official praises Zimbabwe’s religious-led educational culture

June 6, 2011
Jonathan Jansen, head of the University of the Free State, in a recent interview for The Daily Maverick, cites Zimbabwe as a model for SA’s schooling system. “It has placed a huge premium on education. It has a very strong educational culture. Remember, most schools there were not public schools; most of their ...

Apostolic Faith sect dismisses Dynamos-related allegations by The Herald

June 6, 2011
According to The Herald, Dynamos (a Harare-based soccer club) players are being ordered to strip naked, in their rooms on the eve of their Premiership matches outside the capital, where their bodies are sprayed with holy water. An elder in the Apostolic Faith sect led by Madzibaba Daniel said their ...

Bishop Gandiya chairs consultation for theological college principals in Canterbury

June 4, 2011
The first ever international consultation for Anglican Communion theological college Principals and Deans, gathering together representatives from 27 countries, has been held in England. Bishop of Harare Chad Gandiya, a member of the TEAC (Theological Education in the Anglican Communion) Steering Group, chaired most of the meeting. The consultation was ...

76-year-old American woman: not retiring from helping Nyadire Methodist mission

June 3, 2011
Chabadza is a word in the Shona language of Zimbabwe that means a partnership in which passers-by stop what they are doing to help someone else do their work. Through the partnership, it’s believed that both sides are enriched. As her hometown newspaper describes, Pennsylvania resident Elsa Zollars is the embodiment of ...

Njelele Shrine now less revered

June 3, 2011
“Disregard for sacred places such as the Njelele Shrine by some Zimbabweans shows how far Africans have gone astray in pursuit of foreign religions,” bemoans Gogo MaDube, a staunch traditionalist. The elderly woman, who runs Kwamatebele Herbal Life Traditional Hospital, nestled between 13th and 14th Avenues along Lobengula Street in Bulawayo, ...