According to The Standard, visually impaired pupils will soon have improved supply of textbooks just like their sighted counterparts, thanks to the work of Sister Catherine Jackson, OP, a Harare-based Catholic nun. When many local publishers were jostling over a government printing contract to supply school textbooks under the US$70-million government-UNICEF ...

Maxwell was an example of a fairly successful Zimbabwean young man in the diaspora. He owned his house and drove a good quality car. Maxwell was a manager at a local company, and was much respected at his work place by most Zimbabweans. Maxwell had worked very hard to get ...

Obert Mazivisa & the Trumpet Echoes, as well as Comfort Manyame are nominees for this year’s Africa Gospel Music Awards (AGMA).  AGMA was launched in 2010. This year’s ceremony will be held in London on July 9. Obert Mazivisa has ministered at a wide range of events with his backing team, The ...

About 1% of Zimbabweans (100,000) are Muslim. RelZim.org talked to Sheikh Bilaal Bush Gwenzi, the administrator at the Islamic Information Services of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, to find out more about their faith, aspirations and activities in our country. Sheikh is a title for an Islamic scholar – someone well-versed with Islamic principles ...

According to The Herald, Mr. Mugabe urged other churches to take a cue from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and come up with good music. “Of all the churches, SDA has the best music. Kwamunoita kuno ndiko kunonzi kuimba. Unonzwa maparts ose kuti soprano, tenor, bass zvichipindirana.” “Vamwe vanoimbawo zvavo asi yenyu iri ...

The First United Methodist Church of Saline, Mich., is changing the world for children in Zimbabwe by collecting used children’s book to start two new libraries at primary schools in our country. Their goal is to fill a 20-foot shipping container with books — about 500 boxes. Books are coming ...

According to a recent article in the New York Times, Nolbert Kunonga, an excommunicated Anglican bishop and staunch President Mugabe ally, has escalated a drive to control thousands of Anglican churches, schools and properties across Zimbabwe and southern Africa. “The throne is here,” declared Mr. Kunonga, who has held onto ...

According to Newsday, Deputy Minister of Education, Sports and Culture Lazarus Dokora has condemned unregistered schools which are operating without licences and has called on the police to investigate them. At the dollarisation of the economy when the US dollar came into play, teachers who were being underpaid under government employ chose ...

There has been a bitter war between the Church of the Province of Central Africa, CPCA, and the Church of England over the issue of women’s ordination. Retired Bishop Peter Hatendi in his book tries to explain why more men hold high office in their church. The book tackles the ...

republished from The Commercial Appeal Julia Schuster, who teaches religion at St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School, had grown up in the flower industry in Memphis, and actually delivered flowers to Elvis’ funeral. When her students raised enough money for World Vision in 2009 to build someone a house in Siberia, they wanted ...