Disturbed by the increase of rampant child marriages in Zimbabwe, church leaders from various denominations have joined hands to start an anti-child marriages campaign. Christian Voice International-Zimbabwe (CVI-Z), an umbrella body of church leaders will target mostly young girls. CVI-Z director, Tapfumaneyi Clement Zenda said the church will partner with ...

Zimpraise member, Ellard Cherayi, could soon join South Africa’s award winning choir, Joyous Celebration, it has been established. Cherayi joined Zimpraise in 2014 and is among the leading vocalists who travelled to South Africa last year in November to record a single titled “Humambo hwenyu ngahuuye” with South Africa’s producer ...

MUSLIMS from various backgrounds have been urged to unite and tolerate each other despite minor differences emanating from traditions practised within the faith. The international deputy secretary general of the cultural institution, the World Forum of Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatullah Dr Muhammad Mokhtari’s organisation funded a training workshop for ...

Some of the State witnesses in a rape case in which Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader, Prophet Walter Magaya has been facing, are allegedly trying to extort him of $500 000 for them to testify in his favour in the event that the clergy’s trial proceeds, it has been ...

PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya’s New Year prophecy has received mixed reactions from civil society groups, opposition parties and the ruling Zanu PF party. Magaya, in his New Year’s message on Sunday, predicted turmoil in four Southern African countries, including Zimbabwe, and the imminent death of ...

SOUTH Africa-­based Harvest Breakthrough Ministries Apostle Lukiah Borerwe says Zimbabwe is in complete darkness and will continue to sink deeper into turmoil “if people fail to repent and seek the heart of God now”. Apostle Borerwe made headlines last week when she and her followers staged a prayer crusade in ...

Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya has predicted political and economic turmoil in four Southern African countries – including Zimbabwe – this year and urged the respective governments to brace for sporadic outbreaks of public anger. The youthful preacher also cryptically said that he had seen in ...

The use of anointing oil as a tool to heal those with afflictions has been associated with the fast-rising men of the cloth, who lead different Pentecostal denominations. Believers have embraced the use of oil, believed to possess the power to cure illnesses, boost businesses and stabilise struggling marriages, among ...

A RUWA-BASED Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor, accused of raping a 22-year-old congregant, was yesterday placed off remand after the State failed to provide him with a trial date. Oliver Makomo, attached to the Springvale Assembly, had, through his lawyer, Nickiel Mushangwa, applied for refusal of further remand after the ...

A 33-YEAR-OLD self-proclaimed cleric has been arraigned at the Gokwe Magistrates’ Court charged with raping a congregant during a “healing” session. The suspect, Samson Madhuyu, who leads the Masimba Apostolic Church, was not asked to plead when he appeared last week before regional magistrate, Amos Maturure, who remanded him to ...