AN emerging gospel artiste, Admire Nago (23), who recently released his debut six-track album, Tariro, has urged Zimbabweans to pray for divine intervention so that God can restore normalcy in the country. The Masvingo-based artiste and Alaz Band front man said he was moved by the current challenges facing the ...

HARARE provincial magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe yesterday relaxed some of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Walter Magaya’s bail reporting conditions for alleged rape after the State conceded that he was not a flight risk. Magaya, who is being accused of sexually abusing a female congregant, had been initially ordered to ...

A gender based violence policy for Apostolic and Zionist churches was launched last Tuesday to fight heinous abuse that women and girls in the faith have been exposed to.lt emerged that female virgins and non-virgins have been paraded in church, while there has also been forced fasting, genital mutilation and ...

TO some, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya (52), who is visually impaired, could be a charity case deserving nothing except pity. To President Robert Mugabe’s government, he could be a rogue cleric who has abandoned the pulpit to dabble in national politics. But to many who have seen his divine activism grow ...

President Robert Mugabe yesterday took Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to task for reportedly selling land earmarked for youths housing to Prophet Walter Magaya and political bigwigs. Prophet Magaya leads the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries that has pledged to build 20 000 housing units ...

IN Eucharistic celebrations rich with episcopal tradition, Archbishop of Harare, His Grace Reverend Robert Christopher Ndlovu ordained Monsignor Paul Horan of the Carmelite order as the new bishop of Mutare diocese. Thousands of priests, deacons, religious leaders and lay people from different walks of life joyously gathered at Mary Mount ...

THE booming voice of Apostle Rodney Chipoyera, the pastor of the Kingdom Prosperity Ministries, fills a decrepit cinema-­turned­-church in Harare. Yes, times are tough, he tells his congregants, who sit in broken chairs wearing their Sunday best. The country may be bust, but if you stop tithing—giving a full tenth ...

Village heads in Zaka are being tapped to help mend bridges in their communities by taking the lead in peace building initiatives. It was discovered that tension between the traditional leaders themselves emanating from suspected differing political persuasions was splitting their respective people. A peace club set up with the ...

Ward 4 citizens in Mutasa district in Manicaland province have petitioned the Mutasa District Administrator seeking their right to freedom of worship as stipulated in the country’s constitution. The constitution gives every Zimbabwean citizen the freedom of thought, opinion, religion or belief and freedom to practice and propagate and give ...

Several church groups are expected to take to the streets of Harare tomorrow to protest against the government before submitting a petition to Parliament calling for a motion to impeach President Robert Mugabe over his failure to arrest the current challenges facing the country. Among the groups expected to participate ...