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Churches demand to lead the reconciliation process, say government workers, activists not neutral

February 11, 2016
CHURCH leaders have said government workers and civil society organisations dealing with human rights abuses should be excluded from the National Peace and Reconciliation processes as their participation would dent the results of the investigations. The recommendation was made at a policy forum which was organised by the National Transitional ...

PHD stampede inquest postponed

February 11, 2016
THE inquest into the stampede which left 11 people dead at a Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries all-night prayer meeting at Mbizo Stadium in Kwekwe last year failed to resume yesterday after prosecutor Salome Maunganidze fell sick. The matter, which opened on January 28 with police and council blaming ...

Jesuit Education holds Curriculum Review Workshop

February 10, 2016
Teachers from different Jesuit schools met at Silveira House on the 22nd of January for an education curriculum review workshop which was organized by the Jesuit Education Office. The workshop aimed at reviewing the existing curriculum and to seek ways of employing Jesuit values in enhancing quality of education in ...

Church, Dzamara family to hold a joint demo and congregation

February 10, 2016
The Zimbabwe Devine Destiny church in partnership with the missing Itai Dzamara family said that they are planning to hold a massive demonstration and a congregation where they will be celebrating the life of the disappeared Journalists-cum social rights activist Itai Dzamara. Patson Dzamara brother to the missing Itai Dzamara ...

‘We must never lose the sense of sin’- Archbishop Ndlovu

February 9, 2016
“As we celebrate the Jubilee Year of Mercy, we must never lose the sense of sin,” said His Grace, the Archbishop of Harare Rev. Robert Ndlovu. “We should re-examine our conscience, acknowledge our sins and confess them,” he said in his homily during confirmation mass at Our Lady of the ...

‘Every woman must be a pr_ostitute in bed to keep her man,’ says Magaya

February 9, 2016
Prophet Walter Magaya says every wife must be a hooker in bed to keep their husbands. The Prophet told women gathered for a Ladies Night that : “S.ex is like a salary, everyone thinks it’s better elsewhere when in actual fact it is not. The reason why your husband has ...

Dominicans celebrate 800th anniversary of the Dominican order

February 8, 2016
The Dominican Order in Zimbabwe on Saturday 23 January gathered at St Johns Emerald Hill School, marking the Jubilee Year of 800th Anniversary of the official foundation of the Order by Pope Honorius III in 1216. The celebrations were themed, “Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel” ...

Gweru and Mutare Dioceses open Holy Doors of Mercy

February 7, 2016
Bishops for Gweru and Mutare Dioceses on Saturday the 16th of January opened the Doors of Mercy at St Theresa Cathedral in Gweru and at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Mutare respectively following the inauguration of Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy by Pope Francs on the 8th of December 2015. Gweru ...

Youths in Harare celebrate St Agnes’ Feast day at Canisius Parish

February 6, 2016
Archdiocese of Harare Agnes and Alois Guild on Saturday 23 January celebrated in a spirited all night gathering, the Feast of St Agnes day at St Canisius Parish in Marlborough. In his theme talk presentation, Minister Brian Barreta enjoined the attending members that they should not live to fulfil earthly ...

Holy Name Parish celebrates Thanksgiving mass for Fr. Kushamba.

February 6, 2016
Parishioners, family and friends of Fr. Tafadzwa Ronald Kushamba, congregated at Holy Name Mabelreign parish on Sunday the 17th of January to celebrate Fr. Kushamba’s “home-coming” mass since his ordination on the 26th of June 2015 in Madison Diocese in the United States of America. The new priest urged the ...