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‘Bishop Jakes is a superstar’

September 3, 2017
MY first meeting with Bishop (T.D) Jakes was at a conference in Texas. What happened is in the early 90s, “I called it the mid-90s to 2008 — the conference era” when there were big conferences all over the United States. There were ministries and churches hosting conferences, filling civic ...

TD Jakes spices ZimPraise explosion

September 3, 2017
IT’S all systems go as the five-day gospel and music festival to celebrate, ZimPraise’s 10 years of ministry in song and dance, takes off this Tuesday. Of course, the main highlight is the coming of American charismatic preacher and founder of the Potter’s House, Bishop Thomas Dexter. Since the announcement ...

Makandiwa speaks on VP ‘prophecy’

September 3, 2017
THE United Family International Church (Ufic) caused a stir recently when it released a video of its leader Emmanuel Makandiwa where he is said he have prophesied in April that a senior politician would be poisoned. The video was released soon after Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was airlifted during a rally ...

Ten thousand to attend Jehovah’s Witnesses Provincial Convention

August 31, 2017
The Jehovah’s Witnesses Church last week embarked on a door to door campaign to invite people to  its annual conference that will be held over the weekend. The church is targeting around 10 000 congregants for the two conventions that will be held concurrently in Gweru and Kwekwe. This year’s ...

RCU faculties relocate to campus

August 30, 2017
REFORMED Church University (RCU) vice-chancellor Wiseman Magwa yesterday said some faculties, currently operating from Morgenster Mission, would soon be moved to the university’s newly-completed main campus located seven kilometres outside Masvingo. Magwa expressed optimism that by end of year they would have relocated to the new campus completed recently at ...

Catholics host national youth conference

August 25, 2017
Catholic church recently converged at Kutama College for the national youth conference which was held under the theme “The Might One has done great things for me and holy is his name”. The conference is held after every four years. Speaking in an interview with RelZim at the conference that ...

Do men of cloth need bodyguards?

August 25, 2017
There has been an increase of cases where bodyguards ‘protecting’ local men of the cloth have assaulted and harassed innocent people. In fact, the situation appears as  there is a competition of who has the most beefed up security among the men of the cloth. Interestingly, most of the hired ...

Charles Charamba goes down memory lane

August 25, 2017
In a cutthroat showbiz industry which was infested by Zimbabwean golden generation of musical greats of the 90s, Charles Charamba, a cleanly shaven Mudzi bred boy found himself trying to make a ‘Jerusalem entry’ with a genre which was not only popular but detested by music recording companies. “There were ...

Leading even in death

August 24, 2017
HUNDREDS of members of the Johanne Masowe eChishanu sect strongly hold that Madzibaba Sandros Nhamoyebonde can never be replaced. Madzibaba Sandros died at the age of 41 on July 30, 1994 and the sect has never chosen anyone else to lead them, and they are guided by a group of ...

Prophets, healers face ban

August 24, 2017
PROPHETS, pastors, traditionalists and faith healers will soon be banned from working without a practising certificate from the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council, Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr Aldrin Musiiwa has said. He said the Health Ministry had written to church leaders who are known to perform “miracles” telling ...