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TD Jakes confirms Zim trip

July 21, 2017
PROMINENT United States preacher and senior pastor of the Potter’s House, Thomas Dexter Jakes — popularly known as TD Jakes — said he was excited about his maiden visit to Zimbabwe as a guest at the International Gospel and Music Festival scheduled for September 5 to 9 at the National ...

Mount Pleasant SDA church buildings gutted by fire

July 21, 2017
TWO Seventh Day Adventist Church buildings in Harare’s Mount Pleasant area were early this week gutted by fire with the damage estimated to be running into a hundred thousand dollars. The church was however quick to distance the unfortunate occurrence to any malicious act by anyone at a time the ...

‘Majority believe in the spirit world’

July 12, 2017
MOST Zimbabweans conceptualise their life experiences in a spiritual context through which they usually ascribe misfortunes to a form of witchcraft, a local study has revealed. The findings were drawn from a research paper titled “Exploring the religio-cultural beliefs and practices of witchcraft in contemporary Zimbabwe” by Dr Sophia Chirongoma. ...

AFM celebrates matriarch pioneers

July 11, 2017
THE Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe’s Harare South Assembly last week celebrated its matriarchs who spearheaded the expansion of the province from its infancy. The eight pioneers are Mesdames Rosina Mutemererwa, Miriam Chiangwa, Winnet Murefu, Rosemary Shumbambiri, Ileen Munjeri, Margaret Mazadza, Grace Magaya, Tabeth Chiweshe and Josephine Madziyire. They received ...

Christian vote campaign launched

July 10, 2017
A group of churches in Zimbabwe has joined hands and launched a massive campaign to galvanise Christians to vote ahead of the make or break 2018 general elections. The campaign which was held recently at the Zimbabwe Council of Churches headquarters in Harare, the  consortium of churches said, will put ...

Ndanga leaves for US clergymen leadership conference

July 10, 2017
NEWLY-APPOINTED world peace ambassador for the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and chairman of the International Commission of Religious Leaders (ICRL), Johannes Ndanga, is today scheduled to leave for the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC) in New York. Ndanga, who heads the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe, was appointed UPF ambassador ...

Zim police quizz Magaya over christian vote campaign

July 6, 2017
ZIMBABWEAN police on Wednesday 05 July 2017 quizzed Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya over the launch of the Christian Vote campaign aimed at mobilising Christians to participate in the 2018 general elections and shun violence. Bishop Magaya reported at Harare Central Police Station accompanied by his lawyer ...

Magaya cleans Harare

July 5, 2017
Popular prophet , Walter Magaya, who is the founder  of the PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, last week took to the streets of Harare with his congregation cleaning the once Sunshine City. The charismatic leader said the exercise was part of his deliverance ministry since some of the people ...

Respect religious diversity of football players

July 5, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS to Zimbabwe’s senior men football team’s emphatic win over Liberia at the National Sports Stadium in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. More credit should be given to the technical team led by coach Norman Mapeza and the players led by the captain, Knowledge Musona. This week, it ...

Schools are not churches: Dokora

July 5, 2017
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister, Dr Lazarus Dokora has said schools are not churches and so all religious beliefs should be given the same respect at all learning institutions. In an interview with The Sunday Mail Society, Dr Dokora said: “Stakeholders in the education sector should be able to separate ...