Anglicans

Rev. Dzavo: Anglicans place hope on Archbishop’s visit

September 13, 2011
The Anglican Church in  Zimbabwe, that is currently under siege after a court ruling in favor of renegade bishop Nolbert Kunonga, hopes to get moral support and to set the record straight on homosexuality with the visit of the Church head Dr. Rowan Williams, to arrive in  Zimbabwe in October. Accused ...

Mission staff evicted, bishop robbed, as Archbishop of Canterbury plans to visit Zimbabwe

September 12, 2011
The Anglican Church in Zimbabwe is living through a tumultuous period of internal conflict. Previously, RelZim.org reported that the supporters of the breakaway bishopNolbert Kunonga, armed with a recent court ruling, have given Anglican sisters and the administrator a notice to vacate Sherry Creeps, an orphanage in Chikwakwa (50 km from Harare) that shelters 100 children. According to ...

Kunonga supporters invade orphanage

September 1, 2011
“An orphanage in Chikwakwa has been invaded by Nolbert Kunonga followers and there are five nuns and they are scared of what will happen if Kunonga takes over the orphanage,” said Rev. Clifford Dzavo, the secretary of the Anglican diocese of Harare and Mashonaland. Kunonga’s supporters, armed with a recent court ruling in favour ...

Anglican pastors evicted illegally by Kunonga’s supporters

August 30, 2011
Twenty seven pastors from the Anglican Church of  Zimbabwe have been kicked out of their homes by supporters of the renegade bishop Nolbert Kunonga since the Supreme Court ruling that put the properties of the Church in the hands of the disobedient clergy. In an interview with The Zimbabwean Reverend Clifford Dzavo the Diocese ...

Anglicans file constitutional appeal

August 26, 2011
The fight for the control of the Anglican Church in Harare has taken a new twist after the  Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA)  filed a Constitutional appeal, challenging a recent order  by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku giving temporary custodianship of church properties to excommunicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga. According to appeal papers ...

Mugabe: beware of false prophets

August 22, 2011
 President Robert Mugabe has urged Zimbabweans to be wary of false prophets and fake traditional healers who are swindling people of their hard-earned cash on the pretext that they will bring them fortunes. Speaking at the burial of  retired general Solomon  Mujuru, who died in a mysterious fire at his ...

Supreme Court gives bishop Kunonga custodianship of Anglican Church’s assets

August 12, 2011
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the Bishop Chad Gandiya faction of the Anglican Church in Harare, ruling that excommunicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga remains the custodian of all the Church’s assets for the interim period until the matter is finalized in the courts. In a ruling done in ...

Kunonga claims church properties in Masvingo Diocese

August 12, 2011
According to the Worthy News, excommunicated Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga recently claimed on TV that he was in charge of a popular shrine and all churches in the Diocese of Masvingo. Kunonga appeared on national television station ZBC TV declaring that he had taken over the Arthur Shearly Cripps Shrine ...

New book studies healing ministries in Zimbabwe

August 1, 2011
Pretoria-based Orthodox deacon Stephen Hayes sent me this link about a recent publication by Unisa Press on healing ministry in Zimbabwe. Entitled African Initiatives in Healing Ministry, this book is a fruit of collaboration between Lilian Dube, who was the first African woman to earn a D.Th. (1999) from Stellenbosch ...

National Gallery in Harare to celebrate early mission schools’ crafters

July 13, 2011
Until the end of July, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe is presenting an exhibition “Returning to Early Conversations”. It touches on the history of contemporary art in Zimbabwe which stretches way back when there was no formal art gallery. RelZim.org readers may find the exhibit particularly interesting because of its relation ...