Church and AIDS

NAC urges church leaders to play leading role in the fight against AIDS

June 10, 2013
National AIDS Council (NAC) has challenged church leaders to play a leading role in the fight against a scourge of escalating new HIV/AIDS infections. The two-day workshop which took place in Muzarabani — along the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province — recently was attended by the Senator for Muzarabani Constituency, ...

Job announcement: HIV Programme Officer with Zimbabwe Office of Trócaire (Deadline: Jun 11)

May 30, 2013
Trócaire is the Development Agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The Agency works in Zimbabwe under an MoU with the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference. A vacancy for a HIV Programme Officer has arisen within its Zimbabwe Office. The successful candidate will be managed by the Programme Manager and will ...

Seventh-Day Adventists donate blood ahead of Easter holiday

March 28, 2013
A joint collaboration spearheaded by Seventh-Day Adventist church in conjunction with National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has been launched as a driving force to urge the public to donate blood. The event was held at the First Mutual building in the Kwekwe CBD recently. It is this time of the ...

St Ignatius College hosts Youth Against AIDS festival

March 27, 2013
On March 9, Jesuit-run St Ignatius College held its annual Youths Against Aids festival where 268 young people from eight schools participated. The participating schools were: Zimbabwe Republic Police High, Chishawasha Primary, Lord Malvern, St Peter’s Secondary, Oriel Girls High, St Dominic’s Girls High and the hosting school St Ignatius ...

Dying on a Prayer: Preachers tell Zambians to Stop Taking ARVs

March 25, 2013
A trend is emerging in southern Zambia of preachers claiming to be able to cure HIV/AIDS and telling followers to stop taking medication to prove their faith. Over the past few years, Zambia, which has one of the heaviest HIV/AIDS burdens in world, has managed to reduce its HIV/AIDS rate and make ...

Ghanaian prophet deportee to Makandiwa: when you see a scorpion you shouldn’t step on it

March 20, 2013
Crowd-amusing miracles by Zimbabwe’s prophets Emmanuel Makandiwa and Ubert Angel were copied from a Ghanaian prophet who was deported from Zimbabwe in 2007 but is now back. In an interview with RelZim.org, Prophet Osei Tutu who heads the Miracle Gate Church International claimed that many people who were following him before his ...

“If this program succeeds, we are looking at the future of theological research, scholarship and writing in Africa”

February 25, 2013
The two Catholic sisters have never met. They speak different languages. Normally, they’re separated by differences in culture and lifestyle, not to mention about 1,100 miles and the myriad laws and regulations regarding travel and border crossings. But from the first look on Zimbabwean Sr. Annah Nyadombo’s face, you wouldn’t ...

Pastors and HIV+ widows

January 11, 2013
There is a kind of behaviour among Christians that makes the sick — particularly those living with HIV and AIDS — feel judged, condemned, cursed, unloved, dirty and unacceptable. This kind of behaviour fuels stigmatisation and discrimination.   Such uncharitable behaviour (which assumes, for example that everyone who is HIV positive ...

Video: Child choir at Mother of Peace Community in Mutoko

December 19, 2012
Set up in 2004, Mother of Peace Community UK provides funding for the MOPC orphanage in Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province. The orphanage was founded in 1994 in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe. A central part of life in the community is the Roman Catholic Church, although people from any ...

Amai Mugabe should help Zimbabwe’s anointed people of God on a friendly visit to North Korea

December 14, 2012
Donating goods and food at Midlands Children’s Home recently, Zimbabwe’s First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe has challenged Christians to translate their words into action.  Some time before, Grace Mugabe broke down into tears after Pastor David Mabvuramiti dedicated a song to her at the ZAOGA-organized women’s conference at Glamis Arena Stadium in Harare.  The choir sang, “Amai ...