Harare

Harare Diocese spokesperson: Anglicans build new structures around Zimbabwe. Await Supreme Court decision

August 6, 2012
The Anglican Church has started building new structures around Zimbabwe. The church that was evicted from its premises by ex-communicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga awaits a Supreme Court decision next month that could change its fate once again. In an interview with RelZim, Church of the Province of Central Africa Harare Diocese spokesperson Precious Shumba said, even ...

Catholic youths to create Harare archdiocese database in preparation for WYD

August 6, 2012
 by Jacob Shamuyarira With just under a year to go to the World Youth Day, the Archdiocese of Harare World Youth Day Task Force has stepped up preparations for the big event. At least 1,000 youths are expected to go and represent Zimbabwe and meet the Pope in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. ...

AFM conference in Harare (Jun 4-10)

May 29, 2012
Kingdom Life ConferenceDates: June 4-10  Venue: Ellis Robins High School, HarareTime: 6 pm-8:30 pmHost: AFM pastor Reverend H. GotoraSpeakers: Reverend P. Muhamba; Reverend T. Sigauke Contact: 0772656321; 0772929190E-mail/Web: [email protected] ...

Anglican Youth Association of Harare event (May 25)

May 15, 2012
Anglican Youth Association of Harare (AYAH) CPCA invites you to Zaya Exchange Place: St Peter’s Kubatana in HarareDate: May 25 Event includes the following activities: Music exachange: Hymn 117 (Dombo rakatsemurwa), Hymn 118 (Jesu mudisi), Ndebele hymn (234)Sports Exchange Gala: soccer, volleyball, netball, basketball and chess Contact: AYAH Facebook page See related article:  On ...

Singing Video: Arcadia SDA Church choir

April 26, 2012
Zimbabweans are a singing nation. Taken at Arcadia Seventh-Day-Adventist Church in Harare on February 24, 2012, this recording marks the beginning of RelZim column, Singing Video . It is dedicated to Zimbabwean religion-related singing feats that were caught on video by fans, both professional and amateur. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSl9iwE-IRA[/youtube] ...

Former Anglican bishop of Matabeleland ordained Catholic priest in UK

April 25, 2012
reprinted with additions from the Catholic Herald  Robert Mercer, the fourth Anglican bishop of Matabeleland, was ordained a priest for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK end of last month.  The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to ...

Pentecostals go open-air in Harare to preach and sell spiritual literature

February 17, 2012
reprinted with amendments from The Sunday Mail by Pamela Mwachumo Passengers hustle to take their seats on a bus that is ready to depart from the Road Port bus terminal in Harare for Johannesburg, South Africa. Vendors are also not to be outdone as they push their way out of the ...

Catholics launch 2013 World Youth Day fund

February 15, 2012
Some Zimbabweans complained about the way local preparations for the 2011 World Youth Day (WYD) were organized (see World Youth Day – an elite event for the Catholics? and Over 30 Bulawayo youths to participate in the World Youth Day in Madrid). But the event that took place in the Jubilee Hall of ...

CCJP to people of good will: more attention needed in areas with contaminated water

December 14, 2011
The Roman Catholic church says Zimbabwe’s chronic water shortages should be declared a national disaster. The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace retains that collapsed water and sanitation facilities will cause “more suffering and deaths” as annual rains begin. Nearly 250 cases of the waterborne disease typhoid were treated in ...

Mbuya Nehanda tree knocked down by truck

December 8, 2011
Zimbojamreports that there was chaos in Harare’s Josiah Tongogara Avenue yesterday afternoon, after the legendary tree on which the Zimbabwean spirit medium Mbuya Nehanda is said to have been hanged, was knocked down by a truck. A construction worker resurfacing of the road backed into the tree by mistake, resulting ...