The Standard deputy editor Walter Marwizi was granted an exclusive interview with Archbishop Robert Ndlovu. Archbishop Ndlovu heads the Harare archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church which covers 63,555 square kilometres and boasts a Catholic population of close to 500,000 people. WM: What is the state of Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe: Is it growing ...

The Reverend Thabani Ndlovu knew the words wouldn’t come easy. So he practiced: “I’m HIV positive,” he would tell himself. “I’m a pastor and I’m HIV positive.” On the day he worked up the nerve to say it out loud to his congregation in Hwange, the backlash was almost immediate. “Some of ...

Newsday reports that the Italian  NGO COSV Zimbabwe (Coordinating Committee of the Organisation for Voluntary Service), which used to run a vibrant HIV project in Hwange area, stopped last year and an official confirmed this. A Catholic nun, who works as a nurse at St Patrick’s Mission Hospital near Hwange, ...

 The story of development and community empowerment projects ever carried out in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North would not be complete without giving credit to a Roman Catholic missionary Fr. Odilo Weeger. Today the province of Matabeland North, boasts one of the intact and state-of-the-art rural hospitals, St Luke’s, situated in the ...

Thousands of Catholics thronged the Roman Catholic Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Bulawayo yesterday to pay  last tribute to the late Father Ricardo da Villa, who died last Saturday  aged  66. Fr. Ricardo of the Order of Spanish Missionary Institute (SMI), who was the parish priest at St Antony’s in a ...