updated on June 23, 2013 “A core value of my faith is to welcome the stranger, the refugee, the internally displaced, the other. ..I will challenge others, even leaders in my faith community, to do the same,” begins joint declaration “Welcoming the Stranger: Affirmations for Faith Leaders”  that the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, I went to see prominent Zimbabwean director and producer Stephen Tayengwa Chigorimbo (62). Some of you might not know that Chigorimbo is also an elder with a Pentecostal church. He goes to Apostolic Faith Mission in Harare’s Avonlea suburb. We talked about faith, inter-religious dialogue and developing media skills to communicate ...

The Islamic Mission center in the city of Kwekwe, Midlands Province, is lagging behind in its operations of assisting the children in the community to pay school fees. Many other Muslim-run mission centers all over Zimbabwe face an array of challenges. Shaikh Abdullah Y. Faqeeh, who is the administrator at the Islamic ...

Bulawayo residents conducted a four-hour prayer session, starting at an open space used by the Seventh-Day Adventist church (SDA) to cleanse the Cowdray Park suburb of suspected satanism. Last September, a 16-year-old girl stunned residents by confessing that she was part of a 60 member satanic cult that has killed 38 people in ...

Villagers in Makoni, Manicaland Province, are living in fear of losing their cash and cattle after a group of self-styled traditional healers called Dombodvuku invaded the area in a witchhunt to allegedly cleanse the area of bad omens and goblins. In exchange for this ‘cleansing’ exercise the Dombodvuku traditional healers ...

When we meet in a New York café, Stella Cohen is far from home, which is Harare, Zimbabwe. She’s also far from the roots of her cooking, which is the island of Rhodes, in Greece. But for Cohen, a cookbook writer, artist, textile designer and communal leader, the past has ...

by Ibrahim Mpache There is a lot that is required to make things collaborate in the faith sector in Zimbabwe. On top of the list is to avail such platforms that can facilitate dialogue among religions. With the imminent effects of globalisation, we cannot afford to isolate each other. We ...