Acting United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative, Marc Rubin, says his organisation is going to make a scrutiny of the controversial health-seeking behavior of the  members of the apostolic groups to come up with an evidence-based program. “This support will ensure that operational research on a wide range of development aspects (ranging ...

Abiding in Christ Ministries was on a mission trip to Zimbabwe earlier this year,  where the church had an opportunity to teach and equip pastors with the Holy Spirit, help out to 1,000 orphans with school supplies and other much-needed materials. Abiding in Christ Ministries have put together a little video to ...

The Salvation Army says it will expel Dr Paul Thistle from the church if he continues to defy orders to relocate to Canada. This follows reports that Dr Thistle, who was supposed to return to Canada last Sunday, had changed his position and was still in Zimbabwe. Hundreds of people in ...

Outside Howard hospital in Chiweshe (Mashonaland Central), drums throbbed as hundreds of local people — who had gathered there earlier in the day to protest a decision made weeks before to remove the hospital’s head doctor — grew violent, some lobbing rocks through the air as others reportedly overturned a Salvation Army truck. ...

Catholic Relief Services is defending a grant it shared with another aid group that separately funds contraception, which is a violation of church doctrine. The Baltimore-based group that is the Catholic community’s official international humanitarian agency said recently that no private donor money was given to CARE, or to any ...

Christian evangelical groups in the US are attempting a “cultural colonisation” of Africa, opening offices in numerous countries to promote attacks on homosexuality and abortion, according to an investigation by a liberal thinktank. American religious organisations are expanding their operations across the continent, lobbying for conservative policies and laws and ...

About a dozen US volunteers filled a shipping container with medical equipment and supplies recently at the West Georgia Eye Care Center to ship to Zimbabwe in support of ophthalmologist Dr. Stephen Beaty‘s mission work to restore sight to the blind. Beaty, a surgeon with the center, left for Bulawayo ...

 As someone living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Joshua Mavundu would welcome a cure for the disease. He knows intimately its ravages. His weight dropped to 70 pounds before he was tested and put on antiretroviral medication by a Catholic AIDS program in Zimbabwe. Today, he feels healthy ...

It wasn’t until recently that the 8,000 square-foot infrastructure of the Good Samaritan Church in Kadoma even included a rooftop – a needed addition made possible by the helpful hands of local missionaries from the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Oviedo, a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. Although known locally ...

The Canadian-born Zimbabwe-based doctor  Paul Thistle, who runs the Salvation Army’s Howard Hospital (one of the biggest hospital in Mashonaland Central), was in Peterborough, Ontario (Canada) with his family to take part in a fundraiser for the facility. More than 100 people enjoyed a dinner from the Shish Kabob Hut, live ...