Morgan Tsvangirai

Churches pray for peace

May 27, 2013
On Saturday churches from across the country congregated to pray for peace as the country goes towards elections. Since 1998, Intercessors for Zimbabwe, a grouping of churches, has dedicated May 25, as a national day for prayer, seeking repentance, reconciliation, revival and restoration of Zimbabwe which has fresh political wounds ...

Let’s pray for peace, says Tsvangirai

April 28, 2013
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called the church to pray for the country ahead of a potentially explosive election that will be held this year. Speaking to bishops drawn from the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe, the Anglican Church, the Salvation Army, the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe, and the ...

100 prophets claim Mugabe election win

April 22, 2013
ROBERT Mugabe will win the next elections and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai will lose leadership of his MDC-T party, Zimbabwe’s largest church organisation claimed on Sunday, citing “prophecies”. Bishop Johannes Ndanga, leader of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) – an ecumenical body of over 100 indigenous apostolic ...

“Put your faith in God”, Tsvangirai urges Zimbabweans

April 21, 2013
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Saturday urged thousands of people that thronged Chinhoyi stadium to champion peace and put their faith in God not in earthly powers. Speaking at a peace-building event organised by the Zimbabwe Pastors Fellowship, Tsvangirai urged Zimbabweans to uphold peace. “You must not put your faith in ...

Tsvangirai urges Christians to register and vote

March 15, 2013
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today urged church leaders to go and commend members of their congregations to register and vote in the election that is going to be held later this year. “The last thing that l want to talk to you about is the issue of registering. People should ...

An urgent letter to God: From a Zimbabwean in the year of elections

February 22, 2013
I haven’t written to you before, although I always speak to you, I thought this time I would write you and I pray that you will reply my letter soon. Dear God, I want to thank you for the blessings that you have endowed upon Zimbabwe, my country. I want ...

MDC draws attention to African Apostolic Church leader’s ‘political’ prayers

February 21, 2013
A 95-year-old church leader commanding a million-plus flock of believers has crossed swords with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, which accuses him of undermining the party amid concerns that Zanu-PF is abusing churches. The MDC is denouncing Paul Mwazha, leader of the massively-followed African Apostolic Church, for allegedly propping President ...

Gospel Assembly Church pastor asked to leave because of Tsvangirai

February 5, 2013
A pastor, dubbed Morgan “Tsvangirai’s pimp”, for allegedly connecting Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister with a woman from his church, has been defrocked. Lazarus Muriritirwa, who doubled up as a principal director in Morgan Tsvangirai’s office as well as being leader of the Johannesburg branch of the Gospel Assembly Church, was asked to ...

An open letter to Prophet Makandiwa

January 31, 2013
Dear Apostle/Prophet Makandiwa, You were recently named the most influential young person of 2012. This was high praise indeed and a testimony to the force of your expanding influence. I am a religious woman and I too have flirted with the Pentecostal persuasion. I point this out for no other ...

St John Apostolic Church bishop: Tsvangirai needs to learn Zimbabwe’s recent history

August 27, 2012
Mhondoro-Sydney Mabhiza, Bishop of the St John Apostolic Church (one of Zimbabwe’s African Initiated Churches), abused the pulpit earlier this month to attack Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai saluting him as a “tea boy.” Speaking at a conference that was held in Madzongwe village in Mubaira, Mabhiza, who is also a war ...