national reconciliation

Four church umbrella bodies pray for all stakeholders’ constitution conference

October 16, 2012
Four church umbrella bodies on Saturday gathered to pray for a peaceful all stakeholders’ constitution conference to be held from October 21 to 23. Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) Secretary General Rev Solomon Zwana said, “We are here as churches that fall under four bodies that is Union for Development of ...

Catholic bishops: very few politicians crossed border to witness situation of diaspora Zimbabweans

October 9, 2012
People who fled the country during times of political turmoil are still reluctant to come back because the government has failed to create an enabling environment for their return, the Catholic Bishops Conference has said. The conference, which is made up of the eight Roman Catholic bishops in the country, said ...

Plumtree Community Welcomes CCSF Peace Concert

September 18, 2012
The Church and Civil Society Forum (CCSF) in conjunction with Bulawayo Agenda held a Peace Concert in Plumtree’s Ezemnyama village (by the border with Botswana) on Saturday. In a bid to foster peace in the village which was traumatized by election violence the Christian and civil society saw it fit to ...

Catholic Archbishop Robert Ndlovu on justice, lack of trust, Pius Ncube and Robert Mugabe

August 9, 2012
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 ...

Peace concert in Lupane attracts thosands villagers

July 9, 2012
 Bulawayo Agenda, a civil society organisation, in collaboration with churches recently organized a peace concert in Matabeleland North, which attracted thousands from Lupane, a district on the road from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls. During the unique concert held under the Church and Civil Society banner, villagers prayed for peace and tranquility to prevail during ...

ESS encourages Church to speak out on political issues affecting government

May 30, 2012
The Ecumenical Support Services (ESS) in partnership with the Netherlands Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation last Friday launched a Development of Theology Dialogue Seriesaimed at encouraging the Church to speak out on political issues affecting the transitional government. “The Church is not doing enough.–That is our concern. And we do not know why. We ...

Police arrest priest after memorial for slain civilians

April 17, 2011
The Associated Press has reported that a government minister and a Roman Catholic priest were arrested and detained by police for holding a memorial service for victims of  the Gukurahundi massacres. Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, a co-minister in the state national healing commission and a member of the former opposition in Zimbabwe’s fragile ...