The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe in partnership with the Church and Civil Society Forum (CCSF) invites interested artists and poets to participate in the “Learning Centres for Peace Initiative” by writing and producing a Peace Anthem. The anthem will be used as a key message during the Peace Campaigns hosted by ...

Two police officers from Kezi, a village in Matobo district of Matabeleland South, interrupted a church gathering at Mabonyane where pastors and the Christian community were commemorating the World Peace Day. The police ordered the congregation to desist from discussing politics. Christian Alliance organised the meeting aimed at discussing means by which pastors ...

A coalition of church organisations have warned government of massive protests in Bulawayo as people revolt against the water crisis being experienced in the country’s second largest city. The water shortages have also caused the closure of several companies, resulting in hundreds of employees being redundant. Christian Alliance, a coalition ...

Thousands of Catholics attended the funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Henry Ernst Karlen, CMM in Bulawayo recently. Archbishop Karlen, who became the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Bulawayo in 1994, died aged 90 at Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday, October 28. Known as the “Father of Bulawayo Diocese” for his work building the church in Matabeleland, Karlen ...

NewsDay reports that Roman Catholic Father Fidelis Mukonori, SJ, President Robert Mugabe’s spiritual father, described engaging in hate speech as primitive. “Hate speech is primitive. And this is 2012. Hate speech is not acceptable,” he said during a workshop on the state of journalism in Harare  recently. Mukonori said there was need to deliberately ...

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 ...

Diakonia is a Swedish development organisation working in more than 30 countries worldwide. In Zimbabwe, Diakonia supports community- and faith-based organisations in a national programme focusing on Strategic Peace Building, with a strong focus on gender equality and the role of women as strategic peace builders. ObjectiveThe Strategic Peace Building ...

The Church and Civil Society Forum is in support of peace and reconciliation and calls for political parties to dismantle a culture of violence that was inherited from the colonial era. Pastor Anglistone Sibanda of the Word of Faith Ministries, a representative of the CCSF, told Relzim.org that the colonial era ...

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 ...

Zanu-PF Mhondoro-Ngezi Member of Parliament, Bright Matonga, is partnering with various church leaders in his constituency preaching the gospel of peace ahead of elections likely to be held next year. “Basically the meeting was meant to encourage communities not to fight. We are preaching the message of peace and sensitizing ...