Pentecostals

Zimbabwe’s Ushahidi: 5,000 spiritual leaders to receive training in monitoring of political violence

June 13, 2013
Southern Africa Crisis Management Agency (SACMA) and Christian Action Trust Zimbabwe (CAT-Zim) have come together to launch a grassroots anchored peace initiative ahead Zimbabwe’s watershed elections this year. To lay the groundwork, the organisations are training church pastors and spiritual leaders in electoral processes and monitoring of political violence across ...

NAC urges church leaders to play leading role in the fight against AIDS

June 10, 2013
National AIDS Council (NAC) has challenged church leaders to play a leading role in the fight against a scourge of escalating new HIV/AIDS infections. The two-day workshop which took place in Muzarabani — along the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province — recently was attended by the Senator for Muzarabani Constituency, ...

Madzibaba Nicholas Zakaria quits apostolic church

May 18, 2013
Sungura musician Nicholas “Madzibaba” Zacharia has announced his desire to join a Pentecostal church, Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries, led by Prophet Walter Magaya from the Mugodhi Apostolic Sect. The ‘Kuwanda Kwemakereke’ song-maker said the move was meant to strengthen his spiritual understanding. “The move is meant to strengthen ...

Bulawayo prophet commands to fall from heaven, produces miracle airtime in church

May 11, 2013
There was pandemonium and shock at a little known pentecostal church in Bulawayo, Christ Liberty Ministries, when miracle money in the form of airtime came to light. The church, believed to only have about a 100 members, rents a building along Fife Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The building ...

Bulawayo pastors up against Satanism

April 11, 2013
Bulawayo pastors on Sunday prayed against escalating cases linked to Satanism at a gathering comprised of hordes of worshipers from different denominations who converged at Amazulu Sports Stadium for a gospel extravaganza. A few cases of Satanism have been reported in Bulawayo unlike other cities, but the city’s clergy took ...

Dying on a Prayer: Preachers tell Zambians to Stop Taking ARVs

March 25, 2013
A trend is emerging in southern Zambia of preachers claiming to be able to cure HIV/AIDS and telling followers to stop taking medication to prove their faith. Over the past few years, Zambia, which has one of the heaviest HIV/AIDS burdens in world, has managed to reduce its HIV/AIDS rate and make ...

Harvest House International hosts regional conference in Gweru

March 22, 2013
The Midlands branch of Harvest House International Church recently hosted an annual conference which ran under the title ‘Solid Foundations’. Friday night saw hundreds of believers thronging the Midlands Hotel for an encounter with their creator, while those who were not able to get seats in the main auditorium sat ...

Video: Mudiwa Mutandwa performs ‘Ndaita Mari’

March 13, 2013
Prophet Uebert Angel has bought a Mercedes Benz C200 Kompressor for his spiritual son, musician Mudiwa Mutandwa.The gift was a recognition of Mudiwa’s impressive musical year that saw him bagging three awards and ministering the Word of God through song. ...

Musindo campaigns for Zanu-PF in Bulawayo

March 12, 2013
Reverend Obadiah Msindo, a celebrated Zanu-PF clergy; who is also the founder for Destiny for Africa Network is on a ‘vote buying’ escapade, promising houses to youths and loan schemes in a bid to garner votes for the former ruling party. Recently Msindo took his gospel to Jesus Life International ...

Uebert Angel produces ‘miracle money’ in South Africa

March 1, 2013
Pentecostal prophet Uebert Angel recently took his miracle sessions to South Africa where it is claimed congregants received miracle money while dysfunctional electrical gadgets allegedly started working. Angel, who together with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa have been criticised for their antics, declared that God wanted to prove that everything was possible “in ...