Members of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church in Bocha, Marange in eastern Zimbabwe have received Robert Mugabe’s campaign maize seed under the Presidential Well-Wishers Special Agricultural Inputs Scheme. The inputs earmarked for the church’s farm project were handed over by Chimanimani Senator Monica Mutsvangwa who thanked the church members for ...

At least 45 bishops and pastors from the Midlands Province toured the Chimoio shrines in Mozambique around Christmas time and declared the land redistribution programme initiated by Zanu-PF as a necessary move that should not be reversed. They said reversing the land reform programme or backtracking on the indigenisation and ...

Donating goods and food at Midlands Children’s Home recently, Zimbabwe’s First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe has challenged Christians to translate their words into action.  Some time before, Grace Mugabe broke down into tears after Pastor David Mabvuramiti dedicated a song to her at the ZAOGA-organized women’s conference at Glamis Arena Stadium in Harare.  The choir sang, “Amai ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Anglican Archbishop of York (second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury) has warned against easing sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Dr John Sentamu said in an article in The Times that he was “not convinced […] the time had come to weaken international opposition to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Freeth is a Zimbabwean farmer and human rights activist from the district of Chegutu (ca 120 km southwest of Harare). Together with his father-in-law, Mike Campbell, he rose to international prominence after 2008 for suing the government for violating rule of law and human rights in Zimbabwe. This process was documented in the 2009 film Mugabe and the ...

Ted Rogers: Jesuit, Social Pioneer and AIDS Activist in Zimbabwe – A MemoirDate: August, 2Time: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm Venue: St Anne’s Chapel (next to the Monastery Church), Mariannhill, (South Africa?)Speakers: South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban Wilfrid Napier OFM, Professor Philippe Denis OPContact: 031 201 ...

President Robert Mugabe has been drawn into the fight for the control of the Anglican Harare diocese, with some politicians promising members of the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) that they will facilitate access to him. The feud between the Bishop Chad Gandiya-led diocese of the CPCA and the Anglican ...