Roman Catholics

Mayobodo Catholics bemoan departure of Capuchin priests

January 4, 2012
Members of Mayobodo’s Our Lady of Loreto Roman Catholic parish under St Anne’s Brunapeg Mission near the Botswana border (Matabeleland South), have bemoaned the departure of the Franciscan Capuchin fathers in the area saying it has dealt a heavy blow on the growth of the rural church and weakened people’s faith. ...

What the Pope’s document on Africa means for Zimbabwe

January 4, 2012
Between  Nov. 18-20,  the head of the Roman Catholic Church Benedict XVI was on a visit to Benin, the pope’s second outing to Africa. The official motive was to present the conclusions from a 2009 Synod of Bishops for Africa, which Benedict did in the form of a 138-page document titled Africae Munus, ...

Catholic Pope praises Africans’ ‘joy in being Christian’ in his annual state of the church address

December 26, 2011
reprinted with corrections and additions from AsiaNews.it Last August about 100 Catholic youth from Zimbabwe went to Spain to take part in the 26th edition of the World Youth Day. Recently Pope Benedict XVI summed up the achievements of this global Catholic event and pointed to the African faith as ...

CCJP to people of good will: more attention needed in areas with contaminated water

December 14, 2011
The Roman Catholic church says Zimbabwe’s chronic water shortages should be declared a national disaster. The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace retains that collapsed water and sanitation facilities will cause “more suffering and deaths” as annual rains begin. Nearly 250 cases of the waterborne disease typhoid were treated in ...

Governance Specialist: The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace Zimbabwe (CCJPZ) Deadline: 11 December 2011

December 10, 2011
Based in Hwange, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe Ten-month placement (with the possibility of renewal) Please note that for this placement we are only able to consider applicants who are fluent in Tonga, Ndebele, Nambya and/or Shona. The Progressio Development Worker (DW) will work as a Governance Specialist with the Catholic Commission ...

Sex and religion in Zimbabwe

December 1, 2011
 reprinted from Jewel Zimbabwe (July 2011) by Rebecca Hodes Zimbabwe is experiencing a religious revival, but the sticking point has always been sex, with a consumer culture that celebrates the joys of sex-on-tap – stilettos in the air, thongs to the wind – what can religion teach us about sex that ...

On Catholics’ solidarity with Zimbabwe’s Anglican community

November 2, 2011
This report is reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #166, a Jescom publication. If you ask party members and leaders they are all against violence as a political tactic. In the meantime, political intimidation and terror continue. The mere running around of those well-known agitators in large groups, singing militant songs, is ...

Nature gives to the one who is tired with work

October 31, 2011
reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #166, a Jescom publication. “Makandiwa cashes in” was a recent headline. Religion has become a business. It seems to be as fraudulent as stock exchange speculation where people make money not by production, but by playing with figures. The “prophet” promises prosperity if the gullible pay ...

Catholic Inter-Parish Quiz in Harare (Nov 25)

October 29, 2011

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Archdiocese of Harare of the Roman Catholic Church invites you to an inter-parish quiz. Date: 25 November 2011 Time: 6 pm till late Venue: Jubilee Archdiocesan Hall Fee: 15 USD per person and 15o USD per table  Admission fee includes a three-course meal ...

DOSSIER OF ABUSES COMMITTED AGAINST THE ANGLICAN DIOCESES OF ZIMBABWE CHURCH OF THE PROVINCE OF CENTRAL AFRICA

October 18, 2011
Below, RelZim.org provides full text of the ten-page Dossier about the persecution of the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa that Archbishop Rowan Williams submitted to President Robert Mugabe at the meeting in Harare last week. As reported by The Herald on October 12, Rev. Admire Chisango of the Church of the Province of Zimbabwe ...