A consortium of Christians in Bulawayo have established a monthly Christian magazine that is set to hit the streets of Zimbabwe in November. RelZim.org caught up with the magazine’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Wellington Mugwagwa, who explained to us that the publication Set Alight is meant to be propagating nothing but Jesus ...

This report is reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #165, a Jescom publication. Some unknown “artists” managed to get into our parish centre and paint their party slogans on the walls. Our people were very annoyed. Within 24 hours these “works of art” were scraped off and painted over. A lively discussion ...

This Roman Catholic nun from Ireland did what every foreign-born missionary ought to do: she prepared the way for her locally-born successors. Norma Eileen Rafferty was born in Ireland in 1925. She took her first vows as a Dominican Missionary Sister in Greenwich/England in 1956, now called Sr. Mary Vincent ...

Professor Ezra Chitando, a religious studies lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, has said the Church and religion in general are becoming a vehicle to engage government and are increasingly playing a significant role in the country’s political terrain. Speaking at a Southern African Political Economy Series (SAPES) policy dialogue forum on the ...

Newsday reports that the Italian  NGO COSV Zimbabwe (Coordinating Committee of the Organisation for Voluntary Service), which used to run a vibrant HIV project in Hwange area, stopped last year and an official confirmed this. A Catholic nun, who works as a nurse at St Patrick’s Mission Hospital near Hwange, ...

According to The Herald, legal experts and some religious leaders have called for the scrapping of the death penalty, calling it irrational and extreme. They suggested the replacement of the death penalty with life imprisonment. This comes at a time when 55 murderers, one of whom was convicted 13-years-ago, are ...

 The story of development and community empowerment projects ever carried out in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North would not be complete without giving credit to a Roman Catholic missionary Fr. Odilo Weeger. Today the province of Matabeland North, boasts one of the intact and state-of-the-art rural hospitals, St Luke’s, situated in the ...

 This report is reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #163, a Jescom publication. Julia wants to get married to her husband in church, but he is unemployed and cannot pay “roora/lobola”. Her parents are dirt poor and hope for some cattle/’mombe’ or the equivalent in cash. The purpose of ...

 reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #163, a Jescom publication  based on information provided by Fr. Tony Bex and Fr. Johnson’s homily at the Requiem Mass in  Mt Pleasant parish church Fr. Patrick ‘Paddy’ Moloney, SJ (1920 – 2011) was editor of Mukai, the Jesuit in-house publication for theological reflection, ...

My Catholic friends, here is a question that has been tormenting me since I first heard about the enormous efforts done by the parish in Entumbane to raise enough funds to send their only representative to Madrid for the World Youth Day this month. Is this spiritual event, in the ...