At least 30 Roman Catholic youths from the Archdiocese of Bulawayo will be part of over 100 young people that will represent Zimbabwe at the 26th edition of the World Youth Day (WYD) in Spain this month.  In an interview with RelZim.org at his office, the Archbishop of Bulawayo Alex ...

Pretoria-based Orthodox deacon Stephen Hayes sent me this link about a recent publication by Unisa Press on healing ministry in Zimbabwe. Entitled African Initiatives in Healing Ministry, this book is a fruit of collaboration between Lilian Dube, who was the first African woman to earn a D.Th. (1999) from Stellenbosch ...

There are approximately 100, 000 visually disabled people in Zimbabwe. And two of them this week walked out to a storm of applause from the conference hall at Crowne Plaza hotel in Harare. Yesterday, July 26, a Dominican nun Sister Catherine Jackson, director of Dorothy Duncan Centre for the blind ...

Until the end of July, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe is presenting an exhibition “Returning to Early Conversations”. It touches on the history of contemporary art in Zimbabwe which stretches way back when there was no formal art gallery. RelZim.org readers may find the exhibit particularly interesting because of its relation ...

A recent cover story in The Tablet, the international Catholic weekly (June 25), was titled ‘Fear in the Pulpit’. It details the challenges facing Zimbabwe’s Catholic Church, which it says has been branded ‘an enemy of the state’ by Robert Mugabe and his ‘secret police.’ The Catholic Church made news ...

According to Catholic News Service, the national director of Zimbabwe’s Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace said he fears that priests could be victimized after a recent commission statement urging political leaders to intervene to stop politically motivated skirmishes in the capital, Harare. Bishops and priests were targeted after the ...

Music is part and parcel of every nation’s identity as it carries with itself beliefs cultural values and norms of a nation. Zimbabwe is one of African nations that are rich in gospel music, reflective of the Southern African country’s identity as a predominantly Christian nation. Gospel music in Zimbabwe ...

reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #162, a Jescom publication Tony Berridge was born in Kadoma in 1950. He had a twin sister and a brother. He was educated at St George’s College and joined the Society of Jesus in the UK in 1969. He studied philosophy in London, taught ...

I remember him well, he was the city councillor for our ward in Mbare. He had a keen sense of justice and helped our J & P group in settling disputes. During the violent disturbances of 2008 he was badly beaten: his leg was broken and he had a head injury, ...

Thousands of Catholics thronged the Roman Catholic Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Bulawayo yesterday to pay  last tribute to the late Father Ricardo da Villa, who died last Saturday  aged  66. Fr. Ricardo of the Order of Spanish Missionary Institute (SMI), who was the parish priest at St Antony’s in a ...