Father Sean Coughlan, O.Carm, who served as Carmelites Superior in Zimbabwe from 1961 to 1970, died at the Beacon Hospital in Ireland on November, 12. He was in his ninety first year. Fr Coughlan arrived in Zimbabwe in 1949. He served  at Saint Joseph’s Mission in Sakubva (the first high-density suburb to be established in ...

Catholic Relief Services – Zimbabwe Program, an international humanitarian and development organization seeks qualified candidates for a USAID-funded, multi-year food security, nutrition and agricultural development project in Zimbabwe. 1) Gender Specialist (50% field office, 50% Harare) The Gender Specialist will be responsible for integrating a comprehensive gender strategy across activities ...

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a Catholic university in Italy, as part of its mission to foster relationships with developing countries, has developed a special program for students from the African continent. This program will enable students to study on partial scholarship for degree programs taught in English at Cattolica’s ...

Thousands of Catholics attended the funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Henry Ernst Karlen, CMM in Bulawayo recently. Archbishop Karlen, who became the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Bulawayo in 1994, died aged 90 at Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday, October 28. Known as the “Father of Bulawayo Diocese” for his work building the church in Matabeleland, Karlen ...

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 ...

“Are Zimbabwean journalists looking for sensationalism only when they cover activities of religious newsmakers?” I asked myself this question once again during a religious jourmalism conference at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv that I recently attended.  A special guest of the event was CNN’s senior Vatican analyst and the senior correspondent ...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is inviting local NGOs registered in Zimbabwe and working on agriculture, market research, health and/or nutrition to submit their organizations profile and a maximum 3 page capacity statement to CRS Offices in Harare. Catholic Relief Services is an international, non-profit relief and development organization that has ...

This video was produced in 2008, when Zimbabwe found herself at the very bottom of an economic abyss. Although the situation has improved since then, Catholic church in Zimbabwe remains one of the key engines in promotion of the social cause in the Southern African nation. The video searches for ...

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) is one of the UK’s leading international aid agencies and has a large programme in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa working in the water, sanitation and hygiene, livelihoods and governance sectors. CAFOD are currently developing a programme of sanitation and hygiene education in 6 municipalities in Zimbabwe. ...

Can one be an active member of ZINATHA (Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association) and still remain a dedicated Catholic? This was a question that confronted Catholic students who gathered at Bondolfi Mission in Masvingo from August 10 to 13, 2012 for their annual conference. What started as an ordinary witchcraft discussion–whether ...