April 9, 2012
Geoff Bird, a former journalist who worked on newspapers in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Britain, recently reminisced on one of our posts about the heroic work of Franciscan missionary John Bradburne: As a journalist with the then Rhodesia Herald I and a photographer met John Bradburne at Mutemwa and wrote a
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February 27, 2012
President Robert Mugabe last week was cited declaring that he has outlived Jesus Christ, a statement that was roundly condemned by Zimbabweans. In power since 1980, Mugabe is the oldest African president and one of the longest serving. He is Catholic but what he stated in the recent televised interview does not
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February 27, 2012
Arrupe College and Jescom invite you to a series of Lenten lectures at Arrupe College in Harare (16 Link Road, Mt Pleasant) Dates: every Thursday Mar 1- 22 Time: 5.30 pm Hosts: Fr Lawrence Daka SJ (dean, Arrupe College) and Fr Oskar Wermter SJ (director of Jesuit Communications-Jescom and publisher of MUKAI/VUKANI,
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February 22, 2012
Catholics living in and around Fatima Mission in Lupane, along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway, have expressed concern over the setting-up of a beer hall at Fatima Primary, a former Roman Catholic school. Fatima Mission, previously comprising, a mission house, convent, primary school, high school and a hospital, had the two
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February 16, 2012
reprinted with amendments and additions from The Sunday Mail As early as 7 am on a Sunday morning, the City Sports Centre in Harare is already a hive of activity as people jostle to take seats for a church service. One might be deceived into thinking that the service is already
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February 15, 2012
Some Zimbabweans complained about the way local preparations for the 2011 World Youth Day (WYD) were organized (see World Youth Day – an elite event for the Catholics? and Over 30 Bulawayo youths to participate in the World Youth Day in Madrid). But the event that took place in the Jubilee Hall of
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February 14, 2012
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Catholic youth of Harare invite you to the official launch of the 2013 World Youth Day pilgrimage fund and the website launch sponsored by the TN Asset Management. Date: February 15 Time : 11 am Venue: Jubilee Archdiocesan Hall (cnr 5th Ave/Livingstone Str). For more details contact Jacob Shamuyarira on 0772210665
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February 9, 2012
Child representatives have raised concern over religious discrimination at some boarding schools where students regardless of religion are forced to attend the school church. In an interview Child Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Tomuseni said that the religious requirements of some schools are tantamount to foisting beliefs on children. “We do not
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January 9, 2012
Despite one‘s religious orientation, annual contributions of money and grain towards the Njelele Shrine pilgrimage are compulsory in Hobodo community in Mangwe district of Matabeleland South Province. Every year towards the beginning of the rainy season in the month of August or September, Chief Hobodo, as the custodian of Kalanga
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January 6, 2012
Would you allow anyone to share a house with you if you didn’t know them? And do you truly know someone if you don’t have a relationship with that person? The Bible says that Jesus is the only way to God . “No-one comes to the Father except through me”
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