Churches in Bulawayo, a Christian non-governmental organisation, is running development projects in the city’s high-density suburbs, aimed at increasing the community’s resilience to disease and food shortages by improving nutrition and access to water. The projects are run in partnership with the Bulawayo City Council. Speaking to Relzim.org last week the Chief Executive ...

In a bid to educate and emancipate the controversial members of the Apostolic religious communities, Union for Development of the Apostolic Churches in Zimbabwe, or UDACIZA, has intensified its outreach program.   The organization’s project officer Camilious Machingura told RelZim.org that the program is already bearing fruits. “Although it is a ...

Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans per capita in the world. RelZim.org constantly updates our reference section on various children-focused social programmes in Zimbabwe. We feature the organizations that tirelessly connect those who wish to help (both in and outside the country) with the nation’s neediest, Zimbabwean children. This video highlights ...

The Habakkuk Trust (HT), a Bulawayo-based Christian organisation, recently received the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations, or NANGO, Peace Award. The award was in recognition of the organisation’s sterling work in transforming communities through advocacy on human rights and peaceful initiatives. Speaking to Relzim.org, Khumbulani Maphosa, the HT Information and Advocacy Officer, said the ...

Ecumenical Support Services Zimbabwe director Johah Gokova says there is a serious leadership crisis within the Church in Zimbabwe, as religious leaders have largely remained quite in the face of socio-economic and political problems facing the country. Contributing to debate during a recent discussion on the role of the Church ...

reprinted from The Jewish Chronicle Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, affectionately known as “The Travelling Rabbi”, seems to recoil when he is asked if he ever dreams of being a conventional community leader. “No… I’m not a pulpit rabbi,” he insists. “I’m an on-the-ground, hands-on, ceremonial rabbi… and I’m as comfortable officiating ...

The hope for Zimbabwe lies in its future leadership, well-educated and founded on the trust that is realised in the gift of the Gospel of Christ. So claims a Mutare-born Antony Dandato, who represented the  Fellowship of Christian Unions in Zimbabwe (FOCUS) speaking at the Church of Christ Wembley Downsduring in Perth, ...

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, ...

Faith healing, medical and herbal healing in The Bible and The ChurchPresenter: Rev. N. Chandiwanza Bsc Food Science & NutritionRespondent: Dr Bishop Noah M Pashapa PhD (UZ), Life and Liberty Churches Chairman Adm:$5 Date: 12 August 2011Venue: Zimbabwe Faith Ethics and Philosophy Association in Harare (17 Baines Ave cnr Baines ...

 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 ...