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 ...

The South Ridge Community Church of Franklin Township in the American state of New Jersey is sending a five-person delegation to Zimbabwe toward the end of August. Rugare, a village in rural Zimbabwe, has lost a generation to HIV/AIDS, according to Steve Sargent, director of South Ridge’s “Extend Ministries,” so-called ...

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 ...

A total of 11 villagers from Matobo district’s Bambanani ward 9 this month became proud owners of cattle, following a livestock-handover ceremony, attended by Christian Care officers and the traditional leadership of Matabeleland South province.  The ongoing cattle project under the name Kezi was initiated by Christian Care, a Zimbabwe-initiated ...

In response to HIV-AIDS pandemic, City Pentecostal Assembly Church’s social arm in Bulawayo is running a Nehemiah AIDS Project in which commercial sex workers are rehabilitated into the society. The programme seeks to reduce the number of ladies engaged in the commercial sex by offering them the alternatives of starting ...

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 ...

As part of its social ministry, the Orthodox Church, one of the oldest missionary churches in Zimbabwe, is paying school fees for a number of pupils in Bulawayo. Visiting the Church’s Mzilikazi high density suburb parish, through which fees payments are made, we found out that more than 50 pupils are benefiting from ...

It is amazing how many businesses in Zimbabwe, manifest their Christian identity. I am thinking of prayers on intercity buses before the beginning of the trip or Bibles available for clients at companies’ reception halls. Some time ago, I remember there was this debate at the European parliament about the ...

The Living Waters Pentecostal Fellowship is supporting Mashinga Trust, a voluntary organisation that is part of the church by having a 20 mile sponsored cycle ride on 9 July. Mashinga was set up to address the lack of support for black and minority ethnic groups in Norfolk. The group has links with Zimbabwe and the ...