Mai Fungai has not been seen in church or at any other community function for some time. She has never been in good health, but now the mother of five grown-up daughters, all single mothers with babies, is worse. She can hardly breathe. She desperately needs to be seen by ...

Mutare-based gospel musician Blessing Shumba has been appointed brand ambassador for the Manicaland National Blood Services Zimbabwe. The gospel artist, who scooped an award at the National Arts Merit Awards last February, joins the list of other artists such as Sandra Ndebele, Tryson Chimbetu, Jah Prayzah and Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave who have ...

When we meet in a New York café, Stella Cohen is far from home, which is Harare, Zimbabwe. She’s also far from the roots of her cooking, which is the island of Rhodes, in Greece. But for Cohen, a cookbook writer, artist, textile designer and communal leader, the past has ...

Baptist Pastor Nhamo Chigohi, the son of a witchdoctor, first heard the Gospel while lying sick inside his hut as missionaries showed the JESUS film outside. He trusted Christ for healing, but his father was furious and, a few days later, kicked him out. Nhamo began living on the streets. ...

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), one of the UK’s leading development and relief agencies, is seeking a strategic leader to oversee the management of its development programme in Southern Africa. You will be an empowering people manager, a skilled networker with an excellent track record of working in Livelihoods, ...

Khula Sizwe Trust, a Christian community-development organization operating in several Southern African countries, was overwhelmed by people making enquiries at its Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) stand recently. The organization, whose mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in the spiritual, economic and social transformation of ...

reprinted from IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH #172, a Jescom publication Key posts in Zimbabwean province are being taken over by young Jesuits. Earlier this year, Fr Gibson Munyoro SJ took over as director of Silveira House and Fr Sylvest Kasirori SJ as parish priest of Mabelreign.  Now Fr Ugenio Phiri SJ has been appointed rector of St Ignatius ...

Pentecostal churches were recently challenged to support Zimbabwe’s ailing education system in the same manner the traditional missionary churches have all along been doing. The call was made end of April by stakeholders attending a conference at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo with the aim of reviewing the state ...

At least 150 students are set to benefit from a youth training organized by United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) at Chikore Mission and Tongogara Horticultural College.   The youth-training centre is part of Norwegian Refugee Council targeting school dropouts for training in various ...

Three Californian children holding the United States passports will be deported to Zimbabwe at the end of April. Their parents  Krystal Chilson and Johnathan Curle decided to move to Zimbabwe to do missionary work after they got married in the 1990s. Over time, the couple had several children and frequently traveled between ...