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 ...

Switzerland is a country of high mountains covered in snow all the year round. It is invigorating to walk there and breathe the pure air. I was staying with friends and one day we approached the highest peak, the Matterhorn, but we had to be satisfied with seeing if from ...

When I first met Hamlet Zhou, he was the guitarist in Andy Brown and the Storm, for years one of Zimbabwe’s most popular and exciting bands.  At the time, I was based in Zimbabwe, where Hamlet was born and had lived his entire life. I had come there to do film and ...

Despite shunning traditional health practitioners (THP) during the day, church pastors are visiting tthem in a Nicodemus-like manner to boost powers, Elisha Mutanga, a traditional medical practitioner, told RelZim. Mutanga, who is also a member of Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA), voiced his remarks at a recent consultative meeting held by ...

Are muti traditional herbs or these are two different things? If there is a difference between the two which of them are Christians allowed to or, should I say, can use if need be? Can anyone spot the difference between the two? Who should be selling any of this stuff? ...