Vapostori

9 more Vapostori perish in SA accident

July 9, 2013
Nine members of Nyenyedzinomwe Apostolic sect were killed, while six others were seriously injured in a road accident along the R25 Highway near Kempton Park on Sunday evening when the vehicle they were traveling in collided with delivery van. It is reported that the victims were travelling from a church ...

15 Vapostori perish in crash

July 6, 2013
Fifteen church members of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu branch in South Africa died on the spot after their car collided head-on with a bus along the R510 highway in Rusternburg in that country on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred between Northem and Rustenburg while the victims were coming from church. ...

Chanting Madzibaba upsets UK community

June 25, 2013
Members of the Vapostori worshiping at a shrine in Harare ( photo: M. Chibaya) The leader of a UK-based Vapostori sect is threatened with eviction from his home after neighbours complained that the chanting by his group during early morning prayers was disturbing their sleep. Learnard Radzokota, known as Madzibaba Isaiah, leads the Apostles Friday sect which is based in the South Yorkshire town ...

NAC urges church leaders to play leading role in the fight against AIDS

June 10, 2013
National AIDS Council (NAC) has challenged church leaders to play a leading role in the fight against a scourge of escalating new HIV/AIDS infections. The two-day workshop which took place in Muzarabani — along the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province — recently was attended by the Senator for Muzarabani Constituency, ...

Johanne Masowe Church razed down

June 3, 2013
A church belonging to the Apostolic sect of the Johane Masowe weChishanu in Glen Norah A, Harare, was yesterday burnt down in a suspected case of arson. The incident occurred at around 9am while church members had gone to Chitungwiza for their church service. It is understood that there was ...

Churches new political battlefields

May 26, 2013
Political parties have turned churches into new battlegrounds, but then churches beware for some of these people who are wooing you are tainted individuals whose hands drip with the blood of innocent souls killed in the endless pursuit of power and its retention. Hardly a week passes without one of ...

Madzibaba Nicholas Zakaria quits apostolic church

May 18, 2013
Sungura musician Nicholas “Madzibaba” Zacharia has announced his desire to join a Pentecostal church, Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries, led by Prophet Walter Magaya from the Mugodhi Apostolic Sect. The ‘Kuwanda Kwemakereke’ song-maker said the move was meant to strengthen his spiritual understanding. “The move is meant to strengthen ...

Mobile voter registration at Vapositori doorstep

May 16, 2013
Zanu PF political commissar and Minister of Information and Publicity, Webster Shamu, said his party would engage registrar general,Tobaiwa Mudede, to ensure voter registration is brought to the apostolic faith sect’s doorstep. With the country set to go for elections this year and the RG’s office seized with a mobile ...

“Mugabe is king” says Vapostori leader

May 14, 2013
The apostolic church in Zimbabwe is encouraging members to register as voters at the same time the sect leaders say President Robert Mugabe is a king who should not be contested in an election. The head of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) Johannes Nyamwa-Ndanga say Mugabe is God ...

Zanu PF seeks prayers

May 11, 2013
Zanu PF has appealed for divine intervention to deal with the endemic corruption that has plagued the former ruling party as harmonised elections expected this year fast approach. Addressing an Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe Bishops Conference for peace and voter orientation at the party headquarters in Harare on Friday, the ...