Vapostori

Vapostori should take advantage of the scrapping of user fees

May 10, 2013
The Minister of Health and Child Welfare,Dr Henry Madzorera, has urged members of the Apostolic to take advantage of the scrapping of user fees in rural clinics for pregnant and lactating women to develop health seeking behaviour. Members of the Apostolic Faith believe in divine healing for all forms of ...

Vapostori church sucked into land scum

May 7, 2013
Members of Johanne Masowe Church have been fingered in a stand scum in the sprawling town of Chitungwiza where their leader Cecilia Mombeshora bought communal land without the local authority’s approval.  A three-month investigation that culminated in a report by the town of Chitungwiza in collaboration with communal lands surrounding ...

Zanu-PF intensifies campaign among religious groups

May 5, 2013
Zanu PF National party national chairman, Simon Khaya Moyo, Saturday urged members of the Johane Masowe Wechishanu to register and vote, as the battle to win the support of the religious groups among parties looms, ahead of the election to be held later this year. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who ...

Thumbs up for Vapostori

May 4, 2013
Aids and TB Unit director in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Owen Mugurungi, has hailed the response and cooperation of religious groups in fighting HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe. Speaking in an exclusive interview after a media roundtable organised by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights in ...

Housing Cooperative seek to evict church

April 25, 2013
More than 300 members of the Johanne Masowe apostolic faith, who worship at an open space in Dzivarasekwa section 2, are being evicted by a local Housing Cooperative from their worshiping place. The housing cooperative which is run by former liberation war fighters, Nehanda Housing Cooperative, at the weekend wrote ...

100 prophets claim Mugabe election win

April 22, 2013
ROBERT Mugabe will win the next elections and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai will lose leadership of his MDC-T party, Zimbabwe’s largest church organisation claimed on Sunday, citing “prophecies”. Bishop Johannes Ndanga, leader of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) – an ecumenical body of over 100 indigenous apostolic ...

Church members arrested for burning legs of noise makers

April 16, 2013
Six True Gospel Apostolic Faith church members, including the leader, have been arrested in Chitungwiza on allegations of burning the legs of two other members as punishment for talking during a church service on Sunday morning. The injured, who are aged 21 and 14, were yesterday still admitted to Chitungwiza ...

Zanu PF courts Vapositori

April 10, 2013
As the country plunges yet again into a make or break election, politicians are yet again courting churches, signalling the dawn of the feverish season. Zanu PF officials, including Vice-President Joice Mujuru and the minister of Media and Information Webster Shamu, are using their roles contacting traditional churches in order ...

Traffic council trains Vapostori on road safety

March 29, 2013
Union for Development of the Apostolic Churches in Zimbabwe Africa (UDACIZA) and Traffic Safety Council has trained at least 352 Vapostori bishops on road safety in a bid to reduce road accidents that continue to claim the lives of many. Speaking in an interview recently after a march meant to ...

Jowani Masowe WeChishanu’s views on the draft constitution (Part 2)

March 8, 2013
I wish to continue my contribution on national topical issues as a citizen belonging to a Traditional African religion and share with fellow interested citizens how every inch of these national developments also affects the church and vice versa (i.e. how the church affects the national happenings). It is increasingly ...