As this year draws to an end, politics is no doubt going to leverage influence on believers in Zimbabwe. We are told to think that the next elections will take place in 2013. With this in mind, I would like to look at what appears to be two most prominent dynamics ...

Bishop Caleb Mutingwende, the leader of the Zion Church of God has dismissed the newly emerging churches as fly-by social groups that will not survive beyond the present generation. Mutingwende said the sprouting Pentecostal churches thriving on preaching the gospel of prosperity in times of economic hardships were set to ...

A new Christian Union, known as Bidi Christian Union (BCU) was formed last year in Matobo, Matabeleland South Province. Local churches based in Bidi area demonstrated unity in the body of Christ when they came together to form the union, the first of its kind to incorporate all existing Churches ...

While for the majority of churches baptism is a once-in-a-lifetime event, that is not the case with the Holy Apostolic Church of Zion. MaNcube of Pumula South in Bulawayo, who attends the Old Magwegwe parish, said that at the beginning of every year church members who feel they have “heavy ...

Despite one‘s religious orientation, annual contributions of money and grain towards the Njelele Shrine pilgrimage are compulsory in Hobodo community in Mangwe district of Matabeleland South Province. Every year towards the beginning of the rainy season in the month of August or September, Chief Hobodo, as the custodian of Kalanga ...

Would you allow anyone to share a house with you if you didn’t know them? And do you truly know someone if you don’t have a relationship with that person? The Bible says that Jesus is the only way to God . “No-one comes to the Father except through me” ...

reprinted with additions from The Zimbabwean Last month, St. Peters Church in Zion of Zimbabwe released their first 12-track album entitled Hamba nathi nkosi under the leadership of Bishop KC Moyo. Bishop Moyo’s gospel group is known as Abalandeli beBhomba and their album is already enjoying airplay in South Africa. “We ...

Bulawayo residents recently converged at the Guta raMwari church in Lobengula suburb (the incumbent Mayor Thaba Moyo’s place of worship) for a divine service to commemorate the 68thanniversary of Bulawayo’s attainment of city status. Bulawayo was declared a city on November 4, 1943 and every year a civic and divine church ...

Bulawayo registered one of the largest Christian gatherings from the 4th to 6th of November as tens of thousands of Zion Christian Church (ZCC) members gathered to witness the official opening of the Church’s headquarters in Zimbabwe. Bulawayo is the headquarters of the Church in Zimbabwe. The ZCC leader His Grace ...

republished with corrections and additions from The Herald of August 2011 Tobacco farming has become a hot “potato” in most Churches, as leaders fear it might cause serious factionalism and great loss of much-needed revenue for the upkeep and sustenance of the institutions. Most Church leaders contacted by The Herald refused ...