Shocking child-brides practice in Marange apostolic sects needs urgent attention
LAST week we toured Mutare as part of a team working on a document on the history of the church in Zimbabwe and little did we realize we would bump into some deplorable practices being done in the name...
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Makandiwa to open branch in SA
Pastor Emmanuel Makandiwa (photo:M. Chibaya). United Family International Church (Ufic) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa is set to open a new branch in South Africa as Zimbabwe’s charismatic preachers spread...
View ArticleInvestigate ‘miracle’ churches
There is a story doing rounds on mobile phones believed to have been published in a Zambian newspaper titled “Some Lusaka prophet sells anointed underwear”. The prophet is said to be targeting women...
View ArticleFugitive Prophet Angel dumps flock
FUGITIVE Good News Church leader Prophet Uebert Angel is unlikely to return to Zimbabwe anytime soon as he is facing imminent arrest over a botched car deal, and this was evident after he failed to...
View ArticleChurches should be considerate
I write to express concern on the issue of religious denominations in residential areas who have no respect of the residents in the particular area they have built churches. If a church has a public...
View ArticleBring back the boy and girl scounts in primary schools
I greet you all in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I won’t take time to divulge into the moral frailty our country is facing as this will just be a painful reminder to the erosion...
View ArticlePastor jailed 18 years for sodomising teen, says tempted by the devil
A BINGA pastor has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for sodomising a 15-year-old boy from his Brethren in Christ Church. John Mwembe, 45, who is based in Binga pleaded guilty to two counts of...
View ArticleMSU CathSoc celebrates 15 years
Midlands State University (MSU) Catholic Society (CATHSOC) celebrated its 15th anniversary on 10th October 2015 under the theme “Looking at the past with gratitude, living the present with passion and...
View ArticleWhy the State cannot regulate religious beliefs?
WHAT can the State do when a sane adult is made to buy an orange fruit for $20 in the belief that they will receive some mythical blessing in return? What can the State do when an adult is made to buy...
View ArticleAFM elder sues church president, 27 pastors
Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe president Aspher Madziyire and 27 other church leaders have been taken to the High Court by an elder who is seeking the nullification of Madziyire’s election...
View ArticleMagaya prays for Jonathan Moyo
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya yesterday prayed for Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo following the death of his daughter, Zanele, under...
View ArticleRedemptorist brothers’ thanks giving mass
Sunday 11th of October 2015 was a wonderful day. The congregation at Holy Cross Budiriro parish celebrated and gave thanks to God for the gift of Br. Kenneth Temba.Br. Kenneth Temba had his final...
View ArticleFirst Missionary Childhood group at Holy Name Parish
Holy Name Parish, Mabelreign recently witnessed the first group of Missionary Childhood children take their ‘vows’. The guild was introduced by Fr. George Bwanali after he had preached on the need to...
View ArticleNMCS Zimbabwe Midlands Chapter observes International Day of the Eradication...
The National Movement of Catholic Students, Midlands Region joined the international family of IMCS Pax Romana in commemorating International Day of the Eradication of Child Poverty worldwide. The day...
View ArticleDzamara’s prayers at Africa Unity Square
Itai Dzara trust board chairperson Bishop, Ancelimo Magaya, says they have adopted a new plan of praying for the safe return of the abducted journalist –cum civil rights activist Itai Dzamara where...
View ArticleBy their waistlines ye shall know them
THANKS to the laziness of our journalists and academics, we have up to now not been able to get to the bottom of this new African craze of what are oftentimes handsome, slick, pointed-shoe shod,...
View ArticleFr. Kuli Jacob Tapera Chimenga Passes on
One of the Archdiocese of Harare’s youngest and finest priests, Fr. Kuli Jacob Tapera Chimenga (33) died in a horrific car crash on Tuesday the 3rd of November 2015 on his way to Murambinda, his...
View ArticleApostolic sects object to council control of open spaces
Apostolic sect churches have objected plans by Harare City Council to control open spaces where they worship in the city’s proposed 2015 by-laws. The apostolic sect churches are breathing fire and...
View ArticleDebunking Magaya’s 600,000 crowd pulling myth
ZIMBABWE has been hit by a storm of alleged prophets or men of god who have been fighting for the prophetic turf in trying to pull crowds and out-manoeuvre each other in the hope of being crowned...
View ArticleAre the New African Flamboyant Prophet (NAFP) spiritual operators, or are...
AMONG the 117 emails I received after the publication of my article, By Their Waistlines Ye Shall Know Them, there was one particularly thoughtful one that raised an important problem. If I were to put...
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