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Chamisa sucked into AFM factional fights
AFM in Zimbabwe president Bishop Amon Madawo has refuted claims he ordered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to leave the church and focus on politics.Madawo told NewZi...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiangwa to be evicted
THE High Court has granted the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) led by Amon Madawo permission to evict its rival faction led by Cossam Chiangwa from a property in Westgate, Harare.Thi...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:37hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
AFM wrangle sucks in police
SOME police officers from Marlborough police station in Harare have been accused of siding with the Apostolic African Mission (AFM) church faction led by Bishop Cossam Chiyangwa, after they allegedly ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chiangwa pastor wins court case
A PASTOR from a rival faction of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM), Panganai Makarichi, has won a High Court case where he was being sued by the Amon Madawo-led group for refusing to surre...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Shooting at AFM
THERE was drama at the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church in Marlborough on Thursday after security guards allegedly hired by the church's splinter group led by Reverend Cossam Chiangwa fired gunsho...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Pastor kidnapped, threatened with death in AFM fights
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor was kidnapped by a rival faction and threatened with death if he failed to surrender church property as the wrangle to control the religious group between Amon ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
AFM faction opens doors to rival congregants
THE Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe faction led by Amon Madawo yesterday began courting members from a rival faction led by Cossam Chiangwa after winning a bruising fight for control of the ...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
AFM factions fight over trademark
THE battle between two warring factions of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) yesterday took a new twist with its leaders, Amon Madawo and Cossam Chiangwa fighting over the church's tradema...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:24hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa defiant despite court defeat
THE leader of an Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) faction, Cossam Chiyangwa who lost to church rival Amon Madawo in a protracted power wrangle within the religious institution 2019, has again lost his Su...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court settles AFM church dispute
THE Supreme Court yesterday brought to closure the long-standing battle for control of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) after it upheld a 2019 High Court ruling that gave Amon Madawo full...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Churches join Mnangagwa in fasting
Churches have joined First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in three days of prayer and fasting starting yesterday in a plea for divine intervention in ending Covid-19. Patron of the Zimbabwe Indigenou...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
AFM Chimanimani loses 25% membership to floods
The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM)'s Rusitu West Parish in Chimanimani says it lost 72 members, representing about a quarter of its congregation, in the floods induced by Cyclone Idai, whil...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
AFM drama continues
HOPES to build bridges between warring camps in one of the biggest churches in Zimbabwe — the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) — have been dashed as the factions continue counter-plotting against eac...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks AFM faction's Rufaro conference
THE High Court has blocked an Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) faction led by Reverend Cossum Chiyangwa from holding its annual Widows and Single Mothers' conference at Rufaro Conference Cent...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa efforts encouraging, says SA cleric
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is making concrete efforts to open up Zimbabwe's economy for investment and widen the democratic space, a respected South African cleric, has said.Apostolic Faith ...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court throws out bid to bar AFM rivals
BULAWAYO High Court has dismissed an application by a faction of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) leadership in Bulawayo West aligned to Amon Madawo to bar rivals from the church premises...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
AFM fire keeps burning
PROBLEMS bedevilling the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe are far from over as suspensions of officials continue despite promises by the new church president, Reverend Amon Madawo, to unite the tro...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
AFM split: Court bars pastor from entering church premise
A Harare high court judge Justice Phiri has issued a provisional order banning the Vice President of the smaller AFM faction Reverend Amon Chinyemba from entering the AFM Cranbone Revival centre in Ha...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 10:16hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Watch: Shocking fist fights at AFM church
Shocking Videos of violent fights at the embattled Apostolic Faith Mission have surfaced on the internet. The videos were posted by a Harare Prophet Alista Chibanda of Liberation Faith Ministrie...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 11:16hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
AFM church split takes new twist
The fight for control over the Apostolic Faith Mission church (AFM) has taken a new twist with revelations that the main faction led Reverend Amon Madawo is taking steps to expel members of the sm...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 14:24hrs | 27 | by Mandla Ndlovu
AFM church saga reaches tense stage
The ongoing fight in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church in Zimbabwe has reached a tense stage with the church's president, Reverend Aspher Madziyire on Wednesday suspending vice-president Revere...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
AFM pastors lose bid to audit church accounts
A BID by two disgruntled Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastors to compel the church to engage external auditors recently went up in smoke after High Court judge Justice Happius Zhou dismissed the appl...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
South African Reverend moves to end AFM rift
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission in Zimbabwe president Dr Aspher Madziyire has been temporarily saved from elections to choose his successor after the church's international leader, Professor Frank Chikane, in...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
AFM on the verge of a major split
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission of Zimbabwe is on the verge of a split as the fight to control the mega church escalates to unprecedented levels where top officials are pushing counter-plots to ouster each ot...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
AFM President in court
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission (AFM) president, Dr Asper Madziyire has once again been dragged to court over an application to compel the church to audit its financial records.AFM pastors Kefias Mujo...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos devour AFM
POLITICKING has reached fever pitch in Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe ahead of elections for the church's leadership.Sources said the church's president, Dr Aspher Madziyire and his deput...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sipho Makhabane to headline AFM conference concert
SOUTH AFRICAN gospel singer Sipho Makhabane is expected to grace International Apostolic Faith Mission Greater Conference that begins today at Harare International Conference Centre.Makhabhane...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Pauline Mhuka-Magavu
AFM international conference starts Monday
The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe has urged Zimbabweans to come in their numbers for the church's international conference which runs from the 18th to the 24th of this month.Thirty...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 21:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Infighting rocks AFM church, pastors sue president
FACTIONALISM and infighting have rocked the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe church to an extent that some pastors have sued their president and other top officials over failure to carry out an aud...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Church president accused of personalizing church
The president of the AFM in Zimbabwe, Reverend Ashper Madziyire, has been accused of "personalising" the church and coercing congregants to make financial donations towards his up-keep.In...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 15:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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