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Mnangagwa meets Zimbabwean Catholic priests in Vatican

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday met a group of Zimbabwean Roman Catholic priests and seminarians studying in the Vatican City, a day after holding a landmark meeting with Pope Leo XIV.The meeting, held at the President's hotel, brou…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 21:20hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter

Refereeing decisions cast shadow over PSL relegation drama

The conclusion of the 2025 Castle Lager Premiership season has left GreenFuel FC and its fans reeling after the club was relegated, finishing fourth from the bottom on the log due to a narrow point difference with the team above it. The re…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 08:48hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter

Catholic priest up for US$38k theft

A damning forensic audit has revealed the misappropriation of US$38,000 at Clare Fashions, a company wholly owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare, exposing serious lapses in financial controls and oversight. At the centre of the sc…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 08:47hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter

Catholic Zimbabwe faces critical shortage of Priests

The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe is grappling with a severe shortage of vocations to the priesthood, with the number of candidates enrolling at the country's only Major Seminary, Chishawasha, steadily declining over the past decade.Traditio…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 20:58hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter

Catholics fail to elect new Pope as second round of voting ends

The world continues to wait for the announcement of a new pope after another round of voting ended without consensus on Thursday, as black smoke rose once again from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.The 133 cardinals of the College of Car…

Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:29hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga touches down in Italy

Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has arrived in Italy for a working visit that will see him engage with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and explore social development and investment opportunities for Zimbabwe.Chiwenga, wh…

Published: 01 May 2025 at 16:40hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Catholic church to hold masses honouring late Pope Francis

The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe will hold special masses to honour the life and legacy of Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88 due to a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart failure.The first commemorative mass is…

Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter

Catholic bishops bid to pay US$188K in ZiG hits a snag

The High Court of Zimbabwe has dismissed the application for a declaratur seeking a stay of execution regarding a US$188,000 payment order against Stella Mundi, an agricultural company owned by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference. The…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:04hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter

Catholic priest dies in Zimbabwe accident

A tragic accident early this morning claimed the life of a man, believed to be a Catholic priest from Murombedzi, after his vehicle collided with a truck on the Chinhoyi-Chegutu Road. The crash occurred around 3 a.m., approximately 25 kilo…

Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:55hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter

Pius Ncube still doing the Lord's work

Archbishop Emeritus Pius Ncube, former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, has broken his silence nearly two decades after a sex scandal involving a married congregant, Rosemary Sibanda, in 2007. Now 78, Ncube had retreated to t…

Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:49hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter

Catholic priests bashed at mine

There was drama at Mbembi Farm in Mazowe when 11 Catholic Church priests were bashed by a security guard after they trespassed into a mine he was guarding.The matter came to light at Concession magistrates courts where Tsaurayi Kaunye plea…

Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Leviticus 20:13 - Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples

Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God's love and mercy shouldn't be subject to "an exhaustive m…

Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 11:48hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Catholics Bishops in Zimbabwe wades into Zimbabwe opposition factionalism

CATHOLIC Bishops in Zimbabwe have decried what they are terming a "new form" of post-election violence characterized by "recalls of the elected" political candidates in the Southern African nation.The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) re…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Catholic bishops want Zimbabweans to reject violent candidates

THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC), one of the fierce critics of government maladministration during the late former President Robert Mugabe's era, has urged the electorate to vote out merchants of violence in the August 23 ge…

Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Wicknell Chivayo splurges US$140,000 on Catholic parish

Wicknell Chivayo's spending spree shows no signs of abetting after the controversial businessman donated US$100,000 cash, a home solar system and a US$40,000 Toyota Hilux D4D to the Roman Catholic Church's St Gerard's Parish in Greystone P…

Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Catholic music competitions

TWENTY-SIX Roman Catholic Church choirs drawn from parishes in Hwange Diocese competed in the Saint Cecilia annual music competitions at Marist Brothers Secondary School in Dete on Saturday.St Cecilia is the patroness of music because she …

Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Robbers attack Roman Catholic church

IN a brazen robbery in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, robbers broke down a door at the residence of a Roman Catholic Church priest before getting away with cash.The attack took place at the Roman Catholic Church in Emakhandeni suburb.Wh…

Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Catholic bishop in acerbic attack on Mnangagwa

CONTROVERSIAL Catholic Diocese of Chinhoyi cleric, Bishop Raymond Mpandasekwa, has once again taken aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration's alleged misrule characterised by violence, injustice and bloodshed.The man-of-…

Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

Catholic nuns seize control of US$2m Covid-19 project

CATHOLIC Church nuns, through Sisters of the Little Company of Mary (LCM), owners of St. Anne's Hospital in Harare, have acrimoniously seized control of the refurbished health facility's Covid-19 centre from Solidarity Trust Zimbabwe (Sotz…

Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Another Catholic Bishop takes Mnangagwa head on

Bishop Tapiwa Mupandasekwa of the Roman Catholic Church Chinhoyi Diocese has fired salvo at president Emmerson Mnangagwa's government accusing it of oppressing the citizens and collapsing the country.Using the pulpit on Sunday, the Bishop …

Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:34hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu

World Council of Churches rallies behind vilified Catholic priests

THE World Council of Churches (WCC) has rallied behind local church leaders being vilified by government for pointing out its heavy handedness on civilians.The WCC urged the clerics to "unite and stand together in such difficult times".In …

Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Bishops in Zimbabwe say they will not be silenced

OCAL Anglican bishops have thrown their weight behind their Catholic counterparts who were recently publicly chastised by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for highlighting human rights abuses in the country.Government recently blasted local Ca…

Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Roman Catholic community in Zimbabwe to receive first saint

John Bradburne, who dedicated his life to the care of people with leprosy at Mutemwa in Mutoko, is on the path to receive sainthood from the Roman Catholic Church.Bradburne will be officially declared a saint after the canonisation process…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Priest wrecks marriage..WhatsApp chats expose illicit affair

A MAN from Bulawayo has called off a planned wedding after discovering his girlfriend has been sleeping with a Roman Catholic Priest behind his back. Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy and are not supposed to indulge in sex. Mr McDona…

Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:42hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

BREAKING: Rock kills 2 catholic students

Reports from St Charles Lwanga Seminary Secondary in Chimanimani have confirmed that 4 students were trapped after a rock collapsed a dormitory. 1 was successfully rescued, 2 bodies were retrieved, and one is still missing. Several were in…

Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu

'Black figure' 'haunts' catholic school

A wave of mass hysteria has hit a Roman Catholic Church-run, Kana Primary School in Gokwe South under Chief Mkoka following reports that a dozen of pupils and a nun collapsed while screaming in unexplained fits.The mysterious hysteria repo…

Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's 'Mr Fix It'

Father Fidelis Mukonori is without doubt the man-of-the-moment in political circles today, propelled to these lofty heights by the role he played in bringing in a "New Dawn" in Zimbabwe, making him one of the most sought-after media person…

Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Catholic church forgives Mugabe

THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference (ZCBC) says it has forgiven former President Robert Mugabe for his "transgressions" in office over the past 37 years and implored new President Emmerson Mnangagwa to put in place inclusive transiti…

Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

No need to go Pentacostal, says Catholic Church

ROMAN Catholic exorcist Father Goodluck Smoko has taken a swipe at priests who have neglected the much sought after ministry of healing, deliverance and exorcism.Fr Smoko said this has promoted an exodus of members to Pentecostal assemblie…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:07hrs | 2 | by Desire Ncube

Archbishop Robert Ndlovu issues Lenten message

The Archbishop of Harare in Zimbabwe, Robert Ndlovu has issued a Lenten message titled, "What are you giving up, what are you taking up?" In it,  he asks that the faithful in the Archdiocese focus on the sick with the view to re-exami…

Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 18:05hrs | 2 | by Robert. Ndlovu

Catholic Relief director in court for theft

National director of a Catholic Relief Agency, who connived with his two colleagues still at large and allegedly misappropriated more than $562 800 in donor funds, appeared in court on Thursday  charged with fraud.Cornelius Hamadzirip…

Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 09:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

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