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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 | 7 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Spotify's Zimbabwe inclusion excites artistes
MUSIC streaming site Spotify is now available to Zimbabweans with local musicians excited about this development saying it will broaden their reach. Spotify last week announced that 85 countri...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: AFM church fight full judgment
The legal fight for the control of AFM church between factions led by Bishop Aspher Madziyire and Reverend Cossam Chiangwa, was ended on Wednesday when the High Court declared that Madziyire is ...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 16:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
AFM Mvurwi province joins splits
Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe church (AFM) Mvurwi province which comprises of places like Mvurwi, Kanyemba, Muzarabani, Centenary and Chiweshe has joined other provinces nationwide in factional ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 | | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
AFM seeks CIO help in exchange for ZANU PF support
The Apostolic Faith Mission led by Reverend Cossum Chiangwa has reportedly sought the help of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation and in exchange commandeer its members to support ZANU...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
AFM leader to step down
ONE of the longest serving leaders of a Pentecostal church in Zimbabwe, AFM president Dr Aspher Madziyire will step down from the helm of the church after elections to choose a new leader are held thi...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
RTG sues Zimpraise over $12,000 hotel bill
Local hospitality concern, Rainbow Tourism Group Limited (RTG), has taken Zimpraise Trust, a company that owns gospel music group, Zimpraise, to the High Court demanding settlement of a $12 000 hotel ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
AFM gay storm reverend removed
THE AFM church leader who was entangled in a gay storm with a congregant who looked up to him as a 'father', has been stripped of being an overseer and transferred to another assembly.Reverend...Published: 16 May 2018 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'AFM in leadership vacuum'
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission (AFM) senior Pastor Kefias Mujokeri has approached the courts seeking an order to compel the church to call for elections to choose new leadership.Last week, Pastor Muj...Published: 13 May 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
First Lady committed to fight cancer
The First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa says cancer has become a serious health challenge in the world with Zimbabwe being no exception.Addressing thousands of women at the AFM International Wo...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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
Mugabe meets bishop TD Jakes
President Mugabe yesterday met visiting United States pastor and author Thomas Dexter Jakes, popularly known as TD Jakes at State House in Harare.The President was in the company of the First ...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Rteporter
Zim church fathers to be honored this Friday
Ethiopis-Israel a non-denominational network based in Ethiopia in partnership with Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) and on behalf of Christian sons and daughters in Zimbabwe will this Fr...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 21:45hrs | | by Panashe Makufa
Bishop TD Jakes coming to Zimbabwe
WORLD renowned preacher Bishop TD Jakes is expected to grace popular mass gospel choir Zimpraise's 10th anniversary celebrations to be held at the National Sports Stadium in Harare from September 5 to...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP accuses Prophet Angel of being a fraudster
A Facebook post by a Zanu-PF Harare MP Terence Mukupe has claimed that Prophet Eubert Angel had nothing when he first came into Zimbabwe run around using someone's vehicle but all of a sudden he...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Murambinda sex worker found unconscious, undressed
A well known sex worker at Murambinda Growth Point was found undressed and unconscious near a maize field last Thursday and residents first thought she was a witch.Fungai Nzira who resid...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimpraise lead singer collaborates with Jabu Hlongwane
LOCAL gospel ensemble Zimpraise's lead singer Ellard Cherayi has collaborated with South Africa's Joyous Celebration choir's co-founder Jabu Hlongwane on the song Humambo Hwenyu Ngahuuye to be rel...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans warned against 'doom' prophets
AFM president Reverend Doctor Ashper Madziyire has castigated false pastors who mislead people under the guise of prophecy and warned them against undermining God's authority.Reverend Madz...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trouble in ZimPraise paradise
CONTEMPORARY Gospel Music outfit - ZimPraise - held its 9th live DVD recording dubbed ''Hymns Night 2'' in the capital yesterday. Since its formation in 2006, the group has been on a steady expans...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
NO to homosexuality- AFM
Apostolic Faith Mission president Aspher Madziyire and Harare Metropolitan provincial minister Miriam Chikukwa took strong stabnce against homosexuality during the official opening of the Devine Grace...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sipho Makhabane salutes Zimbabwean fans
South African musician Sipho Makhabane staged a good act Apostolic Faith Mission International Conference in Masvingo at the weekend. The popular musicians proved that he is back to what he knows best...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 10:07hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
AFM fires senior pastor
THE Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe has closed its El Shaddai Assembly in Zengeza and fired its leader Reverend Paymore Murefu, for taking the church president Aspher Madziyire to court over...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 11:01hrs | | 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 | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Church elder drags to court more than 20 pastors
A church elder from the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe has dragged to court more than 20 pastors who presided over proceedings that expelled him from the church.Tenias Brian Chitimi...Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimPraise Choir denied US visas
Zimpraise Choir were last week dealt a major blow as they missed out on the just-ended Megafest conference in America after they failed to secure visas to enter that country.The group had been...Published: 25 Aug 2015 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Bishop TD Jakes invites ZimPraise for MegaFest
The country's leading gospel choral group - ZimPraise will be heading to the United States in August after renowned pastor - Bishop Thomas 'TD' Jakes invited them to minister at the MegaFest Conferenc...Published: 11 Apr 2015 at 08:50hrs | | by Showbiz Reporter
Pastors warned against adultery
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission in Zimbabwe President Reverend Dr Aspher Madziyire has warned young pastors against abusing omen and engaging in adultery saying this tarnishes the image of the Chruch. ...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 07:13hrs | | by Oswell Moyo
Zim churches urged to pray for Zim-Asset
THE Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Chris Mushohwe, has called on churches to pray for the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation blueprint and Africa in ge...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T supporters arrested for violence
POLICE in Chegutu on Saturday arrested 14 people, all thought to be MDC-T supporters, for allegedly perpetrating acts of violence when stopped at a roadblock. The supporters are believed to ha...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 04:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet prophesies the return of a powerful Zim dollar
An Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor, Dr Johannes Kgwarapi has prophesied the return of a powerful Zimbabwean currency.Dr Kgwarapi said this during the church's National Annual General Con...Published: 05 Sep 2012 at 11:24hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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