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MRP blasts Zanu PF over Conferment of Guti as National Hero
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has blasted President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa for conferring national hero status to the founder of Zaoga Church who died on July 5 in South Afr...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 15:34hrs | 24 | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: 'Kasukuwere is a chancer,' says Passion Java
Controversial religious leader Passion Java has said Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere is a chancer.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com Java said Kasukuwere is seeking relevance since he has be...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 17:24hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shady characters around Mnangagwa
SPOTLIGHT seems to bring out the best and worst of people, and sometimes their true colours. Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is among people caught off-guard by the four-episode Al Jazeera docume...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Passion Java visits Mnangagwa ahead of 2023 campaign
Self-proclaimed prophet Passion Java said he visited President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday night and he has started mobilizing votes for the President on social media.The man of Cloth claims ...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:17hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Catholic priest under probe for harassing teachers, corruption
A Catholic resident priest at St Benedict High School, Fr Innocent Mangwiro is at loggerheads with the mission's authority and is now under investigation over allegations of misconduct, corrupt tenden...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 08:56hrs | 21 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prophet comes to 'locked' man's rescue
A man from Beitbridge who has never enjoyed sex since the death of his wife seven years ago is happy that his shrunk manhood has started working again after he consulted a local prophet for help....Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa has turned to Angel, Java and Makandiwa?
With less than a year and two months before Zimbabwe holds its highly anticipated 2023 Presidential elections, President Mnangagwa has of late turned for support from self-styled Prophets and Papa's i...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 14:38hrs | 17 | by Knowledge Hakata - Political Analyst
Prophet T Freddy screamed 'thank you God' while raping victim
A Harare woman who lives with disability yesterday chronicled how Goodness and Mercy Ministries prophet Tapiwa Freddy (T Freddy) allegedly took advantage of the illness and subsequent deat...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Shamwari Yemwanasikana breathes fire over the death of a 14 year old girl
A girl child Organisation, Shamwari yemwanasika breathes fire over a 14 year old girl who died in labour at an unnamed apostolic sect last week in Bocha Marange.In a statement Shamwari Yemwana...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
'Mermaid attack': dead bodies found floating
Villagers of Tazvigwira village in Mapanzure area, Masvingo were left tongue-tied on July 23, when lifeless bodies of the three people who mysteriously drowned during a cleansing ceremony at Musongwez...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 18:04hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Tsepo Tshola exits the Jazz stage
The legendary musician, composer and award-winning Jazz musician Tsepo Tshola 'crossed the great divide' yesterday [the 15th of July] at the age of 67. The 'Village Pope' succumbed to the Covid-19 vir...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:51hrs | 4 | by Matthew Dubs Esquire
Prophet rapes 13-year-old congregant
A SELF-STYLED Chiweshe apostolic prophet allegedly lured a 13-year-old congregant in the bush and raped her purporting to be sent by the Holy ghost....Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police 'harass' mourners to block Chamisa from attending funeral
THERE was drama Saturday night in Chitungwiza when anti-riot police details besieged the funeral of the late popular Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) cleric Tabeth Chiweshe and ordered mourners disperse....Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Prophet goes insane after 'desecrating' sacred mountain
A SELF-STYLED Bindura Johanne Masowe WeChishanu prophet Madzibaba Rakeni Gumbira of Chiwaridzo has gone insane after leading seven of his congregants on a three day prayer session on top of the sacred...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Prophet goes insane after 3-day prayer on mountain
A self-styled Bindura Johanne Masowe WeChishanu prophet and leader Madzibaba Rakeni Gumbira of Chiwaridzo has gone insane after leading 7 congregants in a three-day prayer session on top of the sacred...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 11:53hrs | 19 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bishop rapes congregant, attempts abortion
A LOCAL married church bishop is under fire for impregnating one of his congregants and allegedly trying to terminate the pregnancy on four different occasions.Bishop Nathan Tafadzwa Gwenyaya ...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Salvation Army pastor up for sodomy
A Salvation Army pastor based in Centenary was arrested last week for allegedly sodomizing a congregant.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts where Aron Vhezha pleaded not gui...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Madzibaba 'under siege'
POPULAR Apostolic sect leader Madzibaba Masango of the Johannes Masowe Kubata KweVapostori Faith Church has made claims that there are a number of clerics who are fighting him through malicious sexual...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Children accuse mother of witchcraft
A woman from Jahana Village under Chief Njelele has approached Chief Njelele's traditional court after her children accused her of bewitching them.The woman Sithabiso Ndlovu said she hasn't kn...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's world crumbling?
The world around Prophet Walter Magaya is crumbling as more allegations of sexual abuse and harassment continue to surface.A week after the Maenzanise family went on social media alleging that...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:00hrs | 1 | by Garikai Mazara
Fugitive pastor arrested 2 years later
A Life Embassy Ministries pastor from Mvurwi, who has been on the run for the past two years, was finally arrested and arraigned before a Guruve magistrate last week on charges of defrauding a church ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Passion meets Mnangagnwa
Kingdom Embassy leader Prophet Passion Java has revealed that he was excited after he got an opportunity to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week.Speaking though his Facebook page, the m...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bishop, ex-wife in house wrangle
A BISHOP with Apostles of Zimbabwe Church is at loggerheads with his former wife whom he is attempting to evict from their matrimonial house following a High Court ruling which granted his application...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traditional chiefs turns to Prophet Magaya
TRADITIONAL leaders brought sick people to Prophet Walter Magaya for healing at his cross over night prayer that drew thousands of people to celebrate New Year.Prophetic Healing and Deliveranc...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 21:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya on hard times?
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Walter Magaya's photograph of him and a footballer eating roasted corn (maputi) and a freezit circulating on social media has been met wit...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Groom humiliated
A GWERU apostle was left egg-faced when his fiancée failed to attend her wedding ceremony on Saturday. Apostle Samuel Kaunda of Glory House Ministries' wedding with his fiancée Naume Mangwarira fail...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga set CIOs on his cousin?
Controversial preacher Talent Chiwenga - known for his uncanny prophecies about the country's political situation - now fears for his life after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga issued a stern warn...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet sells congregant's vehicle
INTERCESSORS Power Chapel's leader, Prophet Ishmael Pasvani, has been dragged to court for allegedly selling one of his congregants' vehicles.Prophet Pasvani maintained his church received a H...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anglican Church priest commends Mnangagwa
A ZIMBABWEAN pastor based in Papua New Guinea has commended President Emmerson Mnangagwa for promoting peace and tolerance through shunning hate speech. Anglican Church priest Reverend Nichola...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 07:29hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Church leader wanted sex
A KWEKWE CHURCH leader reportedly dismissed some young girls from the church when one of them exposed his love affair.Living Christ Deliverance Ministry Church leader Apostle Edwin Sibanda of ...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Evangelist's wife in 5 man love affair
AN evangelist's wife is involved in a love scandal involving five men.Evangelist Ndashata has been sharing his wife Angela Bhudhe, 26, with four other men in the subsistence of their marriage....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 19:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is the president right now,' says Prophet Nixon
A PROPHET with the Joyous Celebration Church Ministries International has been exposed for giving false prophecies on the presidential election race.For months now, Prophet Nixon Kainga of Joy...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 15:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass wedding for 4 000 couples
MORE than 4 000 couples from different churches under the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe around the country gathered for a mass marriage last week at an event organised by ACCZ in collaborati...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 19:52hrs | 6 | by staff reporter
Pastor accused of sexual harassment
PROMINENT Bulawayo pastor and founder of Praise and Worship Centre Bishop Trust Sinjoki has been accused of sexually harassing female congregants at his church.A number of women have alleged t...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Chiza accused of fanning tribal divisions
PROMINENT Bulawayo cleric Dr Prophet Blessing Chiza of the Eagle Life Assembly Church, has come under criticism for going political and fanning tribal divisions after he recklessly apologised "to Ndeb...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:09hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mental illness amongst us, Zimbabwe has lost the battle and should wage a war
A study has shown 75% of the Zimbabwean population has once suffered from mental illness, somewhere in their journey called life this has been caused by a variety of factors which include but are not ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:42hrs | 4 | by Simplisio Muvunde
'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 | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cheating Pastor in accident
A local church pastor was involved in road traffic accident fleeing his wife after he was caught in the company of his alleged lover along Leopold Takawira yesterday.Pastor Blessing Saunyama w...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating apostle tortured
POPULAR televangelist and founder of Harvest Time International Ministries Apostle Sam Fidelis was recently tortured by a husband to one of his congregants he was allegedly pestering for sex.H...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 16:30hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Congregants 'vanish' as pastor divorces
A NUMBER of congregants at Beyond Boarders Ministries reportedly left the church after their church founder Pastor Chris Oparaocha divorced his wife Valerie Dhliwayo.Though the man of cloth an...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
$20k Norton Mortuary Commissioned
January 18, 2018 saw the commissioning of the new and upgraded Norton Hospital Mortuary after it had been abruptly shut down in 2011 due to bad state of the premise. In her opening and welcome...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 22:12hrs | 14 | by By Maxwell Teedzai/Local Government News
'Prophet and Prophetess Makandiwa have a case to answer,' says court
United Family International Church (UFIC) founder and leader Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife Ruth have a case to answer after a High Court judge ruled that there is merit in a US$6,5 million lawsuit l...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Catholic Priest's cosy pic storm
A Catholic priest has been transferred to another parish after his cosy pictures with a woman went viral.Father Achim Sidakara based in Bulawayo is reported to have been transferred to Peter a...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 15:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya paying workers with 'blessings'
A few years ago, flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa sparked a major furore after he paid his workers at G&D Shoes their severance packages in the form of pairs of shoes.There was a me...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya says Mnangagwa's govt is illegitimate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is illegitimate despite receiving a lot of support from within and outside the country, the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny's Bishop Ancelimo Magaya said Thursday....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake prophet nabbed
VICTIMS of miracle hoaxes by a Harare prophet yesterday hauled the man of cloth before a Harare magistrate who denied him bail after the State indicated that granting him bail will be a mockery to the...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man's penis disappears
A Budiriro man threatened to undress before a congregation at Madzibaba Stephen's shrine demanding his money accusing him of removing his manhood in Chitungwiza last Friday.Kudzai Chihota wres...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Catholic priest fired
The Roman Catholic has fired controversial and self-styled anti-Government cleric, Father Rungano Muchineripi of Archdiocese of Harare, but did not disclose the reasons, although speculation is rife t...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya hosted by Angolan army
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance ministries founder, Dr Prophet Walter Magaya was offered pieces of land to construct churches by the Angolan army general.Angola National Army Zi-Grante gener...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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