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Chiwenga in Italy to represent Mnangagwa
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has arrived in Italy to attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV, who recently assumed leadership of the Catholic Church following the passing of Pope Francis....Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 743 | 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....Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:29hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Italy to attend Pope Francis' funeral
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has called on world leaders attending the burial of Pope Francis to embrace and uphold the virtues of peace, love, and compassion that the late Pontiff exemplifi...Published: 26 Apr 2025 at 09:31hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Vapostori mourn Pope Francis
As condolences continue pouring in following the death of the late Roman Catholic Church's Pope Francis, prominent indigenous apostolic churches have described his passing on as a great loss to the en...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 12:27hrs | 545 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
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 ...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Pope Francis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has joined political and religious leaders around the world in mourning the death of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, who passed away yesterday at the ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:40hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Chapo proclaimed president of Mozambique
Protests have broken out once again in Mozambique after the country's highest court confirmed that the ruling party candidate, Daniel Chapo, won October's disputed presidential election.Deadly...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 18:27hrs | 2401 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe paying Ian Smith regime debt used for fighting liberators
Zimbabwe has been burdened with a staggering $700 million debt incurred during the Ian Smith regime, primarily used for purchasing weapons to suppress liberation efforts, according to researcher and A...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 10:25hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Pope's representative tours Victoria Falls
Archbishop Janusz Stanislaw Urbańczyk, the newly appointed Roman Catholic Church's Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe, visited Victoria Falls on Wednesday as part of a three-day tour of the Hwange Diocese....Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:03hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Pope Francis over same sex marriages
Catholic congregants in Zimbabwe have expressed disquiet at the Vatican's move to allow the church's priests to bless same-sex couples, saying this is abominable in the majority of African countries a...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
African priests reject Pope's endorsement of gay marriages
In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, some Catholic bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere say they will not implement the new Vatican policy allowing blessings for same-sex couples....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 36 | by Associated Press
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 s...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 11:48hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Pope Francis appoints new Bishop for Gokwe
Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Eusebius Jealous Nyathi, the Rector of Chishawasha National Major Seminary of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, as the new Bishop for Gokwe.Fr. Nyathi comes from...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga brandishes Zanu-PF fist on 'holy' pulpit
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, Sunday stood at St. Alois Parish's pulpit before tens of congregants, wearing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scarf and brandishing a clenched fist in what might be...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 18:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges youths to shun drugs, political violence
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has called on youths not to be abused by misguided politicians to engage in violence.He was speaking last night during a fundraising dinner dance for Roman ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Namibia, Zimbabwe gear up to keep more profits from lithium boom
Lithium-rich African countries, including Zimbabwe and Namibia, are trying to develop processing and refining industries to capture more of the profits of global demand for the battery material....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence.He was 95.His successor Pope Francis confirmed the death through a statemet....Published: 31 Dec 2022 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa pledges to make a public apology for his role in the Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa in a closed-door meeting with chiefs on Monday at Bulawayo State House pledged to make a public apology for his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide if the traditional l...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean dad and daughter (5) among victims of petrol station blast
A ZIMBABWEAN dad and his five-year-old daughter were among the 10 people killed by an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.The victims of Friday's disaste...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's upper-middle income economy plans in disarray
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his administration will be able to push to fulfil its long-term plan of transforming Zimbabwe into an upper-middle income economy in line with Vision 2030 if the illegal e...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Conduct of US Embassy shocks Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa has said his cordial engagements with US President Joe Biden left him stunned at the way the US Embassy in Harare conducted itself.He said this in an interview with journal...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt raps anti-vaccine church leaders
Government has rapped some church and community leaders trying to stop their followers from accepting Covid-19 vaccines and said only professional health personnel should comment on the jab. M...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pope Francis appoints Gweru bishop
HEAD of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis yesterday appointed a new bishop for Gweru Diocese.The diocese, one of the biggest dioceses in Zimbabwe, fell vacant in 2017 when the incumbent Bishop...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Pope Francis begin Southern Africa visit this week, not coming to Zimbabwe though
Pope Francis arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters....Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Reuters
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
'Joshua Nkomo deserves sainthood'
ZIMBABWEANS should lobby the Catholic Church to declare Father Zimbabwe and former Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a saint in honour of his contribution to humanity, an official said yesterda...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Coltart and Jonathan Moyo clash over xenophobia
Former Cabinet Ministers Professor Jonathan Moyo and David Coltart have clashed over statements by South Africa's Julius Malema condemning xenophobic attacks against Africans in the neighbouring count...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 10:47hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums, healers, kings and queens. While Christianity remains as that or those institutions preaching, teaching and prophesying...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 14 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
'If you arrest Chamisa, also arrest the Pope'
MDC Vice President Morgen Komichi says the government should proceed to arrest the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis if it was determined to account for leaders of the various groups that took...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:52hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Catholic bishops urges ZANU PF and MDC to unite
(1) We begin by disowning a recent statement issued in our name during the recent stayaway that started on 14 January 2019. We, the Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe, never issued any statement during that...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 19:40hrs | | by ZCBC
Masiyiwa family philanthropic efforts get thumbs-up
YOUTH economic pressure group Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya) had urged local youths to emulate the philanthropic efforts of of global telecommunications group Econet Wireless founder and C...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
What ED and world leaders talked about 2018 did they come true?
New Year's speeches by world leaders don't typically contain much news, but taken together, they offer a helpful view of the global mindset as we turn the calendar. So here's a look at the most notabl...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The continuous aggression in the unmaking of African religion
African religion continues to suffer violence and aggression in the post-colonial era in the hands of its own target beneficiaries! (Matthew 11:12). And it is them that must rise and save it by force ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 15:58hrs | 28 | by Reginald T. Gola
Mthwakazi parties seriously humiliated by MDC-T Bulawayo rally
We have to ask ourselves pertinent questions and again humiliating questions regarding the Mthwakazi political parties in the region. Who do you stand for, what are your messages, why is the Mthwakazi...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 16:56hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe traditional healer wants Pope meeting
Sekuru Kamwelo Banda - the popular Harare-based traditional healer, herbalist and spiritualist - has a burning desire to one day travel to Vatican City and meet Pope Francis, from whom he said he draw...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 23:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe death' pastor stages another one-man demo
Activist cleric Phillip Mugadza, who is being charged for predicting that President Robert Mugabe would die on October 17 this year, yesterday staged another one-man anti-government demo in Harare....Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Herald reporters on trips with Mugabe receive $1,000 per day allowance
Despite his advancing years and increasing frailty, 93-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shows few signs of losing his love for foreign travel, a predilection that is costing his cash-strapp...Published: 26 May 2017 at 15:27hrs | 5 | by Reuters
Hindus urge Zimbabwe to deny Japan's Okinoshima Island UNESCO heritage status unless women allowed
Hindus are urging the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, whose 41st session is meeting in Krakow (Poland) on July 2-12, not to endorse Okinoshima Island of Japan for the World Heritage Site status, unle...Published: 08 May 2017 at 10:06hrs | | by Agencies
This little girl Linda Masarira ship out of Mathebeleland!
They both evidently hate the people of Mathebeleland with passion. They both know how to insult the people of Mathebeleland and unprovoked. Both Grace Mugabe and Linda Masarira can casually insult the...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Excommunicate Mugabe - Pope Francis told
The head of the Catholic church Pope Francis has been asked to immediately excommunicate President Robert Mugabe due to his un-ending oppressive rule and his "unCatholic" tendencies.Pastor Phi...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 18:46hrs | | by Alice Dube
Cleric to report Mugabe to Pope
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is now bringing the Roman Catholic church into disrepute by perpetrating gross human rights abuses while regularly attending Mass and pretending to be a devout Christian, a...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Letter to the Most Holy Father: His Holiness Pope Francis
Your Holiness and Most Holy Father,Please lend me Your ears, Most Holy Father, I have a burning problem that needs your attention. I kindly ask you to assist my friend Ms. Linda Masarira's rel...Published: 03 Aug 2016 at 11:25hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Pope Francis falls while conducting Mass
Pope Francis has fallen during a visit to Czestochowa, Poland. The pontiff was walking on stage, about to address the waiting crowd, but suddenly fell.The 79-year-old pope, who hails from Arge...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Christians should apologise to gay people, says Pope Francis
Rome - Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people and seek their forgiveness for the way they have been treated.Speaking to repor...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Orlando shooting, an act of terror and hate says Obama
Washington - President Barack Obama decried the deadliest mass shooting in American history on Sunday as an "act of terror" and an "act of hate" targeting a place of "solidarity and empowerment" for g...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 20:49hrs | | by AP
'Pray for Zimbabwe,' Minister pleads with Pope Francis
One of President's cabinet ministers recently pleaded with Pope Francis to pay for Zimbabwe as the economic turmoil takes toll yet again on the long suffering Zimbabweans. Health minister ...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Catholics mum over the national pledge
THE noise surrounding the controversial national pledge has reached boiling point with some traditional churches that run mission schools ordering their institutions to disassociate themselves from th...Published: 03 May 2016 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe in mid air scare, navigation system malfunctions
AIR Zimbabwe passengers travelling from Harare to Bulawayo had a scare after the plane lost signals and spent 45 minutes randomly circulating in the air. The incident happened today...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 10:10hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa's priorities
Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continentOn 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development age...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor
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