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United Methodist barred from Harare premises
High Court Judge Justice Munangati Manongwa has issued an interim order prohibiting the United Methodist Church from conducting church services and events at its property in Borrowdale, Harare, follow...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 09:09hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
High Court issues interdict against United Methodist Church
The High Court of Zimbabwe has granted an interim order prohibiting the United Methodist Church from hosting services and other functions at its property in Borrowdale, Harare.The decision fol...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 15:07hrs | 1116 | by Ndou Paul
12 United Methodist pastors resign over homosexuality
Twelve senior pastors from the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Zimbabwe have resigned in protest against the church's recent decision to remove its long-standing condemnation of homosexuality....Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 12:48hrs | 2614 | by Staff reporter
Church reverend collapses, dies while preaching in Zimbabwe
Norest Nyakudanga, a 66-year-old local evangelist, tragically collapsed and died while delivering a sermon at Chisipiti United Methodist Church in Harare on Tuesday evening.Nyakudanga had just...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Bishop denies Nigeria arrest and deportation claims
Bishop Eben Kanukayi Nhiwatiwa of the United Methodist Church (UMC) denied recent reports that he was arrested in Nigeria. He explained that, instead, he was being protected by Nigerian authorities fr...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 15:37hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean bishop deported from Nigeria
Bishop Eben K. Nhiwatiwa of the United Methodist Church Zimbabwe was arrested and subsequently deported from Nigeria while on a mission to oversee the election of a new church leader. The inc...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean bishop arrested in Nigeria
The wrangling in the United Methodist Church, Nigeria, has again taken a different dimension as a Zimbabwean bishop of the church, Eben K. Nhiwatiwa, was reported to have been arrested in Nigeria....Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 17:46hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backers hound church leaders
A group of pastors, who claim to be spearheading President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election campaign, are accused of ambushing church leaders across the country as they seek to recruit them to th...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 Bulawayo churches face demolition
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to demolish 12 church structures that are either dilapidated and an eyesore or have been illegally constructed as it ups its fight to rid the city of illegal and...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
AU's $1,3 million scholarships open doors
AS the first semester of 2021/22 begins, Africa University has awarded close to US$1,3 million in scholarships and financial aid to students in need. Six hundred students from 20 countries received th...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Blessing Mandabva
Top Methodist missionary dies
ONE of the United Methodist Church's leading missionaries in southern Africa, Isaac Mawokomatanda, has died.Mawokomatanda died on Saturday night in Georgia, the United States.His son, ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa University develops umsuzwane medicinal cough drops
United Methodist Church run Africa University's College of Health and Agricultural Sciences has made headway in developing throat lozenges made from the umsuzwane plant, which many Zimbabweans have be...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
UMC donates to 25 schools in Mutasa
MINISTRY of primary and secondary education got a shot in the arm ahead of schools reopening as United Methodist Church (UMC) donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene materials to 25 sc...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Own Correspondent
Mnangagwa needs more than our prayers
As I carried a message of comfort to the young Christian pastors in Masvingo, I was overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations under which these brothers worked.My interactions with Apostle El...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe's curse of voodoo economics
I was attending a pre-conference of Christian pastors in Masvingo at the urgent invitation of Prophetess Elizabeth Chademana.I had been charged by the saints in Greenwood District of the Unite...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'No to gays'
METHODISTS have united against homosexuality at a Special General Conference held last month in the United States where delegates refused to recognise gay unions and ordain homosexuals into offices of...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:11hrs | 2 | by Fatima Bulla
United Methodist Church embarks on clean-up campaign in Mvurwi
The United Methodist Church, Mvurwi Youth Circuit embarked on a clean-up campaign on Saturday, which saw energetic church members together with the local council collecting refuse and litter in ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Apostolic churches endorse Mnangagwa
Council of Apostolic Churches (CACZ) in Zimbabwe has endorsed the just-ended harmonised elections as free, fair and credible and have since sent their congratulatory message to President Emmerso...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa invokes Ndabaningi Sithole's name in Chipinge
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is invoking the legend of Ndabaningi Sithole, the late Zanu Ndonga leader and religious leader from the United Methodist Church, to win the Chipinge vote.Fro...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Reverend wants to 'rebuild' Zimbabwe on Christian values
Reverend Washington Chikanga, leader of Rebuild Zimbabwe Party (RZP), says Zimbabwe needs "right vision and right leadership" to change fortunes for citizens. The 48-year-old clergyman, who is...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The church and politics, the Zimbabwean perspective
The church has played a major role in Zimbabwean politics. It has moulded good leaders and has been idiolated by bad leaders too. Every politician in Zimbabwe has had an inclination towards religion. ...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 19:57hrs | | by Chaguta
Churches externalise cash from Zimbabwe
PROMINENT churches - among them the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Zaoga and United Methodist Church - have been named among organisations that have externalised large sums of money from Zimbabwe in re...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Southern Africa Methodist University should be opened now Mr President!
I remember as a youth being hopeful that I would attain a degree in my life when done with my Advanced level. Being a Methodist and having been born in a family that knew no other denomination other t...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 11:07hrs | 2 | by Muhwisiry Chaiyeiye
Town Planner in multiple affairs
A HARARE CITY Town Planner stands accused of trying to evict his wife from their Tynwald house.Spiwe Munyereyi, 56, residing at No. 14502 Madokero, is challenging her eviction from the propert...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife slayer died a bitter man, left 5-paged suicide note
Elisha Murimba (54), who sliced open his wife's throat in a blood-curdling murder and later committed suicide, died a bitter man and laid a host of allegations against Mrs Victoria Murimba.The...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 09:18hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
'Man of God' spared jail in adultery scandal
A United Methodist Church cleric accused of attempting to kill his lover's husband got away with community service after being convicted of a lesser assault charge.Harare regional magistrate T...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cheating' cleric demands CCTV footage
A United Methodist Church reverend accused of attempted murder after driving into his girlfriend's husband has requested CCTV footage from IDBZ Bank along Raleigh Street.Elliot Chikwenjere, th...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Attempted murder accused Reverend claims that his life was in danger
UNITED Methodist Church Reverend Eliot Chikwenjere yesterday maintained he never wanted to kill the man thrown off the bonnet of his moving car when he was allegedly caught with his wife in the Centra...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Love triangle woman disowns hubby
The woman, who is alleged to be in the middle of a love triangle that led to the injury of her husband, last week disowned him.She told the court the two were no longer living together since h...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Marange Passover to attract more than 200 000 pilgrims
More than 200 000 Johanne Marange Apostolic Church pilgrims are expected to converge for their annual Passover at Mafararikwa Shrine in Manicaland.The annual Johanne Marange Apostolic Church P...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reverend caught with someone's wife
THE man, who was injured when he caught his wife with a United Methodist Reverend, yesterday wept uncontrollably as he narrated how he was thrown off a moving vehicle.David Gwarazimba, 47, bro...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 15:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man thrown off moving car over 'cheating wife'
A 47-YEAR-OLD man sustained head injuries after he was thrown out of a moving vehicle driven by his wife's lover on Monday. David Gwarazimba jumped on to a bonnet and clung precariously on to ...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
One on one with a Mutare based sculptor
Chimuka Art and Crafts Foundation Trust in Mutare is an institution that has groomed many successful artists who has recognized artifacts but for the past decade their operations had been in a precar...Published: 22 May 2017 at 21:57hrs | 15 | by Farai Shawn Matiashe
'Hostility between Shonas and Ndebeles should stop' - Churches urged
The Zimbabwe Christian Council (ZCC) held a 3 day constitutional awareness education workshop in Bulawayo at the United Methodist Church (Bulawayo East Bethel), which ended on Wednesday (today)....Published: 03 May 2017 at 21:20hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Churches meet on Constitutional awareness in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) is hosting a three day workshop on 'Constitutional Awareness and Education' at the United Methodist Church (Bulawayo East Bethel).https://www.youtube.com...Published: 03 May 2017 at 11:06hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
US student finds optimism in Zimbabwe
UNITED States - The types of economic, environmental and health problems that afflict much of Africa apply thoroughly to Zimbabwe."It was unbelievable culture shock," Peters Township resident ...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Harry Funk
Govt reaffirm ban of 'Tsikamutandas'
The cabinet decision to stop the illegal operations of dubious traditional healers better known as 'Tsikamutandas' still stands and traditional leaders and law enforcement agency have been urged t...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
If all these Churches were companies Zim will be flourishing- Barbara Nyagomo
Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe leader Barbara Nyagomo has compiled a list over 559 Churches in Zimbabwe and expressed her wish that if these denominations were companies in the country the nation will...Published: 08 Jan 2017 at 05:30hrs | 46 | by Stephen Jakes
Andy Muridzo to release third album
Andy Muridzo a rising contemporary musician is now polishing his work to release his thrilling third album to be out sometime in March 2017. The young musician surprised many with his sec...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Fake' foreign pastors invade Zimbabwe
Ever since the turn of the millennium, scores of foreign pastors, particularly those from Western African countries such as Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo, have been flock...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sister wives who defy convention
Sister wives Tadziripa Chihuri (106) and Cecilia Mazarura (90), like the biblical Ruth and Naomi, are that rare union where water is thicker than blood. The elderly widows, formerly second and fourth ...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Leroy Dzenga
New beds at The Avenues Clinic offer greater comfort and convenience
The Avenues Clinic has acquired 100 new hospital beds to offer greater comfort and convenience to patients and make patient care easier and less strenuous for nursing staff.More than half ...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 15:33hrs | 1 | by Mike Hamilton
New beds at The Avenues Clinic offer greater comfort and convenience
The Avenues Clinic has acquired 100 new hospital beds to offergreater comfort and convenience to patients and make patient care easier and less strenuous for nursing staff.More than half of th...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 13:23hrs | 1 | by Agencies
A new era is born. You have a duty to the people of Zimbabwe
Silence Chihuri is a Zimbabwean who was born and grew up in Kowo Village in Mutoko. He likes to be known more for his underprivileged but very happy upbringing and childhood heading cattle and goats b...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 07:18hrs | 13 | by Silence Chihuri UDF Interim President
The Avenues Clinic donates hospital beds to LCBL Sisters
The Avenues Clinic today (Friday) presented 35 hospital beds to the Little Children of our Blessed Lady, a Roman Catholic religious order, for use in institutions the LCBL sisters run. The Cli...Published: 22 Jul 2016 at 17:42hrs | 15 | by Agencies
Avenues Clinic donates hospital beds to United Methodist Church
The Avenues Clinic on Tuesday handed over to the United Methodist Church 60 hospital beds, which will be used for waiting mother homes at church missions in Manicaland.The waiting mother homes...Published: 18 May 2016 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Agencies
The unspoken story of the ANC
After the Wankie and Spolilo campaigns of the late 1960s, it was apparent that Rhodesia was at war.The boundaries shared by Rhodesia and her neighbours became porous conduits for guerrilla inf...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Tjenesani Ntungakwa
Pastor labels step-mother a hooker
A self-proclaimed United Methodist Church pastor who had the nerve of calling his stepmother a prostitute was on Monday fined $20 or spend 22 days in prison.William Daniel (50) of Warren...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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