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Johane Masowe's remains at centre of dispute
Two rival factions of the Gospel of God Church International are locked in a bitter legal and spiritual battle over the intended exhumation of their revered founder, Baba Johanne - born Peter Shonhiwa...Published: 02 May 2025 at 07:59hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Sex-crazed overseer dismissed from Zaoga
A senior overseer of the ZAOGA FIF church, Joel Chinhema, has been dismissed from his post in Bindura following serious allegations of adultery, embezzlement of church funds, and sexual misconduct. Ch...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 11:13hrs | 2240 | 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 | 1967 | by Staff reporter
Fraudster church leader arrested
A church leader in Mbare finds himself in legal trouble after purportedly impersonating a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) official in a bid to acquire land intended for use as an extension ...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:52hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Assemblies of God leadership wrangle rages
THE leadership wrangle between warring factions in the Assemblies of God (AOG) church has spilled into the courts, leaving congregants divided.The fights broke out after AOG Spiritual Movement...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba Enock off the hook
A SELF-STYLED Budiriro prominent prophet, Hebert Thabo Senda, known as Madzibaba Enock who was recently bashed by suspected bogus Central Intelligence Organisation operatives, was yesterday acquitted ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:24hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Scores injured in fight over church
A fight erupted at Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church headquarters in Wedza, Mashonaland East on Friday as the battle for the control of the sect rages on.The sect has been embroiled in bitt...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pastor kidnapped, threatened with death in AFM fights
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor was kidnapped by a rival faction and threatened with death if he failed to surrender church property as the wrangle to control the religious group between Amon ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
AFM to repossess it's properties
Apostolic Faith Mission church in Zimbabwe has been confirmed by the Supreme court as the legitimate church and to audit all church properties....Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Makandiwa robbed
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) founder, Emmanuel Makandiwa's Christ TV studios were recently broken into with thieves getting away with footage of prophecies which were yet to be fulfilled ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sengwayo son dies after church house assault
THE late founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of Portland Oregon, Reverend Morgan Sengwayo's youngest son, Missiondom succumbed to injuries sustained following a brutal attack by thugs at a ch...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gun-totting land barons terrorise vapositori
Unrepentant gun-wielding lands barons have beyond reasonable doubt become a menace in Harare's Budiriro high-density suburb where they invade land earmarked for Johane Masowe Nyenyedzinomwe low income...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 15:01hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Madzibaba up for fraud
A popular apostolic sect leader is out on $15 000 bail after appearing before a Harare court facing charges of fraud and theft of trust property.Herbert Senda - popularly known as Madzibaba En...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
AFM factionalism sucks in magistrates
The factional battles ravaging the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church has taken yet another nasty turn, this time with a group of pastors aligned to the Rev Cosam Chiyangwa's camp petitioning the Mi...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mugabe's 'prophet' dies
Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, commonly known as Madzibaba Wimbo, has died. He was 96. Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 15:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks splinter group from using church name, buildings§
THE High Court has blocked a breakaway group involved in the United Pentecostal Church in Zimbabwe (UPCZ) leadership wrangle from using the church name and buildings as well as interrupting services a...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Wutawunashe seeks media blackout in divorce case
FAMILY of God Church (FOG) founder, Andrew Wutawunashe has approached the High Court seeking to bar journalists from covering proceedings in his divorce case set for January 29.Wutawunashe is ...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Priest fired over sodomy'
A ROMAN Catholic priest under the Archdiocese of Harare has been relieved of his duties after a litany of accusations deemed him unfit for calling.Father Rungano Muchineripi, who was serving a...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 16:21hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalists destroy Wimbo homestead
THE ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has provided fresh fighting grounds between the followers and family of Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, common...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man convicted for stealing church property
A HWANGE man has learnt it the hard way that stealing from God is not profitable after he was convicted of stealing three rolls of barbed wire from a church.Tinos Muzamba (21) appeared before ...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church leader's wife wants church property in divorce settlement
Family of God Church leader Andrew Wutawunashe is locked in a messy divorce row with his estranged wife Rutendo Faith, who is demanding a share of church assets, arguing they are part of their matrimo...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:11hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Woman undresses at shrine, confesses to causing son in law's death
A WOMAN undressed in public before a prophet known as Madzibaba Masango in an apparent confession to causing the death of her son in law in Rugare recently.After the death of her husband, Yvon...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 11:30hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Robbery gangs arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two gangs of armed robbers, one of whom is suspected to have killed a security guard at a Seventh Day Adventist church-run primary school in Pelandaba suburb....Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thieves steal Jesus statue
A statue of Jesus Christ was this week stolen along with property valued at P21 000.00 at the Roman Catholic Church in Mogoditshane.Three church doors were left damaged, and the thieves are su...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Church leadership row spills into court
The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Southlea Park Assembly is embroiled in a leadership dispute which has led the committee members to haul their congregants before the Harare Civil Court.AFM, r...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:25hrs | 2 | by Ivan Zhakata
Kunonga appeals against $428,000 award for shares he looted
Former Anglican Church leader Dr Nolbert Kunonga, who was last week ordered to pay $428 000 to the church as compensation for the shares he looted and sold at the height of the church's five-year wran...Published: 28 Nov 2015 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Anglican bishop dumped by Mugabe ordered to pay back $427 892 loot
Looting church property and disposing of shares belonging to the church in a "make hay while the sun still shines" fashion has backfired on Bishop Nolbert Kunonga and his lieutenants after the High Co...Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05hrs | 2 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Students demo rocks church run High School
A STUDENT unrest has rocked the United Church of Christ (UCCZ)-run Mt Selinda High School in Chipinge where militant pupils took to the streets protesting against church officials for illegally confis...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 10:18hrs | 2 | by Luthando Mapepa
Church leadership war turns bloody
POLICE last night fought running battles with congregants at the Apostolic Faith Mission of Africa (AFMA) in Lobengula Extension as a battle for the leadership of the church turned bloody.A se...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Whinsley Masara and Thandeka Moyo
Police, army evict Zanu-PF youths
A joint security services operation on Sunday evicted scores of Zanu-PF youths who had invaded an 82 hectares Anglican Church plot in Chitungwiza between St Mary's Police Station and Chikwanha sho...Published: 13 May 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt forcing Cyrene High School to close down
THE Anglican Church will close Cyrene High School and Clinic if Government does not reverse the takeover of the church's farm, a senior church official told The Sunday News. The takeover of th...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Lungile Tshuma
AFMA leaders in legal battle over of church property
RIVAL camps in the leadership wrangle of the troubled Apostolic Faith Mission of Africa (AFMA) are locked in yet another legal battle over control of church property. The Reverend Clement N...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 05:38hrs | 20 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Man vandalise church property while claiming to be Jesus
A Chitungwiza man was on Thursday caught claiming he is Jesus while also imitating the turning of tables in the temple as he however vandalised church property belonging to the Redeemed House of ...Published: 01 Feb 2014 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa's property go under the hammer
Charismatic preacher, founder of United Family International Church (UFIC) Emmanuel Makandiwa face embarrassment as the messenger of Court in Bulawayo has attached his church property that inclu...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 15:43hrs | 4 | by zimbabwefocus.com
Ex-communicated Anglican Bishop 'Kunonga' loses court case
HARARE - High Court judge Maxwell Takuva has dismissed with costs an application by ex-communicated Anglican Bishop Nolbert Kunonga in which he was seeking an order to the stop to eviction of his prie...Published: 08 Nov 2013 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Court strikes High Court judge for miscarriage of justice
THE Supreme Court on Thursday rapped High Court judge Justice Alphas Chitakunye, for allegedly presiding over and making a ruling in a property wrangle, including church regalia, between members of th...Published: 28 Sep 2013 at 04:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
4 arrested for burning down Johane Masowe church property
Four people were arrested by police in Glen Norah, Harare after burning down properties belonging to members of the Johane Masowe Apostolic Church in a suspected case of land disputeBurnt were...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru urges church leaders to participate in Zanu-PF programmes
Vice-President Joice Mujuru has urged church leaders to participate in Zanu-PF programmes in order to become economically empowered.Speaking at a Gweru ministers fraternal church service in th...Published: 19 May 2013 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Excommunicated Bishop Kunonga surrenders
Excommunicated Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga says his church will abide by the court ruling to surrender all Anglican Church property to the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA)....Published: 19 Dec 2012 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams request to meet Mugabe
Rowan Williams, the leader of the world's Anglicans, has requested to meet Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during his forthcoming visit to southeast Africa, his office said on Monday.Willi...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 09:16hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
Archbishop of Canterbury requested to meet Mugabe
London - Rowan Williams, the leader of the world's Anglicans, has requested to meet President Robert Mugabe during his forthcoming visit to Zimbabwe, his office said on Monday.Williams, the Ar...Published: 03 Oct 2011 at 12:33hrs | | by -
Zimbabwe churches and politics meet
Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has blasted the Bishop Chad Gandiya-led faction of the Anglican Church for seeking political intervention in the long-drawn property ownership wrangle still pending b...Published: 03 Oct 2011 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Priests forced out of homes as Kunonga wins property fight
CLERICS and their families are being evicted from rectories in Zimbabwe, after a High Court decision giving custodianship of church property to Nolbert Kunonga, the excommunicated former Bisho...Published: 19 Aug 2011 at 08:58hrs | | by Pat Ashworth
Stop harassing Mugabe's Critics, Churches damanded
Churches in Zimbabwe have demanded a meeting with the police commissioner to ask him to end the harassment of those who had been driven from their homes by gangs loyal to President Robert Mugabe....Published: 14 Feb 2011 at 10:47hrs | 3 | by Byo24NEWS
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