Southern Africa
A pastor accused of “urg[ing] a violent removal” of former President Robert Mugabe’s government was acquitted of all charges on 29 November. Pastor Evan Mawarire, a leading opposition acitvist, left the courtroom triumphantly draped in Zimbabwe’s flag ...
Robert Mugabe is out. Most Zimbabweans are out on the streets in ecstatic celebrations. Another era has begun in Zimbabwe. For the Zimbabwean church and Christians, the peaceful exit of Mugabe and his signing a ...
Though President Mugabe, unsurprisingly, has refused to resign, despite his removal as the head his Zanu PF party, demonstrations on the streets by thousands of Zimbabweans and persuasion by leaders and interest groups, Zimbabwe Heads of ...
Following the ouster of President Robert Mugabe by the Zimbabwean military, a Catholic Priest, and close friend of the deposed president, Father Fidelis Mukonori is said to be negotiating an ‘honourable exit’ for Mugabe from ...
The challenge to the church’s survival in the post-colonial era lies in a ‘meaningful’ theological engagement with the fields of economics, politics and issues of security, according to a leading mission expert, addressing PhD students ...
Six South African schools with a Christian ethos are to be brought before courts to defend their right to follow a single religion against a secularist challenge. According to a report the six Schools are being ...
Church leaders have called for a redrafting of a South African Hate Speech Bill because it could lead to the registering of all places of worship and the state licensing of ‘religious practitioners’. According to ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel prize laureate is back to a Cape Town hospital for an infection after undergoing a surgery about a week ago. Tutu’s wife Leah, said the readmission, on Saturday was precautionary. Archbishop ...
