There was a clip on the TV last night showing a Taliban leader in Afghanistanlistening to a question of Lyse Doucet, the BBC reporter, about the role ofwomen in delivering aid to the starving people of the country. His eyes werefull of scorn for everything the woman in front of him represented. He waslistening but not listening. It was obvious ...
Preaching at a confirmation mass at Our Lady of the Wayside parish, the Archbishop of Harare, His Grace Robert Ndlovu said all Christians are called to bear witness to the good news and that the call is not only for priests and the religious. In what he called a narrow understanding of discipleship, His Grace said by the virtue of ...
There are many things that thrill us. One is obviously football. Another ismusic. Watching and listening to Orchestra Kinshasa immediately tells youwhat a lift if gives people. They have taken to classical music and instrumentsand adapted them to be their own. ‘With the harp I will solve my problem’(Psalm 49:4). It has been known since ancient times that music can ...
The History of Zimbabwe is one of violence and WAR: Therefore our country is in great need of reconciliation and PEACE! The people of Zimbabwe remember that their country was built on a foundation of warfare and violent politics. The Ndebele Nation in the south east of Zimbabwe cannot forget their ancestors who were related to the Zulus (or “Chaka ...
As I walked home, I was overtaken by a vertical collection of brooms. As itpassed, I realised it was a man on a bicycle with a neatly bound selection ofdifferent sorts and colours of brushes. He skilfully wove his way among thepotholes like a dancer on a stage. His demeanour suggested a happy man,confident he knew what he was doing. ...
Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) has vehemently condemned a recentincident of political violence against elderly citizens in one of Zimbabwe’s rural village,Murehwa, saying the acts are ‘barbaric’ and ‘disturbing.’ In a statement signed by the country’s six bishops, released on the 12th of January and widely accepted by many in the country, the prelates said “heinous violent crimes as the ...
Pope Francis invites the faithful to pray “that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than confrontation and helping especially the youngest and most vulnerable above all.” In his prayer intention for January, Pope Francis invites educators to add “fraternity” to the content of their teaching, noting that “educators are witness who impart not only their mental knowledge, but ...
A legend is a story invented to describe something true though we do not know what really happened. There is a legend embedded in the opening of the Christian scriptures about three wise men coming from the east to Bethlehem, drawn by a star. They are led to a manger in a stable and shown the ‘light of the world’ ...
Someone once said there is one thing harder to accept than bad news and that is good news! Perhaps we are not used to good news. We don’t get enough of it. What is the ‘good news of great joy’ the angel announced on Christmas night? Each one of us will have their own version and down the ages we ...
Pope Benedict XVI, who lies between death and burial, once wrote a letter on hope which he called Spe Salvi, we are saved by hope (Rom 8:24). Is this new year going to give us grounds for hope – or more of its opposite, despair? Benedict was writing just before the money collapse of 2008 yet his words spoke of ...
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