On a cold winter’s night in July 1973, guerrilla freedom fighters visited St Albert’s Mission on the edge of the escarpment in the north of Zimbabwe, rounded up about 280 students and staff and led them down into the valley planning to enlist them in the struggle. When the Rhodesians learnt what had happened, they sent planes which dropped flares ...
Archbishop of Harare Diocese, Archbishop Robert Ndlovu has committed this year’s Lenten campaign to fighting drug and substance abuse. In his 2023 Lenten message titled from despair to hope in Synodality against drugs and substance abuse, Archbishop Ndlovu called upon the families to offer prayers and resources to deal with drug abuse. Without specifying the nature of resources, he urged ...
Fellow writers and academics have honoured the late Jesuit priest, poet, and author, FrIgnatius Zvarechase SJ, for his immense contributions in preserving traditions thorugh hisbook.The prolific writer was praised, awash with words, at a memorial symposium held at andorganised by Arrupe Jesuit university in Harare.Family members, members of the laity and academia also attended the symposium withnotable authours such as ...
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops have made a strong call for action to Zimbabweans to commit to building true peace, break the unjust fetters and elect good accountable leaders in the forthcoming general elections. The call made to Catholics and the people of Zimbabwe in 2023’s Lenten pastoral letter, is a show of sign and voice made in collegiality. Titled, Breaking ...
Ignatius Zvaravashe, who died in 2019, was a Jesuit priest and a writer. He was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe, in 1943 and was a keen observer of traditional customs and use of language. He has recently been ‘discovered’ in the sense that his thought, expressed in his writings and in the memory of those who knew him, is being studied ...
The Church is a home that priests and laypeople need to care for together, Pope Francis said on Saturday. “It is time for pastors and laypeople to walk together, in every area of the Church’s life, in every part of the world,” he said in the Vatican’s New Synod Hall on Feb. 18. “The lay faithful are not ‘guests’ in ...
Message of the Holy Father Lenten Penance and the Synodal Journey Dear brothers and sisters! The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke all recount the episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus. There we see the Lord’s response to the failure of his disciples to understand him. Shortly before, there had been a real clash between the Master and Simon Peter, ...
The upcoming Addis Ababa Continental Synod Meeting will reflect and engage in discernment over the working Document for the Continental Stage. Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA – AMECEA Online, Nairobi. The upcoming Continental Synod Meeting slated for next 1 to 6 March in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is set to engage delegates in reflection from the local context of Africa on the working ...
The issues of segregation and marginalization that got the likes of Zvarevashe into trouble continued in some form among the black brothers “A Mission Divided” review by Dominic Tomuseni SJ In reaction to Francis Rea’s statement that “Missionaries will be judged, ‘but it is only in the kingdom of heaven that the verdicts are published,’” Mhoze Chikowero insists that we ...
I wonder why the ruling party chooses to retain the word ‘Front’ in its title? It was part of the title chosen by their predecessors in government when, in the early 1960s, they chose a military title for theirs. Then it was a ‘front’ against any black advancement and the Zambezi was often invoked as a frontier with chaos ‘to ...
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