Tens of thousands of Zimbabwe's Anglicans are being forced to worship in pubs, tents and private schools while their churches stand empty, shuttered by a controversial bishop loyal to President Robert Mugabe.
28 March 2011
Anglican bishops in Zimbabwe are appealing for protection, after being warned of plans to kill them as a power struggle with a rival pro-ZANU PF bishop deepens. Their plea for help comes after one of their church members was brutally murdered last week.
22 February 2011
Pastoral letter from Bishop Chad of Harare: "It is with deep concern that I write to you as Pastor of the faithful in the Diocese of Harare CPCA about the unnecessary prolonged suffering of our people at the hands of the police who continue to claim to be receiving orders “from above” to prevent us from using our church buildings in accordance with the Makarau judgement of January 2008 and reaffirmed by Mavhangira judgment of June 2010."
26 January 2011
The Primates of the Anglican Communion, meeting in Alexandria, Egypt on 3rd February, 2009, heard first hand reports of the situation in Zimbabwe, and note with horror the appalling difficulties of the people of this nation under the current regime.
03 February 2009
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), on the last day of its meeting in Nottingham, has called on the Government of Zimbabwe to reverse its policies of destruction and begin to engage in development that eradicates poverty.
28 June 2005
(ENI) The heads of more than 330 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches which are members of the World Council of Churches are to be invited to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare in December for a service of recommitment to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1948 of the WCC.
11 May 1998