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  • 30 Jan 2007
    Activist pastors released on bail in Zimbabwe

    Eight Zimbabwean church leaders have been released on bail after being detained for allegedly holding an illegal political meeting in a church on the evening of 26 January 2007, said officials siad today.

  • 28 Jan 2007
    Zimbabwe police arrest church and civic leaders, confiscate nonviolence materials

    Over the weekend Zimbabwean police arrested nine church leaders, including a blind pastor, for allegedly holding a meeting in Kadoma without first seeking approval from the police - report human rights activists in Zimbabwe. They also confiscated nonviolence manuals

  • 23 Jan 2007
    Mennonite leaders issue plea for Zimbabwe

    “The challenges facing our nation do not seem to want to go away,” Danisa Ndlovu, Bishop of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, told Mennonite World Conference officers and executive staff at a California, USA, meeting earlier this month (January 2007). “Each day seems to bring more hardships.”

  • 11 Jan 2007
    Aid agency calls on EU to renew targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe

    Evangelical aid agency Tearfund is calling on the European Union (EU) to renew targeted sanctions against the country.

  • 21 Dec 2005
    Zimbabwe archbishop will not be silenced - news from ekklesia

    Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo has said he refuses to be muzzled and he does not fear the Zimbabwean government's latest threat to clamp down on its critics.

  • 26 Jun 2005
    Churches provide Zimbabwe relief and step up protests

    With UN secretary general Kofi Annan due to visit Zimbabwe this week to assess the impact of President Robert Mugabe's bulldozing of the property of the urban poor, which has caused international outrage, church agencies inside the country are planning a widespread relief programme.

  • 28 Mar 2005
    Archbishop urges non-violent resistance in Zimbabwe

    Following a tradition of Christian non-violent resistance to oppression, a senior Church leader in Zimbabwe has openly called for a peaceful uprising against President Robert Mugabe.

  • 23 Jul 2004
    Bishop calls for cricket boycott

    A prominent Zimbabwean cleric has urged Britain to call off a controversial cricket tour and take a harder line against Robert Mugabe, calling on churches in the UK to also take a tougher line.