The Church of England is responding to accusations of a "pale, male and stale" leadership with renewed efforts towards achieving greater diversity.

Police have barricaded routes to a shrine east of Zimbabwe's capital to block an annual pilgrimage by Anglicans to honour a Mozambique-born martyr.

The new Anglican Bishop of Harare, the Rt Rev Sebastian Bakare, said this week that lawlessness and violence is threatening elections due on 29 March, and has called on Zimbabweans to pray for an end to the conflict and chaos.