by Sean Reilly | Jun 17, 2008
The Zimbabwean woman who sat next to the general secretary of the World Council of Churches telling her story was quite blunt. “Please don’t write my name – if it is known I will be killed,” she said at the meeting moderated by the WCC general...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 11, 2008
Mennonite World Conference (MWC), which brings together 1.2 million Anabaptists within the Mennonite family, is sending two deacons to Zimbabwe and calling for two days of global prayer and fasting to coincide with the election run-off. The presidential contest in the...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 10, 2008
Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu addressed a packed gathering of clergy, dignitaries, tourists, families and activists during a short service of prayer at St Martin’-in-the-Field, in London, last night. In a wide ranging sermon he...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
After police invoked security laws to ban open-air prayer meetings in some parts of the country, a Zimbabwean church group has said that freedom to worship in the southern African country is being infringed in the weeks before a presidential election run-off in June....
by Sean Reilly | Apr 25, 2008
The Anglican Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement in support of the strong voice of fellow Christians in Zimbabwe, as the country’s post-election crisis appears to be worsening. The archbishops have called for greater efforts on...
