President Mugabe has taken a thinly veiled dig at Zimbabwe’s new crop of Prophetic churches saying he only goes to established churches as these stadium filling new churches are fly by night endeavours meant to fleece the people of their hard earned money. Though he did not mention any church by name,Prophet Makandiwa, Angel and Magaya’s organisations are the only new churches that have been filling stadiums and other very big open spaces President Mugabe said this as he was addressing mournes at the burial of his nephew, Takudzwa Wesley Goronga in Marondera yesterday, the President said some churches were luring huge crowds for monetary gain. “Kunamata kuzvipira isu nemoyo yedu yese kuna Mwari. Chatinochema nacho ndechekuti vamwe vavakungounganidza vanhu vachiti ehe ndezvekwaMwari izvo zvisiri zvekwaMwari zviri zvekwa mari. Vamwe vari kuitira Mwari, capital M, W, A, R, I. Ko ‘W’ wamazobvisa apa mabvisirei? Ini ndinoenda kumaestablished churches. Ndosaka ndisingamhanyire zvichechi zvemazuva ano izvi. Hanzi shevedzai nhingi pano. Anotozadza vanhu mustadium ehe,” said Cde Mugabe. “Vakawanda vanomhanya vachida kuponeswa. Vanenge vachiti tinoponeswa asi mava mushure, chokwadi chichavapo chekuti uri pachokwadi here iwewe, wakadarowo?” President Mugabe said the Church should be exemplary and partner Government in nation- building. “Ndo pandinoti ipapo pova peduwo ka. Ndosaka ndichiti ngakuve nekubatana kwevafundisi nevatungamiri venyika. The State and the Church should be partners. “The spiritual side and then the temporal side, where the body requires to be nourished and the mind requires to be nourished.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:05:51 +0000
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