The Sunday Mail
Pauline Mhuka-Magavu
APOSTOLIC Faith Mission in Zimbabwe will in August celebrate 100 years of existence.
The church in Africa has, however, been in existence for 107 years.
Church spokesperson Reverend Amon Madawo said preparations for the celebrations in Masvingo were underway.
“Delegates across Africa and beyond will grace the celebrations. We are expecting to have powerful international and local speakers, though we are still working on the programme,” Rev Madawo said.
Last week, AFM held its annual youth conference in Masvingo under the theme “Called to Leave a Legacy”, deduced from Ruth 4: 11.
AFM outgoing national youth leader, Rev Philip Muhamba, said, “I am challenged by the great numbers at this 2015 Youth conference. Ruth was a Moabite, she was not a Jew, she had no hope at all. But against all odds, she managed to enter Jesus’ lineage. Challenges will not hold back our destiny, because the Bible has got everything in store for us.”
Rev Muhamba added: “Legacy is the imprint of legends feet in their journey to eternity. It is incumbent upon everyone whom God has called to put a stamp on the future. Legends are sustained by a set of well defined principles which stand the test of time, overlapping generations and outliving restrains. Such was the life of Ruth the Moabitess.”
The youth conference was spiced by live performances by Takesure Zamar, Mathias Mhere, Zimpraise and Varumbidzi from the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe among others.
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Refugee camp scapegoated
After the terrorist attack on Garissa University in which 147 students were killed Kenya’s government has found a scapegoat. Three hundred and fifty thousand scapegoats, in fact.
Last Saturday, the country’s deputy president William Ruto issued an ultimatum to the UN. He told the High Commissioner for Refugees to shut down Dadaab refugee camp near the border with Somalia within three months, or else Kenya would shut it down itself.
Officials have claimed that Dadaab is where al-Shabaab plans its acts of terror, such as Garissa and the 2013 Westgate Mall attack, and must be shut down.
“We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months, failure to which we shall relocate them ourselves,” said Ruto. “The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa… We must secure this country at whatever cost.”
A quarter of a century old, Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, home to mostly Somali refugees who have fled famine, violence, and persecution in their home countries. The UNHCR estimates that “more than 350 000” people currently live there. – Guardian
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DJ dies for ISIS
A former model and DJ from Melbourne, described by his former agency as having a promising future, is the latest Australian believed to have been killed fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria.
The parents of Sharky Jama, 25, were informed of their son’s death via a text message and phone call on Monday, said Hussein Harakow, president of the Somali Australian Council of Victoria.
“They’re very shocked and very disappointed,” said Harakow, who knows the Jama family.
He said Jama had disappeared along with another Somali-Australian, named in Australian media reports as former business student Yusuf Yusuf, in August last year.
Harakow said Jama’s parents had subsequently been in contact with their son in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, held by ISIS militants, where he was understood to be living.
But they had been told he had been killed by gunfire in Syria.He said the family did not know Jama had joined ISIS despite his pro-ISIS social media postings, and media reports on his activities.
“He never explained what’s happening over there or what he’s doing.The family lived a simple life. They never discussed these sorts of things,” he said.— CNN
