Read More on ZIMBABWEAN CHURCH DISPUTES

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Read More on ZIMBABWEAN CHURCH DISPUTES

The Sunday Mail

AFM in Zimbabwe

2008: Belvedere assembly drags Pastor Percy Baera to court alleging he promoted unbiblical practices and misused funds

2009: Church members, their overseer and church president Ashper Madziyire are at loggerheads over alleged misappropriation of funds at the expense of the church

2010: Two pastors in Victoria Falls squabble for the Chinotimba Assembly which was said to have generous business people.

January 2013: There are demonstrations at the Dzivarasekwa assembly where parishioners allege pastors are bribing overseers to facilitate their transfers to lucrative assemblies. Congregants question Harare West overseer Cosum Chiangwa’s intention to impose a new pastor whom they allege is related to his wife.

Aug 2013: Pastor Josiah Garamukanwa is suspended after he files a defamation lawsuit against seven members of the church in Kuwadzana Phase 3 Assembly at the High Court. They had raised complaints against him in correspondences to the church’s provincial leadership. He is accused of going for some months without preaching, conducting church business without following a fixed time-table and hand picking preachers for the day without following any pre-planned roaster.

October 2013: Four junior pastors and an evangelist from Morning Side and Bellevue in Bulawayo form Word of Truth in protest of an imposition of a pastor at Bellevue branch.

December 2013: The Waterfalls assembly walks out of the service in protest against the overseer’s decision to fire their pastor of four years.

March 2014: Ugly scenes rock Waterfalls as one camp gets a peace order and accuse the other faction of breaching the court order leading to a disturbance at the church premises.

The service is cancelled by anti-riot police after a court order is issued for one of the factions to leave the premises.

Anglican Church

Feb 2010: Anglicans at Mabvuku St James church drag each other to the police station over a 1,3 metres marijuana plant that was growing in the church premises. Warring factions aligned to Bishop Gandiya and Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga deny responsibility for tending the plant.

June 2010: Police bar thousands of Anglican followers belonging to Bishop Chad Gandiya’s faction from holding commemorations to mark the death of one of the church’s eminent leaders — Benard Mizekiat — at the martyr’s shrine in Marondera.

May 2010: The courts rule that all Anglican properties belong to ADH, thereby giving Archbishop Kunonga authority over all church premises belonging to the Anglican Diocese of Harare

June 2010: Battle to control Anglican church’s diocese of Manicaland sees five members of the Holy Name Church in Sakubva belonging to the Bishop Julius Makoni faction hauled before the courts on public violence charges.

September 2010: Unit K Seke parishioners aligned to Bishop Gandiya are chased away from church by people claiming to be from Archbishop Kunonga.

October 2012: Supreme court throws out five different appeals by Bishop Kunonga’s church of the Province of Zimbabwe leaving it to determine outstanding two decisive matters in his battle for control of church property with the Anglican Province of Central Africa.

November 2012: Supreme Court rules that Archbishop Kunonga and followers are no-longer part of the church of the Province of Central Africa thereby losing battle to control Anglican properties.

November 2012: Archbishop Kunonga files two separate High court applications in a bid to stop the pending eviction of its clergy and laity from church properties.

November 2012: Members hold mass in five years at the cathedral of St Mary and All Saints under police guard after eviction of Archbishop Kunonga.

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