Anglicans battle to clear Kunonga’s debt
HARARE – The Anglican Church is struggling to pay off $100 000 in water and electricity bills accrued by ex-communicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga.
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HARARE – The Anglican Church is struggling to pay off $100 000 in water and electricity bills accrued by ex-communicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga.
PRIESTS of the Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga-led Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe have gone for two months without pay. The ACPZ recently lost a Supreme Court case which forced it to cede all church property to the Chad Gandiya-led Anglican Church.
Anglican parishioners loyal to the main church thronged the cathedral in Harare on Sunday for a service to “cleanse and re-dedicate” the building after a long over-due Supreme Court ruling kicked out renegade bishop Nolbert Kunonga.
While the state media and most of the private media’s reports of the latest ruling and the subsequent eviction of Kunonga and his priests were generally balanced, the Daily News’ reportage was largely sensational.
President Robert Mugabe, after drawn-out consultations with his inner circle of advisors, ordered Bishop Kunonga to be dumped by Zanu (PF) and the CIO because he failed dismally to achieve what he had been assigned to do.
Television personality Rebecca Chisamba belongs to the faction of Anglican Church faction led by Bishop Nolbert Kunonga and she has no regrets about it. In 2007, internet reports alleged that she was having an affair with the bishop.
ANGLICANS in Harare yesterday held their first mass in five years at the Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints under heavy police guard. The midweek mass was held a day after the eviction of Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga of the Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe from the cathedral.
SIX people aligned to Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga’s Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe were arrested yesterday afternoon after violence broke out at the Anglican Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints in central Harare.
The Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe, led by Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga, is seeking to reclaim control over the church properties it held since 2007.
HARARE – The Anglican Church is witnessing threats of fresh violence as bishops aligned to the dethroned Nolbert Kunonga battle parishioners seeking their eviction.