Mugabe’s ‘bishop’ turns a profit on church buildings

This was the heading in a recent Bible Society news item. It seems that a self appointed Bishop is selling off Angican church buildings and making a profit.
This is so upsetting and we can do nothing except pray the the Archbishop can influence Mugabe.
Children may go hungry if they are evicted from a Zimbabwean orphanage, as it and other church buildings are turned into ‘money-making ventures’. The staff were told to leave by Monday (22 August). Nolbert Kunonga, the former Anglican bishop who has taken over the Anglican Province of Zimbabwe, has led the revolution against Canterbury. Kunonga appointed himself as the nation’s bishop and requisitioned every Anglican church, except in Matabeleland. He is now seizing other church buildings which, according to the Bishop of Harare, ‘are being used as fee-paying schools and pre-schools, residential buildings and business premises’. Most Anglicans now meet in tents, fields, schools or the churches of other denominations. The Archbishop of Canterbury is flying out in October in the hope of meeting Mugabe to discuss the Anglicans’ plight.


Sources: The Times (22/8); Church of England Newspaper (25/8)