Yesterday Bishop Bakare recounting the incident that highlights the tension between Church and State.
Since September 2007 the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe has been
controlled by Nolbert Kunonga, the former Bishop of Harare and a zealot
of Robert Mugabe's repressive regime. He broke away from the Lambeth
Palace-affiliated Harare diocese, and defied a high court ruling last
year ordering him him to share churches with his Anglican rivals.
A fortnight ago the Church secured an affidavit from Police
Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, in which denied knowing anything about
a police operation to force Anglicans away from their churches. It was
read to parishioners by Anglican priests wherever they met, and they
were urged to return to their churches on Sunday.
Emboldened by the formation of the new power-sharing Government, the church's flock is now beginning to return in force.
The Times (UK)
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