ASSOCIATION of Apostolic Churches in Zimbabwe (AACZ) president Bishop
Tsungai Vushe has lashed out at church leaders and prophets who
discourage their followers from receiving medication.
“Doctors and nurses are professionals and they know what they are
doing, so prophets must not just rely on their means of healing only
because lives will be lost,” he said.
Vushe made the remarks during a Sunday church service in Bulawayo
where he also pledged to rally behind Zanu PF and President Robert
Mugabe in the forthcoming harmonised elections.
Some apostolic churches and sects do not allow their members to seek
medication at clinics or have their children vaccinated, arguing they
get healed spiritually.
Speaking at the same occasion, the association’s spokesperson Abisha
Matsika blasted self-proclaimed prophets who engaged in criminal
activities while administering spiritual healing and appealed for all
prophets to operate under one umbrella body.
“We urge all the prophets to register with AACZ for them to be
closely monitored and enable us to know whether they are genuine or
not,” he said.
“There have been a number of prophets who claim to heal women by
bathing them and oiling them while naked. That is the reason why the
courts have been flooded with rape cases orchestrated by these kinds of
prophets.”
http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/02/05/bogus-prophets-under-fire/
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