Christianity

Courageous Anglicans are the victims of Zimbabwe's forgotten persecutionAs I left the Anglican church in a suburb of Harare, my Zimbabwean host said: "Don't forget us." Yet the persecution of Anglicans in the diocese of Harare, which is spreading, is being seen and remembered by few Christian communities across the world.

Methodist priest who served as prime minister of the short-lived Republic of Zimbabwe-RhodesiaBishop Abel Muzorewa, the former prime minister of the short-lived Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, who has died aged 84, was a religious leader and an unlikely politician. His ambition, he said, had been to do "what Mandela did in South Africa – achieve a political resolution of his country's problems without bloodshed". Alas, he failed.When Ian Smith declared unilateral independence (UDI) in Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, shockwaves ran across black Africa.