Zimbabwe: Church Must Empower, Not Subjugate Women

5 February 2014

Media outlets are awash with cases of church leaders who reduce female congregants to sex objects. Recent "sexcapades" involving clergymen, chiefly the RMG End Time Message Robert Martin Gumbura, have raised eyebrows as to the authenticity of men of the cloth.The church has been subjected to scepticism, painted with the RMG brush, following the landmark case which saw the serial rapist sentenced to an effective 40-year jail term.

Another talking point has emerged out of the escalating scandal; that of the church's relationship with women.

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