The tragedy of German Jesuits working in Chinhoyi Diocese during Zimbabwe s war of Liberation
The Catholic Church emerged out of the liberation war in 1980 as battered, numbed and depleted by the deportation of several of its rural clergy and the murders of its misionaries, nuns and lay people working in parishes which were located in the main theatres of the war. The Catholic church was...
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| Language: | English |
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Midlands State University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/382 |
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| Summary: | The Catholic Church emerged out of the liberation war in 1980 as battered, numbed and
depleted by the deportation of several of its rural clergy and the murders of its misionaries,
nuns and lay people working in parishes which were located in the main theatres of the
war. The Catholic church was accused by the Rhodesian government of being riddled
with communism yet at the same time missionaries were brutalized by armed guerrilla
assailants. The paper studies the experiences of some of the missions in the then Sinioa
Prefecture (now Chinhoyi Diocese). The missions under study are St. Albert s, Kangaire,
St Rupert s, St Boniface and St Paul s. It begins with the history of Jesuits in Zimbabwe,
the establishment of the missions and then goes on to explain circumstances surrounding
the misfortune of these missions. The escalation of the war saw St Ruperts, Kangaire and
St Albert s closing between 1978 and 1979. At St Ruperts, the two German missionaries
present were killed and a German priest was murdered at Kangaire. St Boniface mission
lost its African catechist and closed as well. |
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