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.
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“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.”
