Churches challenge registration directive

GOVERNMENT’S decision to register church prophets and bishops has hit a brickwall after some lawyers challenged the directive describing it as unconstitutional.

Government last week ordered traditional healers and church leaders who perform healing sessions to register with the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) or face two years in jail or a US$400 fine.

But the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Truth, Health, Justice and Freedom (ZLTHJF) argued that the Traditional Medical Practitioners Act under which government promulgated the regularisation of prophets and bishops did not categorise the church as traditional medical practitioners.

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