Mugabe gets Catholic favour despite attack

President Robert Mugabe on Sunday attended the beatification ceremony for the late Pope John Paul II, a few days after lashing out at the Roman Catholic Church.

Just a few days before taking the plane to Rome, the octogenarian leader was breathing fire, attacking the church left, right and centre at a Zion Christian Church (ZCC) conference in Bikita.

“Often Catholic bishops expose that they are not their own men.

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