Politicians abusing religion: Cleric

RENOWNED cleric, Reverend Kenneth Mutata has bemoaned growing conflation and abuse of religion to legitimise political decisions, saying this has left Zimbabwe’s Christian community vulnerable to political predators.

Commenting on the role that self-styled prophet Uebert Angel played in Al Jazeera’s documentary titled Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service which exposed money-laundering and gold smuggling rackets in the country, Mtata urged churches to teach their members to separate politics from religion to protect them from political abuse.

The first of the four-part Al Jazeera documentary exposed Angel’s involvement in gold smuggling syndicates.

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