Nudity take-over
I don’t know what it is about these Hollywood products we and our children are being exposed to on our screens. Be it television sets or computer monitors, nude photos of singers, actors and actresses...
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Fatima Kalima: Co-founder of a youth disability forum
On November 19 1978, the Kalima family welcomed a new born and they named her Fatima, third born in the family at the time. She grew up like any normal child, until when she was six she began to have...
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When skeletons remain in the closet
Almost everyone has personal information they like to hold back from sharing until such a time when they can really trust someone. Such personal information can be anything from an incident from one’s...
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A quest to save mothers, babies
Maternity units are supposed to be the safest places for women to give birth, but this was not the case for 34-year-old Lilly Kachale who lost her baby girl three hours after birth. She died from...
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Dealing with abusive in-laws
Bertha, 39, tells of how abusive her mother in-law was; how she shouted at her for no reason and demeaned her. She snapped. One day Bertha pushed the mother-in-law and spit in her face. She packed her...
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Local churches urged to wean from donors
Head of the Anglican Diocese of Lake Malawi, Bishop Francis Kaulanda, has challenged local churches to wean themselves from donors from sister churches from the West and start working towards...
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Baptist Church strengthens education in Zomba
District education manager (DEM) for Zomba Rural, Charles Sakwata, has said religious institutions have a vital role to play in complementing government’s efforts in the development of education in...
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Margaret kubwalo-chaika: standard bank’s head of personal and business banking
Dr Margaret Kubwalo-Chaika is one of Malawi’s leading women bankers. She has risen through the ranks to become Head of Personal and Business Banking for the Malawi Stock Exchange-listed Standard Bank....
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Is the Church still relevant?
At a time Malawians are going through various social and economic hardships, our reporter WATIPASO MZUNGU wonders whether later-day prophets, apostles and pastors are advising government on what it...
View ArticleWhose responsibility is it?
I have often wondered how certain schools manage particular situations, especially those to do with a child’s academic performance and behaviour. Many times, teachers bombard parents with queries about...
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What do miracles serve in spiritual life?
Prophet Amos Kambale of Life International Church in Lilongwe claims he healed a child who had, for two years, been using a wheelchair to move from one place to another. Kambale, founder and overseer...
View ArticleDress aprropriately
That it is the festive season, it is an open secret. Everyone is expected to know that and many are in the mood already and, who can blame them. What with the lights, Christmas Carols, shoppers and the...
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Kunkuyu inducted Manase session clerk
Politician Moses Kunkuyu, who was the first to be appointed Cabinet minister in the past regime of president Joyce Banda, was on Sunday inducted as session clerk for Manase congregation of the...
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Council chair urges believers to be united
Mangochi Town Council chairperson Ibrahim Kacheya has emphasised the need for believers in the country to embrace the spirit of unity, saying that is the only way people of different denominations...
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Rape as an act of genocide: From Rwanda to Iraq
Governments of Rwanda and Iraq have agreed to work together to fight rape as a weapon of genocide, noting disturbing similarities between sexual violence in Iraq today to the Rwandan genocide twenty...
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A girl’s helping hand in the journey of life
In many Malawian cultures, growing up is more than just another milestone. Children moving from one phase of life to another are given relevant advice as the situation demands. It is the duty of...
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Mireille twayigira: the rwandese refugee now medical doctor
Mireille Twayigira was barely three years old when her father was killed in the genocide that riddled Rwanda and brought the country down to its knees in 1994. And, saddled on her mother’s back,...
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Couples celebrate Holy Family Day
Three family movements in the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Blantyre will today come together at Limbe Cathedral to commemorate Holy Family Feast. Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa of the...
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Bangwe Parish project gets K1.3m CFM boost
A church construction project underway at Bangwe Catholic Parish in the Archdiocese of Blantyre got a K1.3 million fundraising boost through a dinner and dance organised by the parish’s Catholic...
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On Jesus Christ’s birthday, salvation
Bishop Ian Nkhoma says the Lord Jesus Christ—whose birthday we just celebrated last Sunday—was not born on December 25. Nkhoma believes Christ was born between September end or during the first days of...
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