Apparently in Africa these issues bring people to blows - literally.
The CPCA group entered the church premises on the strength of Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's affidavit, denying ever ordering his subordinates to stop CPCA services in the Diocese Of Harare in defiance of Justice Rita Makarau judgement.
Justice Makarau last year ruled that the two feuding factions should share church facilities until the issue of who owns church property has been resolved through the courts.
Bishop Kunonga pulled out of the main Anglican Church: Province of Central Africa to form the less popular Anglican Church of Zimbabwe citing lack of a firm stand against homosexuality by the worldwide Anglican Communion.
He failed to convince the majority of the Anglicans and priests in the Diocese of Harare to pull out with him, so he formed the Anglican Church of Zimbabwe largely backed by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party and appointed himself Archbishop in direct contravention of the Anglican Church canons.
Kunonga, who openly campaigned for Zanu PF in the March 29, 2008 elections, was later excommunicated by the Anglican communion and he together with his followers are no longer considered as members of the Anglican Church worldwide.
He also presided over President Mugabe’s swearing in ceremony soon after the later had won the violent presidential run off election in which his opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had pulled out at the last minute citing an increase in state sponsored violence on his party.
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