Priests forced out of homes as Kunonga wins property fight

From The Church Times-

CLERICS and their families are being evicted from rectories in Zim­babwe, after a High Court decision giving custodianship of church property to Nolbert Kunonga, the excommunicated former Bishop of Harare and ally of President Robert Mugabe.

The distress and chaos predicted by the Bishop of Harare, the Rt Revd Chad Gandiya, became a reality on Monday when Kunonga’s supporters — some accompanied by police — delivered stamped copies of the court judgment to all clerics still in parish rectories.
“They told our priests to move out,” Bishop Gandiya said on Mon­day. “We do not know who he is going to put in these houses.”

The two-part judgment was promised a year ago. The diocese had appealed after attempts were made to stop Bishop Gandiya’s consecra­tion in July 2009, and Kunonga was given custodianship of the properties by Justice Ben Hlatshwayo.

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