Gokwe, 05 April, 2023 / 8:50 pm (ACI Africa).
The Uganda Martyrs Church of Zimbabwe’s Gokwe Diocese has been reconsecrated following its desecration by a woman alleged to be suffering from mental health disorders.
The Zimbabwean Catholic Parish has been closed since March 21 after the woman in question “went in and destroyed sacred vessels including the tabernacle and two ciboria which contained holy communion,” a Monday, April 3 report by Catholic Church News Zimbabwe indicates.
The report further says, “The woman also attacked and pulled down stations of the cross and everything that bore the image of Jesus while she profaned the altar by scattering altar clothes.”
The Apostolic Administrator of the Zimbabwean Diocese, Bishop Rudolf Nyandoro, presided over the reconsecration of the Catholic Parish that is now open for public worship.
In the April 3 report, the Parish Priest of Uganda Martyrs Mission, Fr. Benjamin Moyo, has been quoted as saying, “The re-consecration started with a procession of three parishes comprising of St. John Cathedral, Christ the King and Uganda Martyrs.”