The government has issued what seems to be its final directive on church following this week’s cabinet brief.
The issue of who can and who cannot attend church has been back and forth. In August 2021 the first announcement in regards to church attendance was given. It stated that only those who are vaccinated can attend church services, This was taken as a move to try and force people to get vaccinated as much resistance was coming from Christians. This resistance came after the beliefs that the vaccine was the mark of the beast and other teachings had circulated.
The vaccination issue even proved to be a point of conflict among church leaders like Apostle Chiwenga and Prophet Makandiwa.
Following the President’s announcement that we were now in Level 2 Lockdown, the church attendance issue resurfaced. Soon after, the nation was under the impression that it was now okay for unvaccinated church members to attend service. This came after a statement issued by the High Court stated that those that attended church unvaccinated could no longer be arrested.
Unfortunately for those that had gotten their hopes up, we have come full circle. Nick Mangwana took to twitter to announce that unvaccinated church members cannot attend service.
View the tweet below:
Cabinet has resolved only vaccinated congregants can attend church and that is limited to 50% of the holding capacity of the church #postcabinetbrief pic.twitter.com/RDdvcYev21
— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) September 14, 2021
To those that are opposing this law, Nick Mangwana was at liberty to say the following:
Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow."
— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) September 15, 2021
This new legislative is under Statutory Instrument(SI) 228B of 2021.