Zimbabwe: Kunonga Barricades Cathedral to Disrupt Ceremony
February 2008
Lance Guma

Thugs hired by ousted Bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, barricaded the main cathedral on Sunday in an attempt to stop a ceremony ushering in the new Bishop.

The Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) replaced Kunonga with Bishop Sebastian Bakare, after the controversial Mugabe supporter unilaterally withdrew the diocese from the main church. Kunonga has since been waging a defiance campaign with his small group of violent supporters disrupting church services around Harare. The Anglican Church was forced to abandon plans to use the cathedral and instead concluded the entire ceremony in a sports stadium one kilometre away. the rest