INMATES at Ntchisi Prison had a spiritual Christmas period which saw 75 of them getting baptised after a two-week evangelism programme Seventh Day Baptist Church organized.

A delegation of 28 members from Blantyre CCAP Synod left the country for Pittsburgh Pres¬bytery, US, on Wednesday as part of annual exchange visits that have char¬acterized the relationship between the two congregations since 1991.

THE Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) has asked women in the country to fast and pray in order to seek God's intervention in the on-going dispute over part of Lake Malawi between Tanzania and Malawi.

Pastor Matimelo Sinatra from Kings Community Church in Pietermaritzburg, South Af¬rica, was in the country as Af-rica Director for the 'E3 Initia¬tive', a United Kingdom-based Christian charity with a vision to see communities in Africa transformed by the indigenous church. He visited E3 Initiative-funded projects run by the Word Alive Commission for Relief and Development (Wacrad) in col¬laboration with Lunzu Pastors Fraternal. In this interview with Richard Chirombo of The Sunday Times, he expounds on the role of church in the face of HIV and Aids. Excerpts:

Cleric Lazarus Chakwera has been re-elected president for the Malawi Assemblies of God national board of Administration, after 23 years in the same position.

A Malawian cleric with the Holy Spirit Deliverance Ministry, Sauli Magombo, has said that there is need for prophets to humble themselves before God and their church because they are supposed to be preaching the word of God which does not tolerate pomposity.

French Catholic mis¬sionaries sacrificed them¬selves to have Chaminade secondary school establsihed in Karonga district in 1962, Bishop for Karonga Diocese, Mathews Mtumbuka, said recently.

Apostle Stanley ndovi, founder of Living Waters Church, is back to his old self, preaching normally like he used to before he was taken ill when he suddenly collapsed in August 2010, according to his personal assistant, Pastor Chimwemwe Mafeni.

The issue of tithing, which is literally giving a tenth portion to God, remains a subject that sparks great debate amongst Christians.

Love him or hate him, he is a public figure that can not be ignored.

As mainline churches continue to offer comprehensive training to laymen aspiring to become officiating clergy, consensus in Pentecostal churches is that God, and not academic qualifications, remains the pulley that elevates individuals to church roles.

The world-wide Seventh-day Adventist community Sunday clocked five days into its 1,171-days-journey of reading all the 1,189 chapters in the Holy Bible.

Catholics of Blantyre Archdiocese will this Friday put the spirit of self-help to the test when they hold a dinner and dance session in aid of retired and infirm priests' home.

TRANS World Radio (TWR), a pioneer non-denominational Christian radio station with a 25-year track record in Malawi, has saluted people in the country for their support that has enabled it to run purely on locally-raised cash over the past three months.

Temitope Balagun Joshua commonly referred to as TB Joshua who is the leader and founder of Synagogue Church of All nations (SCOAN), that draws people from all over the world including high ranking citizens, on February 5, 2011 delivered a very controversial prophecy through his television station Emmanuel TV, in which he announced that an elderly African president would die soon.

Too much concentration on sin, and its adverse effects, has left women and girls- who are deemed society's most vulnerable members- at the mercy of other suppressive devices, leaving them physically and spiritually bruised says Mary Banda founder of the newly formed Christian Ministry, Touching Ladies for Christ (TLC), which is aimed at cleaning out the guilt in women who have suffered rape and incest.

Malawi's religious institutions are still waiting for a day when the world will dedicate Women's World Day of Prayers (WWDP) towards the plight of local women, but one of the event's organizers has expressed optimism that the cup of global prayers could one day be drawn from the country.

Is the world coming to an end on December 21, 2012?

Message presented by Rev ZACC KAWALALA, General Overseer and Senior Pastor, Word Alive Ministries International, on 20th January 2012 at a Blantyre gathering of 'Women Against Violence in Malawi'.

Touching Ladies for Christ (TLC) is a new ministry in Malawi which seeks to help rape victims and encourage sexual purity among girls. OTULI MUNLO of The Sunday Times spoke to Mary Banda, the founder and head of the Blantyre-based ministry.