Zimbabwe Horror.

 At least 27 killed in Zimbabwe church bus crash; President Emmerson Mnangagwa makes disaster declaration.

By The Christian Post Sep 1, 2026 05:42 EDT 3 mins read

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At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt.

Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said in a statement that the truck was attempting to pass another vehicle when it struck the minibus taxi near Chivhu, roughly 87 miles south of the nation's capital, Harare, on Friday, according to DW.

The crash occurred at about 8:30 p.m. local time near Honeyspruit Bridge in Chikomba District, Mashonaland East Province, along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, according to the Zimbabwe Situation.

The truck carried foreign registration plates, meaning it was not licensed inside Zimbabwe. It was reportedly carrying mining equipment from South Africa, destined for Goromonzi district. 

Nyathi said the passengers belonged to a well-known indigenous African Christian denomination whose members typically wear white robes, and that they were headed to a conference when the crash happened in the night. He said the number of passengers aboard each vehicle was “unspecified.”

The congregation was later identified as the African Apostolic Church, also known as the Mwazha church, whose members were traveling from Dema to Ndarikure in Mvuma for a religious conference, according to Arabian Post.

It has been reported that the minibus was overloaded, carrying as many as 34 passengers.

ZBC, the state broadcaster, shared video showing the minibus taxi as a burned-out wreck, and local media circulated photographs of the crash site, according to AL.com.

A provincial government minister put the death toll at 23 at the scene, with the rest of the victims dying later at a hospital, ABC News reported. However, updated figures from Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe put the toll at 24 dead at the scene, with three more dying later at Chivhu General Hospital, according to allAfrica.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a State of Disaster in response to the crash, invoking Section 27(1) of Zimbabwe's Civil Protection Act. The declaration allows the government to mobilize resources and coordinate assistance for survivors and bereaved families, including covering medical expenses and burial costs, according to Arabian Post.

Overcrowded buses and minibus taxis are frequently involved in road accidents in Zimbabwe, which authorities often link to reckless driving and poor road conditions. Human error is blamed for 94% of the country’s crashes, officials say.

Privately run minibus taxis, called kombis, are a primary means of daily transport for many Zimbabweans. Operators are frequently accused of packing in more riders than permitted, and years of underfunding and neglect have left many roads pocked with potholes.

A minibus fire on a southern Zimbabwe highway in April left at least 18 people dead. Days earlier, a woman and her five children died when a haulage truck collided with their vehicle on a road linking Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Zimbabwe’s government moved to curb such accidents in 2024, restricting kombis with 26 seats or fewer to routes within about 37 miles of their permit areas, down from about 75 miles, and requiring public vehicles to install speed monitoring devices, according to the country’s Transport and Infrastructural Development Ministry.

Officials said long-distance travelers should use buses instead, arguing that buses offer more legroom and baggage space than kombis.

The country’s national statistics agency has said Zimbabwe averages one road accident every quarter hour and at least five deaths a day, among the highest tolls on the continent.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa estimates that road crashes claim roughly 300,000 lives on the continent annually, about one-quarter of deaths from crashes worldwide. It says the continent’s fatality rate is the highest anywhere, even though Africa’s 1.5 billion residents own only about 3% of the planet’s registered vehicles.

Originally published by The Christian Post.   CD.

Not At All Impossible JD.

 JD Vance: Antichrist may be walking among us.

Vice-president tells evangelical YouTuber he ‘wouldn’t be shocked’ if world is living through ‘end times’

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Published 03 September 2026 12:34pm BST

JD Vance says he is ‘focused on trying to do God’s work’ Credit: Saul Loeb/Getty Images

JD Vance has claimed that the Antichrist may be “walking among us”, and said the world may be living through the “end times”.

The US vice-president made the comments during a podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, a 22-year-old evangelical Christian with more than a million YouTube followers.

While promoting his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Mr Vance said he was “trying to focus on doing as much of God’s work as possible”.

“Do I think that we’re in the end times? I don’t know. I think that it’s probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it,” Mr Vance said.

“There are things about the world that make me feel not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us.”

He added: “I tend to think that while I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and that if that leads to the end times, OK.”

Be Alert.

Birdie.

 

Africa.

Moroccan Christian groups press parties on religious freedom ahead of election.

Moroccan Christian groups are pressing political parties to address freedom of belief and the rights of religious minorities as the country prepares for parliamentary elections on Sept. 23, saying religious freedom should be part of the political debate rather than left to individual candidates.

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I Was Shocked This Week To Read That 50% of People Polled Were Considering Buying A Chinese Car!

 China is a nation which uses slavery. It is a communist country. They are warmongers. They persecute Christians. They have made themselves into our enemy. Look who their big friend is in a 3 day old photo!

AND now, half our nation is prepared to subsidise their economy?

Are schools SO bad today that most pupils leave without any proper understanding of our world whatsoever?

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9) About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10) He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11) He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12) It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13) Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14) “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15) The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16) This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

Reality check, eh Andy?

 Bond markets give Burnham a painful reality check.

The new PM and his Chancellor must avoid triggering a sell-off in their first Budget

Tim WallaceDeputy Economics EditorShow biography

Published 01 September 2026 2:47pm BST

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Even before this latest surge in global borrowing costs, Andy Burnham faced an increase in the Government’s debt interest bill Credit: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

As Andy Burnham walked into the House of Commons for the first time since he became Prime Minister on Tuesday, a storm was under way in the bond market.

Concerns that wars in Iran and Ukraine, drought and heatwaves will trigger a fresh spike in inflation sent government borrowing costs globally surging to multi-decade highs. In the UK, long-term borrowing costs hit their highest level in 28 years.

It is a problem for the Prime Minister and John Healey, his Chancellor, as they begin planning their first Budget, to be delivered next month.

For all Burnham’s cheery talk of ditching the dour approach of Sir Keir Starmer and governing with a fresh “sense of optimism”, the former Manchester mayor’s options are severely constrained by the cold, hard reality of the nation’s dire finances.

Much as he wants to boost spending on everything from council housing to defence to social care, the near-£3tn national debt bequeathed to him puts tight limits on any new borrowing plans.

And the financiers who lend to Britain in global markets are alert for any hint of profligacy, amid growing fears of excessive debt around the world. It presents serious economic and political risks for the Prime Minister.

Just as Liz Truss hopelessly misread the mood in financial markets – cutting taxes and ramping up spending at the very time interest rates were rising – so Burnham risks launching a fresh round of borrowing at the worst possible moment. We all know how costly Truss’s misstep turned out to be.

Borrowing costs are already considerably higher today than they were at the height of the Truss panic. Britain pays more than 5.2pc on its benchmark 10-year debt. That compares to a brief peak of just more than 4.6pc in the autumn of 2022.

Our borrowing costs are also the highest in the G7 economies by a considerable margin. The next-highest is the nearly 4.8pc paid by the US, which is currently battling to avoid its own debt crisis.

Even before this latest surge in global borrowing costs, Burnham faced an increase in the Government’s debt interest bill.

Official projections from March – made just before the start of the war in Iran – showed that the annual cost of servicing the debt was on course to rise from more than £130bn this year to more than £160bn by the end of the decade.

Simon French, the chief economist at Panmure Liberum, estimates that higher bond yields in markets could add a further £6bn to the bill.

That is bigger than Sir Keir Starmer’s defence investment plan, which increased annual spending by no more than £4bn.

Before entering No 10, Burnham declared Britain must “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets”. But the scale of the Government’s debt makes this more easily said than done.

Sanjay Raja, an economist at Deutsche Bank, warned on Tuesday that Burnham risks triggering “a painful sell-off” in bond markets if he ignores the concerns of investors and opens the spending taps.

The Prime Minister has promised to keep Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules, which she introduced in 2024. Under these guidelines, the Government must aim to pay for day-to-day spending – such as benefits and the wages of public sector workers – with tax receipts, not borrowing. It must also reduce debt as a share of GDP in three years’ time.

These allowed her to borrow more than was allowed under the Conservatives’ framework, including by adopting a new definition of debt, which offsets more public assets against borrowing.

Burnham said he will not ditch the rules, but he will seek to use “flexibility” within them. This is expected to mean more borrowing.

Reeves had been on track to hit the target of paying for day-to-day spending through tax receipts alone with some £20bn to spare. Some of that headroom has been eaten away by higher interest costs, but Burnham could still choose to borrow more if he is happy to risk meeting the target by a smaller margin.

He could also ramp up borrowing for investment, particularly if he can find ways to generate financial assets, which are offset against debt under the new metric adopted by Reeves.

Unfortunately for him, as far as financial markets are concerned, debt is still debt, no matter how the Government tries to dress it up.

Raja says investors will be watching Burnham’s first Budget closely.

“Market reaction will vastly differ depending on the type of Budget Burnham delivers,” he said. “There’s a lot hinging on this from a market standpoint. Getting the bond maths wrong at this juncture could risk a painful sell-off.”

The exact extent of the market reaction will depend upon the scale of borrowing unleashed at the October Budget.

“At its heaviest, the upcoming budget could deliver in excess of £50bn in gross additional spending measures. At its lightest, a benign Budget could amount to £10bn to £20bn in more spending,” he said.

So far, it appears Burnham is backing down in his tussle with the bond market: spending promises are shrinking in the face of financial reality.

But this too is not without risk for the new Prime Minister. For a man who campaigned on a promise to govern differently, tempering his ambition could leave him open to a charge of hypocrisy.

Yet that may be the lesser of two evils. Investors’ judgment on the Government’s plans – and their willingness to finance new borrowing – can be tracked minute by minute on traders’ screens.

Even a year ago, when Burnham seemed far from No 10, his now-notorious “in hock” line caused tremors in bond markets.

Now that he heads the Government, every word can trigger earthquakes.

DT.