In an unprecedented move, two factions of the Nazareth Baptist Church, a spin-off from the Shembe Church, have agreed to cast aside their differences and end their drawn-out court battle over ...

A titanic court battle is looming within the Shembe church after one of its five factions was awarded the exclusive right to use the church's name, hymns, prayers and religious uniform. The ...

'It's divine intervention that dictates who will be leader," says Xolani Mcineka, a Nazareth Baptist Church member, between sips of a cooldrink at a restaurant in a Durban hotel. It is Saturday ...

Barefoot and dressed in white, thousands of pilgrims gather on a hilltop overlooking Durban blowing on long metal "imbomu" tubes, forerunner of the vuvuzela. Every year, faithful from the Nazareth ...

The Baptist Nazareth (Shembe) Church’s succession woes moved towards the theatre of the absurd this week with two leaders of the church’s smaller factions threatening to excommunicate members of its ...

THE battle for the soul of the Nazareth Baptist Church — also known as the Shembe church — is expected to take yet another turn following an announcement by a smaller faction that has secured the ...