While most
liturgical churches grasped vaccination early in the national campaign, with
the senior prelate in Zimbabwe’s largest church, Catholic Archbishop Robert
Ndlovu of Harare leading scores of priests, nuns and lay workers from his
diocese were vaccinated, resistance has been seen in some evangelical churches.
This appears to
derive from remarks made by some American evangelical leaders.
Stressing that
vaccination was not a mark of the beast and that there was no chip in a jab,
Makandiwa said he had received so many enquiries from his followers who wanted
to know if they should be vaccinated or not as they were under pressure from
their employers.
He explained
that he was not against vaccines and had received several vaccines before and
advised his followers to get vaccinated so they don’t lose jobs and make their
families suffer.
“There is no
chip in the vaccine,” he said. “There is no mark in the vaccine. Christians are
afraid, fearing for their lives and trying to protect themselves and their
loved ones from receiving the mark of the beast by receiving the vaccine. This
is Covid-19 vaccine not the mark of the beast.”
“How many times
did I say don’t rush, don’t be the first, let them have it first. If I am
saying don’t be the first, I am saying be the last or second. Why should you be
the first when it’s not your creation.
“(If you don’t
get vaccinated) you do not get into the shop, you do not work there, you do not
buy, you do not sell, you are not admitted in any hospital, your children are
not allowed in schools. So it’s not just losing your job, you have lost your
entire freedom. You are no longer existent as a human being. You are no longer
considered; you are not there because of one thing, vaccine.”
Makandiwa said
it was better for people to get vaccinated than to be vaccinated after losing
their jobs. “Why lose your job, yet you can be vaccinated right now and keep
your job, look after your family especially now that you know it is not the
mark of the beast,” he said.
“What do you
lose by getting vaccinated?” he said. Makandiwa said he had been vaccinated
before and he believes in vaccines and supports them. Herald
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