{"id":364138,"date":"2017-01-16T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/world\/2017\/01\/16\/zimbabwean-pastor-arrested-for-prophesying-mugabes-death\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:47:26","slug":"zimbabwean-pastor-arrested-for-prophesying-mugabes-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/01\/16\/zimbabwean-pastor-arrested-for-prophesying-mugabes-death-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean pastor arrested for prophesying Mugabe\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mugabe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a church pastor for announcing a prophecy that President Robert Mugabe would die this year in October.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mugadza is facing charges of undermining the authority of the president for making the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Mugadza\u2019s lawyer says his client doesn\u2019t believe what he said was an offence.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor last week held a press conference, at which he predicted Mugabe would die on 17 October.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer, Gift Mtisi, says that his client believes he was merely conveying God\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been arrested and tried in recent years on similar charges of undermining the president.<\/p>\n<p>Mugadza was also arrested and detained in 2015 for holding up a placard telling Mugabe that his people were suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: Eyewitness News<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a church pastor for announcing a prophecy that President Robert Mugabe would die this year in October. Patrick Mugadza is facing charges of undermining the authority of the president for making the claim. Mugadza\u2019s lawyer says his client doesn\u2019t believe what he said was an offence. The pastor last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zimbabwean pastor arrested for prophesying Mugabe\u2019s death - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/01\/16\/zimbabwean-pastor-arrested-for-prophesying-mugabes-death-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zimbabwean pastor arrested for prophesying Mugabe\u2019s death - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a church pastor for announcing a prophecy that President Robert Mugabe would die this year in October. 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