In Mugabe's church, faithful pray for departed leader's forgiveness

In the church where Zimbabwe's founder Robert Mugabe used to worship, peopl...

HARARE - In the church where Zimbabwe’s founder Robert Mugabe used to worship, people prayed on Sunday for his forgiveness following his death two years after he was toppled in a coup.

Revered by many as a liberator who freed his people from white minority rule, he was vilified by others for wrecking one of Africa’s most promising economies and ruthlessly crushing his opponents. “To me he was a father figure. We are so saddened. ... He was a very staunch Catholic,” Sambo told Reuters.

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