Tuesday, March 2, 2010

no pants on fridays

Officials in Zimbabwe have recently located a no-pants-on-Fridays sect.

The church is in the Mazowe district in central Zimbabwe. Members aren't bound by some of the traditional rules governing apostolic sects here: they're allowed to eat pork, they can smoke and drink and they don't have to wear white 'shepherd' robes.

They have a few curious practices, though. They believe their founder -- Emmanuel Mudiwya -- who died in 1989 was Jesus Christ; they embalm their dead, and male members aren't allowed to wear underwear from Thursday night to Friday night.

"They are a bit on the scary side, to be honest and we usually keep our distance from them," said a teacher from a school near the sect's farm.

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