"I come to you today to appeal to you for prayers to ease out most serious situation in Zimbabwe and to appeal to you to lobby by all means possible for a peaceful solution to the Zimbabwean crisis. We face an absolutely desperate situation in Zimbabwe and the government is lying to the world about it. Our government continues to engage in lies, propaganda, the twisting of facts, half truths, downright untruth and gross misinformation, because they are fascists." - Archbishop Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaking at the The Archbishop Denis Hurley Lecture, 7th November 2002.