Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- The provided page was retrieved and read (phdministries.org)
- A working page belonging to this church was found by the search: phdministries.org/contact
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We confirmed that PHD Ministries (Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries) is a large, well-documented Zimbabwean church: it was founded by Walter Magaya and sits at 1 Sherwood Crescent, corner Simon Mazorodze, Harare, an address repeated on its own contact page (phdministries.org) and in business directories (ZimPlaza, limtjord.africa). Academic studies describe it as a major Pentecostal movement, with thousands attending weekly Sunday services in Waterfalls, Harare. Our platform search found the church's active Facebook presence under its founder's name, "Prophet Walter Magaya", Harare, with about 272,000 followers and listing info@phdministries.org and phdministries.org. The contact address you gave is a Kwekwe Gmail account, which does not match the ministry's official e-mail. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: PHD Ministries (Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries) is a well-documented Pentecostal church in Harare, Zimbabwe, founded by Walter Magaya, and its official website at phdministries.org opened for us with matching name, leadership and contact details. Independent searching also confirmed the ministry's Harare address and a large active social media presence, so the congregation's existence is not in doubt. The only loose end is the conta
No further action is needed. This report is refreshed whenever the church is reviewed again.