Yvonne Binda stands in front of a church congregation, all in pristine white robes, and tells them not to believe what they’ve heard about Covid-19 vaccines.

“The vaccine is not linked to Satanism,” she says.

The congregants, members of a Christian Apostolic church in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, are unmoved.

Apostolic groups that infuse traditional beliefs into a Pentecostal doctrine are among the most sceptical in Zimbabwe when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.

Read the full AP story here.

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