Church workers and journalist detained in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean authorities detained five foreign Lutheran church workers and a local journalist in a rural hotel today on suspicion that they violated the nation’s stringent security laws, the workers said.

Police denied the group, which included an American, a Finn, a Kenyan and two Germans, had been arrested and said they had agreed to remain voluntarily in the mining village of Zvishavane, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of Harare.