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The Catholic community in Isiro, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), held a procession and a Mass to remember and pray for the victims of Ugandan rebels of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army), reports CISA.
The day was also an expression of solidarity with those who have been wounded, tortured, or kidnapped by rebels, according to ICN.
For months, the Ugandan rebels have plagued the region by attacking defenceless villages. In the absence Bishop Julian Andavo Mbia of Isi… >>
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An ethics group is asking President Obama to stay away from the National Prayer Breakfast, whose sponsor, the group says, has ties to anti-gay legislation in Uganda.
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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Gay, Obama, Prayer, Uganda
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Progressive religious leaders on Tuesday (Feb. 2) unveiled plans to hold a multi-city event to protest Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast because of its sponsor’s alleged ties to an anti-gay bill in Uganda.
The alternative American Prayer Hour will take place in 17 cities, including Washington, Dallas and Chicago, as an “affirmation of inclusive values and a celebration of diversity,” according to organizers.
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UGANDANS should abide by the teachings of the Bible and give a tenth of their income back to God through the church, the First Lady and the Minister of State for Karamoja Affairs, Janet Museveni, has said.
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Parents should jointly work with the government in the fight against homosexuality that is taking root in society, a Mbarara cleric has said.
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TO some, he was a holy man and a mentor while to others, he was a hardworking and devoted priest who spent his life building the Catholic Church in Uganda.
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(author unknown) Catholic, Priest, Uganda
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Families are breaking up because spouses lack the spirit of forgiveness, the auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Tororo Archdiocese, the Rt. Rev. Charles Wamika, has said.
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Pamela, a 29-year-old graduate student who lives in Bukoto, says she was coerced into a sexual relationship with a married minister in a born-again church. He had been her pastor for more than five years and told her the relationship had been ordained by God.
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GULU Grade One Magistrate’s court on Friday charged a Catholic priest, the Rev. Fr. Anthony Bosco Mawa, with aggravated defilement and remanded him at Gulu Central Prison.
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THE Police in Gulu have arrested a Catholic priest, the Rev. Fr. Bosco Mawa, on allegations of defiling and making pregnant a 16-year-old pupil of Gulu Public primary school.
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(author unknown) Catholic, Priest, School, Uganda
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THE visiting Kenyan Vice President, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, yesterday unexpectedly turned up for prayers at a born-again church in Jinja.
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Christians in Kigezi Diocese have asked their leaders to explain why slaughtering of animals is a preserve for Muslims.
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A new church, the Catholic Apostolic National Church, which is said to be a breakaway sect of the Roman Catholic Church, recently registered with the Government as an independent church. The church has attracted sharp criticism from the leaders of the mainstream church, who question its doctrinal authenticity. Mathias Mazinga spoke to Rev. Fr. William Obonyo, a priest of the ‘breakaway’ church.
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The battle over homosexuality has torn apart Christian churches in the U.S. American ministers helped bring the same debate to Uganda, and now the country is facing the potentially deadly consequences.
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Uganda has indicated it will bow to international pressure and amend draconian anti-homosexual legislation that includes the death penalty for HIV-positive people convicted of having gay sex.
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IN the company of missionaries from the UK, popular church researcher, Andrew Strom, of the New Zealand-based revival school, came to Uganda last month. His mission was to sensitise Ugandan pastors on false gospels, especially the sowing and prosperity one.
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Twenty renegade Catholic priests who are either married or want to marry have broken from the mainstream Roman Catholic Church in Uganda and formed a new church where celibacy is not required.
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Africa, the “dark continent” to which American Christians shipped missionary after missionary during the 20th Century, now features 40 percent of the Nigerian population among the rolls of Christians, according to the CIA Factbook.
Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk’s Operation World reports Uganda is 88 percent Christian and Kenya is about 78 percent Christian.
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