Ugandan law widens Anglican Church rift over LGBTQ rights
Kigali, Rwanda Reuters The chair of a conservative group of Anglican church leaders on Wednesday accused the church’s global head of perpetuating colonialism with his criticism of one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, introduced by Uganda last month. Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion’s 85 million […]
Archbishop of Canterbury urges Ugandan Anglicans to reject anti-gay law
London, UKReuters The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country’s new anti-LGBT law, saying there is no justification for Anglicans anywhere to support legislation that goes against the Christian teachings of the Gospel. Under the law, approved by President Yoweri Museveni in May, gay sex is punishable by […]
Ugandan clergy seek explanations ahead of a crackdown on noise pollution
Kampala, Uganda Religious leaders in Uganda have called for further explanation on how new bans on “noise pollution” will operate following the announcement of a new police crackdown. The clergy made the request after Deputy Inspector General of Police, Major General Geoffrey Tusiime Katsigazi, directed regional and district police commanders to launch operations targeting churches […]
Ugandan President agrees to engage with Anglican Church leaders over expectant mothers attending church-run schools
Kampala, Uganda Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to engage with the country’s Anglican Church leadership to resolve an impasse which has seen thousands of expectant school girls locked out of the country’s church-founded schools since the beginning of the academic year. In January, at the start of the academic year, a sharp disagreement emerged […]
UK diocese donates food to hungry Anglican clergy in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda Hundreds of the Anglican Church clergy in Uganda who are facing food shortages as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in the country have a cause to smile. The Diocese of Bristol in England has donated cash worth more than $US45,000 (163 million Ugandan shillings) to the Anglican Church of Uganda to […]
Ugandan church razed despite COVID-19 ban on evictions
Kampala, UgandaReligion Unplugged Ugandans woke up Monday morning to some shocking news: a large church built in 1980 by the Anglican Church in Kampala was demolished overnight. Eyewitnesses told Religion Unplugged that court bailiffs stormed St Peter’s Church at 11:30pm with hammers, axes, hoes and machetes and razed down the structure. The bailiffs used the […]
Ugandan pilgrimage to honour murdered archbishop as a martyr for freedom
Kampala, UgandaReligion Unplugged The Church of Uganda has introduced an annual pilgrimage for the late Archbishop Janani Luwum, who was murdered by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada for protesting his government’s brutal suppression of dissent with arbitrary killings and kidnappings. According to the church, Christians from different denominations plan to participate in the […]