Nine suffocate to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush – police
Kampala, Uganda Reuters At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, […]
Christian leaders in Uganda join politicians, health experts in appealing for public vigilance as Ebola cases rise
Kampala, Uganda Religious leaders in Uganda have joined politicians and health experts in the country in appealing to members of the public to remain vigilant as Ebola cases rise. The Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Uganda, the Most Rev Dr Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, is among those who have appealed to Ugandans to be vigilant. […]
Uganda holds first ever commemoration service for murdered chief justice
Kampala, Uganda Ugandans have held the first ever commemoration service for former Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka who was kidnapped and killed by Dictator Idi Amin in 1972. The commemoration service held on Thursday at Lubaga Cathedral in Kampala was one of the activities conducted in the week to commemorate the life of a man considered […]
“We are not criminals”: Uganda’s street traders treated “like animals” in major crackdown
LIAM TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims of poor treatment and a lack of regulation amid a controversial crackdown on street vendors in the Ugandan capital…
Christians have a role to play in building resilient health systems, US Christian health network head tells Ugandan event
Kampala, Uganda Christians should join with governments in building resilient health systems that can deal with health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of a US-based health network has said in a speech in Uganda. In a lecture given at Uganda Christian University in late July, Doug Fountain, executive director of the Maryland-based Christian Connections […]
Two pastors arrested in Uganda’s crackdown on noise pollution
Kampala, Uganda Two Ugandan pastors have been arrested and appeared in court over noise pollution as government launches crackdown on churches emitting noise beyond the set limits. The National Environmental Authority – the body charged with protecting the environment in the country – conducted the operations in which the pastors were arrested. NEMA identified them […]
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 […]
Ugandan church group denounces prominent pastor for marrying second wife under customary law
Kampala, Uganda A group of pastors in Uganda have denounced one of their colleagues who abandoned his wife after 29-years of matrimony and married a young woman under the Uganda customary law. Pastor Aloysius Bugingo, of House of Prayer Ministries in Kampala, was denounced by the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches on 9th December […]
Ugandan clergy condemn Kampala bombings, ask attackers to repent
Last updated 5.30am, 19th November (AEDT)Kampala, Uganda Religious leaders in Uganda have condemned Tuesday’s bombings in Kampala that left six people dead, including the attackers, and 33 others injured. The clergy termed the bombing “ungodly” and asked the perpetrators to repent of their sin. Scene of one of the bombings in Kampala, Uganda. PICTURE: John […]
Three suicide bombers kill three, wound dozens in Ugandan capital
Kampala, UgandaReuters Islamic State claimed an attack in the heart of Uganda’s capital on Tuesday after three suicide bombers killed three people and sent members of parliament running for cover, in the latest in a wave of bombings. The blasts in Kampala, which forced the evacuation of parliament, shocked a nation known as a bulwark […]