Uganda Senior Police officers are facing eviction from Buganda State Police Barracks:
By Simon Ssekidde
Added 31st May 2016
Currently Mpigi Central Police station is faced with the challenge of housing
Officers at Mpigi Police Station gear up for deployment recently. (Senior officers have been told to leave the barracks).
Senior Police officers at Mpigi Central Police Station have been asked to vacate houses in the police barracks and rent rooms outside the barracks.
In the letter dated 23rd May 2016, authored by the District Police Commander, Ahmad Kimera Sseguya, he directed all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and above to immediately vacate the houses where they are currently staying.
According to Kimera, all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police and above are not allowed to sleep in the police barracks because they receive housing allowance in their salary every month.
“We have junior officers who are renting outside the barracks yet they are supposed to sleep inside the Police barracks, these senior officers are supposed to sleep outside the barracks and not inside because their housing allowances are consolidated in the salary” Kimera said.
Currently there are nine Senior Police officers sleeping in houses inside the barracks at Mpigi Central Police station who are facing eviction according to Kimera.
Kimera added that Cadet Officers are however excused because they are not yet confirmed ASPs and therefore they do not receive housing allowances.
Currently, the station is faced with the challenge of housing.
One of the officers who is facing eviction but preferred enormity, said the directive came at a time when they have no money to rent rooms outside the barracks and that they are expensive which they cannot afford now.
“We cannot afford to rent rooms outside the barracks now because they are expensive, we are still looking for money to take our children to school and they are now asking us to leave the barracks” he said.
'Paasita' eyeeyita Yesu bamuggalidde: Agaana abagoberezi be emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu ddwaaliro, n'okusoma:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 1st July 2016
POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe
Emu ku makanisa amanji agagoberera ISA MASIYA mu nsi Buganda.
POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe.
Baakwatiddwa ku kyalo Tongo mu ggombolola y’e Kapeeka mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke.
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu kitundu kya Savana, Lameka Kigozi yategeezezza nti abaakwatiddwa baggaliddwa ku poliisi e Kiwoko ne mukama waabwe Emmanuel Semakula 35, ng’ono yeeyita ISA MASIYA era agamba nti agaba n’emikisa.
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Ensi Buganda ejjudde nyo eddini. Ono naye agenda kwefunira linya LYA SADAAKA (ekiweebwayo) MU DDINI ENO EYA TONDA nga Baganda banaffe wano e Namugongo bwebajjukirwa okukamala.
Abavubuka mwenyigire mu bulimi - Kabaka awadde amagezi:
8th December, 2014
By Dickson Kulumba ne Paddy Bukenya
Kabaka ng’awuubira ku bantu be ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza ly’e Mawokota e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga ku mikolo gy’Abavubuka mu Buganda.
KABAKA Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II alagidde abavubuka okwongera okwegatta
beenyigire mu bulimi nga balima ebirime eby’ettunzi okusobola okwekulaakulanya.
Omutanda ng’ali ku mikolo gy’abavubuka mu Buganda ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza lya Mawokota mu disitulikiti y’e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga, yawadde abavubuka amagezi okukozesa ebifo ku masaza ne ku magombolola okukolerako emirimu egy’enjawulo egy’enkulaakulana
n’asiima abatandiseewo emirimu ne bayambako n’abalala okwebeezaawo.
Ente Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) gye yatonedde
“Omwaka guno tujjukiziddwa ensonga y’ebyobulamu. Abavubuka tusaanye okwekuuma nga tuli balamu, okwekebeza buli mwaka kubanga si kirungi okugenda mu ddwaaliro nga tumaze okugonda ate omuvubuka alina okulya obulungi.”
Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yakunze abavubuka okukozesa emikisa Kabaka gy’abatee
reddewo; mu by’obulimi beekwate BUCADEF n’okuyingira Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO.
Omulamwa gwabadde; Omuvubuka omulamu ate nga mukozi ye nnamuziga w’enku
laakulana mu Buganda, era wano Minisita w’abavubuka e Mmengo, Henry Ssekabembe, we yategeerezza nga bammemba ba Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO bwe batuuse ku 1,500 nga kati balinawo n’obukadde 285.
Abamu ku Baamasaza ku mukolo gw’Abavubuka mu Buganda e Mawokota ku Lwomukaaga.
Omukolo gwetabyeko; ssentebe w’abavubuka mu Buganda, Richard Kabanda, Kayima David Ssekyeru, Katikkiro eyawummula Dan Mulika, sipiika wa Buganda Nelson Kawalya n’omumyuka we Ahmed Lwasa, Minisita Amelia Kyambadde, Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) ssaako baminisita b’e Mmengo, abakulu b’ebika n’Abaamasaza.
Abayimbi; Mathias Walukagga ne Fred Ssebbale be baasanyusiza abantu ba Kabaka.
The first bank in The Ganda Kingdom:
By Henry Lubega
Posted Sunday,1 st March, 2015
Before 1906, there was no banking institution in Uganda until November of the same year when the national Bank of India opened its first branch in Entebbe, and four years later it opened the first bank in Kampala, although it was later taken up to become Grindlys Bank.
The National Bank of India was followed by Standard Bank of South Africa Limited when on September 19, 1912, it opened its first branch in Kampala. And a few years later it opened another branch in Jinja.
Barclays
Barclays followed in 1927 when it opened two branches in Kampala and Jinja. In 1954 three more banks; Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and The Nedelandsche Handel-Maatschappij M.V (Netherlands Trading Society) opened in Uganda.
According to Saben’s commercial directory and handbook of Uganda, as early as 1949 the banking system had been established in Uganda but did not control much of the financial liquidity that was in circulation across the board in the country.
“Much of the money was controlled in the bazaars and other channels which were predominantly controlled by people of the Asian origin. These people played a key role in the buying of cotton.
However, areas where banks were non-existent, merchants in those areas played the part of the banks. This was through taking drafts in exchange for cash or physical items in exchange for hard cash,” Saben wrote.
By 1950, it was realised that to bring more Africans into the business there was need to provide them with credit. Unfortunately, the commercial banks at the time would not extend credit to Africans because of the nature of their securities.
Under Ordinance number 20 of 1950 the Uganda Credit and Saving Bank was created purposely to extend credit facilities to Africans with the aim of furthering agriculture, commercial building and co-operative society purposes.
On October 2, 1950, the bank was opened and by 1961 it had spread to places like Arua, Fort Portal, Jinja, Soroti, Gulu, Masaka and Mbale, taking only African deposits.
Building Society
Two years later, the first Building Society in Uganda was opened as a subsidiary of a Kenyan owned firm Savings and Loans Society Limited.
More financial institutions continued to open up in Uganda with Lombard Bank from Kenya, in partnership with Uganda Development Corporation, opening the Lombank Uganda Limited in 1958. It was this bank which first introduced the hire purchase system of shopping in Uganda.
It was not until 1966 that through an act of Parliament that Bank of Uganda was created. Prior to this, issues to do with money were handled by the East African currency board which had its head offices in Kenya.
Ugandans in Europe have celebrated Martyrs day at Mapeera’s home:
Ugandans and other London- based Africans that visited the White Fathers headquarters in London. COURTESY PHOTO
3rd June, 2018By Robert Mugagga
They may be a thousand miles away from motherland, Uganda but will not be left out. Some Ugandans and other Africans based in Europe will find it difficult to make it back home and join the rest of the world in celebrating the Uganda Martyrs Day on June 3 at Namugongo.
This is one reason they have decided to honour the man of God who brought Catholicism to Uganda in 1879, Fr Simeon Lourdel. United in their association, named Lourdel Mapeera and Ugandan Martyrs (LOMUMA), Ugandans residing and working in Europe notably in the UK are to be joined by fellow Uganda martyrs admirers from Rwanda, Congo, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, among other African countries in paying tribute to the French priest who is popularly known as Mapeera.
Ricardo Mulinda, a Ugandan residing in London, UK and the central propagator of LOMUMA, said they will celebrate the Ugandan Martyrs Day by visiting and holding Mass at Mapeera’s birth place at Dury in the Pas-de-Calais region of France.
“We cherish the great role played by Mapeera and fellow missionaries in the evangelisation of Uganda and other African countries. We have decided to honour them and this will be done annually on Uganda martyrs day,” Mulinda said.
According to Mulinda, the early Christian missionaries endured difficulties like the hostile African weather, language barrier, cruel tribal chiefs to bring Christianity to Uganda.
“By visiting Mapeera’s childhood home and interacting with his descendants we are demonstrating our appreciation for what these missionaries did for us by not only bringing the Catholic faith but by helping to build hospitals, schools in addition to civilizing the people of African,” he said.
Another Ugandan religious group in London, Christ The King Uganda Catholic Fraternity, has for many years been celebrating the arrival in Kigungu, Entebbe of Fr Mapeera and Brother Amans every February 17. This year the celebrations took place at the Our Lady of Assunpta parish, Bethnal Green.
At the same time the LOMUMA members made a pilgrimage to the UK headquarters of the missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) located at Little Easling lane in West London. The Ugandans were joined by fellow Africans from DR Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi to celebrate 139th anniversary of the Catholic faith in Uganda.
The main celebrant was Fr Terence Madden, the White Fathers UK provincial delegate. He praised Fr Mapeera and colleagues for spearheading the teaching of Christianity in Africa despite encountering many hardships.
Mulinda remarked that travelling to the UK missionaries of Africa house was symbolically an act intended to commemorate the journey and arrival of Fr Mapeera and others to Uganda.
On behalf of Congolese faithful, Prof Noel Mbala, the LOMUMA Congolese coordinator, narrated the virtuous life of Mapeera and the wonderful work of the White Fathers which included fighting slave trade.
Prof Mbala urged Catholics to pray for the beatification and canonisation of Fr Mapeera and Brother Amans. C. Sahogateta on behalf of the Rwandese community, commended the White Fathers, their founder Cardinal Charles Lavigerie and bishops Lavinhac and Jean-Joseph Hirth for the evangelisation work done all over Africa.
Ey'obugagga bya Ben Kiwanuka birugenze: Amaka g'e Kabusu bagasenze:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 5th June 2018
Ey'obugagga bya Ben Kiwanuka birugenze: Amaka g'e Kabusu bagasenze
Amaka ga Ben Kiwanuka ge baamenye.
EBYOBUGAGGA bya Ben Kiwanuka eyali Ssaabalamuzi wa Uganda era Pulezidenti wa DP, omuli ettaka, amaka ag’ebbeeyi e Lubaga, Masaka ne Kampala bamanerenda ababanja famire basuliridde kubitwala.
Bamanerenda baasoookedde ku maka amakulu era ag’ebyafaayo agabadde e Nalukolongo ku Musigula ne bagakoona ne gagwa ku ttaka oluvannyuma lw’omusika wa Ben Kiwanuka, Maurice Peter Kagimu Kiwanuka eyaliko Minisita era omubaka wa Palamenti akiikirira Bukomansimbi, okwewola ssente ne zimulema okusasula.
Bawannyondo ba kkooti baagenze n’ebimotoka biweetiiye ku Lwokutaano lwa wiiiki ewedde ne basenda amaka agabadde gapangisibwa ekibiina ky’amawanga amagatte ekivunaanyizibwa ku banoonyi b’obubudamo ekya UNCHR.
Ekyasinze okwewuunyisa be bawannyondo okumala ennaku bbiri, ku Lwokutaano ne ku Lwomukaaga nga basenda amaka ga Ben Kiwanuka nga tewali abakuba ku mukono era Kagimu Kiwanuka teyalinnyeewo kubaako ky’akolawo okubatangira.
Bwagenze okuziba ku Lwomukaaga ng’agabadde amaka ga Ben Kiwanuka kifuuse kyangaala era amalaalo ya muka Ben Kiwanuka, Maxencia Zalwango gaasigadde mu bbanga. Loodi Meeya Erias Lukwago ye yadduse n’ataasa ebintu bya Ben Kiwanuka eby’omugaso okuli ebiwandiiko, ebitabo n’emmotoka ye eyali yafuuka eky’obulambuzi.
Amaka gano agabadde ku bugazi bwa yiika nnamba n’omusobyo nga we wali n’amalaalo ga Nnamwandu wa Kiwanuka, Maxencia Zalwango Kiwanuka eyaziikibwawo mu 1992, gaasigadde mu bbanga ng’abantu batya nti abaasenze ennyumba nago bagenda kugasenda. Kagimu Kiwanuka bwe yatuukiriddwa eggulo yasoose kussa kikkowe oluvannyuma n’asaba omusasi ono okumukubirako mu ddakiika 40 kyokkabwe zaaweddeko n’amukubira teyazzeemu kukwata ssimu.
Amalaalo ga mukyala wa Ben Kiwanuka, Mexencia Kiwanuka agaasigadde mu bbanga.
Kyokka ensonda zaategeezezza nti Kiwanuka yali yeewola ssente okuva owa Manerenda eyategeerekeseeko erya Mugabo era ssente zibadde zitutte ebbanga ddene nga we baasendedde amaka ng’ebbanja likunukkiriza mu kawumbi.
Atwala ebyokwerinda mu Zooni eno, Yoweri Yawe yagambye nti, tewali nkaayana yonna ku ttaka ly’omugenzi Ben Kiwanuka wabula Kagimu ye yasalawo okulitunda era bawannyondo baabatuukiridde nga tebannakoona nnyumba ne babalaga empapula ezibawa olukusa nga ntuufu. “Twabalagira okusenda ng’obudde misana era baatandise ku Lwokutaano ne bamaliriza ku Ssande nga tewali yavuddeyo kukaayana era tewaabaddewo wadde poliisi”, Yawe bwe yannyonnyodde. N’agamba nti aba famire ya Kiwanuka babadde tebabeera mu maka gano wabula nga bagapangisa abanoonyi b’obubudamo okuli bannansi ba Somalia ne Ethiopia.
EBYOBUGAGGA EBITUNDIDDWA
• Amaka ag’ebbeeyi e Kololo ku Wampeewo nga waaliyo amayumba ga mirundi ebiri okuli eyali ku Plot 5 ne 6 nga gano gombi gaatundibwa.
• Ettaka lya yiika 20 e Munyonyo lyatwalibwa.
• Big Ways mu Ndeeba. Eno yatwalibwa abantu ba mirundi ebiri oluvannyuma lw’okusingibwa mu bamanerenda.
• Amayumba amalala ga mirundi ena okuliraana Plan B nga wano we wali n’amaka Kagimu mwasula nago ebyapa byago tebakyabirina nga byasingibwayo. Engeri kagi mu gye ya funamu obuyinza ku bintu Abaana b’omugenzi Ben Kiwanuka okuli; Regina Kiwanuka (abeera London), Musoke Kiwanuka, KagBano baasalawo okukuba akalulu ku Kagimu ne Musoke akalulu ne kawangulwa Kagimu n’atwala obuyinza kubintu.
Amaban ja ga Kagi mu Mu kiseera we baamulondera, Kagimu Kiwanuka yali asoma bwafaaza wabula bwe yamala okusika n’alagirwa Kalidinaali omugenzi Emannuel Nsubuga obuteeyongerayo kumaliriza kubanga yali ayolekedde obuvunaanyizibwa bw’okuzimba ekika kye. Mu kiseera kino yali talina kyakola kwe kuyingira ebyobufuzi mu kibiina kya DP, kitaawe kye yakulemberako.
Ebyobufuzi byamuleetera okutandika okwewola ssente engeri gye yali talina mulimu nga talina waggya ssente kwe kutandika okugenda nga yeewola ku bamanerenda. Ssente zaawera okutuuka bwe baatandika okutwala ebintu bye.
BEN KIWANUKA Y’ANI •
Amannya ge mu bujjuvu ye Benedicto Kagimu Mugumba Kiwanuka
• Yazaalibwa mu 1922 ku kyalo Kisabwa, Bukomansimbi. Kitaawe yali munnaddiini omukuukuutivu nga naye yali ayitibwa Kiwanuka
• Yasoma amateeka mu Pius XII University College Basutoland mu Lesotho okuva 1950 okutuuka 1952.
• Yeenyigira mu ssematalo owookubiri ng’ali mu kibiina kya African Pioneer Corps ekyamuleetera okukolerako mu mawanga omwali Kenya, Misiri ne Palestine era olutalo we lwaggweera ng’atuuse ku ddaala ly’amagye erya Ssaajenti Meeja n’agawummula.
• Bwe yamala okusoma yakomawo mu Uganda n’atandika okukola nga munnamateeka eyeekozesa okuva 1956 okutuuka mu 1959.
• Mu kulwanirira okufuna obwetwaze mwe mwava okutandikawo kw’ekibiina kya Democratic Party (DP) era Kiwanuka n’afuuka Pulezidenti waakyo mu 1958. Olw’okuba omuyivu mu by’amateeka kyamwanguyiza okuyingira ebyobufuzi n’afuuka munnabyabufuzi ow’amaanyi.
• Mu kalulu akaasooka okukubwa mu 1961, waaliwo ebibiina by’obufuzi bibiri DP ne UPC era DP kyafuna ababaka abasinga obungi mu lukiiko lwa Legco. Kiwanuka yalonda Gavumenti eyasookera ddala nga July 1, 1961.
• Nga March 1, 1962 Kiwanuka yafuulibwa sKatikkiro wa Uganda eyasooka.
Uganda’s oil sector is on the right economic track:
February 14, 2018
By the Independent paper, Uganda.
The sketch map of the Great Western Rift Valley in the middle of the African Continent
The Uganda oil Installation well built in the Great Western natural Rift Valley of the Continent of Africa.
Kampala, Uganda:
Susan Eckey is Norway’s ambassador and spoke to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke on the growing bilateral relations between the two countries.
Tell us about your impressions of Uganda since you arrived in 2015?
Uganda is my first posting as a bilateral ambassador. I am a career diplomat and I started my foreign service in 1991. I have brought family and friends here to see all the beauties of Uganda. I love it very much here. My biggest impression has been meeting and speaking with people around Uganda to get an idea of what life is like for Ugandans and I have found that very interesting.
How would you describe the current relations between Norway and Uganda?
Our bilateral relations are excellent. We opened our embassy here in 1996 but we had had relations with Uganda since the 1960s when young Norwegian Peace Corp volunteers came here and made life-long friends. Uganda is a well-known country (in Norway) and there are many families and private citizens who have friends and relations with their counterparts in Uganda. We cooperate very well at the United Nations and in the regional organizational frameworks. In terms of bilateral cooperation, we have supported Uganda in many sectors; especially in the energy sector, and also have engagements in human rights, good governance, democracy and women’s and girls’ rights. In terms of trade and investment, that too is increasing. We see more Norwegian companies, in particular those in the renewable energy field, looking for opportunities in Uganda. We have had several trade and investment delegations to Uganda over the past two years. We have a Norwegian company that has shown interest in exporting Ugandan coffee to Norway in an innovative way – by subscription. They want to have as much as possible of the value added here. Instead of just exporting the beans, they want to roast the beans here, package and market so Norwegians can pick the coffee in their mail boxes. There is also a company with Norwegian investors which provides sophisticated software to the financial sector in Uganda and in Norway.I am very much excited about all these commercial contacts.
How else have you been promoting trade between the two countries over the time you have been here?
In Norway, there is what we call the Nordic African Business Association (NABA) which gathers high level participants from Africa every October. This association is very active and they really try to promote Africa in the Nordic countries. I know that Uganda gets invited and Ambassador (Zaake Wanume) Kibedi who is based in Copenhagen is very active. In 2016, Hon. Peter Lokeris, the Minister of State for Energy represented Uganda as well as the State minister in charge of Kampala. This year the Minister for the Presidency was among the invited dignitaries. We have had trade and investment delegations come here in both 2016 and last year. But don’t forget that many more Norwegian companies come in just on private initiative. In Uganda, the Nordic Embassies (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland) cooperate very well with the Nordic Business Association (NBA), composed of Nordic business interests.
It has been 25 years of Norway assisting Uganda develop its electricity sector. What have been some of the highlights of this cooperation?
We have been in Uganda’s energy sector contributing to the generation, transmission, distribution as well as the legal framework and technical cooperation. We have had Norwegian experts advising the Ugandan government in terms of the energy and petroleum and environmental laws. Norwegian companies, with or without Norwegian aid money, have assisted in the work on the Bujagali, Karuma projects and many other hydro power developments here in Uganda. We have financed quite a bit the renewable energy sector, including transmission and distribution, such as the Nkenda-Hoima line. Lines must not just go from one part of the country to the other, but also reach the people. This is of great need for Uganda so we hope that we will continue to cooperate with the government on those issues. I think that the bigger picture of this cooperation has been that the energy sector has been and remains a key priority for Uganda.
'Put down those smartphones!' The Pope rebukes snap-happy Christians:
By AFP
Added 8th November 2017
Recently, Pope Francis warned that the death of face-to-face conversations could have dire consequences for society.
The Great Pope blaming the new technology of smartphones.
Pope Francis took snap-happy bishops, priests and pilgrims to task on Wednesday, telling them mass was a time for prayer, not an opportunity to whip out camera phones.
"At a certain point the priest leading the ceremony says 'lift up our hearts'. He doesn't say 'lift up our mobile phones to take photographs'," he chastised those gathered in Saint Peter's square for his weekly audience.
"It's so sad when I'm celebrating mass here or inside the basilica and I see lots of phones held up -- not just by the faithful, but also by priests and bishops! Please!"
The 80-year old Argentine pontiff is no stranger to the world of social media, boasting over 14 million followers on his English-language Twitter account alone, and often posing for selfies with enthusiastic young pilgrims.
But he has a conflicted relationship with mobiles.
In February he told youngsters to get off their cell phones during family meals, warning that the death of face-to-face conversations can have dire consequences for society, even resulting in wars.
He has called the internet, social media and text messages "a gift of God" if used wisely, but has also tried to persuade today's youth to swap their smartphones for pocket-sized bibles.
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This is a leader who knows very well that one can download the bible into the smartphone. If your eyes are closed in deep prayers, how do you manage to see the audience, photo taking your angelic face?
Retracing the footsteps of Catholic missionaries with colonial influence in the making in the ancestral Kingdom of Buganda:
File photo
By NELSON WESONGA
Posted Wednesday, November 25 2015
IN SUMMARY
This year, the Catholic Church in Uganda celebrated 136 years of existence. There are many accounts of how this Christian faith found its way into the country.
On February 17, leaders and laity of the Catholic Church in Uganda congregated at Kigungu in Entebbe, Wakiso District, to commemorate 136 years since Catholic missionaries arrived in Buganda Kingdom. The White Fathers missionaries comprising Fr Simon Lourdel and Brother Delman Amans docked at Kigungu following the journey from Tabora mission station through Lake Victoria. They sought to meet Kabaka of Buganda, Muteesa I, to seek his permission to convert Baganda from paganism to Christianity.
Uganda was unborn In his book The Evangelization of Uganda, Challenges and Strategies 2003, Fr Frederick Tusingire states that the February 24, 1878 papal decree entrusted the White Fathers with evangelising in the Victoria Nyanza Mission. Fr Lourdel and Br Amans were two of the five Cardinal Charles Lavigerie, the Archbishop of Algiers and the Apostolic Delegate for the Sahara and Sudan, dispatched to Victoria Nyanza Mission.
The other missionaries were Livinhac, Girault and Barbot. “The rest joined them on 25 June 1879 and thus the remarkable work of planting and nurturing the Catholic Church in Uganda started,” Tusingire, notes. Lavigerie is credited with founding the White Fathers, now referred to as the Missionaries of Africa, in 1867. According to Tusingire, two years earlier, Lavigerie had met Daniel Comboni in Paris where the latter shared his ‘plan for the regeneration of Africa’.
Lavigerie, like many Europeans then, believed that European Christians, and particularly French civilisation, was superior to that of other continents and religions. “He was convinced Christianity had duty to bring civilisation to the pagan world of Africa. The Africans had to be evangelised in order to be saved from the fire of Hell,” Fr Tusingire writes. When he got to Buganda, Lourdel wrote a letter to Alexander Mackay, one of the Protestant missionaries in Buganda. He requested Mackay to help the White Fathers get audience with Kabaka Muteesa.
However, Mackay, aware of the White Fathers’ French roots, told the Kabaka the ‘French do not like kings at all’ and that they had even killed all their kings many years ago. Mackay added that Catholics demand obedience to the Pope, their spiritual head. He made these statements to discourage the Kabaka from meeting the Catholics whom Mackay saw as rivals of the Protestants. The Kabaka consulted The person he turned to was Toli who was teaching the Kabaka Arabic.
Toli had accompanied the Sultan of Zanzibar to France. So, Muteesa thought him competent to advise about French missionaries. Toli advised the Kabaka to ignore Mackay. And the Kabaka did. The Mackay group then turned to blackmail; they told the Kabaka that if he did not send Catholics out of Buganda, Britain would stop protecting him from his northern enemies. Tusingire notes, “This was counterproductive for the Protestant[s]. It in fact caused the king to doubt their reliability and pushed him to befriend the Catholics.”
It was a godsend to the Catholics As the book points out, Lavigerie had earlier told the pioneer White Fathers to always aim at winning over the local leaders. “Much depends upon gaining the goodwill of the native princes…if only one chief is brought over to the side of the Christians, more good results will accrue to the mission than if a hundred ordinary natives had been converted.” In case, they couldn’t win over the king, they were to target the king’s mother since any influence on either of the two ‘was bound to influence the subjects’. But even before the Protestant-Catholic wars, the Muslims, who were in Buganda earlier than the Christians, went to war with the Catholics.
The Muslims, who had for long focused on getting slaves to sell to Arab traders, now realised the Catholics, who were against slave trade, were winning over converts. Two years later, the Muslims fought, and defeated, the Catholics, forcing them to flee from the king’s court to elsewhere. In 1890, the Protestants and the Catholics united to fight the Muslims, and defeated them. With the Muslims defeated, the Protestants turned their attention and guns on the Catholics.
In 1892, war broke out The Protestants’ firepower eventually won them the day, and occasioned the flight of Catholics, many to Buddu. The French White Fathers then requested the British Mill Hill Missionaries to evangelise the British protectorate. According to Kevin Ward’s A History of Christianity in Uganda, the Catholics decided to eschew politics to concentrate on their religious tasks. “This allowed them to evangelise freely throughout the country, whatever the denomination of the local ruler or chief,” Ward notes. To “soften” the natives, the missionaries taught them how to read and write and provided health services.
“Western education and culture quickly made their presence felt, making it easier for Ugandans to embrace certain aspects of the Christians teaching,” Tusingire notes. Once a Christian community was nurtured, the missionaries went on with the construction of church structures. Unlike the Muslims who antagonised the natives, Catholics often pointed out the concepts common to them and the traditional religions. They took up words like Katonda and Ruhanga, the Luganda and Ankole words for God.
The differences Still, the natives found it hard to stop respecting their ancestors, wife inheritance and polygamy, which the Catholics said were against Christian principles. To the natives, Tusingire adds, there was no distinction between religion and culture. In 1894, the Victoria Vicariate, which covered Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania and then Zaire was divided into three. The southern part was named South Nyanza Vicariate. The northeastern part was named the Upper Nile Vicariate. The other was the North Nyanza Vicariate. The Mill Hill Missionaries were entrusted with the Upper Nile Vicariate and the White Fathers the North Nyanza Vicariate which was was renamed Uganda Vicariate in 1915. In 1910, the Comboni Missionaries were put in charge of northern Uganda.
More changes followed in 1934, with the Rwenzori Vicariate being carved out of Uganda Vicariate. In 1939, Masaka Vicariate was hived off Uganda Vicariate. And in 1953, all vicariates became dioceses, something Tusingire says, marked an epoch in the Ugandan church’s history. It symbolised the establishment of the church hierarchy that was believed to be mature to determine its own affairs. It is the same year that the Archdiocese of Rubaga was created. In 1958, the Holy Cross Fathers took over the evangelisation of western Uganda. The Rwenzori Diocese was later split into three: Hoima, Kasese and Fort Portal dioceses.
How the catholic church in Uganda has changed over the years
According to information on the Uganda Episcopal Conference Website, the Catholic hierarchy in Uganda was established on March 25, 1953 and the Vicariates of Uganda became the dioceses of Uganda. Rubaga became an Archdiocese with 5 suffragan dioceses namely Gulu, Masaka, Kampala, Mbarara and Tororo. The first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Rubaga was Archbishop Louis Joseph Cabana (1947-1960) who died in retirement in 1981. He was succeeded by Archbishop Dr. Joseph Kiwanuka (1960-1965).
On August 5, 1966, the Holy See joined together a section of the Diocese of Kampala and the Archdiocese of Rubaga to create the Archdiocese of Kampala. It was covering most parts of Central Uganda. Emmanuel K. Nsubuga (later Cardinal) was consecrated on 30 October 30, 1966 to become the first Ordinary of the newly created Archdiocese of Kampala. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal on May 24, 1976. He retired on Feb 8, 1990 and died on April 20, 1991. His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala was succeeded him (1990-2006).
In 1999, Uganda reverted to ecclesiastical provinces and the Gulu, Mbarara and Tororo were elevated to archdioceses – putting them at the same level as Kampala. Gulu, like all the territories along the Nile Valley, belonged to the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Africa created in 1846, and which had been suspended because of too many deaths of missionaries; Fr. Daniel Comboni had been there for a while, up to Holy Cross, North of Juba and Gondokoro. On March 15, 1996 Pope Paul II elected John B. Odama the first Bishop of the newly created diocese of Nebbi and on May 26, 1996 he was consecrated at Nebbi Cathedral as Bishop by His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala.
The Holy Father, on the Jan 30, 1999 appointed Bishop John Baptist Odama as the first archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of Gulu with Arua, Nebbi and Lira as Suffragan Diocese. He was installed as first Metropolitan Archbishop of Gulu on 10th April 1999. Soon after his installation as the Bishop ordinary of the newly created Archdiocese of Gulu, John Baptist Odama, in the year 2000 divided the Archdiocese into two vicariates.
The Story of the Archdiocese of Tororo is closely linked with the development of the Vicariate of the Upper Nile. This Vicariate was established by Pope Leo XIII in 1894 and entrusted to the Mill Hill Missionaries. It comprised the area stretching from St Peter’s Church, Nsambya (Uganda) to St. Patrick’s Church, Naivasha, (Kenya).
Its subsequent history can be looked at in four phases. The first phase (1896-1924) saw the building of mission stations in East Buganda, Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu and Teso. The second phase (1925-1950) was marked by the creation of the Vicariate of Kavirondo (later Kisumu) in 1925, thus cutting off the Kenyan portion of the Vicariate. Beginning in the 1930s, there was an increase in the number of people asking for Baptism, to which the Mill Hill Missionaries responded by sending more priests and brothers and doubling the number of parishes. The Ordinary, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Obbo, AJ was born in Nagongera Parish in Tororo (Archdiocese of Tororo) on 7th Oct. 1952.
He was ordained priest of the Congregation of the Apostles of Jesus (AJ) on 13th Dec. 1986 in Nagongera Parish. He was appointed second Bishop of Soroti Catholic Diocese on June 27, 2007. He was ordained Bishop and installed as the second Ordinary of Soroti Catholic Diocese on October 6, 2007. He is the Apostolic administrator of Soroti. The Holy Father accepted the resignation of Archbishop Denis Kiwanuka of Tororo, and appointed him the new Archbishop of Tororo. The installation of the new Archbishop of Tororo took place in March 2015 at Uganda Martyrs Cathedral - Nyangole, in Tororo.
On January 30, 1999, Mbarara was elevated to an archdiocese and Metropolitan See of the Western Uganda Ecclesiastical Province, with Paul Bakyenga as its first archbishop. The installation ceremony of Archbishop Paul K. Bakyenga took place on July 11, 1999. Mbarara Archdiocese shares borders with Fort Portal and Kasese Dioceses in the north, Bukoba Diocese, Tanzania in the south, Masaka Diocese in the east and Kabale Diocese in the west. Bakyenga was appointed Bishop Co-adjutor of Mbarara March 6, 1989. He was ordained bishop on June 24, 1989 and succeeded Bishop of Mbarara Diocese on November 23, 1991. On January 2, 1999 He was Appointed Archbishop of Mbarara (former Rwenzori Vicariate comprising the dioceses of Kabale, Kasese, Fort-Portal, Hoima and Mbarara).
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In Uganda the African Anglican Christian leaders have welcomed a European Catholic Pope:
Written by Racheal Ninsiima
Last Updated: 27 November 2015
In a historic ceremony, the archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali, will tomorrow (Saturday 28) lead Anglican Church leaders to welcome Pope Francis to the Nakiyanja Anglican shrine of the Uganda martyrs in Namugongo.
All the martyrs, save for Charles Lwanga, were killed at the site of the Anglican shrine, where the pope will briefly pray for the crowd assembled. He will then head to the Catholic shrine, where he will celebrate a commemorative mass.
The head of the Catholic Church in the world is expected in the country at 4:30pm today.
Ntagali told journalists on Wednesday that Anglican Church leaders would be expected at the shrine by 7am before the start of the official programme at 8am.
“We are expectant of many things from Pope Francis, who is clearly a man of the people. We expect him to meet, pray for and encourage thousands of youths and also pray for the needy,” Ntagali told a press conference at Namirembe.
The archbishop was unveiling a major youth initiative dubbed, ‘Provincial Annual Youth and Students Convention’ shortened as PAYSCO. It will take place between December 9 and 14 at Mengo senior school.
Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu said that by visiting the Anglican shrine, Pope Francis will demonstrate the spirit of ecumenism, the promotion of unity among world churches.
The pope is here to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Uganda martyrs. His visit to Uganda is the third papal visit after Pope Paul VI who visited the country in 1969 and Pope John Paul II in 1993. He will leave the country for Bangui in Central African Republic on November 29.
Wano e Buganda, Teddy Naluswa Bugingo, Mukyala wa Bugingo, naye akoze ekkanisa eyiye:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 25th December 2019
Teddy Naluswa Bugingo, muka Paasita Aloysius Bujjingo asazeewo okukola ekkanisa eyiye abuulire enjiri. Kino abamu bakitapuse ng’okuvuganya Bugingo obutereevu kuba Teddy alina abantu bangi abaasigala ewa Bugingo naye nga bamukkiririzaamu.
Teddy (ku ddyo) lwe yagenda mu kkanisa ya Bugingo (wakati mu ssuuti) nga bamaze okutabuka.
Abamu naddala abakulu baavaayo era kigambibwa nti baali baasalawo kukuhhaanira ewa Paasita Tom Mugerwa ow’e Mutundwe. Kati kiteeberezebwa nti bano Teddy kw’agenda okutandikira avuganye butereevu ne bba mu kulyowa emyoyo gy’abantu.
AYISE ABANENE
Okusinziira ku kiwandiiko Teddy kye yafulumizza, aliko abanene ab’enjawulo b’awandiikidde amabaluwa ng’abayita okumwegattako mu lukiiko olw’enjawulo lw’ategese ku Hotel Triangle ku Buganda Road, nga January 4, 2020 era luno lw’alangirira mu butongole enteekateeka ze.
Omu ku bayambi ba Teddy ataayadde kwatuukiriza mannya (kuba takkirizibwa kumwogerera mu butongole) yakakasizza nti kituufu Teddy atandise ekkanisa ye.
Teddy twamukubidde essimu ezimanyiddwa naye we twagendedde mu kyapa nga tannazaanukula.
Mu kusaba kw’ategese ku ntandika y’omwaka, mw’agenda okutuuza olukiiko olunaatema empenda ku ngeri gy’okutandikamu ekkanisa, erinnya ly’eneeyitibwa, ekifo w’enaabeera n’ekiseera w’eneetandikira. Kigambibwa nti enteekateeka zonna Teddy azitaddemu mikwano gye ab’oku lusegere okuli Charles Kyomu, Charity Agaba, waliwo ayitibwa Doreen, nga bano yavudde nabo ewa Bugingo.
YASEMBA DDI OKUGENDA EWA BUGINGO
Teddy okusalawo okutandika ekkanisa ye kiddiridde okukomya okugenda ewa Bugingo owa House of Prayer Ministries International e Bwaise ku Canan Land e Makerere mu September w’omwaka guno.
Yadde Teddy yatabuka ne Bugingo mu ngeri ey’olwatu mu May, ennaku ezimu yasigalanga agenda ku kkanisa naddala ku Ssande n’asinzizaayo.
Ensonga eyasinga okumutabula ye bba Bugingo okusinziira mu kusaba kw’ekiro okumu n’amulangira obulwadde bw’ekikulukuto mu lujjudde ekintu ekyanyiiza ennyo abakyala okutuusa Bugingo lwe yeetonda.
AKULIRA ABALOKOLE BY’AGAMBA
Omu ku bakulira ekkanisa z’Abalokole mu Uganda, Paasita Dr. Joseph Sserwadda ow’amakanisa ga Victory, yategeezezza Bukedde, nti omuntu okutandika ekkanisa, basooka kumusomesa mu Bible School, okumala omwaka mulamba.
“Emitendera egiyitibwamu omuntu ng’atandikawo ekkanisa mingi naye siyinza kugigendamu nnyo naddala ng’ensonga ekwata ku bufumbo bwa Bugingo ne mukazi we,” Sserwadda bwe yategeezezza.
BUGINGO NE TEDDY BATTUNKA MU KKOOTI
Bugingo yaddukira mu kkooti ng’ayagala ebagattulule ne mukazi we Teddy Naluswa, kyokka Teddy n’agezaako okukisimbira ekkuuli ng’ayita mu kkooti yeemu.
l Mu September 2019, Omulamuzi wa kkooti ento ey’e Kajjansi, Mary Babirye, Teddy yagoba okusaba kwa Teddy, kwe yali yassaayo ng’awakanya eky’okugattululwa bwatyo ne yeeyongerayo mu kkooti enkulu.
l Bugingo ne Teddy bamaze emyaka 29 mu bufumbo era gye buvuddeko Bugingo yasaba kkooti ebagattulule wabula Teddy n’ategeeza omulamuzi nti talina buyinza buwulira musango guno kubanga gulimu ebyobugagga ebiri mu kawumbi ng’ate amateeka agafuga abalamuzi ba kkooti ezaawansi balina kukoma ku misango gitasussa bukadde 50.
l Omulamuzi Babirye bwe yali asala ensonga yategeeza nti agenda kuwulira omusango kubanga ensonga eri mu ddiiro ya kubagattulula era amateeka gamukkiriza era bwe kinaatuuka ku kugabana ebyobugagga ensonga asobola okugiweereza omulamuzi omulala alina obuyinza.
Kati kino Teddy ky’awakanya nga mu kujulira kwe awadde ensonga kw’asinziira obutakkaanya na mulamuzi Babirye omuli okugamba nti ensonga y’ebyobugagga bye bakoze bombi si nkulu mu misango gy’okugattululwa.
l Teddy asabye kkooti esazeemu ensala y’omulamuzi Babirye yonna era omusango gwa Bugingo okubagattulula gugobwe.
l Teddy agamba nti takkiriziganya na kyakugattululwa kubanga baafumbiraganwa era Mukama ky’agasse tewaliba akyawula.
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Singa no ono Omukyala omufumbo nga bwasazewo okugenda mumaaso nomulimu gwokubulira enjiri ate nayita nabanene bonna bamwegateko, ategeezako ku ba Uganda Revenue Authority. Kubanga bwanalaga enyingiza nenfulumya mubitabo bya sente, ate nalaga nomusolo gwasasula muggwanika lyensi, nensimbi za wa Katonda, omulimu gwe gujja kuba mwangu nyo. Kubanga era nabayigirizwa ba Isa Masiya bwebalabika nga balina kusente nga Yuda bweyali, mwatu Isa yabalabula nabagamba nti Muwe Kayisaari(obufuzi bwensi) ebibye ate ne Katonda naye mumuwe ebibye kubanga yabatonda.
Isa awa amagezi nate. Muleke okuba nga abantu bensi eno. Isa yalaba omusajja namugamba nti genda mangu otunde ebibyo byonna ongoberere. Omusajja yagana era teyakomawo. Tabanga ko musiru. Kubanga yali mugezi era nga mugagga nyo.
Bungereza egobye omwawule Munnayuganda
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 5th December 2019
REV. Nathan Ntege afunye nnyo ettutumu e Bungereza ng’omwawule mu kkanisa ya St.Jude mu kibuga London. Bukya ava Namirembe, ayambye Bannayuganda bangi okufuna obutuuze ate bangi abagendayo okuli Abalabirizi ba Uganda gye batuukira.
Ekkanisa Ntege gyabadde aweererezaamu e Bungereza. Mu katono, Rev. Ntege ne mukazi we Elizabeth.
Ebintu bimwonoonekedde ekkanisa ya Bungereza bw’emwambudde ne bamulagira okwamuka ofiisi mbagirawo n’okukomya okukola emirimu gy’ekkanisa ng’okukulembera okusaba oba okugatta abagole.
Okugoba Ntege y’entikko y’emisango olukunkumuli egyamutwaza mu kkooti mu 2011 nga kigambibwa nti yali akozesa ekifo kye okugatta abagole b’ekicupuli ng’ekigendererwa kyabwe kufunirako butuuze.
Ntege bamulumiriza nti yali aggya ssente ku baagala okufuna obutuuze ne bapanga obufumbo obutukuvu wadde ng’abamu ku bagattibwa tebaali bafumbo batuufu wabula ekikolwa ky’okubagatta kyali kigenderera kufuna bbaluwa ze batwala mu Gavumenti okufunirako obutuuze.
Ntege we baamutwalira mu kkooti yali agasse emigogo egigambibwa okuba mu 500, wadde ng’obujulizi obwatwalibwa mu kkooti bwa migogo 50 gye yaggyako ssente paundi za Bungereza emitwalo musanvu (70,000) n’atazitwala mu ggwanika lya kkanisa.
Kyokka abajulizi mu musango guno baakubagana empawa, olwo looya wa Ntege n’akuba ebituli mu bujulizi bwabwe nti bwalimu obulimba. Omulamuzi kwe kugoba emisango mu 2014. Kyokka ekkanisa n’essaawo okubuuliriza okwayo. Ku Lwomukaaga akawungeezi Omulabirizi wa Croydon
Sothwark, The Rt Rev. Jonathan Clarke ng’ali ne Ssaabadinkoni Chris Skilton baagenze mu maka ga Rev. Ntege ne basangayo n’omulabirizi w’e Kampala, Hannington Mutebi ne mukazi we nga batutte ekiwandiiko ekigoba Ntege mu kkanisa.
Kigambibwa nti abaana ba Rev. Ntege baagezezzaako okutangira Omulabirizi obutagezaako kuyisa mu kitaabwe maaso mu maka ge era omulabirizi n’ava mu mbeera n’ababoggolera. Kyokka ekiwandiiko ekiyimiriza Ntege kyamuwaddeyo omukisa
okujulira mu nnaku 28. Ntege yava e Namirembe mu 1997 n’agenda e Bungereza. Ekkanisa ya St. Jude ne St. Aidan’s Church mu Thomton Heath, South London yamuwa omulimu gw’Obwawule (Vicar)mu 2002 era n’aweebwa obuvunaanayizibwa bw’omuwandiisi w’ekkanisa (registrar).
Yaweebwa layisinsi ey’enjawulo “Crown Licence” eno agirina takyusibwa wadde okuggyibwa mu nju y’omulimu. Akakiiko k’ekkanisa (Tribunal) akaaanoonyerezza ku Ntege kaakuliddwa Steven John.
Lipoota y’akakiiko eraga nti Ntege yazza emisango gya nnaggomola bwe yakozesa obubi ekifo kye n’assa ekkanisa awazibu bwe yagyeyambisa okumenya amateeka ga Gavumenti ya Bungereza ng’ate Gavumenti n’ekkanisa bali bumu.
Akakiiko kanenya abakulembeze b’ekkanisa okuwa Ntege obuvunaanyizibwa obusalawo ku by’okugatta abagole nga tasoose kusindikibwa mu ttendekero ly’amateeka, y’ensonga lwaki ajuliza nnyo enkola ya Uganda ekubiriza abafumbo okugattibwa so nga e Bungereza baagala kugatta
Okutandika okumubuusabuusa, ofi isi ya Gavumenti ekola ku by’obufumbo yamala kwemulugunya ku kkanisa ya Ntege eyali egasse abagole 57 omwaka n’essaawo likodi mu Bungereza yonna. Kyokka ababuuliriza ku Ntege
baalaze nti wadde abadde munafu nnyo mu kutaputa amateeka ga Bungereza kyokka asitudde nnyo eby’ensiza.
Abuulira enjiri erimu obulamu mw’atabika okuyimba n’okutendereza mu ngeri esikiriza Abakrisitaayo ne beeyongera okujja mu kkanisa.
Obuganzi bwe yafuna olw’enkola ye ey’emirimu bwe bwavaako Omulabirizi okumuwa ekifo. Kyokka akakiiko kanenya Omulabirizi nti yandikomezza Ntege ku kubuulira mu Kkanisa n’atamuwa mirimu gya kikugu egya Registrar, ateekwa okuba kafulu mu kutegeera n’okutaputa amateeka ga Bungereza.
Omulamuzi Nic Madge bwe yali agoba emisango gya Ntege yagamba nti kyali tekitegeeza nti Ntege teyazza misango. Kyokka obujulizi obumu bwali buyinza okuggyisaamu kkooti obwesige.
NTEGE NAYE YEERWANYEKO
Nga November 11, 2019, Ntege agambibwa nti alumizibwa amagulu era ali ku miggo, yagguddewo omusango ku Croydon Police e Bungereza oguli ku nnamba 3037660/19 ng’awawaabira Obulabirizi bw’e Southwark okujingirira ebiwandiiko ne bateekako omukono gwe basobole okumusingisa omusango gw’okukumpanya paundi £60,000 nga bagamba nti abagole be yagattanga be baazisasula kyokka tezaatuuka mu ggwanika.
Yategeezezza poliisi nti yabadde talabanga ku kiwandiiko kino era si ye yakiteekako omukono wabula yeekanze mu kakiiko ke baataddewo okumunoonyerezaako nga bakireeta ng’obujulizi.
Era ne kawa ensala yaako nga Novermber 27, 2019. Ruth Marvel Nathania Ntege muwala wa Ntege mu sitetimenti gye yakola ku poliisi, yalaga ebizibu bye baayitamu okumala emyaka munaana nga babayigganya.
Yanokolayo ebyaliwo nga June 4, 2011, nti engeri poliisi gye yayisaamu kitaawe nga bamulengezza n’okumutyoboola mu maaso ga famire ye n’abantu abalala kyamuyiga nnyo obulamu bwe ne bukosebwa n’okusoma ne kumulema.
Ate mu April 2014, omusango mwe baavunaana kitaawe gwalagibwa butereevu ku ttivvi era yagenda okutuuka ku ssomero ng’abaana bamusongako nga bamugeya.
Mu 2011 yalina emyaka mwenda kyokka ekimwennyamiza nti okutuusa kati nga wa myaka 17 akiraba nti omusango gukyalondoola kitaawe okumuteekako ebbala ery’olubeerera.
Elizabeth Ntege mukyala wa Rev. Ntege naye yakola sitetimenti ku poliisi n’alaga engeri poliisi gye yazingako amaka gaabwe ne babassa mu kisenge kimu kyokka nga kirimu abaserikale abakutte empingu.
Famire ya Ntege yategeezezza nti Obulabirizi bwa West Buganda bubadde butegeka okuwa Ntege ekitiibwa kya Canon nga December 15, 2019.
Wabula Omulabirizi Rt. Rev. Henry Katumba Tamale yategeezezza Bukedde nti bwe babeera bagaba obukulu bakissa mu buwandiike. Awatali bbaluwa olwo luba lugambo.
Rev. Ntege musawo w’amaaso eyakoleranga mu Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau gye yava okufuuka omwawule n’atuuzibwa mu lutikko e Namirembe.
Canon Nelson Kaweesa omuwandiisi w’Obulabirizi bw’e Namirembe yategeezezza Bukedde nti Ntege yava mu Uganda mu 1997 era mu kiseera kino Church Of England y’emutwala.
Abamu ku bali ku lusegere ne Rev. Ntege bagamba nti okumugoba mu kkanisa kumuli okumukwatirwa obuggya olw’ekifo ekisava, Abazungu okumusosola olw’okuba Omuddugavu n’okwagala okumuggyawo batunde ebintu by’ekkanisa. Ntege yagobeddwa mu kkanisa ya St. Jude mu London wiiki ewedde.
Kyokka ekkanisa yagambye nti okumugoba yasinzidde ku bujulizi bwe yafunye ng’abvadde akozesa ekifo kye okugatta abagole abatalina bisaanyizo n’abalyako ssente ate n’assa mu kkanisa awazibu kubanga abagattiddwa bakozesa satifikeeti y’ekkanisa okufunirako obutuuze e Bungereza.
Ekkanisa egamba nti wadde kkooti yagoba emisango gya Ntege kyokka gyagobwa lwa bujulizi, kkooti bwe yagamba nti bwali buyinza okugiggyisaamu obwesige. Era yo ekkanisa bwe yakozesezza akakiiko kayo kaazudde nga Ntege emisango yagizza.
“Ssinga gubadde omusangu gumu osanga kikkiriza nti bamuwalana. Naye emisango giri mu 100. Ntege alina omukisa okujulira ebyasaliddwaawo ne bikyusibwa”, ekkanisa bwe yategeezezza.
Kyokka abooludda lwa Ntege bagamba nti abadde muweeereza e Bungereza emyaka 18. Obuzibu yabufuna mu 2011, Omulabirizi eyaliwo bwe yakyusibwa ne bafuna omuggya eyeewuunya engeri Omuddugavu gye yafuna ekifo ekyo n’assibwako n’ebintu ebimuwa enkizo okuli ennyumba gy’atateekwa kuggyibwamu wadde okukyusibwa okuggyako nga basoose kuteesa.
Kigambibwa nti kkooti bwe yagoba emisango gya Ntege mu 2014, Omulabirizi yamuwa amagezi alekulire ku lulwe kyokka Ntege n’agaana era okuva olwo babadde tebakolagana.
Waliwo ebigambibwa nti mu kwagala okuggyawo Ntege, ekkanisa yagingirira ebimu ku biwandiiko ebyakozeseddwa okumulaga ng’omulyake.
Ntege ye Munnaddiini atali Muzungu asinga eddaala erya waggulu e Croydon bukya Rev. Dan Kajumba awummula. Atwalibwa ng’omukulembeze wa Bannayuganda mu London n’abamu ku bava mu mawanga amalala.
Bangi ku betaaga obuyambi we batuukira okutuusa nga beetereezezza. Kyokka n’abamu ku bava mu Uganda batuukira ewa Ntege olw’ekitiibwa kye n’okuba ng’amanyi era asobola okuwabula ku by’e Bungereza.
Omulabirizi Mutebi ajjanjabirwa e Bungereza ne mukyala we naye yatuukira wa Ntege.
Bishop we Buganda Mr Luwalira ayogedde ku njiri eyogera ku mirimu egivaamu ensimbi:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 13th May 2019
Omulabirizi Kityo Luwalira (wakati), Mukyala we Faith Luwalira (ku ddyo) ne Rev. Canon William Ongeng nga bali mu kutendereza.
Bino yabyogeredde mu lukung’aana lw’enjiri e Namirembe olwategekeddwa ekitongole ekibuulizi ky’enjiri ekikulemberwa Rev. Samuel Muwonge era ng’olukung’aana luno lwetabiddwaako abantu ab’enjawulo okwabadde Minisita Beti Namisango Kamya, sipiika w’olukiiko lwa Buganda, Patrick Luwagga Mugumbule, Ven Jonathan Kisawuzi nga ye Ssaabadinkoni w’e Ntebe, Ven. Godfrey Buwembo, Canon Benon Kityo n’abaweereza abalala.
Bp. Luwalira yennyamidde olw’abantu okulowooza nti bwe balokoka buli kimu kibeera kiwedde ne beerabira okukola emirimu egibayimirizaawo. Yakubirizza ababuulizi b’enjiri nti babuulire abantu enjiri ey’okukola.
Yagambye nti abalokole balina okunyweza ekigambo ky’okukola kuba omuntu asabiriza atama. Yayongedde n’akuutira abantu okukomya okwemanyiiza ebikolwa ebitali bya Bwakatonda omuli okuwemula, obwenzi n’obubbi kuba bijja kubatwala mu kuzikirira. Yakuutidde Abakristaayo okutya Katonda n’abawa ekyawandiikibwa ekya Timoseewo 4:7 n’agamba nti kino kijja kubayamba mu biro bino n’ebirijja nga batuuse mu Bwakabaka bwa Katonda.
Yavumiridde omuze abantu ogw’okwonoona amannya g’abalala nga bayita ku mikutu gya yintaneti. Ven Jonathan Kisawuzi yavumiridde abawasa abakazi abasukka mw’omu n’akuutira Abakristaayo okwewala okwonoona eri Katonda ng’omubala gw’Obulabirizi ogw’omwaka guno.
Rev. Samuel Muwonge akulira ekitongole ekibuulira enjiri e Namirembe yakuutidde abantu okukomya okuzanyisa Katonda nga bamugezesa obusungu bwe olw’ebikolwa ebitali bya butuukirivu bye bakola. Yakuutidde abantu okuteeka obulamu bwabwe eri Katonda n’ensonga zaabwe zonna kubanga Mukama talemererwa. Barbara Katende Kivumbi, omusomesa w’ebyobusuubuzi n’amateeka e Makerere yakubirizza abantu okukozesa ssente ze bafuna okwetandikirawo emirimu egy’enjawulo basobole okufuna ku ssente.
Yagambye nti ensonga ezisinga okutabula abafumbo ziva ku ssente n’akuutira abafumbo okuteekawo bizinensi y’amaka gaabwe kino kibayambe okufuna ssente ezimala era kikendeeze ku butabanguko mu maka. Yakuutidde ababuulizi b’enjiri okusomesa abantu okwekolera n’okuteekerateekera obulamu bwabwe obw’omu maaso.
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Tetuyinza kwelabira Abazunga abaleeta ebyeddiini zino enzungu. Bwebabulira nga enjiri nga bayita mumateeka gensi, ate nebaleeta wo amalwaliro, amasomero era nebyobufuzi nga babiyingiramu okulaba nga Abakkiriza baabwe baganyulwa mukufugibwa kwabebyobufuzi. Tuwulira nti nettaka eryawebwa amaddiini gano mu Buganda kyali kulaba nga ebitekebwa kumattaka gano biganyula abantu ba Buganda bonna so si kulitunda kukola sente nakugaggawaza abakulembeze bamaddiini gano!
Abakristayo bandyagade okumanya ebisingako awo kukibiina ekibuulira enjiri ekikulemberwa Mr Muwonge. Teri mutuuze wa Uganda atamanyi babulizi banjiri mumakubo, mumakanisa gabwe agenjawulo, ekiro nemisana buli lunnaku. Era governmenti ababulizi benjiri bano ebawa charity ngabagisabye, nobutasasula musolo nga bakola emirimu gyabwe. Era abamu abatuuze ababulira enjiri bagagga nyo nga nebyemirimu egivaamu sente nebyomusolo okusasula mu Uganda Revenue Authority tebibatawanya nakamu era tebagala kumanya.
Ekisanye okukolebwa mubwangu nga mwe abekanisa ababulira enjiri ya Isa Masiya eyamazima kwekufunira abantu ba Uganda welfare state. Kubanga abagagga abali munsi eno basobolera ddala okusasulira abaavu obuyambi bwebasaba buli budde nga nobukunkumuka obuggwa wansi wemeeza zabagagga, abaavu bano tebasobola nakubufuna. Kibi nyo, era Setani.
Mukulu Luwalira nkukakasa nti omuntu asabiriza atama. Era ne mukitabo ekitukuvu omuntu oyo mwali. Era kiruma nyo nti ate bweyaffa omusabiriza ono nagenda eri eyamutonda ate yagenda okutunula ebbali nga abagagga beyali asabiriza obukunkumuka obwaali bugwa wansi we meeza nga balya embaga zaabwe munsi, ate nga bali mumuliro gubokya okukamala. Bamukabira abawe kumazzi banywe nga enyonta ejula okubatta nabagamba nti banange nga nange sikyasobola kubatuukako nga bwekyaali munsi!
Ekkanisa y'Oluganda e Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 6CB London, England:
Wano nga aba Christayo be London benyigira mukusinza Tonda okujjukira amazaalibwa ga Yesu Christo Omwaana wa Katonda,
16 December, 2018.
In Uganda, the Catholic Church needs to embrace modern technology:
November 7, 2018
Written by Denis Jjuuko
Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, the archbishop of the Kampala archdiocese, was quoted in the mainstream media over the weekend as having requested government to collect tithe on a monthly basis on church’s behalf.
Tithe, if we are to go by the English dictionary, is ‘one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the church and clergy.’ Although there are many verses in the bible on tithing, it can no longer be taken as tax. It has become voluntary.
Dr Lwanga’s concern is that people don’t pay tithe anymore or pay little, which affects the running of the church. He might be right but also Catholics give a lot to the church. In almost every Sunday mass, apart from offertory, there is some sort of fundraising.
Either there is need for new pews, music organs, new fancy church, fees for some seminarian who is returning to the seminary after their ‘internship’ or something of the sort. Parishioners willingly give to these ‘causes’ and maybe that leaves little money to tithe.
The other issue that is affecting the Catholic Church is what I will call ‘districtlism’ — the allure for creation of districts that can hardly support themselves. The Catholic Church is creating a new parish almost everywhere just like the central government is creating districts in places probably where they don’t need them. I know that Uganda’s population is one of the fastest-growing in the world but should that be matched by a new parish everywhere?
In a radius of just 20km, you can easily find five to 10 parishes. For example, between Kampala city and Namugongo, there are the following parishes: Christ the King, Naguru, Ntinda, Kiwaatule, Kigoowa, Mulago, Mbuya, Kireka, and Namugongo. Like with ‘districtlism,’ there are many delegations to Lubaga lobbying for new parishes.
‘Districtlism’ enables some people become chairpersons, resident commissioners and the like. In the church, a new parish enables one to become a parish priest, head of the laity, head of women’s league, and many other fancy titles. That shouldn’t be a big problem but it comes at a high cost.
For any sub-parish to be turned into a parish, there is need for construction of the priests’ house and they come storied these days. The priests’ house must also include a fancy apartment for the diocese bishop just in case he visits and decides to spend a night. I don’t see any reason why a bishop who has a house in Lubaga would ever spend a night at Naguru or Kiwaatule, which is less than 20kms away.
Once a sub-parish becomes a parish, some people, including those positioning themselves to be on the construction committee, will demand for a grandiose church structure that ‘befits the status of the parish.’ It will need new pews, stained glass windows, and terrazzo floors. The priest may need a car as well. All that money comes from the parishioners. So, instead of tithing, they use the money for building the parish and looking after the priests.
Although the church is very quick in building imposing structures, you hardly see any projects that are meant to lift people out of poverty or for it to survive beyond tithes and offertory.
Most parishes hardly have income-generating projects to ensure sustainability. It is not unusual to find a beautiful church in a place where poverty stinks. It is not unusual to find people dressed in their Sunday best, which are faded NRM campaign tee-shirts, returning from praying from a grand structure.
The church is supposed to be people, not magnificent structures on a hill surrounded by poverty. I know that the Catholic Church tries as much since it builds schools and health centres in some of these communities but there is need to do more. When did you attend church and the fundraising was to create a credit institution from which parishioners can borrow money at low interest rates?
Almost all fundraisers are consumption-based or don’t directly contribute to the incomes of the communities. If parishioners are poor, they won’t be able to tithe. But also the church needs to change the way it is doing business today.
It must use technology to enable people tithe. For example, Ugandans in the diaspora may want to tithe in Uganda than in Boston or East London. This is because parishes in Chicago or Johannesburg may not have the same needs as here.
However, they don’t have an easier way to do it. They may have to send the money directly to their relatives or some committee members and they aren’t sure whether that money will reach the church.
The church must think of an enabling way offered by technology for people to tithe. And this includes people in Uganda. Delivering an envelope to the church office may not work. And sometimes when you tithe, you never get any response from the church.
Church administrators can easily send out messages and thank those who have given and periodically give accountability of what the money was used for. I have heard, though, conflicting positions from priests on what tithe is supposed to be used for.
djjuuko@gmail.com
The writer is a communication and visibility consultant.
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Much advice has come out to advise the church in Africa to embrace human religion updates. Too bad that some are even making up points not to download the bible on smartphones. It interests many Christians where in some cities, church buildings are rented out to neighbourhood Muslims to go in there and make their hourly prayers to Allah.
In Uganda, the Protestant Archbishop Mr Stanley Ntagali’s Christian political teachings are against the interests of an anticipated national dialogue:
Church of Uganda Archbishop Stanley Ntagali in purple robe(R) commissions Kitagata Secondary School bus in Kitagata Archdeaconry, Sheema District on Sunday. Photo by Zadock Amanyisa
By Mr Morrison Rwakakamba
7 September, 2018
In Summary
Christians expectations. Christians expect Archbishop Ntagali to issue pastoral letters guiding on current issues that Ugandans care about like; right to assemble, right to conduct processions, right to free speech, rights and responsibilities of journalists, right to education, economic justice, inclusive growth, right to decent health, environmental justice, etc.
In the wake of Arua by-election chaos and pain, Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, head of Uganda’s Anglican Church, was quoted in the press telling clerics to ‘go slow on politics’. From Ugandan speak, it sounds like a father telling his adolescent son; don’t look at those girls. In-effect, the dad is saying don’t go there! Therefore, the ‘go slow’ ‘directive’ is a bold censorship of clergy from commenting on politics.
Because of tumultuous history of interaction between politics and religion in Uganda, falling in trap of long held and mostly condescending narrative parroted by politicians in pursuit of expediency is easy. Every corner you will hear mostly in-power politicians saying; “politics and religion don’t mix”, “clerics should not use the pulpit to talk politics”, etc. Yet, these mostly in-power politicians, through action, overtly schmooze religious leaders with gifts and use pews and pulpit to channel political messaging and gain political advantage.
Vendors of the “don’t mix politics and religion” narrative, knowingly frame politics as earthly, divisive and a bad thing that men and women of God should not be party to. This is a well-oiled and calculated blackmail. They, for example, knowingly portray politics and partisanship as one thing. Unfortunately, Archbishop Ntagali is lending this unfortunate line credibility!
The archbishop is a principal in the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, a platform that is central to organising and leading the national dialogue process. The core object of dialogue is to settle Uganda’s unanswered political question since independence - peaceful transition of power from one leader to another. The national dialogue process seeks to embrace and convene all Ugandans in a conversation about the nations’ values and future. The dialogue is, therefore, essentially political – and not partisan. Pointed attempt at silencing voices of clerics will reinforce narratives that have over the years undermined the spirit of national dialogue and envisaged consequence of total peace and prosperity in Uganda.
I agree with those who argue that pulpit should not be used to drive partisan political interests – because the flock is a collective with non-homogeneous political persuasions. It would, therefore, be wrong for clerics to be partisan. However, it is right for clerics to be political. Why? Because politics arrange the earth and if clerics have to be useful on earth, they have to take on and moderate political issues. We often talk of world order, and this is the earthly political arrangement of who makes decisions that generate, hold and reproduce power; engender world peace and a functioning dominion over earthly life (from humans to trees, reptiles, insects, etc.).
When politics is mishandled, we see deadly wars that decimate peace and decisions that accentuate destruction of life and Mother Nature – terrestrial, extra-terrestrial, nomos and cosmos. The working language through which these political issues are arranged on earth is social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, etc. What then is the role of clerics on earth if they can’t moderate politics? What is the bible for if it cannot guide and deepen social justice, justice this and justice that? To say that clerics should not talk about politics is the same as asking the Anglican Church why it is involved in building and running schools? Building and running health facilities? etc. Quite often, politicians are elected on the basis of who has superior health or education plan.
To further put the foregoing in context, we should look at the social teachings of the Catholic Church and how they addressed the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the capitalist world and offered guidance to those facing the Industrial Revolution, the rise of market capitalism, and social unrest throughout Europe.
Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical letter Rerum no varum (On the Condition of Labour), 1891 - considered the first modern social teaching document - heralded themes that have remained constant over the past 140 years: The rights and duties of workers, the right of workers to form unions, the right to private property (against emerging fascism or communism), and a critique of unbridled or unregulated capitalism (a form of capitalism today advocated in libertarian economic philosophy). The tradition of Papal teaching continued to unfold in 12 major encyclicals in the next century, with the most recent being Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth), the acclaimed letter of Pope Benedict XVI issued in 2009.
When the pastoral letter ‘Economic Justice for All’ was published by the US bishops in November 1986, its release was both the culmination of years of work and the beginning of a sometimes-heated public political debate. The principles of the pastoral letter were clear; Every economic decision and institution must be judged in light of whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person; human dignity can be realised and protected only in community; all people have a right to participate in the economic life of society; all members of society have a special obligation to the poor and vulnerable; human rights are the minimum conditions for life in community; and society as a whole, acting through public and private institutions, has the moral responsibility to enhance human dignity and protect human rights.
Again, what the foregoing demonstrates is that, for church to be relevant to its flock, it must address justice and rights issues faced by its followers. Christians expect Archbishop Ntagali to issue pastoral letters guiding on current issues that Ugandans care about like; right to assemble, right to conduct processions, right to free speech, rights and responsibilities of journalists, right to education, economic justice, inclusive growth, right to decent health, environmental justice etc. By doing the aforementioned, Archbishop Ntagali will not be breaking from Uganda’s rich tradition. Luminaries like Archbishop Janani Luwum and Bishop Kivengere eloquently guided their flock towards political freedom and justice. Faced with clear and present life taking risks, they provided and natured the soul of this nation. In a seminal book, The Sacred Canopy (1967), Peter Berger puts this poignantly:
He argues, “Religion implies the farthest reach of man’s self-externalisation, of his infusion of reality with his own meanings. Religion implies that human order is projected into the totality of being. Put differently, religion is the audacious attempt to conceive of the entire universe as being humanly significant” - I agree.
Mr Rwakakamba is a coffee farmer in Nyeibingo village in Rukungiri District. mrwakakamba@gmail.com
Millions of Muslims at this time are taking on their annual hajj pilgrimage:
19 August, 2018
By Asher Mcshane
More than two million Muslims have begun the annual hajjpilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba from first light in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times each day during their prayers.
The five-day hajj pilgrimage represents one of the world's biggest gathering every year, a trip required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their life.
This year authorities in Saudi Arabia have pledged to make the event safer and modernise it, spending large sums to ensure the comfort and safety of worshippers.
The hajj offers pilgrims an opportunity to feel closer to God amid the Muslim world's many challenges, including the threat of extremists in the Mideast after the Islamic State group was beaten back in Iraq and Syria and the plight of Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority.
"We are very blessed by Allah to be in this place, and we pray to Allah to make the Islamic nations from the West to the East in a better situation," said Essam-Eddin Afifi, a pilgrim from Egypt.
"We pray for the Islamic nations to overcome their enemies."
The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God.
Muslims circle the Kaaba counter-clockwise seven times while reciting supplications to God, then walk between the two hills travelled by Hagar.
Mecca's Grand Mosque, the world's largest, encompasses the Kaaba and the two hills.
Before heading to Mecca, many pilgrims visit the city of Medina, where the Prophet Mohammed is buried and where he built his first mosque.
Muslims believe the hajj retraces the footsteps of Mohammed, as well as those of the prophets Ibrahim and Ismail, Abraham and Ishmael in the Bible.
After prayers in Mecca, pilgrims will head to an area called Mount Arafat on Monday, where the Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon.
From there, pilgrims will head to an area called Muzdalifa, picking up pebbles along the way for a symbolic stoning of the devil and a casting away of sins that takes place in the Mina valley for three days.
At the hajj's end, male pilgrims will shave their hair and women will cut a lock of hair in a sign of renewal for completing the pilgrimage.
Around the world, Muslims will mark the end of hajj with a celebration called Eid al-Adha.
The holiday, remembering Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son, sees Muslims slaughter sheep and cattle, distributing the meat to the poor.
Major General Mansour al-Turki, the spokesman of the Saudi Interior Ministry, told journalists Saturday that over two million Muslims from abroad and inside the kingdom would be taking part in this year's hajj.
For Saudi Arabia, the hajj is the biggest logistical challenge the kingdom faces.
Its ruling Al Saud family stakes its legitimacy in part on its management of the holiest sites in Islam.
King Salman's official title is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, at Mecca and Medina.
Other Saudi kings, and the Ottoman rulers of the Hijaz region before them, all have adopted the honorary title
The kingdom has spent billions of dollars of its vast oil revenues on security and safety measures, particularly in Mina, where some of the hajj's deadliest incidents have occurred.
The worst in recorded history took place only three years ago.
On September 24 2015, a stampede and crush of pilgrims in Mina killed at least 2,426 people.
The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not changed since only two days afterwards.
The kingdom has never addressed the discrepancy, nor has it released any results of an investigation authorities promised to conduct over the disaster.
Muslim husband who left his wife of 25 years, to die for FIVE DAYS after she suffered more than 100 injuries is jailed for just eight years:
The Australian mother blames Islamic brain washing about 'honour killing'
Ashlee Brown told mum she was converting to Islam to wed Mohamed Naddaf
Siobbhan Brown gave her daughter her blessing and never heard from her again
Five years later Ashlee was found dead on the bathroom tiles of her marital home
Ashlee, a mother-of-three, had been alive in the bathroom for four or five days
The 25-year-old had been bound, gagged, stabbed and had her long hair cut off
Naddaf says he found his wife in that state and tried for days to keep her alive
He did not call 000 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter based on negligence
20 July, 2018
By Stephen Gibbs of the Australian associated press.
A Muslim man who left his wife to die for five days after he said he found her tied up and badly injured in their home has been jailed for at least eight years.
Mohamed Naddaf pleaded guilty to the criminally negligent manslaughter of Ashlee Brown, 25, who died in their 'unkempt and dirty' Craigieburn home in Melbourne's north in November 2016.
Justice John Champion said Ms Brown was found in the passenger seat of the couple's car after having been subjected to a 'deliberate and frenzied assault' and tied up with clothesline wire.
The mother of three children under five had been bashed, stabbed, gagged and had her long strawberry blonde hair cut off.
Mohamed Naddaf is escorted from a prison van to the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday ahead of his sentencing over the manslaughter of his 25-year-old wife Ashlee Brown in 2016
Siobhann Brown waves an Australian flag at a protest organised by the Australian Liberty Alliance ahead of the sentencing of Mohamed Naddaf over Ms Brown's daughter's death
Ashlee Brown suffered more than 100 blunt and sharp force injuries. The mother of three children under five had been bound, gagged and had her long strawberry blonde hair cut off
Siobhann Brown, whose daughter Ashlee was found dead in the home she shared with her husband Mohamed Naddaf, told Daily Mail Australia she believed Islam killed her daughter
Naddaf helped Ms Brown to the bathroom, putting her down on a flannelette sheet on the floor, and fed her water through a syringe for five days.
He finally called triple zero on November 6 after Ms Brown died from complications arising from more than 100 injuries including internal and external bleeding.
Right-wing activist group, the Australian Liberty Alliance, staged a protest outside the Victorian Supreme Court, condemning what Ms Brown's mother Siobhann believed was an 'Islamic honour killing'.
Justice Champion said he did not accept Naddaf's claim that Ashlee asked him not to call for help in case their three children were taken by authorities.
'All that was required was a phone call,' Justice Champion said. 'Her death was slow, avoidable and miserable.'
Justice Champion said Naddaf's motivation was unclear. The court heard Naddaf had a significant criminal history and was a long-term drug user, taking heroin, marijuana and ice.
'The Crown is not in a position to prove who inflicted the injuries upon Ms Brown,' Justice Champion said.
Ashlee was 25 when she was found dead on the bathroom floor of the couple's home
'It is not possible to say exactly when Ms Brown died but... she suffered to a considerable degree.'
Siobhan Brown told reporters after the sentencing she believed Naddaf should have instead faced a murder trial for the death of her daughter, who had converted to Islam and had not spoken to her for five years.
'I am here today to raise awareness to the horrific, torturous death that Ashlee endured,' Ms Brown said outside court.
'My daughter's injuries and circumstances surrounding her death had all the hallmarks of an Islamic honour killing.'
Naddaf was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and must serve at least eight years before being eligible for parole. He has already served 621 days in pre-sentence detention.
Ms Brown told Daily Mail Australia last week she had had not heard from her eldest daughter since a phone call five years before she died.
Her daughter told her she was marrying a Muslim man and was three months pregnant with her first child.
Ms Brown had met Naddaf when Ashlee visited the family's home in country Victoria when she was about 18.
Ashlee was a fun-loving girl,' Siobhann Brown told Daily Mail Australia. 'She was giving. She was loving. She loved the sun, the beach. She loved singing, dancing, having fun'
'She introduced him as "Macca",' Ms Brown said. 'It was very brief.
'He seemed like a nice, very polite, young man. It pains me to say that. I didn't see him again after that.'
HOW DID ASHLEE BROWN DIE?
Ashlee Brown was found dead on her bathroom floor at Craigieburn, in Melbourne's north, on November 6, 2016.
Her husband Mohamed Naddaf, 37, told police he had found Ashlee bloodied and beaten in their garage four or five days earlier.
Naddaf said he had 'cared' for Ashlee instead of calling an ambulance because she had asked him not to.
A post-mortem examination found Ashlee had suffered more than 100 injuries to her head, torso, buttocks and limbs.
She had been stabbed in the thighs and had bruising to her right side, including her breast.
Naddaf was originally charged with assault and false imprisonment.
He was later charged with killing his wife but pleaded guilty to manslaughter based on negligence.
Naddaf is not accused of causing any physical harm to Ashlee.
There was no communication for some time before a phone call came 'out of the blue' that would mean the end of all contact between Ms Brown and her daughter.
When Ashlee was about 20 she rang to say she was pregnant and wanted her mother's blessing to convert to Islam and marry Naddaf.
'She said to me, "Mum, I need your blessing to become Muslim". She said "I'm three months' pregnant and I'm engaged to Mohamed. I would really like to marry him, mum, and settle down and have a baby".
'I said to her, "Darling, I don't know anything about the Muslim religion. As long as you know what you're doing".
'I said, "Do you have to wear one of those burqas or hijabs?" I didn't know what they were called.
'She said, "No mum, only when I go into the mosque because it's disrespectful for a woman to show her face before God".
'I said to Ashlee, "As long as you're making a fully informed decision and it's what you really want".'
Ashlee said that it was.
'There was a pause after that,' Ms Brown said. 'She said. "Thank you, mum". And then her voice seemed to change and she said, "It's Islam". That didn't mean anything to me at the time.
'We said goodbye to each other and we hung up and I didn't hear from Ashlee again.'
Ms Brown said she was convinced the lack of subsequent contact with Ashlee was solely down to her religious conversion and Rannaf controlling his wife.
'I believe Islam killed my daughter,' the 46-year-old said.
'If I could have taken that phone call back I would have not have given her my blessing. I would have said "No, sorry love".
'I'm not against Muslims. That's not what it's about.
'I'm not telling Ashlee's story to make friends. I don't want to tell lies, I'm not going to sugar coat it. I'm telling Ashlee's story for it to be known.'
Ms Brown could not believe her daughter would willingly cease all contact with her mother and three siblings who are now aged 11 to 22.
Ms Brown also believed the legal system let her down.
'It was explained to me that they didn't have enough evidence to successfully convict him of murder,' she said of Rannaf's manslaughter plea.
'I feel let down. I feel there should have been a trial. Where was our fight? We didn't have one.
'The offence of murder needs to be redefined.'
CASTING OUT THE DEVIL ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA
Shocking pictures show mass exorcism in Ethiopia where 150 people paid a month’s wages for priest to ‘banish their demons’:
Hundreds of people paid vast sums to take part in an exorcism in Ethiopia where the Orthodox church still holds a strong power over worshippers:
By Jon Rogers
5 July, 2018
SHOCKING pictures show hundreds of people taking part in a mass exorcism to “banish demons” in Ethiopia – and paying up to one month’s salary for the privilege.
Up to 150 people waited in line at Yerer Selassie church near the capital Addis Ababa to have the exorcism ritual performed on them by Ethiopian Orthodox priest Memehir Girma Wedimu.
A man gets sprayed with holy water as part of the exorcismPictures taken by Czech photographer David Tesinsky, 28, show people being held in place as they scream when holy water is sprayed on them or a cross is placed on their forehead.
Other striking shots show a woman’s face being held as she lets out a loud shout, a priest touch a young man’s head during the ritual and hundreds of people being sprayed with holy water at once.
Tesinsky said: “People were crying, screaming and Memehir was punching them.
“Memehir was rejected by all other churches because he earned more money than the church itself.
“He kept asking for money – I saw one very old woman give him $100 (£76) to ‘expel’ her of demons and he still wanted more, even though $100 was most likely all she could earn in one month.
“These exorcism rituals are usually performed if someone is not responding to modern medicine or if they are misbehaving, as it is thought they are possessed by a ‘demon spirit’ or ‘buda’.
“They must be performed by a local priest.”
The Ethiopian Orthodox church was considered the state church until the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974.
In many villages, the people have lived in fear of certain curses and demonic powers that have kept them in bondage and terror for generations.
According to a 2010 Pew Research Center study, 74 percent of Christians in Ethiopia claim to have experienced or witnessed an exorcism.
"Demon-possessed" persons are brought to a church or prayer meeting.
Often, when an ill person has not responded to modern medical treatment, the affliction is attributed to demons.
The African Grand Children of Kakungulu in Bugisu Province, Uganda, have been refused entery visa into Israel as they are not Jewish enough:
June 4, 2018
Written by URN
The Jewish community in Uganda, locally known as Abayudaya say they are unbothered by the Israeli government decision not to recognise them.
Last week, Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper carried a story indicating that Israel had ruled not to recognise the Ugandan Jewish community. The paper showed that Israeli's Interior ministry had denied the first and only request of a Ugandan Jew, Kibitz Yosef, to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return and asked him to leave the county by June 14, 2018.
The same report quoted a government representative, saying the decision represents Israel's stance on the Ugandan Jewish community, not just the applicant in question.
Joab Jonadab Keki, the chair of the council of elders of the Jewish Community in Uganda, says they are not bothered by the decision of the Israeli government not to recognise them because the only recognition they want is from God and not by any state on earth.
"For me, if I am recognised by God, I feel like that would be the best - not for me to be recognised by the state of Israel or any state. For me, I believe that God knows what I am. So if I get a call from God that you’re not recognised then that would be hard for me," he said.
Asked what he thinks could have prompted the Israeli government to reject them, Keki pointed to their conversion by Conservative rabbis.
"The jews of Uganda are denied in Israel because their conversion was not made by the Orthodox rabbis, it was made by Conservative rabbis. Aand in Israel, the recognised section is Orthodox and that might be the reason why the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda are not recognised." he said.
He also explained that they don't claim any blood lineage to Israel as it is believed by some people.
"We don’t claim of blood lineage, we’re just converts. So our conversion might have been illegal. That is what I know, but maybe they have other reasons." he added.
However Rabbi Gershom Sizomu wrote on his Facebook page that "We have for the past 99 years been living as Jews in both form and practice and we are not about to change that.”
"The Jewish Agency has a partial mandate to determine who qualifies for Aliya [migration to Israel]. The interior ministry will have to justify their disagreement with the JA (Jewish Agency) recognition of the Abayudaya community. The question should be “who is a Jew” and not “who is Jewish enough” which the Interior ministry seems to be answering."
The Jewish Agency for Israel recognized the community in 2016 seemingly opening a path for its members to immigrate to Israel. However the decision to give visas and citizenship lies with the Interior ministry.
The Abayudaya community, which is comprised of approximately 2000 members, is led by rabbi Gershom Wambedde, the Bungokho South member of parliament. The group members congregate every Saturday at Nabugoye hill in Namanyonyi sub-county in Mbale district.
The Abayudaaya community split from Christianity led by former colonial chief Semei Kakungulu in the 20th century and started identifying themselves as Jews. According to Hareetz, a rabbinical court sent to Uganda by the Conservative movement in 2002 formally converted most of the 1,500-strong community.
Katikkiro atenderezza Ssaabasumba we Kelezia enkatoliki ku nsonga za Buganda:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 24th February 2018
Katikkiro ng'asika Ssaabasumba mu mukono.
KABAKA w'ensi Buganda asabye Klezia eyongere amaanyi mu nteekateeka ezigenderera okutumbula enkulaakulana mu Buganda era Obwakabaka bwetegefu okugikwatizaako mu ngeri yonna esoboka okulaba ng’abantu babeera mu bulamu obweyagaza ng’ate bwe batendereza Omutonzi waabwe.
Obubaka buno bwaweereddwa Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga bwe yabadde omugenyi omukulu ku mukolo gw’okujjukira ensisinkano ya Ssekabaka Muteesa I n’Omuminsane Fr. Simeon Lourdel Mapeera ku Lwokuna February 22, 2018 mu Lutikko e Lubaga.
Ensisinkano eno yaliwo February 23,1879 mu Lubiri lwa Muteesa I nga lwali Lubaga mu kifo kyennyini awatudde Lutikko. Omukolo gwajjukiddwa wansi w’Omulamwa “Eklezia Katolika n’Obwakabaka bwa Buganda 1879-2018:Tukwatire wamu mu kuweereza abantu ba Katonda” bwatyo Mayiga n’ategeeza nti ebigendererwa by’Obwakabaka ne Klezia bye bimu era ne yeebaza Ssaabasumba Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga olw’okuvangayo ku buli nsonga ezinyiga Obwakabaka. “Ku lw’Obwakabaka nneebaza Ssaabasumba Lwanga olw’okuvangayo ku nsonga enkulu ezinyiga Buganda ate n’okwagala Kabaka we ng’Omusajja eyeddira emmamba.
Nneebaza Ssaabasumba n’abamuyambako olw’okubbula ekaddiyizo lya Klezia mu Ssekabaka Muteesa I,” Mayiga bwe yeebazizza Ssaabasumba. Ye Dr. Lwanga yategeezezza nti enkolagana wakati wa Klezia n’Obwakabaka ezze yeeyolekera mu bintu bingi bwatyo n’atendereza Muteesa I olw’okukkiriza Klezia okutandika okubuulira enjiri.
Abakristayo abasinza mu Lulimi Oluganda e Bulaya baniriza omwezi gwa December
(Mukutula ssanja)nokuyimba Carols za Christmas
By Teddy Nakanjakko
Added 5th December 2017
ABAKULISITAAYO abeegattira mu kibiina eky'okusinza mu Luganda e Waterloo ne Manchester ku ssande ewedde beegasse wamu mu kusaba okw’ennyimba n’ebitundu okwaniriza amazaalibwa ga Mukama waffe Yesu Kristo.
Abakrisitaayo nga bayimba ennyimba z'amazaalibwa mu St Johns' Church e London, Waterloo.
Okusinza kuno okwabadde okwebugumu kwabadde mu kkanisa ya St. John’s Church e London Waterloo era nga kwakulembeddwa omusumba Rev. Dr. Godfrey Kaziro ng'ayambibwako ababuulizi, Ester Kawooya ne Alex Mutyaba, Ssentebe era Omuwanika Timothy Musajjakawa, omukubi w'ennanga Michiah Mukiibi wamu n'omuyimbisa Timothy Kimuli
Abaweereza abalala abeetabye ku Kusinza kuno mwabaddemu, Revd. Stephen Nshiimye akulira Okutendereza mu Luganda ku St. Alfege e Greenwish wamu ne Ssabadikoni w’ekitundu The Venerable Simon Gates eyabadde omugenyi omukulu.
Ate bbo abakristaayo be Manchester bakulembeddwa Omukubiriza,Omukungu Enock Mayanja Kiyaga, omubuulizi Isaac Jakira wamu ne Choir eyakulembeddwa Omutendesi Michael Mukiibi, abakulira Choir Mwami Edward Kayemba ne Muky. Lydia Kiyaga.
Abalala ab’ebitiibwa bangi omuli Omubaka wa Ssaabasajja e Bungereza ne Republic of Ireland Ronald Lutaaya wamu n'abamyukabe, Omulangira Herbert Kateregga, Omulangira Mawanda Jjuuko wamu ne Munnamawulire omugundiivu Joel Kibazo
Yabadeyo nokusanyusamu Abagenyi mungeri ya Ganda culture.
VISITING INDONESIA, THE SAUDI KING FROM MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA, HAS GOT RICHES THAT HAVE IMPRESSED THE WHOLE WORLD:
By The Daily Mirror
2nd March, 2017
Seven Umbrellas, a golden escalator to get him from his gold-clad plane to the tarmac, 572 workers, 10,000 policemen and five luxury hotels booked.
That a glimpse of what the King of Saudi Arabia needs to visit a country.
King Salman disembarked from a gold-clad plane via an escalator and had seven aides armed with huge umbrellas to protect him from the rain as he touched down in Indonesia.
Cheering crowds welcomed the 81-year-old on Wednesday as he began the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Indonesia for almost 50 years, bringing with him 1,000 aides and an array of expensive personal touches.
The World has never seen luxury like this. Never before and never will be.
Among his demands for the nine-day trip were a VIP toilet built for him at a mosque in Jakarta and 506 tons of luggage including two escalators and a pair of Mercedes-Benz limousines.
‘As the country with the biggest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia will always have a special bond with Saudi Arabia,’ the Indonesia president Joko Widodo told the King at the palace.
The Kind landed in Indonesia to join an enormous entourage of 620 people as well as 800 delegates, including ministers and 25 princes.
Preparations have been elaborate.
Naked statues at the Bogor palace were covered up before the King’s arrival, while local media reported that 150 chefs had been hired to cook for the king’s party.
The monarch and his entourage will reportedly stay in five luxury hotels in Bali for several days following the visit to Jakarta.
KING SALMAN’S LAVISH NINE-DAY TRIP TO INDONESIA
Due to the size of the operation, King Salman is taking SEVEN planes. The 1st one for Him is pictured.
His huge entourage will stay in FIVE luxurious hotels in Jakarta It has been reported up to 100 security personnel will guard King Salman
The king’s safety is such a priority that 10,000 Indonesian police officers will be deployed including soldiers to make sure the visit is secure
The House of Representatives has installed a special seat for his speech
A portable ramp has also been fitted to the House at the king’s request
At the Istiqlal Mosque, an elevator and a special toilet have been fitted
Two Mercedes-Benz s600 limousines have made the trip for transport
As well as the entourage, 800 delegates have travelled from Saudi Arabia
An airfreight company had to set aside 572 members of staff for the cargo
Ssabalabirizi Nkoyooyo ow'Ensi Buganda mulwadde. E'Bungereza sente ezokumujjanjaba azinonya mubazzanganda nabemikwano mu kifo kyokwenyonyola ko eri governmenti ya Bungereza:
By Cathy Lutwama
Added 11th January 2017
Josephine Nkoyoyo, Ruth Nkoyooyo (muky. Bishop) Ssabalabirizi Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo, Rtd Rev, Dan Kajumba. Abayimiridde; Isaac Nkoyooyo (mutabani we), omukungu wa Kabaka e Bungereza ne Rtd Rev. Nathan Ntege e London.
Bishop Nkoyoyo ajjanjabirwa mu St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington mu Central London e Bungereza.
Ensonda mu famire zitegeezezza nti Ssabalabirizi Nkoyooyo asuubirwa okuzzibwayo mu ddwaliro leero abasawo basalewo oba wa kulongoosebwa oba tekyetaagisa.
"Ssente abasawo ze baatusalira zituyinze tetuzirina naffe kwe kugezaako okukwatagana ne Banayuganda bannaffe abali wano e Bungereza okulaba nga tusondera Ssabalabirizi ssente ezeetaagisa, asobole okufuna obujjanjabi.
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Singa no abasawo e Namirembe besiba bbiri nebayanjula obuzibu bwebalimu eri governmenti ya Bungereza singa neddwaliro lye Namirembe likyalina amanyi nga kumulembe gwa Dr Cook eyalitandika wakati mubuzibu obuyitirivu e Buganda 1910. Omusawo ono Omungereza nga ate waddini nyo yali tagoba mulwadde. Oba muggagga oba mwavu, oba mulwadde wa nziku eyenkana wa, oba Munyankore oba Muziba. Singa enyombo Uganda ya M7 gyerina neya Bungereza kunsonga za homesexuality zitekebwa ebbali newabawo okulumirwa kwabonna eri abalwadde singa Ssabalabirizi yalongosebwa dda. Abaagala Omulokole M7 nenfugaye aba NRM mubiteeke ko ebbali. Muweereze empapula za Petition yokujjanjaba Ssabalabirizi wano e Bungereza. Archbishop wa Canterbury, e Bungereza ensonga zino azikoleko. Waliwo okujjanjabwa nga omukungu we ddini yobu Christayo ate nga mutuuze wa Commonwealth mu Bungereza. M7 ne Obote ne Amin babijjawo baleete ebyabwe ebilemaganye.
This is an appeal to the British Government, the Church of England, and the Commonwealth Organization to provide emergency medical assistance to the former African Protectorate country of Uganda:
The current ailing healthcare sector in this country exposes our emptiness:
Nkoyooyo’s case is a microcosm of excruciating pain that hundreds, in fact thousands, of Ugandans go through every day for lack of good healthcare:
THURSDAY JANUARY 12 2017
The Retired Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Uganda, Rev Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo. FILE PHOTO
By The Editor of the Monitor newspaper, Uganda:
Retired Anglican Archbishop Livingstone Nkoyooyo is stuck at a London hospital in dire need of about 60,000 Pounds (about Shs265m) for surgery to save his life. Sickness has condemned him there for about two months now and his condition needs urgent medical redress but the prelate’s family has failed to raise the money for his treatment.
They have approached charity organisations and other well-wishers for help but the efforts have not yet yielded the required amount yet Nkoyooyo’s condition continues to escalate every passing day. Appeals to State House and Church of Uganda establishment have not yielded anything of financial value either. No doubt, the prelate and his family need prayers and support in this difficult time. His painful situation underlines the gravity of our country’s pitiable healthcare infrastructure.
Nkoyooyo’s case is a microcosm of excruciating pain that hundreds, in fact thousands, of Ugandans go through every day for lack of good healthcare. They die when they should have lived. They suffer terminal pain when they should have lived a happy life. They are disabled when they should have lived a productive life.
It’s an indictment to the government. The government that is obliged to provide good healthcare to all Ugandans has reneged on its duty and watches as Ugandans die of curable ailments or sink into ignominious conditions.
For how long will lives of our people depend on the mercy and magnanimity of well-wishers, charity organisations and State House? Such a situation breeds a State-beggar syndrome that requires citizens to have godfathers in State House in order to receive deserved treatment. They have to beg for healthcare rather than demand it from the State as their legitimate right.
We cannot sing about middle income status by 2020 when the country’s hospitals are dead and citizens have to rely on well-wishers for treatment. A country which cannot provide healthcare for its people cannot deliver a middle income status to them. This dream is a hoax. It’s a white elephant.
The private sector is trying to fill the healthcare gap but with little success. Some services need sophisticated medical equipment which require huge and expensive capital investment that the private investors cannot afford. The government must do its duty.
Besides, strong institutions like the church should also consider investing in healthcare as a long-term strategy to help the country, the same way the early colonial Church started schools to promote education and deliver people from illiteracy. Responsibility of our destiny rests squarely in our hands. It cannot be delegated to well-wishers. The issue: Healthcare. Our view: We cannot sing about middle income status by 2020 when the country’s hospitals are dead and citizens have to rely on well-wishers for treatment.
In Mubende township in Buganda, the elected leaders, want to tax churches:
Tuesday November 1st, 2016
By Josephine Nnabbaale
BUGANDA STATE, SINGO COUNTY, MUBENDE TOWNSHIP:
Kitenga Sub- county leaders in Mubende District last week made a proposal to tax Pentecostal [Born-again] churches operating in the area, starting next year.
The proposal was prompted by the mushrooming churches in the area, which they say make a lot of money through collecting offertory, tithe and special prayer sessions.
Mr Bakine Apolonali, the chairman Sala village, said his village alone has seven Born-again churches and pastors collect ‘millions during the services.’
“There is a very strong case for taxing Born-again churches, and this could be one of the ways of expanding our tax base. We are going to have further consultations on this,” said Mr Edward Gamaba, the Kitenga Sub- county chairman.
Tax base Business. Kitenga Sub- county chairman Mr Gamaba says Born Again churches are in business and ought to pay taxes like other businesses to enable the sub-county get more revenue.
Unfair. Pastor John Magaba, the chairperson Community Christian Mission International, says portraying churches as business entities was an insult.
Ekibiina ekifuga Uganda namagye ky'eyamye okutwalanga Abasiraamu okulamaga e Mecca nga kikozesa sente zaakyo:
Bya Ahmed Kateregga
Added 10th October 2016
M/s Rose Namayanja NRM treasurer, Uganda.
OMUWANIKA wa NRM, Muky. Rose Namayanja Nsereko yeeyamye nti buli mwaka mukama we, Pulezidenti Yoweri Museveni waakutwalanga Abasiraamu okulamaga olugendo olutukuvu olw’e Makka n’e Madiina.
Namayanja, yagambye nti Pulezidenti okutwala abalamzi 91 ku 877 abaalamaze omwaka guno nga basasulirwa mukulu munne, Pulezidenti Omar Hassan El Bashir owa Sudan, kituuza butuuza ng’okutandika n’omwaka ogujja agenda kutwala abalala bangi.
Bino yabyogeredde ku mukolo gw’okwebaza ogwategekeddwa Hajjati Aisha Mbabaali, omukozi ku gwandiikiro lya NRM ogwabadde mu maka ga bakadde be e Katuuso mu muluka gwa Kiruddu - Buziga, e Makindye ku Lwomukaaga.
Omukolo gwetabiddwaako Bahaji ne Bahajati ‘abagole’ naddala abo abaasasulirwa Pulezidenti Museveni ne Pulezidenti Bashir.
Ate omukulu w’ettwale ly’e Kibuli, Sheikh Lubega yeebazizza Pulezidenti Museveni okulowooza ku Basiraamu n’abasasulira Hijja ne Umura n’amusaba asiramuke naye kennyini asobole okulamaga.
Bino yabyogeredde ku duwa ya ssentebe wa NRM mu Makindye Haji Hussein Lukyamuzi Kakooza eyabadde mu makaage e Kyamula mu muluka gw’e Salaama ku Ssande.
Sheikh Lubega yagambye nti y’akakola Hijja ssatu, era alina abakyala bana n’abazzukulu 85.
Omukolo gwetabyeko omubaka; Allan Ssewannyana (DP Makindye West) ne Meeya wa Makindye, Mw. Kasirye Mulyannyama eyasuubizza naye okukola Hijja omwaka ogujja, Mukama Katonda bw’anaaba ayagadde.
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Amin bweyakikola 1975/78 nga aba NRM ne UPM baddukidde e Tanzania bayima eyo nebagamba omugenzi former President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere omukatoliki, afuga aba Isilamu abangi e Tanzania nti Amin akola kikyamu tumukube, tumugobe kubufuzi bwa Uganda.
The World’s most Mass-Murderers of human life were Jewish:
Harvard historian professor Niall Ferguson in his highly praised 2006 book, The War of the World, claimed that some of the greatest mass murderers of modern times were Jewish. Ferguson’s research, however, centered on the Bolshevik revolution and the Lenin and Stalin era during which Jewish elites in the Russian government and Bolshevik terrorist organs like Cheka, GPU, NKVD and KGB, sent over 100 million Christian and Muslim communities to death camps or rooted out of their native homelands.
Some other books on this subject include ‘Behind Communism’by Frank Britton,‘Stalin’s willing Executioners’by Yuri Slezkine, ‘The Rulers of Russia’ by Rev. Denis Fahey, and ‘The Secret Behind Communism’, by David Duke Ph.D.
On February 15, 2012, the Jewish Mayor of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman, performed the opening ceremony of Las Vegas Mob Museum, which honors some of America’s most notorious Jewish mob gangsters.
Dr. Elias Akhleh, is a Palestinian Christian writer whose parents survived Jewish genocide of Palestinians during the NAKBA in 1948. His latest article, entitled,Jewish Greatest Genocidal Criminals has claimed that the worst mass-murderers throughout history were Jewish.
“One can clearly detect a Jewish genocidal characteristic in their leaders and their Rabbis since the beginning of their history starting with Moses along with other leaders and Rabbis such as Joshua, David, Samuel, Saul, Solomon, and others until present day Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon, Ovadia Yosef, Shimon Perez, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tzibi Livni, Ehud Barak and all the Israeli Prime Ministers and Rabbis since the establishment of Israel,” says Akhleh.
“While the Jews ferociously attack any non-Jew, who criticizes them or exposes their crimes, they cherish and honor their own genocidal criminals and brag about them in their own literature, their own Jewish media, and even in their own religious books; e.g. the Torah, Encyclopedia Judaica, Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Who is Who in American Jewry, and many Israeli newspapers such as Ynet and many others,” says Akhleh.
“Jews are generally brainwashed to believe themselves to be God’s chosen people and all other nations are their slaving servants. Their elite strive to control global finance one country at a time on their way to building their Jewish Israel in Palestine to be the control center of the whole globe. Through their crooked system of usury they were able to control the fate of empires starting from the Roman Empire up to the present USA. They incite hatred, ethnic conflicts and religious wars pitting Christians against Moslems to destroy these empires to eliminate any rival empire to their dreaming Jewish Israel. Their favorite operating mode is through the Crypto-Jews, who seemingly convert to other religions, change their names and perpetrate genocides to blame it on others,” says Akhleh.
“In 1915 those crypt-Jews perpetrated the Armenian genocide and blamed it on the Turks. The Ottoman Empire was controlling Palestine sought to become the Jewish state, and had rejected the Rothchild’s offer to buy it. The Zionist Israelite Community of Salonika, Greece, financed the Turkish “Committee for Union and Progress” (Ittihad ve Terakke) formed mainly by crypto-Jews, to overthrow the Turkish Empire in what is known as the “Young Turk Revolution” of 1908. This revolution was in fact a Jewish take over led by crypto-Jews, as exposed by Sir Gerard Lowther, the ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire,” says Akhley.
“After the “Young Turk Revolution” new leaders of the Ottoman Empire such as Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Ataturk), Tala’at Pasha, Djavid Bey and many others were crypto-Jews. They controlled the Empire and took the opportunity to mass murder the Armenian Christians; the Turkish intelligentsia at the time, who composed the very rich and influential middle class. Tala’at Pasha was the principal organizer of the massacre and deportation process. Armenian men were mass murdered in their own suburbs, and the women along with children and the elderly were deported to the Syrian Desert and left there to die without any food or water. The result was 1.5 million Armenian dead,” says Akhleh.
“The Jews wanted a global religious war between Christian Europe and Moslem Ottoman Empire in the hope to secure Palestine for themselves. In order to entice Christian Europe to attack the Ottoman Empire with the justification of protecting Christians, crypto-Jews slaughtered Armenian Christians and blamed it on the Moslem Turks. Other Christian ethnic groups, such as Assyrians and Greeks, were also targeted. The Armenian genocide iswrongfully blamed on Muslim Turks to date instead of the Jews,” adds Akhleh.
About these ads It is generally assumed that the Jewish lobby’s hard pressure on the Congress to prevent the acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide was due to their jealously defending the Holocaust™’s position as the worst of all genocides ever — “unique.” While that was undoubtedly part of the reason, another, greater motivation was the fear that the Armenian genocide’s recognition might bring about more historical research, more discussion and with it, an unwelcome light on the “Young Turks.”
Jewish Bolsheviks Murdered 66 Million In Russia From Dick Fojut 7-21-7
Ian, following up on a Fast Blast I sent you last Saturday during your Coast To Coast Radio program, about ANOTHER "Holocaust" not mentioned by yourself and your guest Dan Kurzman, who spoke about Hitler's "Death Camps." Two revealing articles follow.
How many people did Russia's Bolshevik Communists kill?
* Israel's YNET News admits: "at least 20 million."
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* Alexander SOLZHENITSYN states flatly: "66 million."
First Article...
YNET: At Least 20 Million Killed By Jewish Bolsheviks...
Following is a surprising article from respected news source YNET in Israel, about the Jewish-Bolshevik conquest of Russia after 1917... (unlikely to ever be reprinted or reported by America's major print, TV or radio "news" media.)
STALIN'S JEWS - Opinion from Israel, Ynetnews
12-21-6 Excerpts only...
"We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the 'bloodthirsty dwarf'."
SOLZHENITSYN: 66 Million Murdered By Jewish Bolsheviks...
Henry Makow PhD (an anti-Zionist Canadian Jew), in his "Red Symphony" essay (see Makow's savethemales.com website archives) claims that from the behind the scenes, the ROTHSCHILD BANKING CARTEL financed and controlled the BOLSHEVIKS who took over Russia.
If one wants to know the extent of the STATE TERROR and HORROR inflicted upon people in Russia since 1917 AFTER the JEWISH BOLSHEVIKS of Lenin (and his Party competitor) Trotsky, took TOTAL power, read the following informative short article by TEXE MARRS (not related to Jim Marrs) about historian Solzhenitsyn's latest book (banned in the West), "Together for Two Hundred Years."
Solzhenitsyn: The "Conscience of the 20th Century"
TEXE MARRS at: ConspiracyWorld.com:
If not exaggerated, Solzhenitsyn asserts that since 1917, the Bolsheviks, continuing under assassin Stalin, through and even after WW2, systematically executed, and inside (and outside) their thousands of Gulags, worked, starved and froze to death, SIXTY-SIX million people, not all, but most of them CHRISTIANS (whom the Bolsheviks hated). This mass death was THE LARGEST REAL "HOLOCAUST" in modern history - but totally unknown today by most Americans, British and western Europeans and absent from our school books. Of course no publisher in the Western world dares reprint Solzhenitsyn's book in English.
Like Yuri Slezkine, Plocker admits that the Stalin death machine was operated by Jews such as Genrikh Yagoda and Lazar Kaganovich. In 1934, at the peak of Stalin’s purge: “38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin.”
In recent years we have learned that a quarter of the International Brigade that fought Franco in Spain was Jewish, and the Lingua Franca of the Brigade was Yiddish. I have lost a few Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist friends trying to discuss that topic and to grasp the role of the Yiddish speaking combatants in the destruction of Catholic Spain in that bloody war. Showing far more integrity than our ‘allies’ on the Left, Zionist Plocker writes: “I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.”
It would be encouraging to imagine a genocide that is totally free of any Jewish involvement. Sadly, the Rwanda genocide doesn’t fit into this mythical category.
Haaretzreported last week that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to uphold the denial of a Freedom of Information request to make public documents about Israeli ‘defense’ exports to Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in that country.
In 2014, attorney Eitay Mack and Prof. Yair Auron submitted a request to the Defense Ministry under the Freedom of Information Law, asking for details of Israeli arms exports to Rwanda between 1990 and 1995. In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi minority Rwandans were slaughtered by the Hutu majority during Rwanda’s civil war.
Israel’s Defense Ministry refused the request, saying this information “was not to be divulged.”
Mack and Auron appealed to the Supreme Court who unanimously rejected their appeal. The Court held that:
We found that under the circumstances the disclosure of the information sought does not advance the public interest claimed by the appellants to the extent that it takes preference and precedence over the claims of harm to state security and international relations.
The message is unmistakable. The Jewish State, that made the Holocaust into its state religion, is actively concealing its involvement in the genocide of another people. This is the true meaning of the Holocaust Religion — it is concerned with the primacy of the suffering of one people alone and these people aren’t Tutsi.
Shia Islamic leaders on Sunday stepped up their condemnation of the Saudi execution of the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, urging a robust response from Riyadh’s western backers, who are yet to fully address the issue.
David Gauke, financial secretary to the Treasury, became the most senior UK figure to react to the execution, which has led to clashes in Tehran, and prompted widespread denunciation elsewhere. He said that al-Nimr’s death was a “worrying development”. The US State Department had said earlier that the move risked “exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced”.
Anger remained palpable on the streets of the Lebanese capital, and in Bahrain and Baghdad, hours after the Saudi Embassy in Tehran was torched by protesters angered by the execution of a senior cleric who had been championed by Iranian leaders.
However, in what appeared to be a move to calm tensions, the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said the attack on the Saudi Embassy was unjustifiable, and urged that the perpetrators be dealt with.
“I have no doubt that the Saudi government has damaged its image, more than before, among the countries in the world – in particular (among) Islamic countries –by this un-Islamic act,” Rouhani said.
Taking a cautionary tone, he added: “We will not allow rogue elements” to use the incident and “carry out illegal actions that damage the dignity of the Islamic republic establishment”.
“I call on the interior minister to identify the perpetrators of this attack with firm determination and introduce them to the judiciary ... so that there will be an end to such appalling actions once and for all.”
Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on Saudi Arabia’s western backers to directly condemn the execution, which came three years after al-Nimr was arrested ollowing his vocal support for anti-government protests in Bahrain and Riyadh.
“This oppressed cleric did not encourage people to join an armed movement, nor did he engage in secret plotting, and he only voiced public criticism ... based on religious fervour,” said Khamenei, who criticised “the silence of the supposed backers of freedom, democracy and human rights” over the execution.
“Why are those who claim to support human rights quiet? Why do those who claim to back freedom and democracy support this government?”
Pressed on the development, Gauke repeated a government line that Riyadh had passed on information that had been critical to stopping terrorist plots in the UK. “We have a relationship with Saudi Arabia where we are able to speak candidly to them, where these issues are raised on a regular basis by the foreign secretary and the prime minister and our representatives in Riyadh.
“We are able to have that relationship where we can tell them what we think and, clearly it is a worrying development, what we have heard from Saudi Arabia in the last few days.”
Riyadh, meanwhile, stuck to its position that al-Nimr had committed acts of terrorism. He had been executed along with 46 others accused of terrorism in the early hours of the new year, many of whom had been convicted for bombings, or assassinations. One of those executed had allegedly been part of a team of gunmen who had shot the BBC correspondent Frank Gardner on the streets of Riyadh, leaving him paralysed.
Al-Nimr’s execution could have been stopped by royal pardon, and clemency had been repeatedly sought by officials in Tehran. However, in a sign of Riyadh’s hardening position towards its arch regional rival, the Saudi monarch, King Salman, refused to intervene.
Saudi officials had been convinced that al-Nimr was a central figure in attempts to stir dissent among the country’s Shia minority, which accounts for around 15 per cent of the population and is viewed by Riyadh as a subversive threat, urged on by the Iranian leadership.
The move also reflects widely divergent positions on broader conflicts in Syria, where both Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fighting a proxy war, and in Yemen, where the Saudi military has been fighting against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Both sides also have strong stakes in the political futures of Lebanon and Bahrain, and to a lesser extent in Baghdad, where Riyadh opened an embassy last week for the first time in more than a decade.
The Christian Anglo Protestant church at Namirembe hill in Buganda state marks 100 years as a National Cathedral:
By Ephraim Kasozi
Posted Thursday, September 24 2015
Buganda, Kampala
From a mud-and-wattle grass-thatched building to a grand Cathedral standing tall on a hill over-looking the capital city, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Namirembe, will mark a century of its existence this year.
The fifth church building constructed between 1915 and 1919 using mud bricks and earthen roof tiles is the oldest cathedral in Uganda.
It served as the Provincial Cathedral of the Church of Uganda between 1919 and 1967 and the diocesan cathedral for Namirembe Diocese, the first one to be founded in the country in 1890.
The Rev Can Benon Kityo, the Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, yesterday appealed to Christians to join the church leadership in the preparations for the week-long centenary celebrations starting from November 8 to 15 this year.
“Christians should donate to this cause because the celebrations will comprise meals and drinks and also facilitations to make it a success.”
“Namirembe hill and the church is very important to the country because it is the base for Christianity which brought development in the country in the fields of education, medical, business and leadership,” the Rev Can Kityo told journalists at the diocesan offices in Namirembe.
He said the celebrations would include thanksgiving services by the Sunday school children and their parents, matrimony ministries, Christian men and women ministries, the East African Revival Ministry, Youth and Choir, Mothers’ and fathers’ union ministries, the ordained and appreciation of three former bishops, Hanington, Danstan Nsubuga and Misaeari Kawuma.
The Rev Can Kityo explained that the celebrations are meant to recognise the late Kabaka Muteesa I, who invited missionaries to preach the Gospel that has changed peoples’ lives; “All the achievements have been realised due to the presence of missionaries and we shall pray for the country ahead of the general elections.”
However, the priest observed that despite the continued preaching of the Gospel, “the devil has not rested because people still worship idols and spirits, unfaithfulness and homosexuality is on the rise.
The Catholic Pope in Rome, Italy has offered pardon to scandal-tainted Legion of Christ catholic sinners:
Pope Francis
By Agencies
Posted Friday, October 30 2015
Pope Francis has granted a "plenary indulgence", or religious pardon, to the ultra-conservative Legion of Christ movement, mired in a paedophile scandal, provided its members perform acts of penance, Vatican Radio said Thursday.
The Legion of Christ has for years been beset by accusations of sexual abuse.
The order's founder, Mexican-born Marcial Maciel, stepped down in 2005 amid allegations of paedophilia and fathering several children. He died in 2008.
In August the Chilean government decided to deport Irish priest John O'Reilly, the local Legion head who was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl.
"After the huge scandal provoked by its hellish past," the Legion of Christ group "has begun a period of purification and renewal," Vatican Radio said.
The "jubilee" indulgence is offered to all the group's members for a period beginning next month, during the 75th anniversary year of the Legion's founding and will conclude next June.
Jose Barba, one of the sex abuse victims, criticized the pope's decision, saying it was being used by the Legion to "return to the spotlight" ahead of Francis's visit to Mexico next year.
However, the "indulgence" comes with conditions attached.
"The plenary indulgence will be granted if they dedicate a sufficient amount of time to the corporal or spiritual works of mercy," Vatican radio said.
It will also be granted "if the members dedicate time to learning or teaching Christian doctrine, or if they participate in evangelisation missions," it added.
The announcement comes as Pope Francis prepares for his first visit to Mexico, the bastion of the Legion of Christ.
Italian Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican tribunal that deals with the forgiveness of sins, issued the decree following a request from the Legion of Christ's new general director Eduardo Robles Gil.
Ekijjukizo nga kigaziyizibwa n'okukizimba
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Abaganda wano wetugambira ensi nyingi nti Obwakabaka bwa Buganda budirwemu olwa Ssekabaka Mwanga II okutta Abajjulirwa be Namugongo olwe ddini. Mwanga yabatta kulya munsi ya bajjajja be olukwe.
In Uganda an African Christian Catholic priest attempted suicide over his lover:
Posted Saturday, August 22 2015
Soroti. Northern Province, Uganda:
A Catholic priest has allegedly attempted to kill himself after receiving numerous calls to his lover’s phone from an unidentified man.
The incident happened in Kengere Ward, a suburb of Soroti Municipality, on Thursday.
Police identified the Catholic priest as Fr Deogracious Opio, 38. He was admitted to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in a critical condition with deep knife wounds inflicted on his body.
Police said they received information that the priest had been jilted by a girlfriend. Fr Opio told Saturday Monitor at his hospital bed that he was in severe pain but declined to disclose what had happened to him.
Nurses administering treatment to Fr Opio said they were waiting for an X-ray report to ascertain his condition. Police spokesperson Juma Hassan Nyene said they had registered a case of attempted suicide against the priest at Soroti Police Station.
Mr Nyene said Fr Opio is attached to Soroti Catholic Diocese. “The priest will be charged with attempted murder and produced before court after investigations,” Mr Nyene said. Neighbours to Fr Opio’s Kengere residence told Saturday Monitor that the priest had a scuffle with his girlfriend before the attempted suicide.
The man of God has been on suspension for over one year, after he allegedly held a secret birthday party in Ngora for his child he fathered with the girlfriend.
EKKANISA Pulezidenti Museveni gye yazimbira ab’e Mpigi egudde nga yaakazimbibwa ne kyewuunyisa abatuuze.
Kkanisa y’obusumba bwe Mbaale Mpigi Town Council y’egudde nga yaakamala okuzimbibwa akulira akakiiko akazimbi ne yeekwasa nti, abazimbi be baavaako obuzibu.
Museveni gye buvuddeko yakyalira Abakristaayo mu kkanisa eno n’abawa 60,000,000/-nga zakugimaliriza kyokka abatuuze beewuunyizza ng’eguddeko ekitundu kyokka nga tewali na kibuyaga wadde enkuba etonnye.
Beebazizza Katonda kuba tewali gwe yakubye kuba abayizi bonna baabadde mu bibiina mu ttuntu.
Akulira akakiiko akazimbi mu kkanisa eno, Joseph Sserunjoji yagambye nti, abazimbi obutakwatagana kye kyavuddeko kkanisa eno okugwa ng’abamu bagamba nti yazimbibwa nga nnyimpi ate abalala nga bagamba nti yazimbibwa mpanvu nnyo.
Omusumba wa Mbaale Mpigi, Rev. Emmanuel Kakooza yagambye nti tamanyi kyavuddeko Kkanisa kugwa wabula mu kiseera kino batandikiddewo okugizzaawo wadde nga balinamu obuzibu bwa ssente za seminti, amadirisa n’enzigi.
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