Uganda
Tuesday January 17, 2012
Religious Persecution • Uganda:
A 15-year-old Christian girl in western Uganda who lost the use of her legs after her father locked her in a room for six months for leaving Islam has begun to take tentative steps. Susan Ithungu had been hospitalized since September 2010 after neighbors along with police rescued her.
Thursday December 29, 2011
Hate Groups • Islam • Uganda:
Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other. On Oct. 15, area Muslim leaders declared a fatwa against him demanding his death.
Monday May 30, 2011
MRTCG • RNB's Religion News Blog • Uganda:
It is more than a decade since more than 1,000 people perished in a church building in Kanungu, Uganda, after what is believed to have been a well-planned move by cult leaders who thought the world was coming to an end on December 31, 1999 but it never came to pass. Much as time has passed, people still feel the effect of the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments killings.
Monday March 29, 2010
Lord's Resistance Army • Uganda:
At least 321 people were killed and hundreds were abducted in one of the worst massacres by Africa’s most feared rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December. The attack — which was unreported until now — confirms that the LRA has restarted terrorising the region despite losing its bases in Sudan a few years ago, when Khartoum, its main backer, signed a peace deal with south Sudanese rebels.
Wednesday January 6, 2010
Uganda:
Police in Uganda on Monday exhumed bodies of three children who died under suspicious circumstances and were secretly buried at a home of a detained cult leader. Police learnt of the cult after after a woman complained about her 3-year-old child who had been buried secretly, after being removed from her when she fell sick.
Monday October 15, 2007
Uganda: Three pastors of the church, Healing Outreach Ministries in Bungatira sub-county, Aswa county, were arrested in the raid that followed complaints by parents about their missing children.
Friday October 12, 2007
Uganda: Religious leader withdraws his children from school in protest over the introduction of Personal Identification Numbers.
Tuesday October 9, 2007
Uganda: A prominent female pastor in Uganda bribed and blackmailed worshippers to fake health ailments as serious as HIV/Aids so that she could then claim to have healed them, a parishioner alleged in a recent interview.
Uganda:
Top stories of ‘men of God’ using charms and electric gadgets to perform miracles, sodomy, raping girls and snatching wives and husbands of members of their flock, have of recent dominated front pages in Uganda’s newspapers, tainting the image of born again churches.
Thursday April 5, 2007
Prosperity Teaching • Uganda: PASTOR MOSES SOLOMON MALE is Executive Director or Arising for Christ ministry. An ardent critic of the widespread prosperity gospel where pastors ‘sell’ prayers for numerous needs, Male tells RICHARD M. KAVUMA why he wants a judicial probe into born-again churches.
Thursday February 22, 2007
Uganda: The Christian season of Lent started yesterday with claims that visions of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary had appeared to people at three different places in northern Uganda.
Monday April 17, 2006
Uganda: Pastors in Kawempe Division in Kampala have denounced some Pentecostal churches in the area, which they accuse of practising witchcraft, extortion and worshipping the dead, among other evils.
Saturday March 25, 2006
Uganda: KAMPALA, March 25 (Reuters) - Uganda has dropped terrorism charges against a U.S. evangelist who police said was caught with assault rifles hidden in his bedroom just days before last month's election, the man's lawyer said on Saturday.
Saturday March 18, 2006
Uganda: Born-Again churches have set up a special committee to probe allegations of two pastors involved in false teachings and cultism.
Tuesday March 14, 2006
Uganda: Kampala: An American evangelist charged with terrorism in Uganda after detectives found assault rifles in his bedroom days before last month's election was remanded by a magistrate's court yesterday.
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