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Monday October 15, 2007

Uganda:

Uganda: 200 children rescued from church

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.
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Friday October 12, 2007

Uganda:

Uganda: Mbale Cult Leader Arrested

Religious leader withdraws his children from school in protest over the introduction of Personal Identification Numbers.
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Tuesday October 9, 2007

Uganda:

Uganda pastor: I Helped Top Pastor Con Aids Patients

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.
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Uganda:

Uganda: Documentary On False Pastors is Out

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.
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Thursday April 5, 2007

Prosperity Teaching • Uganda:

Pastors robbing in Jesus’ name?

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.
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Thursday February 22, 2007

Uganda:

Rush to see Jesus in 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.
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Monday April 17, 2006

Uganda:

Witchcraft allegations divide Balokole

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.
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Saturday March 25, 2006

Uganda:

Peter Waldron: Uganda drops terror charge against US evangelist

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.
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Saturday March 18, 2006

Uganda:

Uganda: Born-again churches to probe cult reports

Born-Again churches have set up a special committee to probe allegations of two pastors involved in false teachings and cultism.
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Tuesday March 14, 2006

Uganda:

Peter Waldron: Evangelist accused of terrorism

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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Uganda:

Uganda government petitioned over cult churches

Church leaders have asked the government to institute measures to deter born-again churches from false teachings and cultism.
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Monday March 13, 2006

Uganda:

Making Ugandans Aware of False Teachings

A national False Teaching Awareness Week (March 12 to March 19) has been launched to educate people on the problem of cults in Uganda.
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Friday March 10, 2006

Uganda:

Uganda:24 Die in city Church Collapse

A fatal collapse of an incomplete church building at Kalerwe near Kampala yesterday left at least twenty-four people dead. Twenty died on the spot and another four shortly after admission at Mulago, hospital authorities said. Seventy injured were still undergoing treatment last night.The Monitor reported Thursday.
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Sunday June 20, 2004

Uganda:

Police investigates export of body parts

Doctors suspected to be behind racket
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