According to Dominic Aojan, the District Councilor representing Akoromit Sub County, Rev. Okodu looked very healthy when he arrived for the burial service and had just delivered a powerful sermon on repentance and good governance shortly before blessing the tomb for the burial.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, says police intervened after Muslims accused Sheikh Lumala of forcefully breaking into the Imam’s office. He explains that preliminary investigations show that Sheikh Lumala was appointed Mukono Kadhi but declined to relocate to the district offices in Kiyunga.
Bishop Joshua Lwere, the Overseer of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches and senior pastor of Grace Assembly Church says that since most public places have reopened, there is no justification why worshipping places remain closed.
Eng. Moses Wakulera, a resident of Kigoowa suburb in Kampala is one of those who hold Sunday services in their homes. He says that they started congregating as a family in their sitting room but as time went by a few neighbors asked to join them.
A short statement by the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says the joint security team deployed to witness the takeover of Muslim Property in Kampala Central Division by Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC.
According to sources, the security officers stormed the mosque premises and asked those inside to open for them. “The officers broke the doors as we were calling the person with the keys to come and open the doors,” the source is quoted to have said.
According to Kigongo, such practices have been common on various islands in Buvuma but they have managed to stop them by suspending suspicious cultural rituals.
Rev. Canon Vincent Ogwang, the Dean of West Lango Diocese, says the program to upgrade St. Peter’s Cathedral to international standards was initiated by Bishop Rt. Rev. Julius Ceaser Nina Otim.
According to Islamic law, halal foods are free from any component that Muslims are prohibited from consuming. It implies that the products have been carefully processed produced, manufactured and stored using utensils, equipment and machinery that have been cleansed in conformity with Islamic teaching.
The illegality could arise out of the failure by couples to notify the registrar of their intention to marry in line with section six of the Marriage Act, and the validity of Banns published by Churches under a closed setting. Churches have been closed since March 18, as one of the measures to control public gatherings and contain the spread of coronavirus disease COVID-19.
Recently, section of private school teachers in Gulu municipality launched a social media campaign dubbed "open our schools or feed the teachers" appealing to teachers worst hit by Covid-19 to register for food aid.
Rev. Fr. Richard Akol of Moroto district was ordained together with Rev. Fr. Dominic Alinga of Nakapiripirit district in a low key ceremony witnessed by parishioners in the first religious ceremony in the diocese since March 18 when Church functions and activities were suspended over coronavirus pandemic.
The concept started with a ban on public gatherings in March 2020 and a suggestion by president Yoweri Museveni that people can abandon what he called hexagonal weddings in favour of 'scientific weddings' with only a few people in attendance.
The municipality entered into an agreement with the diocese to pay 200 million Shillings in a period of four years to secure a new 99-year lease for the land. The initial lease expired in 2015.
The scientific function held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Nyamitanga was attended by a handful of Christians as the Church continues to observe guidelines to control the spread of Coronavirus Disease.
The canonical possession ceremony was attended by a handful of Christians and invited guests, as the Church maintains social distancing in line with guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health to forestall the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The apostolic Nuncio to Uganda Luigi Bianco is leading the Mass to Install the Archbishop, at a function attended by a handful of Christians and invited guests, as the Church maintains social distancing in line with guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health to forestall the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lay readers are ordinary worshippers, usually, members of the congregation called to preach or lead services, but not called to full-time ministry. They are often called upon to prepare and conduct services, take leadership roles in committees, training and sacramental preparations.
Mafabi who consecrated Isanga in 2013 says that his successor has abandoned the set doctrines of tolerance and non-violence while overseeing the church activities, and as such, he cannot watch him mislead the congregation.
