Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With only four days left to this year’s Uganda Martyrs Day celebrations, security agencies have put pilgrims on the high alert for suspected terror threats. The Deputy Police spokesperson, Polly Namaye, says they have received intelligence indicating that suspected terrorists have sneaked into the country. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thieves have robbed clean an elderly pilgrim from Bushenyi district. Bernard Tibyangye who is well into the nineties, will live to remember this year’s Martyrs celebration after losing sh230,000 and his travel documents to thugs. According to Tibyangye, he was robbed of his wallet …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A commuter taxi has knocked dead four Kenyan pilgrims and injured ten others critically along Iganga-Tororo high way. The accident occurred around 5:30am on Sunday morning at Waina village in Mayuge district. The deceased Kenyan victims who were on their way to Namugongo Martyrs …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Martyrs Catholic Secretariat at Namugongo has decided to carry out tests on the quality of the holy water. Many pilgrims who flock Namugongo to celebrate the Martyr’s Day fetch water from the man-made lake. They have often given testimonies that the water heals …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Martyrs Catholic Secretariat at Namugongo has decided to carry out tests on the quality of the holy water. Many pilgrims who flock Namugongo to celebrate the Martyr’s Day fetch water from the man-made lake. They have often given testimonies that the water heals …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference in Uganda has abolished the use of plastic polythene bags at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine in Namugongo. The move comes less than a month to the annual Uganda Martyrs Day celebrations on June 3. Bishop Joseph Anthony Zziwa, the …
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Shs700million needed for Martyrs day Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As June 03 when Uganda marks Martyrs day fast approaches, the church is in a drive to rise about 720million needed to organize the event. Revealing this, Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo, of the Tororo Catholic Archdiocese which is heaidn this year’s celebrations …
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A celebration of faith by people from all walks of life On June 3 every year, the usually slow paced Namugongo village on the edge of Kampala becomes a hubbub of activity as millions of pilgrims from all over the world converge on it to celebrate the Uganda Martyrs Day. …
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Hundreds of thousands of Christians once again are making the annual pilgrimage to Namugongo Martyrs Shrines to commemorate the 45 Christian young men (recognized in the spirit of Christian unity or ecumenism as 22 Catholics and 23 Anglicans) who were killed by KabakaMwanga II in 1886. These martyrs are among …
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Namugongo, Uganda | VATICAN RADIO | The Uganda Martyrs Day celebration has taken place at Uganda’s Namugongo shrine. According to Uganda’s Daily Monitor Newspaper, by 8 am all the pavilions where pilgrims sit were already full even though people were still trying to make the security clearances to get inside the shrine for …
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