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As Christians prepare for the yearly pilgrimage to Namugongo shrines for the Uganda Martyrs Day celebrations on 3rd June of every year, traffic police has issued guidelines for traffic regulation showing which roads are accessible and those that are cut off. According to a statement issued on Wednesday 30 may 2018, traffic officials say there […]
The Catholic Church in Uganda is preparing to commemorate 50 years since the Uganda Martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul VI at Rome. The archbishop of Kampala Catholic Archdiocese, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga announced the development on Sunday and urged Christians around the world to get prepared for the event. The 22 Catholic Martyrs of […]
Masjid Noor Shuhada-Uganda, [a mosque for Muslim Martyrs of Uganda at Namugongo has been built. In 1865 the fallen king of Buganda kingdom Muteesa I declared Buganda a Muslim state – so the people of Buganda self-circumcised using reeds. Muteesa I made sure that Ramadhan [fasting] was a Buganda state event in 1867. […]
Catholics around the world on June 3rd every year mark the Uganda Martyrs Day at Namugongo in remembrance of the 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican pages that were burnt to death because of their faith in Christianity. The Uganda Martyrs were killed in Uganda on the orders of Buganda kingdom’s Kabaka (King) Mwanga II […]
Over 10, 000 pilgrims from different parts of the world have gathered at the Namugongo Catholic Shrine in Uganda to pay homage to the 22 Catholics and the 23 Anglicans who were killed by the fallen King (Kabaka) Mwaga Basamula Kkere in 1886. Some of the pilgrims have come from Israel, Netherlands, Germany Italy, […]
It is only six days remaining Uganda to commemorate martyrs day. Uganda marks the day annually every June 3rd. Christians on June 3rd every year remember the day Kabaka Mwanga put to death Anglican and Catholic converts (in current Uganda called Martyrs) in 1886. The preparations at the Martyrs’ Basilica in Namugongo to mark […]
Hundreds of thousands of people today thronged the Namugongo Uganda Martyrs shrines to mark the Uganda Martyrs day. Every 3rd June, people from different parts of the world and across Uganda go to Namugonfo to pay homage to the people who were killed for their faith. Arua diocese Bishop Sabino Ocan Odoki who was the […]
The Archbishop of Church Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi has warned the pilgrimages going to Namugongo Uganda Martyrs shrines against misbehaving during the celebrations of Martyrs’ Day on 3rd June. Orombi told journalists in Kampala that the people going to Namugongo should not go there for the reasons of drinking alcohol, stealing peoples properties and causing trouble. He said […]
Every June 3rd, people from different parts of the world and Uganda Christians throng Namugongo to mark the Uganda Martyrs Day. The day is in remembrance of the now 24 Uganda martyrs who were killed for their Christian faith. All the 24 Uganda Martyrs are Catholics, but they were killed along with other Anglican Christians. […]
Baptized in haste by St Charles Lwanga on the fateful night of May 25, 1886, Kizito in the audience hall of Munyonyo went on to face his death the following day even before he got a baptismal name. At Namugongo, the thirty-one young men and boys, Kizito among them, were tied with fiber thongs and […]