Pontian Ngondwe was born at Bulamu in Kyaggwe County and belonged to the White Egret (Nnyonyi) Clan. His father, Birenge, was in fact head of the clan when he presented his son to the Kabaka. Ngondwe’s mother was Mukomulwanyi of the Buffalo (Mbogo) Clan. After serving Kabaka Muteesa for some years as a page, Ngondwe […]
When smallpox harshly invaded Bazzakuketta’s life and left its scars upon his face, he was approached by Raphael Sembuya, one of his companions, with the suggestion that baptism was the only remedy for his illness. As a result, he agreed to be baptized and after his recovery, Bazzekuketta continued with the study of the Catholic […]
Kaggwa joined the Catholic catechumenate in June 1880 when he was aged about twenty-five but he was baptized Andrew on April 30, 1882. Two years later, a bubonic plague broke out at the capital, and Kaggwa cared for dying and abandoned catechumens in his own enclosure. Since the Catholic missionaries had left Uganda at this […]
Noé (Noah) Mawaggali is just another of the three Catholic martyrs of Mityana, Uganda- the other two being Matthias Kalemba and Luke Banabakintu. When the persecution of 1886 broke out, Mawaggali was at Mityana, some forty-five miles from the capital, but the Christian community there was too well known to escape the persecuting eye of […]
According to the official biography of this martyr, Denis Sebuggwawo was a diligent seeker of religious instruction, which instruction he always got from Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe. Under the Mukasa’s influence Ssebuggwawo and his brother Isaac Kajane became keen Catholic catechumens. They were so devoted to their newly found faith that they always took each and […]
When the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) came to Uganda in 1879, Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe was enrolled as a catechumen in the following year. Two or so years later, in 1882 the Catholic missionaries were forced, for security reasons, to abandon the Ugandan mission and live temporarily at the southern end of Lake Victoria up […]
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 […]
“My God, My God!” These were the only words that came out of the lips of Matiya Mulumba Kalemba when the executioners tied up his arteries leaving him to face an awfully painful death. On the way to Namugongo for execution, Kalemba is said to have stopped and asked to be put to death there […]
Charles Lwanga is considered an astute moral leader of the Uganda Martyrs despite the fact that he was baptized just the night before being put to death. The chief of the royal pages, Lwanga instructed his friends in the Catholic Faith and personally baptized boy pages. Lwanga was burnt to death on Mwanga’s orders on […]
Numbers of children involved in acts of commercial sexual exploitation in the country are on an increase with the practice common in the district of Masaka, Kalangala, Lyantonde, Kampala, Busia, Malaba, Lira, Gulu, Mbarara and Kasese. A report released today by Uganda youth development link (UYDEL) in Kampala reveals that girls aged 12 and above have been […]