Tag Archives: clerics

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Religious leaders in the Bunyoro sub region have been asked to join in the fight against corruption by ensuring enhanced accountability and transparency. Speaking during the Validation of Religious and faith organizations-RFO policy frame work at Hoima Resort Hotel on Wednesday, Nicholas Abola, the Commissioner …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rt. Rev. Sanctus Lino Wanok, the Bishop of Lira Catholic Diocese has warned young girls to stay away from clerics especially priests and stop looking at them as marriage material. Speaking at the ordination of one priest and five deacons at a scientific event inside …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several church leaders want government to open places of worship saying they are essential to the well-being of Ugandans. The church leaders made the appeal at a press briefing organised by the Information and Communication Technology-ICT Ministry at Uganda Media Center on the role …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene compels prosecution to close its evidence against ninteen treason suspects including a woman who is related to Australian based Cardiologist , Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi. Justice Musene noted that much he has heard evidence of nine witnesses, the State has …

  The International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala has ruled that the 14 people suspected to be behind the killing of Muslim clerics across the country, have a case of terrorism, murder and attempted murder to answer. Justices Ezekiel Muhanguzi, Jane Kiggundu and Percy Tuhaise  unanimously agreed …

The trial of Muslim clerics accused of murdering their colleagues resumed on Thursday with a prominent  businessman from Masaka Hajji Yasin Kakomo accusing Sheikh Mohammad Yunus Kamoga  and 13 other people of  masterminding the operations. Kakomo told court that Tabliq leader Kamoga and his colleague had made threats before the …