Thursday, May 31, 2007

Uganda: Christians Prepare for Martyrs Day

http://allafrica.com/stories/200705310160.html

[allAfrica.com] 31 May 2007--Preparation for this year's martyrs Day celebrations are in high gear at both the Anglican and Catholic shrines in Namugongo. This year's celebrations are being organised by Nebbi Catholic Diocese.

On June 3 every year, Christians from within and out of Uganda make a pilgrimage to Namugongo in commemoration of the Uganda martyrs who where killed on the orders of Kabaka Mwanga for failing to renounce Christianity.

Mwanga, then the Kabaka of Buganda ordered the execution of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts in 1866.

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