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  Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Uganda's Anglican Church asks supporters of gay Episcopal bishop not to attend ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Church leaders in Uganda have told American supporters of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire that they are not welcome at the consecration of the new leader of Uganda's Anglicans.
KAMPALA, Uganda -- Church leaders in Uganda have told American supporters of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire that they are not welcome at the consecration of the new leader of Uganda's Anglicans.
Uganda's Anglican church severed ties with the New Hampshire Diocese and later with the U.S. Episcopal church to protest Robinson's promotion.
www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/01/05/ugandas_anglican_church_asks_supporters_of_gay_episcopal_bishop_not_to_attend_consecration   (346 words)

  
 Namirembe (Anglican) Diocese, Uganda
With 75% of the population being openly confessing Christians, Uganda is ranked among countries with the largest ratio of openly confessing Christians to the entire country's population.
Uganda is among the top five African countries with the highest number of post-independence coup de tats.
Namirembe is the oldest, among the 29 Diocese of the Anglican Church of the Province of Uganda.
www.geocities.com /namirembediocese   (672 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Uganda's Anglican Church severs ties with U.S. Episcopal Church over ...
KAMPALA, Uganda – The Anglican Church of Uganda said Saturday that it has severed ties with the Episcopal Church of the United States for elevating an openly gay man to the rank of bishop.
But 30 Uganda Anglican bishops agreed at a meeting Thursday to sever ties with the entire U.S. Episcopal Church because "any same sex relationship is a disorder of God's creation," said Jackson Turyagyenda, a spokesman for the church in East Africa.
The Anglican Church of Uganda is the second largest Anglican community in Africa, representing a third of the country's 24 million people.
signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031122-0617-uganda-us-gaybishop.html   (293 words)

  
 Anglican Communion Network :: www.anglicancommunionnetwork.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Church of Uganda did not agree with the line of action taken by the Episcopal Church of America.
We are committed to other members of the Episcopal Church who are orthodox in their interpretation of the scriptures and adore Jesus Christ as their savior and Lord.
· The Church of Uganda upholds the biblical position on sexuality, namely that sexual intimacy is reserved for a husband and wife in a lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage.
www.anglicancommunionnetwork.org /news/dspnews.cfm?id=121   (661 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Sam Naswaali
Many of the additional cows it purchased were directed to Uganda, its largest programme, where Naswaali was responsible for distribution of the stock as well as educating and training farmers, herdsmen and smallholders.
Samwiri Naswaali was born in Uganda on May 26 1953, the son of Jovan and Zebiya Makwili.
Uganda was at the time emerging from the civil war that had followed the fall of Idi Amin in 1979, and Naswaali joined the Church of Uganda's Programme for Development and Rehabilitation.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/09/06/db0603.xml   (568 words)

  
 Uganda Church News : Integrity Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It is a clear reflection to the Church that Uganda, like any country, has its share of diversity and pluralism, which goes to the very root of her human identity and sexuality.
Integrity Uganda was born by and for Ugandan Christians who are either homosexual in orientation or desire to help such persons to be fully included in the life of the Church.
To help the whole Church re-examine its understanding of human sexuality and to work for a positive acceptance of gay relationships, so that all homosexuals may be able to live without fear of rejection or recrimination, and that homosexual Christians may be able to contribute fully to the life and ministry of the Church.
www.changingattitude.org /news_i_c_integrity_uganda.html   (1165 words)

  
 afrol News - Uganda Church at war with pro-gay US Church
Conservative Californian Church leaders are now swearing loyalty to the Church of Uganda as the North American Church has turned liberal on issues concerning homosexuality.
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA), Frank Griswold, today sent a "letter of concern" to the Anglican Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, after a third Southern California congregation yesterday aligned with the Ugandan Diocese of Luweero.
The Church of Uganda has lately taken the lead in a union of conservative southern churches condemning any attempt to integrate gays and lesbians in the Anglican Church.
www.afrol.com /articles/13813   (785 words)

  
 AIM in Uganda
Relationships were formed with the local people and with the Anglican Church (Church Missionary Society), whose leaders invited them to stay on in West Nile, as there were no missionaries working in the area.
Over the years that followed, AIM was responsible for establishing the church in West Nile and through this church has established a strong relationship with the MADI/West Nile Diocese and the Nebbi Diocese of the Church of Uganda.
AIM is currently involved with church evangelism/discipleship work, education of pastors, training church finance officers, medicine, agriculture, AIDS awareness within primary and secondary schools, community development, orphanage care, and refugee work.
www.aim-us.org /about_AIM/where_we_serve/Uganda.asp   (879 words)

  
 Uganda Partners - The Church of Uganda
The Church of Uganda began in the early 1800's with the arrival of Anglican and Roman Catholic missionaries.
They are a church founded on the blood of the martyrs.
The Church of Uganda is also the beneficiary of the East African revival, which began in 1936 and continued into the 1980's under Bishop Festo Kivengere.
www.ugandapartners.org /more/church   (271 words)

  
 Anglican Communion:The Church of the Province of Uganda
Anglican Communion:The Church of the Province of Uganda
The first Ugandan clergy were ordained in 1893 and the Church of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi became an independent Province in 1961.
The history of the Church in Uganda has been marked by civil strife and martyrdom.
www.anglicancommunion.org /tour/province.cfm?ID=U1   (91 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Church fears Uganda rebel threat
Catholic church priests fear they are the new targets of rebels in a brutal insurgency in northern Uganda.
But, after attempts by church leaders to mediate a ceasefire between the rebels and the government, LRA leader Joseph Kony is reported to have ordered Catholic missions to be destroyed, priests and missionaries killed and nuns beaten up.
Churches provide much of the health care and education facilities in the north - and thousands of civilians seek protection in church compounds.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2996824.stm   (522 words)

  
 Church of Uganda - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This was a unique arrangement for AIM, and was the first instance of the generous hospitality of the Church of Uganda to mission partners from non-Anglican agencies.
By God’s grace through various church leaders schism was avoided and the spirituality of the Balokole became a major feature of the Church of Uganda.
In 1961 the growth of the Church of Uganda was recognised in the Anglican Communion with the establishment of the Province of Uganda, Rwanda-Burundi with Leslie Brown as the first Archbishop, based at Namirembe in Kampala.
www.ugandamission.org /couhistory.htm   (1450 words)

  
 Uganda
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), the Orthodox Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Baptist Church, the Unification Church, and the Pentecostal Church, among others, are active.
Missionary groups of several denominations are present and active in the country, including the Pentecostal Church, the Baptist Church, the Episcopal Church/Church of Uganda, the Church of Christ, and the Mormons.
These include Pastor Stephen Wandera's Pentecostal Revival Church, which was shut down in 2001, as well as the Revival Pentecostal Church in Kasangati, the Hima Public School church group in Busongora, and the Church of the Servants of the Eucharistic Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Bushenyi, which were closed in 2000.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23759.htm   (2465 words)

  
 World Reformed Fellowship: Standing Firm: Uganda's Anglican Church Asks Supporters of Homosexual Bishop not to Attend ...
Church leaders in Uganda told American supporters of an openly homosexual bishop in New Hampshire that they are not welcome at the consecration of the new leader of Uganda’s Anglicans.
The Rev. Stanley Ntagari, secretary of the Church of Uganda, said Jan. 5 that church officials identified U.S. clergymen who supported Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson and told them not to attend the Jan. 25 ceremony.
We have written to the bishop of the Episcopal church of USA that their delegation is not welcome,” Ntagari told AP.
www.wrfnet.org /news/news.asp?ID=900   (354 words)

  
 Church of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Province of the Church of Uganda is a member church of the Anglican Communion.
Currently there are twenty-nine dioceses that make up the Province of the Church of Uganda, each one headed by a Bishop.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Uganda   (129 words)

  
 Church of the Word -- Statement from the Archbishop of Uganda on the Primates’ Communique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Church of Uganda also supports the “1998 Lambeth Resolution” which states that, “Homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture”.
We continue in a state of broken Communion with EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF AMERICA and CANADA because they have not repented of their actions and decisions in approving and consecrating as Bishop a man actively involved in a same-sex relationship.
The Church of Uganda is committed to offering the gospel to those struggling with homosexuality.
www.pwcweb.com /ecw/windsor_rpt_ireland_orombi.html   (666 words)

  
 ACT News Update: Uganda: Assistance to displaced people makes big difference
Some of the “things” Gloria and residents of the Abonyo Tingere camp have received from the Church of Uganda through the support of ACT members around the world are jerry cans, saucepans and other cooking utensils.
The Church of Uganda reports that, although the emergency is subsiding, people in camps are still “very miserable.” “There is an acute shortage of food, poor sanitation leading to poor health generally, but in particular among children,” the church reports.
Because of partial funding for the appeal, the Church of Uganda has been able to work in only half of the planned 16 camps it targeted for assistance.
www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2004/upuganda0204.html   (604 words)

  
 phorum - Religion - the quest for the church in uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Canon Serubide has been a dealer for so long in the church of Uganda in the Diocese of Namirembe.While in Luwero just before the war he stole peoples cows and he also took the landrover car which had been given to the people of Luwero.
The church has not shown a good example at all and people like Canon Musiwufu Magala the Dean of Namirembe have managed to grab all the church land when he was in charge of the diocesan estates.
I think the church should think of adopting democracy as a policy, and if our leaders want to stay on for long, let them ask for e kisanja like what our political leaders are doing at the moment.
www.myuganda.co.ug /discussion/read.php?f=53&i=159&t=159   (399 words)

  
 Christianity.com - Arizona PCA Helps Build Church in Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The new church building was packed with 200 people, from the church (now averaging 60 people), the presbytery and the community.
The Presbyterian Church of Uganda had designated Luwero as a strategic place to have a church as they labored in prayer to reach further to the north with the gospel.
The Luwero church has already seen growth, established a solid presence in the its region, and is looking to the day when it can be involved in planting daughter churches to the north just a they were a daughter church of the First Presbyterian Church of Kampala.
home.christianity.com /topics/47168.html   (826 words)

  
 Stand Firm Alabama: Episcopal Church Hosts Anglican Archbishop Nov. 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Part of Orombi's goal here is to solidify plans for the new mission partnership between Church of the Ascension and the three-year-old Sebei Diocese of the Church of Uganda.
Church of the Ascension, the largest Episcopal church in Montgomery and the fourth largest in Alabama, based on the number of baptized members according to the diocesan web site, is one of three churches in Alabama affiliated with the Network.
Van Dyke said he was grateful that the Church of the Ascension had affiliated with the Network, while at the same time remaining a part of the Diocese of Alabama.
www.standfirminfaith.com /alabama/archives/000435.html   (1383 words)

  
 Nsibambi, Simeoni, Uganda, Church of Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Uganda, as a British protectorate became involved in World War II and Simeoni joined the African Native Medical Corps.
He very quickly began to show great concern for the social ills he saw around him and the corruption which he felt had invaded the Church of Uganda, of which he became an active member..
A meeting in 1929 between Simeoni Nsibambi and Dr. Joe Church, a missionary working in Rwanda, was a turning point in both their lives and emerged later as a precursor of the East African Revival.
www.gospelcom.net /dacb/stories/uganda/nsibambi_simeoni.html   (493 words)

  
 Church in Uganda caught in real estate scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Catholic Church in Uganda is caught up in a real-estate scandal - which observers characterise as the worst scandal in over 100 years of Catholic history in the African country.
A hundred acres of land belonging to the Church, in both urban and rural settings, have been sold off without the knowledge or approval of the hierarchy, according to recent reports.
Worried about his safety, the ten church leaders from the Catholic, Methodist, Anglican and Presbyterian congregations went to the station but were denied permission to see him.
www.cathnews.com /news/209/148.html   (449 words)

  
 The Experience of Gathering Information for a Directory of the Archives of the Church of Uganda
Uganda became a diocese, cut from the Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa, of the Church of England in 1897
Uganda is also a tropical country with high temperatures which increase chemical reactions of the acidic paper.
A Meeting of the Church of Uganda Commission on Archives held on November 14, 1966.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/Consult/mukungu.htm   (3007 words)

  
 wfn.org | Uganda Anglicans Reject Funds from Episcopal Church in USA
Nor would we have known that women in the Episcopal Church support the recent heretical and immoral actions of the General Convention, which have caused ECUSA to separate itself from the historic church and the vast majority of the Anglican Communion and Christendom.
The Church of Uganda did gratefully receive ERD grants in 2001, 2002, and 2003 - prior to the consecration as bishop of a man in an actively homosexual relationship.
According to our records, and confirmed by Don Hammond, Vice President of ERD, the Church of Uganda has refused the remaining instalments of a four-year grant that was approved prior to the 2003 General Convention of ECUSA.
www.wfn.org /2004/09/msg00233.html   (596 words)

  
 CCCU : Affiliates | Uganda Christian University
Uganda Christian University is a private university in Uganda.It is located about 23 kilometres from Uganda's capital and main city, Kampala.
It was established in 1997 by the Province of the Church of Uganda (Anglican) and is open to both national and international students.
It is fully licenced by the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Government of Uganda and was the first African affiliate of the Council of Christian Colleges in the United States of America.
www.cccu.org /about/orgID.171/affiliate_detail.asp   (177 words)

  
 Anglican Communion News Service
Statement from the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda
We have recently concluded the 17th Provincial Assembly of the Province of the Church of Uganda.
Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda
www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/38/50/acns3873.cfm   (343 words)

  
 afrol News - Church of Uganda returns grants from pro-gay donors
In a bid to maintain spiritual independence, the Church of Uganda is also fighting to become economically independent from the richer Western Anglican churches.
The Ugandan Church therefore is currently investigating if any grants have been received from pro-gay Anglican churches or agencies since November 2003.
At the same time, however, the Church of Uganda was "committed to carrying through" the projects where it was returning UTO grants.
www.afrol.com /printable_article/14291   (543 words)

  
 Rebels Declare War On The Church In Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The church's efforts to broker peace have been courageous, according to Elizabeth Kendal of the Religious Liberty Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.
The church and the predominantly Christian population of northern Uganda "have suffered cruel, barbaric atrocities at the hands of this blasphemous, terrorist cult-militia," she said.
Churches supply most of the health and education services in northern Uganda, and they have offered refuge to thousands of people seeking protection from the ongoing violence.
www.mcjonline.com /news/03a/20030623c.shtml   (1018 words)

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