Zabuli on church tour.

WHO IS ZABURI

Zabuli aka known as Nasejje Jaliah is a Ugandan gospel dance hall-ragga artist and a proffesional teacher born and in Entebbe by a christian mother and a Moslem father was just a starting point for a chaotic childhood because family was always fighting over the children over which religion to practice that it found her looking for her own way around life independently which resulted into a very destructive  journey for her. while in high school in 2005, she started to engage in acts of thuggery, drug-dealing just to survive in school since the family barely survived back home due to poverty. this was without the parents or teachers knowledge. the lack of reason to live for many years made her an outcast in all societies she lived in and it all came to an end in 2012 while she was at college due to the death of her father who she lost to HIV/AIDS after confessing Jesus as his personal savior. She decided to write a personal tribute in 2013( TAKE THE WHEEL() her first single celebrating the life of her fallen father which came out in 2014 and that is how she encountered the man called Jesus and ever since life ha s never been the same again for her. currently she has songs; 

Nvuvuma - Zabuli 

Apply - Zabuli

Aerial - Zabuli x Joanah Ansika

Addicted - Zabuli

Binkolera - Zabuli

Super Love - Zabuli

Take The Will - Zabuli

Numbye Bulamu - Zabuli

                                                                                      Zabuli recently released her programme with which she started her  tour at Lugazi, a town in Buikwe District on June 3^rd.

According to the singer, the Worship Tour will serve as a buildup to her career and serving God in worship and praise, a thing she described will win many souls to worship the almighty.

“I have served God faithfully for five years now and I have seen him increase every time I let him be God. I have seen his goodness flow. I have beaten odds because He was and still is faithful,” she said.

Adding that this concert will come as an answer to God’s will and questions of reaching unto his people.

“A few weeks back, He asked me to do something so hard if my vision is for human kind. He asked me if He came back today, would I hand Him a report of great work or a report lacking excellence. He went on to tell me to go to His people even when they don’t call. This was my answer. I said “Father I will go as long as you are with me.” This visit birthed a thirst in me for the people of God to know that He still cares.  And behold the idea of the worship movement came to my mind.  I pray that the faithful of our times join me as I go in to harvest more hearts for God,” she concluded.

She has learnt that the tour will be stretched to other places including Entebbe (June 24), Jinja (July 10), Namasuba (August 3), Kitetika (August 12), Kyambogo University (August 31) and Congo’s city of Kinshasa on July 26, 2018.

An all-white church planned to give its building to a black congregation. Instead, they clashed.

An all-white church planned to give its building to a black congregation. Instead, they clashed.

What started as an attempt to modernize a Georgia church led to expulsion from Southern Baptist Convention on the grounds of racism.

Raleigh White Baptist Church, which once boasted a membership of 253, recently had fewer than 20 people attend on Sundays. The all-white church, based in Albany, Ga., planned to bequeath its facilities to New Seasons, an African American church, to reflect the changing demographics of the surrounding community.

The plan was simple. New Seasons Church would share facilities with Raleigh White for six months, at which time the building would be passed off. But after Raleigh White leadership changed and internal opposition surfaced, the plan collapsed.

Marcus Glass, the pastor of New Seasons, told The Washington Post that many in his congregation complained about treatment from Raleigh White members. There were small offenses — hostile glares and refusals to speak — violations of Southern hospitality. Then things escalated, he said — denying a 9-year-old access to a restroom and a horde of white women jeering over a black woman while she cleaned feces off a floor.

Glass said he tried to play nice. He, alongside many in his congregation, would arrive early to their service with the hope of greeting white churchgoers as they left their morning service. Glass said Raleigh White objected to the encroachment and changed their service time to avoid the interaction.

The deteriorating relationship between the two prompted an investigation from Mallary Baptist Association, a Southwest Georgia conference of churches and missions. The association attempted to mend the relationship. But Raleigh White’s leadership would not budge, according to Mallary officials.

The affair exploded on a Sunday morning in March. Raleigh White planned to receive an influx of visitors and told Glass his service would need to be pushed back several hours.

Raleigh White’s service lasted longer than expected and white members met black churchgoers at their cars, telling them not to come into the building, according to Glass.

“If you were white, you could go into the church. If you were black, you were not allowed in,” Glass said.

This incident prompted Mallary to take more aggressive action, expelling the 75-year-old church from the 53-member association.

“What we did was to protect the other 52 churches in our association from being party to one church’s actions,” said Hans Wunch, the director of the association. “We regret these actions had to be taken, but we couldn’t sweep them under the rug. We wanted to think this was something besides racism. But, it just became overly clear that it became a component to what was going on. … We could not associate with that anymore.”

“We’ve put it behind us. The allegations are untrue,” Frank Stimpson, a senior member of Raleigh White, told The Post by phone.

Mallary’s spring decision prompted the Southern Baptist Convention to follow suit, removing the church from its ranks.

Sing Oldham, a spokesman for the SBC, told The Post that this is the first time the convention has removed a church because of allegations of racism. The organization has expelled churches for ordaining female preachers and, as recently as 2014, “for openly affirming homosexual behavior.” Last year, it passed a resolution disavowing the alt-right and white supremacy.

Glass said the SBC has made sincere steps in the area of race and hopes Raleigh White can one day do the same. “I take no pleasure in what is happening with our sister church. I pray one day we can come back and reconcile,” Glass said.

Bible Society fined for cyber hack of 417,000 Christian donors

Authorities in the UK  have fined the Bible Society, which has numerous branches across the world including Uganda, $130,000 for failing to protect the personal details of its more than 400,000 supporters. Officials say the data breach will likely disclose the “religious identity” of the charity’s backers and cause them “distress.”

Hackers gained access to home addresses, telephone numbers and bank accounts of 417,000 Bible Society supporters due to the “weak password” of one the charity’s databases in November 2016, the Information Commissioner’s Office said this week, according to The Telegraph.

“The Bible Society failed to protect a significant amount of personal data, and exposed its supporters to possible financial or identity fraud,” Steve Eckersley, the ICO’s head of enforcement, was quoted as saying.

Eckersley added, “Our investigation determined that it is likely that the religious belief of the 417,000 supporters could be inferred, and the distress this kind of breach can cause cannot be underestimated.”

A source close to the charity which uses donations to translate and distribute the Bible around the world, told the newspaper that the ICO is not right in concluding that its supporters wanted their Christian beliefs to remain private.

ICO said, “Cyber-attacks will happen, that’s just a fact, and we fully accept that they are a criminal act. But organizations need to have strong security measures in place to make it as difficult as possible for intruders.”

The Bible Society released a statement. “No other Bible Society account was — or could have been — compromised by the attack as robust cyber security measures were — and remain — in place across the organization,” it said. “At no point did this breach involve or affect our website or associated online Bible Society accounts.”

The charity added that it had “acknowledged, from the outset, the significance of the data security incident and we have taken it very seriously.”

In February, the Bible Society was ranked No. 28 of the 100 best nonprofits to work for in 2018.

The organisation has already paid the fine, receiving a 20 per cent discount for early payment. It insisted that no donations were used to pay the fine.

The Bible Society, whose patron is Her Majesty the Queen, has been working for more than 200 years to offer the Bible to the world. “Their efforts have won admiration from royalty, from Edward VII through to the current monarch, Elizabeth II,” noted the Best Companies Index. “Their work has survived through the unfolding events of two world wars and persevered to find openings in Communist Russia and the Cultural Revolution of China.”

TESTIMONY

I Thought God Could Never Love a Convicted Murderer. I Was Wrong.

How I found eternal life on death row.

Igrew up in the 1960s in one of the many daisy-chain suburbs surrounding Los Angeles. Seven of us, two adults and five children, struggled for living space in a tiny two-bedroom rental house. My father worked on an assembly line during the day; my mother worked nights as a waitress. Our family was hard-working, but the foundation was dysfunctional—a house built on sinking sand.

Church, religion, and the Bible were unknown. Mother was a pill-popper. I don’t know what she took or where she got them, but she was always looking for sleeping pills when she came home in the morning and something to get her going when she left for work in the evening. Whether down or up, she had a fiery temper and would spank us with whatever implement was handy. I always felt that she cared the least for me. I think that feeling was the lead domino in a spiraling loss of self-esteem. One day, when I was nine, she abruptly ran off with the cook where she worked. Perhaps she would have contacted us had it not been for a car wreck that ended her life shortly thereafter.

Dad, who never had more than a social drink, rapidly found solace in alcohol. One morning, I awoke to find him molesting me. Eventually the police intervened, but he and my brothers were able to convince them that I was only having a bad dream.

That was the proverbial last straw. I felt isolated and unloved by a mother who had abandoned me, a father who had molested me, and siblings who seemed indifferent. So at age 10 I ran away from home, only to be picked up as a runaway. For three years, my life was a vicious recurring cycle: running away from foster homes, being picked up like a stray dog, and being sent back to juvenile hall. All told, I stayed in eight foster homes. Some were nice, but you weren’t allowed to stay in those you liked because you might become too attached. Most gave you food and water and little else.

Emotional Upheaval

While I was in juvenile hall, I learned about drugs from some of the older girls. “A great way to forget your problems,” they said. This was the 1960s, and California was becoming a major narcotics hub. Little was known about the dangers of drugs, and they were easy to obtain. When I was high on the drug Seconal, commonly called “Reds,” my poor self-image disappeared. I was one of the gang (my group of other users). I was accepted. I quickly had friends.

At age 13, I met Sammy Perillo, who was 19. We crossed the border into Mexico and married in “quickie” fashion. To get closer to Sammy and his drug of choice, heroin, I started shooting up. Sammy and I had a beautiful little girl who died as an infant. After he went to prison, I delivered his twins, but only one survived. I never saw Sammy again.

To support my habit and my son, I danced at a strip joint. Needing money (addiction is not cheap), I teamed up with a man named Mike Briddle to rob one of its frequent customers. Fleeing California with Mike and his wife, we hitchhiked to Houston, Texas, where we were picked up by a stranger needing help to move into his new house. Mike noticed that the man had a roll of money. High on PCP (also called angel dust), we murdered him and his friend and left for Colorado.

Our trio stayed in a seedy hotel in Denver when I realized I could no longer withstand the emotional upheaval within, that little glow from a divine coal that was waiting to burst into flames. I confessed to the police, and they extradited me to Texas, where I had been indicted in absentia for capital murder. A swift trial followed, then a verdict of death by lethal injection.

During my daily high in California, I had often said, “Let me die with a needle in my arm.” Now it would come to pass. My own words had condemned me. While I waited in Houston to transfer to a women’s prison before my execution, a woman involved in prison ministry, came to visit. This angel talked about Christ and his path to forgiveness. I was receptive. I was ready. And I was eager to hear more. Under her direction, I recited the sinner’s prayer. After 24 years of being tossed about like a dry chunk of dirt, God poured in the waters of life and began molding me for his purpose.

Knowing Forgiveness

Many believers encounter Jesus in dramatic fashion, and they are changed instantly, like Saul on the Damascus Road. For others, like me, salvation feels more like a process than a moment. It takes time.

When I first accepted Jesus, I felt a change, but I found it hard to believe the change was for real. How could God ever forgive me for the horrible crime I had committed? My mind said this could not be so. My soul was in torment.

After I was transferred to a prison in Huntsville, Texas, my angel from Houston still visited me. She brought me a Bible, and to relieve my doubts she would frequently say, “Pam, you must forgive yourself. To do otherwise is denying God’s grace and mercy.” But she was also adamant that I confirm my salvation by using the gift of the Holy Spirit to speak in tongues—which I just couldn’t seem to do. Once again, I felt dejected and unloved—even by God.

The bed in my concrete cell was an iron slab cantilevered from the wall. I crawled under it and pulled the covers down to the floor to form a tent. Inside, I cried and begged God to allow me to speak in tongues, but all I could manage were inarticulate groans. My tears covered the floor in puddles.

(For what it’s worth, I do not condemn this godly woman for her convictions on the gift of tongues. In fact, she gave me the motivation to press on and continue studying the Bible, where I learned that the Holy Spirit bestows many other gifts.)

It was only after a woman named Karla Faye Tucker arrived on Texas Death Row that I grew to experience full confidence in my salvation. I tried to lead her to Christ myself, but God meant it to come from another source: a prison puppet show performed by Teen Challenge, along with a free Bible. Karla Faye’s redemption was dramatic, remarkable, and the subject of movies. Her vocal commitment to Christ resounded throughout the world before her execution. And her magnificent conversion was the spiritual cement I needed. I knew then that in Christ, God can forgive anyone, no matter how severe their transgressions.

Prison without Christ is probably as close to Hell as one can come. You are alone, spiritually empty, and consumed with hate. But we Christians have a joy that provokes others to ask why. Fortunately, the Texas prison system allows for church, Bible-study groups, and even a faith-based dorm developed in Karla Faye’s memory. These meetings are open to everyone, and I have shared my testimony on many occasions.

In 2000, I received welcome news: My sentence had been reduced from death to life in prison. And today, as I pray for parole after nearly 40 years of incarceration, I give thanks for how God was directing my path to salvation, even in my lowest moments—even as I made one terrible choice after another. As grateful as I am to have escaped death row, I am a thousand times more grateful for the promise of eternal life.

A pastor on mission to stamp out child sacrifice in Uganda

Hundreds of children are being kidnapped, rapped and murdered in cold blood every year because of the thriving child sacrifice practice in our country.

Child sacrifice and mutilation affects many families, although the exact figures and statistics are hard to come by.

This, critics urge, is due to a high level of secrecy in which this evil practice is shrouded. It is in response to this cruel and harmful practice against children that Pastor Malaika Ssewakiryanga of Kyampisi Community Church, founded Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM).

Through this Ministry, Pastor Ssewakiryanga has managed to lobby both the Ugandan government and the international community to join the campaign to end child sacrifice and is building a community campus to avoid new victims and to take care of the children who already fell victim to trafficking and abuse.

KCM started its work by first petitioning the parliamentary Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development about rampant child sacrifice. Eventually, the committee came up with a report of the Sectoral Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development on a petition by the Former Students of International School of Uganda on Child Sacrifice and Ritual Murder, which was tabled before Parliament.

Ssewakiryanga has worked with security officials in various regions of the country to bring Child Sacrifice offenders to books.

As a child, Ssewakiryanga never had the fortune of a normal child raising.

“I was born to Elias Kyewalabye, who at the time was too young and was unable to take care of my mother and me. This left my mother, Anna Nabirye with no choice but to place me in the care of my maternal grandparents, John Keya and Beatrice Nabwami who already had their hands full with 20 other children.” he recently told a local news daily.

Peter and his cousins had to scrape by as their grandparents could hardly make ends meet. “We learnt to share everything from small portions of food to clothing and beddings, which were made out of mere reed,” he recalled, adding, “We had to help our old ones with the garden, which taught us hard work.”

In 2003, the then 20 year old Ssewakiryanga volunteered to give assistance to the children in the war-torn area of Gulu. “With a couple of friends, we offered to gather clothes, food and medical items for the children in Kyope Camp, one of the Internally Displaced Camps. We partnered with Julius Oyet, a pastor who shared our cause,” he told the Daily Monitor.

While at the camp, Ssewakiryanga saw many torturous things done to already emaciated children. “The pain I visualised then is more than enough to last me a lifetime, yet, unfortunately, it was only the beginning.” He holds to one incidence, which seemed to have a gruesome grasp on his memory.

“We entered into a hut, in which we saw a widow with a four-year-old son, whose guts had spilled out owing to a bullet shot into his stomach during LRA-UPDF cross fire. She told us she was waiting for him (the child) to die. I couldn’t help but weep.”

With the car they came with, they rushed the boy to Lacor hospital. “However, little could be done there so we brought him to Mulago hospital, where an operation was done. Unfortunately, it was too late to restore him fully and a day later, we lost him.”

It was in this sorrow that Ssewakiryanga got his epiphany. “I made it my life’s mission to put a smile on the faces of little ones who had witnessed and gone through unspeakable suffering.” Even when the war ceased, Ssewakiryanga’s mission was far from over.

“After the war, God led me to the community of Kyampisi in Mukono District, about 24 kilometres from the city. It was a community filled with abject poverty, backwardness and riven by witchcraft.” He described his first visit as “one that gave me an instant connection with the place”. It was there that, with a group of friends, he started hosting charity Christmas parties for children.

In early 2008, after setting a community church there, Ssewakiryanga started hearing first-hand accounts of child sacrifice from families that had lost children. “It was gripping to know that even then, justice was yet to be served to those families,” he noted.

It was then that he started garnering information on the issue and more hands to help him with the cause. “Initially, after talking to over 10 friends and three showing up for the meetings, it was disheartening. But I could not…would not lose hope. I even enlisted notable members of Parliament and religious leaders to help me.” Fate, however, had better for the selfless pastor.

In 2009, Ssewakiryanga, according to the Daily Monitor, traveled to the United Kingdom. There, while attending a church in East London, he met Kristy Jones, a professional film maker, who offered to fly to Uganda with him and make a documentary in support of his cause.

“She came with me and met the families and heard their stories first-hand, but for the immensity of sadness, she broke down, quit the coverage and boarded a flight back to England,” he recalled.

Miraculously, barely four months after, she returned in conjunction with Jubilee Campaign, an international charity, steeled enough to cover the documentary. “I recall her telling me that the urgency of this cause (against child sacrifice) was far greater than the brittle nature of her emotions. With that, she offered to do the documentary free of charge!”

By December 2009, the documentary was ready and aired on BBC news television and at a prayer campaign conference hosted by Jubilee Campaign in the UK. It was at this conference, where the former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr. Luke Orombi was in attendance, that he officially gave backing to the idea. From then on, Ssewakiryanga became the face against child sacrifice in Uganda.

Last month, Belgium had the honor to host the annual Human Rights Defenders award ceremony on behalf of all our EU-colleagues and Norway. It is here that Pastor Ssewakiryanga emerged among the a recipients of this prestigious award.

By UG Christian News Correspondent.

Pastor freed from North Korea says he shared the gospel in detention

Kim Hak Song, an American pastor released last Month from North Korea after spending a year in prison, recently spoke about his detention under one of the most brutal regimes on the planet and explained how he was able to share God’s Word despite the circumstances.

Kim, who was arrested in 2017 while he was teaching rice growing at a private university in Pyongyang founded by evangelical Christians, shared his experiences after a service at the Oriental Mission Church in East Hollywood, his home congregation.

Religion News Service reports that Kim spoke through a translator to offer his “first extended public comments” since being welcomed back to the United States by President Donald Trump, along with fellow imprisoned Americans Tony Kim and Kim Dong Chul.

According to Kim, he was told when he was detained in May 2017 that his crime was prayer.

In proving their case, Kim said the regime’s officials showed him evidence that he had led a worship group in morning prayer. Additionally, they showed him an email that he sent to elders at his home church asking for prayer for the North Korean people.

Although many who are sent to prison for religious-related offenses in North Korea are tortured, Kim explained that he was spared of torture during his imprisonment.

Yet, Kim still feels “the pain and struggle,” his wife told RNS, saying that her husband still deals with some trauma from his detention.

Kim said that he spent a lot of time in prayer while he was in prison. He used his time to confess sins and to ask God to protect his family.

Although his time working on an experimental farm in hopes of helping the North Korean people have a more sustainable food source was cut short, Kim explained that he doesn’t believe his time in prison was spent in vain.

Kim said that at one point during his detention an official asked him to write about Christianity.

This gave Kim an outlet to share his faith openly with a representative of a regime that for 16 years has been ranked as the worst persecutor of Christians in the world by persecution watchdog group Open Doors USA.

Kim said that he began by sharing the book of Genesis.

“I was grateful and thankful that at this time I was able to share God’s message to this person,” Kim was quoted as saying.

President Donald Trump announced on May 9 that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on his way back to the U.S. with Kim and the other prisoners who were released by the regime of Kim Jong Un. The next day, their plane landed at Joint Base Andrews and they were greeted by Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Kim said that at the time he had no idea that discussions were ongoing for his release and was a bit surprised on the day he was released.

He recalled that on the day of his release, he believed he was being moved to another cell.

He said that when the guards asked him if he needed anything else before leaving the cell, he said that he needed to bring his Bible.

To Kim’s shock, he later found himself on a U.S. government plane.

Kim admitted that he had dreams while in prison of being in Trump’s car while the American people applauded.

“The dream became reality,” Kim was quoted as saying. “God is walking with us.”

On the day that Kim, Tony Kim and Kim Dong Chul arrived at Joint Base Andrews, they handed Pence a handwritten note that quoted Psalm 26.

“It was an amazing moment I’ll never forget … when three Americans stepped onto the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews and gave me a signed personal note with Psalm 126 on the back,” Pence tweeted at the time. “To these men of faith and courage — God bless you and welcome home!”

RNS reports that Kim told his congregation during his sermon that “miracles still happen” and “prayer is still very important.”

In its recently released International Religious Freedom report, the U.S. State Department estimated that as many as 120,000 people are imprisoned in North Korea’s prison camps under “horrific conditions.”

“Religious and human rights groups outside the country continued to provide numerous reports that members of underground churches were arrested, beaten, tortured, and killed because of their religious beliefs,” the report states.

Last year, 22-year-old American college student Otto Warmbier, who was detained in a North Korean prison for over 17 months, was released back to the U.S. while in a coma. Warmbier died days later.

Atressed number of Uganda martyrs and how they were killed.

In his efforts to curb Christian influence and try to regain the traditional, customary powers and authorities over his subjects, the then King of Buganda, Kabaka Mwanga II ordered for the killing of Anglican and Catholic converts to Christianity between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887.
Mwanga precipitated a showdown, ordering the converts to choose between their new faith, and complete obedience to his orders. Those unwilling to renounce their new faith would be subject to death.
Rather than deter the growth of Christianity, the martyrdom of these early believers seems to have sparked its growth instead. As has been observed in many other instances, the determination of the martyrs proved to be the seed of faith.
Every year, June 3rd, when most of the martyrs were killed, is marked as a national holiday in Uganda. It is also marked worldwide on the church calender as a day to honor the Martyrs
The complete list of the known martyrs is given below. The list of forty five known Catholic and Protestant martyrs includes only those who could be formally accounted for, many more murders went unreported and without a record.
 

Uganda’s Christian Martyrs

Martyr’s Name		Birthplace	Clan	Religion	M A R T Y R E D
					Date	Place	Manner
1	Kakumba, Makko	Buganda	Ffumbe	Anglican	Jan 31, 1885	Busega	Dismembered and Burned
2	Rugarama, Yusuf	Ankole		Anglican	Jan 31, 1885	Busega	Dismembered and Burned
3	Sserwanga, Nuwa	Buganda	Ngeye	Anglican	Jan 31, 1885	Busega	Dismembered and Burned
4	Balikuddembe, Yosefu Mukasa	Buganda	Kayozi	Catholic	Nov 15, 1885	Nakivubo	Beheaded and Burned
5	Mukasa, Musa	Buganda	Ffumbe	Anglican	May 25, 1886	Munyonyo	Speared
6	Kaggwa, Anderea	Bunyoro		Catholic	May 26, 1886	Munyonyo	Beheaded
7	Ngondwe, Ponsiano	Buganda	Nnyonyi Nnyange	Catholic	May 26, 1886	Ttakajjunge	Beheaded and Dismembered
8	Ssebuggwawo, Denis	Buganda	Musu	Catholic	May 26, 1886	Munyonyo	Beheaded
9	Bazzekuketta, Antanansio	Buganda	Nkima	Catholic	May 27, 1886	Nakivubo	Dismembered
10	Gonza, Gonzaga	Busoga	Mpologoma	Catholic	May 27, 1886	Lubowa	Beheaded
11	Mbwa, Eriya	Buganda	Ndiga	Anglican	May 27, 1886	Mengo	Castrated
12	Muddu-aguma			Anglican	May 27, 1886	Mengo	Castrated
13	Mulumba, Matiya	Busoga	Lugave	Catholic	May 27, 1886	Old Kampala	Dismembered
14	Muwanga, Daudi	Buganda	Ngonge	Anglican	Namanve	Castrated
15	Kayizzi, Kibuuka	Buganda	Mmamba	Anglican	May 31, 1886	Mityana	Castrated
16	Mawaggali, Nowa	Buganda	Ngabi	Catholic	May 31, 1886	Mityana	Speared, Ravaged by wild dogs
17	Mayanja, Kitoogo	Buganda	Ffumbe	Anglican	May 31, 1886	Mityana	Castrated
18	Muwanga	Buganda	Nvuma	Anglican	May 31, 1886	Mityana	Castrated
19	Lwanga, Karoli	Buganda	Ngabi	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
20	Baanabakintu, Lukka	Buganda	Mmamba	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
21	Buuzabalyawo, Yakobo	Buganda	Ngeye	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
22	Gyaviira	Buganda	Mmamba	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
23	Kibuuka, Ambrosio	Buganda	Lugave	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
24	Kiriggwajjo, Anatoli	Bunyoro		Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
25	Kiriwawanvu, Mukasa	Buganda	Ndiga	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
26	Kiwanuka, Achileo	Buganda	Lugave	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
27	Kizito	Buganda	Mmamba	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
28	Ludigo, Mukasa Adolofu	Toro		Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
29	Mugagga	Buganda	Ngo	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
30	Sserunkuuma, Bruno	Buganda	Ndiga	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
31	Tuzinde, Mbaga	Buganda	Mmamba	Catholic	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
32	Kadoko, Alexanda	Buganda	Ndiga	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
33	Kifamunnyanja	Buganda		Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
34	Kiwanuka, Giyaza	Buganda	Mpeewo	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
35	Kizza, Frederick	Buganda	Ngabi	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
36	Kwabafu	Buganda	Mmamba	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
37	Lwakisiga, Mukasa	Buganda	Ngabi	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
38	Lwanga	Buganda		Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
39	Mubi-azaalwa	Buganda	Mbwa	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
40	Munyagabyangu, Robert	Buganda	Mmamba	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
41	Muwanga, Njigija	Buganda		Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
42	Nakabandwa, Danieri	Buganda	Mmamba	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
43	Walukagga, Nuwa	Buganda	Kasimba	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
44	Wasswa	Buganda	Mmamba	Anglican	June 3, 1886	Namugongo	Burned
45	Muzeeyi, Jean-Marie	Buganda	Mbogo	Catholic	Jan 27, 1887	Mengo	Beheaded

The Uganda martyrs

Happy martyrs day in advance @fullarmor256

A Christian martyr is someone who died for his or her faith, rather than renounce Christ. Ever since Stephen,  the very first martyr was stoned to death outside Jerusalem (Acts 7), Christians around the world have suffered and died for the sake of Christ.
Conversion to Christianity among local tribes in Uganda meant a rejection of the traditional religions and ways of life.
As a young man, Kabaka Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa, of the Buganda tribe had shown some favor to the Christian missionaries, but his attitude changed as soon as he took the throne from 1868.
According to tradition, the Kabaka was the center of all authority and power in the kingdom, and he could use his subjects as he wished. However, he viewed the presence of the missionaries as a diminishing factor to his authority among the converts.
Mwanga ordered for the brutal execution of forty-five converts: twenty-two Catholics and twenty-three Anglicans.
Each person who is bold enough to give up his life for Christ has a unique lesson to teach us. Christian martyrs teach us that we can stand for God no matter the circumstances. Millions of people throughout history have willingly died for their faith. If they can do it, so can we.
That does not mean we should seek out suffering or death for Christ, but it does mean that, if we are presented with the choice of “die or deny Christ,” we should be bold and cling to Christ. Martyrs show us what it looks like to stand firm in not denying Jesus.
Another lesson Christian martyrs teach us is that we will receive a reward for standing for our faith. Revelation 20:4–6 paints a picture of the reward awaiting the Christian martyrs who die during the future Tribulation: “I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God.
They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. . . . This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.”
Christian martyrs are a model of grace under pressure. They teach us how to handle persecution of any kind. Stephen died with grace on his lips: “Lord, do not hold this sin against them” (Acts 7:60). He forgave his murderers, and his forgiveness echoed that of Christ Himself (Luke 23:34).
When we press into knowing God personally and truly begin living for God, we will become a target for those who hate God. The spiritual battle is real, and so are the rewards. We are serving a real God who really loves us, who was really willing to die for us, and who really rewards us for standing for Him.

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