My analysis
Pastor Robert Kayanja has finally released the ‘million dollar’ message( I mean poison) that was preached by Pastor Benny during the holy spirit outpouring conference at Rubaga Miracle centre in June, 2009 . Participants in this conference paid 50US $ each. World faith preachers like Benny Hinn hold incredibly erroneous views of God , the holy spirit, heaven etc.
I see Christians in Uganda reading Benny Hinn’s so called GOOD MORNING HOLY SPIRIT. Most of these people lack the discernment skills to test this text. There are many saints who have exposed the heresies in this book, however so many born again Christians are so lazy to do research. One pastor in Uganda one time told his congregation not to waste time doing research about faith issues on the internet since this will make them more confused. These guys are ‘smart’ they know that once people discover what is going on, the pastors will be in problems. Many saints in Africa are still IT illiterate and this has led to the entrenchment of the deceptive gospel of TBN preachers.
Full Report of Pastor Benny Hinn’s Fire conference at Rubaga Miracle centre cathedral ( if you can not access it check it here below after my analysis)
http://kayanja.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=119(accesed on 8th July, 2009)
My expose
Check out how the report uses ‘god’ small letters
Check out these quotes from the report
''We must know that the Holy spirit is the power of the trinity… when you see him as a person then and only then will you really experience the power. When people see him as power they end up fanatics but when they see him as a person, they end up all powerful themselves. .’’
‘’Furthermore heaven is a planet; it’s not just some clouds or some space..’’
‘’Angels have no relationship with him-are they not ministering spirits? the bible says they have been made as flaming fire in psalms, sent for the heirs of salvation. Unlike man angels don’t have the capacity to love because angels have no soul. Angels are spirit and body, not soul. Angels have no emotions. Angels are not capable of loving anybody just like they do not take tea and play with your dog. Angels cannot receive revelation too.’’
The angels cry holy-holy-holy. Because of god’s revelation of himself to them, they cry holy. Don‘t ever forget this; angels discover god by watching you. The Holy sprirt cannot reveal god to angels because angels are not capable of receiving revelation from god about his person. That’s why they cannot love him nor does he love them.
Compare with Kenneth Copeland’s view that heaven is a planet
Copeland's diminished view of God is further amplified by a correspondingly inflated view of the universe in general and man in particular. He claims that the earth is "a copy of the mother planet [i.e., heaven] where God lives."[25] Exactly how Copeland could "squeeze" God on any planet is difficult to fathom, especially since Solomon pointed out that heaven itself cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27).
SEE, "What's Wrong with the Faith Movement? Part Two: The Teachings of Kenneth Copeland", on http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/copelnd2.htm
“Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.” Spirit, Soul and Body I, Kenneth Copeland, 1985, audiotape 01-0601, side 1
“You don’t think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don’t think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? There is not anything under this whole sun that’s new. Are you hearing what I’m saying? This is all a copy. It’s a copy of home. It’s a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives, He made a little one just like His and put us on it.” Following the Faith of Abraham I, Kenneth Copeland, 1989, audiotape #01-3001, side 1
SEE, Kenneth Copeland – False Prophet – Quotes, on http://discerningtheworld2.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/kenneth-copeland-false-prophet-quotes
"You don't think earth was first do you. Huh! Well you don't think that God made man in His image and then made earth in some other image. There is not anything under this whole sun that's new. Are you hearing what I'm saying? This is all a copy. It's a copy of home. It's a copy of the mother planet. Where God lives He made a little one just like His and put us on it.
SEE, The Cult of Copeland, http://www.pawcreek.org/articles_pcm/end_times/kenneth_copeland.htm
Compare with Benny Hinn’s Good morning Holy Spirit
BENNY HINN ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
There is much about what Benny Hinn says concerning the Trinity with which orthodox Christians can agree. Hinn affirms that God is a "triune being" and that the three persons "are really one in Being" (70, 71, 74). He states clearly that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each fully God, emphasizing that the Holy Spirit is just as much God as the Father and Son (69-71, 87, 90, 131). He also insists that the Holy Spirit is just as real and personal as the Father and Son (2, 51, 71). As God, third person of the Trinity (49, 73), the Holy Spirit is omnipresent (73, 87-88), unlike the angels or the Devil (88), and He is also omnipotent and omniscient (88-89). The Holy Spirit is a personal friend, companion, and counselor to the Christian (52).
Unfortunately, these biblically sound assertions are mixed with statements which express notions that are unbiblical and unorthodox. That Hinn is presenting a novel view of the Trinity is implied when he informs us that "what I am about to share with you regarding the Godhead gave me an entirely new picture of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (81, emphasis added). In context this "entirely new picture" is evidently new to most Christians, and not something that was merely new at one time to Hinn. Thus he complains that "even dedicated ministers of the gospel" and "clergy" have misled the church in this matter. Throughout this key chapter Hinn claims that most ministers and Christians generally have ignored or even avoided the subject (81, 84, 89).
BENNY HINN ON THE TRINITY
What is this new picture of the Trinity? According to the original version of the book (and even more explicitly in Hinn's sermon on the subject televised October 13, 1990, on TBN), God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, like God the Son, each is a real "person" in the sense that each has his own separate "Spirit, Soul, and Body" (the title of chapter 6, pp. 80-92). Although this teaching is not absolutely new (it has been taught by F. J. Dake, Jimmy Swaggart, and others), it is new enough in most circles to account for Hinn's repeated claim that most Christians and even most ministers have ignored it.
According to Hinn, the Father "is eternal spirit yet with nonmaterial form" (81, 1st ed.), having "the appearance... of a man," described by the prophets as having such "features" as lips, tongue, breath, eyesight, and a back (82). "To my amazement I found that God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face" (82, 1st ed.). To document that God has a soul in addition to his spirit and body, Hinn notes that in Scripture "God also has a heart" (83).
Jesus is also shown from Scripture to have both a body and soul (83). "And His glorified human body is distinct from the divine form of God the Father" (84).
"But what about the Holy Spirit? Does He also have a mind, will, and emotions? Does He have a body? He certainly does" (84). He "has a mind of His own" that is "distinct from that of the Father and the Son"; "He also has emotions"; and he has a "will" by which it is possible for him "to decide separately from the Father and the Son," though of course "always in harmony with the Godhead" (84, 85).
"It is the question of the 'body' of the Holy Spirit that causes much confusion," however (85). Hinn states, "I believe the Holy Ghost is spirit body, not with actual flesh and blood but a spirit being with form, yet without limitation....Let me tell you why I believe the Holy Ghost is a body -- a spirit body" (86, 1st ed.). His reason, in short, is that as "God the Father looks like Jesus on earth," so also Hinn believes "that as Jesus looked on earth, so the Holy Ghost looks" (87, 1st ed.). "Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain" (87). Hinn evidently does not mean that the Father and the Holy Spirit look exactly like Jesus, since he says that no one knows what the Father's "mysterious form" looks like in detail (72, 82) and that the Holy Spirit "doesn't have ears or a mouth" and "doesn't have eyes like mine" (86). Rather, he seems to mean simply that the Father and the Spirit, like Jesus, each have a body.
See, Robert M. Bowman, Jr. and Paul Carden, Good Morning, Holy Spirit, A Summary Critique
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0087a.html
SEE FULL REPORT
kampala, uganda fire conference
http://kayanja.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=119(accesed on 8th July, 2009)
Pastor Benny Hinn’s fire conference teaching about the Holy spirit in Kampala-Uganda, the power of the godhead, is and will be a pivotal point in the nation’s (church) history. Because of the Holy spirit so much can take place if anyone dare to venture out to know him personally. We must know that the Holy spirit is the power of the trinity. His power is revealed since before the creation story-that of man and the world (god created before they created the earth).
Remember that God created the heavens and the universe. Very often when we come across the word “world”, in our mind, we begin to think of planet earth. But when the bible says the world, it is talking about something way beyond just the earth.
Furthermore heaven is a planet; it’s not just some clouds or some space. According to the bible heaven has trees and rivers, mountains. Remember revelation 7:9 says they were holding palms in their hands. He said he’ll lead them to rivers of living water. Before god created heaven, the universe and the earth, before god created the angels, and all that there is, the spirit of god was. So we discover a lot of scripture that mentions the holy spirit activity.
Remember there are five divisions of angels mentioned in the bible; the Seraphims, Cherubims, living creatures, arch angels, and angels. all these kinds of angels are assigned to different tasks.
The Seraphims declare the glory-Isaiah 6:1-3,
The Cherubims protect the glory-Jeremiah 1,
The living creatures do both declare and protect the glory-revelation 4:6-11,
The arch angels are the waring angels-revelation 12:7-8, and
Then finally angels by the multitudes-the ministering spirits.
Now remember, before god (the word) created the angels, Jesus was not called Jesus just as the word was not called the son of god till the word was made flesh. Jesus was not god the son until he became a man. He was always called the word. in fact the meaning of that is the revelation of who god is .the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the bible says .that which was from the beginning which our eyes have seen, ears have heard and our hands have handled is the word of life; 1 john 1.
So there comes god the father and god the word. God the father was not called god the father until he got a people-israel.so he was not called god the father but rather “our father, Jehovah god”.
Therefore the three in one godhead we may not really understand that until we are before the father. We shall know as we are known at that moment. But to the best of our ability we can look at ourselves and see that we are trinity- spirit, soul and body. The sun is trinity-sun, light heat. God has shown us himself in his own creation. So when we call him god the father it is because he is now. it was god the son-word, god the holy spirit in eternity past who planned our redemption and made a covenant with each other called the eternal covenant.
There are seven covenants in the bible: and each covenant deals with redemption. The first covenant god made was with Adam called the Adamic covenant .now a covenant has promises, conditions and a covenant, token or a seal. it has to be sealed for it to intact, eternal.
In all this we realize there is an interplay of the holy spirit. He holy spirit is so powerful that the bible tells us he is a person and not just an influence or a mere power .as long as you see him as an influence or as a power, you will never know his power till you know him as a person. But when you see him as a person then and only then will you really experience the power. When people see him as power they end up fanatics but when they see him as a person, they end up all powerful themselves.
You must become acquainted with the Holy ghost as a person. A person is one that has intellect, emotions and will. So if the Holy spirit is a person, treat him like one. The bible tells us in Corinthians that no man knows the things of god but the spirit. And it goes on to say the Holy spirit knows the deep things of god. Things that nobody can find out without him. He knows the depth of the almighty, he is deeper than eternity itself.
The angels cry holy-holy-holy. Because of god’s revelation of himself to them, they cry holy. Don‘t ever forget this; angels discover god by watching you. The Holy sprirt cannot reveal god to angels because angels are not capable of receiving revelation from god about his person. That’s why they cannot love him nor does he love them.
Angels have no relationship with him-are they not ministering spirits? the bible says they have been made as flaming fire in psalms, sent for the heirs of salvation. Unlike man angels don’t have the capacity to love because angels have no soul. Angels are spirit and body, not soul. Angels have no emotions. Angels are not capable of loving anybody just like they do not take tea and play with your dog. Angels cannot receive revelation too.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Pastor Robert Kayanja finally unleashes Pastor Benny Hinn’s spiritual Junk food at Miracle Centre Fire conference
Benny Hinn's Good Morning, Holy Spirit Exposed
Book Reviews
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0087a.html
by Robert M. Bowman, Jr. and Paul Carden
a column from the Christian Research Journal, Spring 1991, page 36. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller.
A Summary Critique
Good Morning, Holy Spirit
Benny Hinn
(Thomas Nelson, 1990)
Good Morning, Holy Spirit is a runaway best seller by Benny Hinn, pastor of Orlando Christian Center in Florida, and a popular televangelist on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Less than six months after its release, there are already (as of February 1991) 350,000 copies in print.
I met with Benny Hinn on December 5, 1990, along with Hank Hanegraaff and Bob Lyle of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), to discuss CRI's concerns about this book. After that meeting, and in consultation with Hinn, Thomas Nelson Publishers made several changes in the eighth printing of the book (January 1991). (Thomas Nelson is a generally reputable Christian publishing house carrying a number of fine books which CRI continues to endorse and even distribute to the public.) There is no acknowledgment in the book that changes have been made. That is, there is no way of knowing, other than carefully comparing select pages, whether one is holding in one's hands the original or the revised version. Although representatives of Thomas Nelson have stated publicly that changes were made to clarify Hinn's intended meaning, I shall argue that the changes constitute a revision and not merely a clarification.
This book is significant for two reasons. First, in it Hinn recounts his life story, essentially the testimony on which he bases his claim to be an anointed minister of God. If people accept his story, they may be inclined to accept and even support his ministry -- and whatever might be considered controversial in his book is by all accounts mild compared with what goes on in his public ministry.
Second, Hinn presents a controversial understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. If it is in any way erroneous, the public needs to be informed. Moreover, although changes have been made in the eighth printing, no copies of the original version were recalled, and no public retraction of its errors was made. Thus, a review of both the original book and the revision is imperative. (In what follows, citations are the same in both versions unless indicated otherwise.)
HINN'S STORY
Benny Hinn claims to have had two visions of Jesus before his conversion. The first was at age eleven while he was asleep (p. 22). The second occurred when he was nineteen during a charismatic prayer meeting, when, says Hinn, "Suddenly I saw Jesus with my own eyes" (31). This vision resulted in an immediate conversion.
Later, Benny had a powerful experience at a Kathryn Kuhlman service. While waiting in line and throughout most of the service he was shaking uncontrollably and experiencing a range of intense emotions. Through listening to Kuhlman speaking of her intimate friendship with the Holy Spirit, Hinn was led to seek a similar intimacy with the Spirit (4-13). The purpose of Good Morning, Holy Spirit is to help other Christians do the same.
After this event Hinn claims to have had numerous ecstatic and supernatural experiences. Members of his family and others supposedly began crying and even falling down when Benny would enter the room or walk by them (41-42). This falling down is known as being "slain in the Spirit," an experience Hinn regularly effects during his services. His most impressive claim is to have been healed of stuttering when he first stood up to preach (45).
There is no reason to doubt that Hinn had certain experiences such as he describes, though we may allow for some exaggerations. Whether they were actual manifestations of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is another question, one to which easy answers are not available. For example, there is no way to prove or disprove that Hinn really saw Jesus. Ultimately, these accounts of supernatural experiences must be evaluated on the basis of Hinn's present ministry and teaching, not the reverse.
One way in which Hinn's story relates fairly directly to his ongoing ministry concerns occurrences of people being "slain in the Spirit." Hinn's practice of slaying people in the Spirit by blowing on them or touching their heads bears all the marks of manipulative, staged performances. This should be evident whether or not one admits that there is a valid spiritual experience of being slain in the Spirit. Hinn announces to his congregation to get ready for the experience; he positions "catchers" on the stage to catch those who fall; those who are "slain" lose complete control of themselves, while Hinn remains always firmly in control of himself; at times whole sections of the congregation are "slain" at the same instant, and always at Hinn's cue. Hinn has been known to "throw" the Holy Spirit to his audience as if the Spirit were a softball! It has even been reported that one woman died as a result of someone falling on top of her after being slain by Benny Hinn (see Charisma, Jan. 1988, 54). The book Good Morning, Holy Spirit, by presenting these phenomena as incidental, moderate occurrences, will make it easier for people to accept the more extreme, problematical manifestations in Hinn's actual ministry.
Although Hinn's story is worthy of more detailed consideration, the most significant aspect of the book is his exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity. The rest of this review will focus on this issue.
HINN'S DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY: VERSION #1
There is much about what Benny Hinn says concerning the Trinity with which orthodox Christians can agree. Hinn affirms that God is a "triune being" and that the three persons "are really one in Being" (70, 71, 74). He states clearly that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each fully God, emphasizing that the Holy Spirit is just as much God as the Father and Son (69-71, 87, 90, 131). He also insists that the Holy Spirit is just as real and personal as the Father and Son (2, 51, 71). As God, third person of the Trinity (49, 73), the Holy Spirit is omnipresent (73, 87-88), unlike the angels or the Devil (88), and He is also omnipotent and omniscient (88-89). The Holy Spirit is a personal friend, companion, and counselor to the Christian (52).
Unfortunately, these biblically sound assertions are mixed with statements which express notions that are unbiblical and unorthodox. That Hinn is presenting a novel view of the Trinity is implied when he informs us that "what I am about to share with you regarding the Godhead gave me an entirely new picture of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (81, emphasis added). In context this "entirely new picture" is evidently new to most Christians, and not something that was merely new at one time to Hinn. Thus he complains that "even dedicated ministers of the gospel" and "clergy" have misled the church in this matter. Throughout this key chapter Hinn claims that most ministers and Christians generally have ignored or even avoided the subject (81, 84, 89).
What is this new picture of the Trinity? According to the original version of the book (and even more explicitly in Hinn's sermon on the subject televised October 13, 1990, on TBN), God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, like God the Son, each is a real "person" in the sense that each has his own separate "Spirit, Soul, and Body" (the title of chapter 6, pp. 80-92). Although this teaching is not absolutely new (it has been taught by F. J. Dake, Jimmy Swaggart, and others), it is new enough in most circles to account for Hinn's repeated claim that most Christians and even most ministers have ignored it.
According to Hinn, the Father "is eternal spirit yet with nonmaterial form" (81, 1st ed.), having "the appearance... of a man," described by the prophets as having such "features" as lips, tongue, breath, eyesight, and a back (82). "To my amazement I found that God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face" (82, 1st ed.). To document that God has a soul in addition to his spirit and body, Hinn notes that in Scripture "God also has a heart" (83).
Jesus is also shown from Scripture to have both a body and soul (83). "And His glorified human body is distinct from the divine form of God the Father" (84).
"But what about the Holy Spirit? Does He also have a mind, will, and emotions? Does He have a body? He certainly does" (84). He "has a mind of His own" that is "distinct from that of the Father and the Son"; "He also has emotions"; and he has a "will" by which it is possible for him "to decide separately from the Father and the Son," though of course "always in harmony with the Godhead" (84, 85).
"It is the question of the 'body' of the Holy Spirit that causes much confusion," however (85). Hinn states, "I believe the Holy Ghost is spirit body, not with actual flesh and blood but a spirit being with form, yet without limitation....Let me tell you why I believe the Holy Ghost is a body -- a spirit body" (86, 1st ed.). His reason, in short, is that as "God the Father looks like Jesus on earth," so also Hinn believes "that as Jesus looked on earth, so the Holy Ghost looks" (87, 1st ed.). "Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain" (87). Hinn evidently does not mean that the Father and the Holy Spirit look exactly like Jesus, since he says that no one knows what the Father's "mysterious form" looks like in detail (72, 82) and that the Holy Spirit "doesn't have ears or a mouth" and "doesn't have eyes like mine" (86). Rather, he seems to mean simply that the Father and the Spirit, like Jesus, each have a body.
The notion that the three divine persons have three separate constitutions of spirit, soul, and body is inconsistent with orthodoxy because it implies that they are really three separate beings rather than (as Hinn also does say in passing) one divine being in three persons. This implication is underscored by Hinn's assertion later that "the Trinity, as we see, is comprised of three distinct and unique entities" (140, 1st ed.). Hinn pictures the Trinity as "a team working together in complete accord and eternal harmony" (144, 1st ed.; emphasis added).
So separate are the three persons that Hinn argues that each has personality traits unique to himself as compared to the other two (139). In particular, "the Holy Spirit is a member of the Trinity and yet is ["so completely," 1st ed.] different from the Father and the Son" (152). The Holy Spirit "reacts differently" (2d ed.; "totally different," 1st ed.) to those who are willfully sinning from the way the Father or the Son would react (140). He feels human emotions more deeply than either the Father or the Son; he is more sensitive, so that "He is touched in a deeper, more profound way than the other members of the Godhead" (153, 1st ed.). Because of this the Holy Spirit, unlike the Father or the Son, is "easily wounded" and "can be tormented by human beings" (91, 92). Thus blasphemy against the more "tender" Holy Spirit is unforgivable while blasphemy against the Father or the Son is not (154).
Finally, Hinn compromises the deity of Christ when he argues that "had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have ["may have likely," 2d ed.] sinned....Without the Holy Ghost Jesus would ["may," 2d ed.] have never made it" (135). This implies that Jesus overcame sin as a mere man empowered by the Spirit, and that he could have failed. While Jesus was filled and anointed by the Spirit, and while the Spirit was involved in Jesus' overcoming of temptation, Jesus was no mere man indwelled by the Spirit -- he was the divine Son of God incarnate. There are orthodox theologians who have held that Jesus was able to sin. I can agree or disagree with this assertion, depending on what is meant by it. But the real question here is not whether and in what sense Jesus might have sinned, but Hinn's assertion that Jesus would or might have sinned had it not been for the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Such a statement is by all accounts inconsistent with Hinn's confession that Jesus was God.
Along the same lines, Hinn goes on immediately to ask rhetorically, "Can you imagine Christ headed for the grave knowing He would remain there forever if the Holy Ghost would change His mind about raising Him from the dead?" (136, 1st ed.). In the revised printings this is changed to the less colorful statement, "He [Christ] even depended on the Spirit to raise Him from the death-grip of the grave." This removes the scandalous speculation about the Holy Spirit changing his mind, but leaves Jesus helpless in the grave. In fact, while of course the Holy Spirit was involved in Jesus' resurrection (Rom. 1:4; 8:9-11), Jesus as God the Son raised himself from the dead (John 2:19; 10:17-18). Peter even stated that it was impossible for Jesus to stay dead (Acts 2:24).
In short, in the original version of this book Hinn taught (no doubt unwittingly) a form of implicit tritheism (belief in three Gods or three divine beings). Certainly in no version of the book does Hinn teach explicit tritheism, since Hinn affirms that God is one being and never says they are three Gods. But his referring to the three persons as separate "entities," his insistence that they are markedly different in personality traits, and his teaching that each possesses a separate spirit, soul, and body, contradict the few passing references in the book to the Trinity as one triune being (70, 71, 74). Hinn's doctrine of the Trinity, then, at least in this version, may be classified as "aberrational" -- neither soundly orthodox nor thoroughly heretical, but a mixture of orthodox and unorthodox elements.
HINN'S DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY: VERSION #2
The revised version of Good Morning, Holy Spirit contains a number of significant changes in Hinn's teaching on the Trinity. Hinn's original position has been left intact except for changes (often only slight modifications) of his most obviously questionable statements. The only way to see this clearly is to read both versions of chapters 6, 9, and 10 (especially 81-82, 85-87, 90-91, 135-36, 139-40, 144, 152-53). Some of these changes have already been noted.
The most substantial changes in the book appear in chapter 6, where Hinn now appears to teach, not that the Father and the Holy Spirit possess bodies as intrinsic aspects of their constitution, but that they can reveal themselves in bodily form, as in theophanies. Now, undoubtedly this is a fully orthodox position. But the changes raise difficult questions.
Most generally, it is now difficult to understand why Hinn would describe his view as "an entirely new picture" that the church has ignored and avoided discussing, and that caused Hinn to be amazed when he learned it (80-82). There is nothing new or controversial about the Father and the Holy Spirit being able to reveal themselves in bodily forms in theophanies.
This problem surfaces in the revised version repeatedly. For example, in the original version, after speculating that the Holy Spirit looks like Jesus and therefore has a spirit body, Hinn commented, "Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain" (87). This sentence in the revised version now appears after Hinn's observation that "Jesus reveals the Holy Ghost as He does the Father." Is Hinn uncertain about that?
Worse, at least one passage still clearly affirms that the Holy Spirit possesses a body. In both versions it reads, "But what about the Holy Spirit? Does He also have a mind, a will, and emotions? Does He have a body? He certainly does" (84, emphasis added). Surely this can only mean that the Holy Spirit possesses a body as his intrinsic possession, just as he possesses a mind, will, and emotions. (Obviously, Hinn does not mean that the Spirit "has a mind" only in the sense that he can assume one for revelatory purposes!) Moreover, this body is distinct from those of the Father and the Son ("Does He also have...?"). Perhaps these statements will be likewise "clarified" in future printings.
In short, the changes made in this chapter fail to rid it thoroughly of the teaching, summarized in the chapter's title, that each of the three divine persons possesses a "spirit, soul, and body." As it stands the chapter is incoherent. Nor do the other changes made in the book eliminate the idea that the three persons possess differing personality traits, though this notion is considerably softened.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN
While the first version of this book is implicitly tritheistic, the revised version has had most (though not all) traces of overt tritheism removed. Yet the overall thrust of the book is still implicitly tritheistic. The danger is that people will absorb the tritheism still latent in the book and become implicitly tritheistic in some of their own thinking even if they adhere in theory to the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. The book in both versions, then, must be regarded as aberrational, though less clearly in the revised version.
It is important to realize that criticisms of this book cannot be ruled out of court on the grounds that the book is not absolutely heretical. Even if it might be regarded as passably Christian in a minimally orthodox way (say, a D-minus instead of an F!), it is certainly not sound doctrine (cf. 1 Tim. 1:3-7). This is enough to warrant public criticism and rejection of the book by orthodox Christians.
While we rejoice in the good Christian literature being published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, they must be held to account for publishing a book as unsound as this one.
-- Robert M. Bowman, Jr.
Ex-Mormons: Why We Left
Latayne Colvett Scott
(Baker Book House, 1990)
Despite the boom in materials on Mormonism in Christian bookstores over the past two decades, few works offer deep insights into the human dimension of how and why some Mormons actually become Christians. Latayne Colvett Scott has made an important and innovative contribution with her recent book, Ex-Mormons: Why We Left. Unlike the compilers of similar anthologies, Scott (an ex-Mormon herself) has attempted to systematically approach the phenomenon of leaving Mormonism.
In her introduction, the author wisely warns those eager for some "magic bullet" to bring loved ones out of Mormonism that none awaits them in the pages that follow. Instead, she offers thought-provoking insights and encouragement.
The bulk of the book is divided into two parts. Part One presents the testimonies of eight "well-known and little-known ex-Mormons," and Scott has chosen them well. She writes: "I didn't just want people who could spin a good story, but people who have lived valiantly as Christians in every sense of the word."Maturity and stability have an unmistakable authority of their own, and readers of this book will recognize it in the people who are within these pages" (p. 11).
Scott's participants are a diverse group, both in experience and in temperament. They include an inactive (or "Jack-") Mormon, a returned missionary, a former bishop, and a housewife. Each ran his or her own obstacle course in the long and unpredictable process of leaving Mormonism. One young woman underwent a series of meetings with Mormon general authorities. Another woman was forced to recognize the demonic origin of an apparition that appeared to her in broad daylight as her dead grandmother to testify of the church's truthfulness.
Part Two explores various factors involved in leaving Mormonism and effective nurture of ex-Mormons. Its practical chapters include titles like "Personal Costs and Compensations," "Mistakes Christians Make," and "Toward an Easier Transition."
Ex-Mormons: Why We Left helps those interested in evangelizing Mormons to realize that, by presenting information damaging to Mormonism, they often set in motion events that profoundly alter their contacts' lives on every level. All but one of the participants acknowledge that, despite "the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:8), their departure from Mormonism cost them heavily -- especially in their personal relationships.
Numerous flashes of insight reveal Mormons as flesh-and-blood humans -- not the cardboard-cutout cultists who exist in the minds of many Christians. The book discourages the hit-and-run style of encounter that too often passes for evangelism.
The volume has its shortcomings. Every testimony but Scott's is related (in sometimes stilted prose) in the third person. But in Part Two she switches her subjects to the first person! It would have been far more effective to maintain the first person throughout. Careless editing and organization have left a number of annoying errors and inconsistencies.
Despite its unevenness, Ex-Mormons: Why We Left gives realistic encouragement to those leaving Mormonism while helping Christians to present the truth more compassionately and intelligently.
-- Paul Carden
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by Robert M. Bowman, Jr. and Paul Carden
a column from the Christian Research Journal, Spring 1991, page 36. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller.
A Summary Critique
Good Morning, Holy Spirit
Benny Hinn
(Thomas Nelson, 1990)
Good Morning, Holy Spirit is a runaway best seller by Benny Hinn, pastor of Orlando Christian Center in Florida, and a popular televangelist on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Less than six months after its release, there are already (as of February 1991) 350,000 copies in print.
I met with Benny Hinn on December 5, 1990, along with Hank Hanegraaff and Bob Lyle of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), to discuss CRI's concerns about this book. After that meeting, and in consultation with Hinn, Thomas Nelson Publishers made several changes in the eighth printing of the book (January 1991). (Thomas Nelson is a generally reputable Christian publishing house carrying a number of fine books which CRI continues to endorse and even distribute to the public.) There is no acknowledgment in the book that changes have been made. That is, there is no way of knowing, other than carefully comparing select pages, whether one is holding in one's hands the original or the revised version. Although representatives of Thomas Nelson have stated publicly that changes were made to clarify Hinn's intended meaning, I shall argue that the changes constitute a revision and not merely a clarification.
This book is significant for two reasons. First, in it Hinn recounts his life story, essentially the testimony on which he bases his claim to be an anointed minister of God. If people accept his story, they may be inclined to accept and even support his ministry -- and whatever might be considered controversial in his book is by all accounts mild compared with what goes on in his public ministry.
Second, Hinn presents a controversial understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. If it is in any way erroneous, the public needs to be informed. Moreover, although changes have been made in the eighth printing, no copies of the original version were recalled, and no public retraction of its errors was made. Thus, a review of both the original book and the revision is imperative. (In what follows, citations are the same in both versions unless indicated otherwise.)
HINN'S STORY
Benny Hinn claims to have had two visions of Jesus before his conversion. The first was at age eleven while he was asleep (p. 22). The second occurred when he was nineteen during a charismatic prayer meeting, when, says Hinn, "Suddenly I saw Jesus with my own eyes" (31). This vision resulted in an immediate conversion.
Later, Benny had a powerful experience at a Kathryn Kuhlman service. While waiting in line and throughout most of the service he was shaking uncontrollably and experiencing a range of intense emotions. Through listening to Kuhlman speaking of her intimate friendship with the Holy Spirit, Hinn was led to seek a similar intimacy with the Spirit (4-13). The purpose of Good Morning, Holy Spirit is to help other Christians do the same.
After this event Hinn claims to have had numerous ecstatic and supernatural experiences. Members of his family and others supposedly began crying and even falling down when Benny would enter the room or walk by them (41-42). This falling down is known as being "slain in the Spirit," an experience Hinn regularly effects during his services. His most impressive claim is to have been healed of stuttering when he first stood up to preach (45).
There is no reason to doubt that Hinn had certain experiences such as he describes, though we may allow for some exaggerations. Whether they were actual manifestations of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is another question, one to which easy answers are not available. For example, there is no way to prove or disprove that Hinn really saw Jesus. Ultimately, these accounts of supernatural experiences must be evaluated on the basis of Hinn's present ministry and teaching, not the reverse.
One way in which Hinn's story relates fairly directly to his ongoing ministry concerns occurrences of people being "slain in the Spirit." Hinn's practice of slaying people in the Spirit by blowing on them or touching their heads bears all the marks of manipulative, staged performances. This should be evident whether or not one admits that there is a valid spiritual experience of being slain in the Spirit. Hinn announces to his congregation to get ready for the experience; he positions "catchers" on the stage to catch those who fall; those who are "slain" lose complete control of themselves, while Hinn remains always firmly in control of himself; at times whole sections of the congregation are "slain" at the same instant, and always at Hinn's cue. Hinn has been known to "throw" the Holy Spirit to his audience as if the Spirit were a softball! It has even been reported that one woman died as a result of someone falling on top of her after being slain by Benny Hinn (see Charisma, Jan. 1988, 54). The book Good Morning, Holy Spirit, by presenting these phenomena as incidental, moderate occurrences, will make it easier for people to accept the more extreme, problematical manifestations in Hinn's actual ministry.
Although Hinn's story is worthy of more detailed consideration, the most significant aspect of the book is his exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity. The rest of this review will focus on this issue.
HINN'S DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY: VERSION #1
There is much about what Benny Hinn says concerning the Trinity with which orthodox Christians can agree. Hinn affirms that God is a "triune being" and that the three persons "are really one in Being" (70, 71, 74). He states clearly that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each fully God, emphasizing that the Holy Spirit is just as much God as the Father and Son (69-71, 87, 90, 131). He also insists that the Holy Spirit is just as real and personal as the Father and Son (2, 51, 71). As God, third person of the Trinity (49, 73), the Holy Spirit is omnipresent (73, 87-88), unlike the angels or the Devil (88), and He is also omnipotent and omniscient (88-89). The Holy Spirit is a personal friend, companion, and counselor to the Christian (52).
Unfortunately, these biblically sound assertions are mixed with statements which express notions that are unbiblical and unorthodox. That Hinn is presenting a novel view of the Trinity is implied when he informs us that "what I am about to share with you regarding the Godhead gave me an entirely new picture of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (81, emphasis added). In context this "entirely new picture" is evidently new to most Christians, and not something that was merely new at one time to Hinn. Thus he complains that "even dedicated ministers of the gospel" and "clergy" have misled the church in this matter. Throughout this key chapter Hinn claims that most ministers and Christians generally have ignored or even avoided the subject (81, 84, 89).
What is this new picture of the Trinity? According to the original version of the book (and even more explicitly in Hinn's sermon on the subject televised October 13, 1990, on TBN), God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, like God the Son, each is a real "person" in the sense that each has his own separate "Spirit, Soul, and Body" (the title of chapter 6, pp. 80-92). Although this teaching is not absolutely new (it has been taught by F. J. Dake, Jimmy Swaggart, and others), it is new enough in most circles to account for Hinn's repeated claim that most Christians and even most ministers have ignored it.
According to Hinn, the Father "is eternal spirit yet with nonmaterial form" (81, 1st ed.), having "the appearance... of a man," described by the prophets as having such "features" as lips, tongue, breath, eyesight, and a back (82). "To my amazement I found that God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face" (82, 1st ed.). To document that God has a soul in addition to his spirit and body, Hinn notes that in Scripture "God also has a heart" (83).
Jesus is also shown from Scripture to have both a body and soul (83). "And His glorified human body is distinct from the divine form of God the Father" (84).
"But what about the Holy Spirit? Does He also have a mind, will, and emotions? Does He have a body? He certainly does" (84). He "has a mind of His own" that is "distinct from that of the Father and the Son"; "He also has emotions"; and he has a "will" by which it is possible for him "to decide separately from the Father and the Son," though of course "always in harmony with the Godhead" (84, 85).
"It is the question of the 'body' of the Holy Spirit that causes much confusion," however (85). Hinn states, "I believe the Holy Ghost is spirit body, not with actual flesh and blood but a spirit being with form, yet without limitation....Let me tell you why I believe the Holy Ghost is a body -- a spirit body" (86, 1st ed.). His reason, in short, is that as "God the Father looks like Jesus on earth," so also Hinn believes "that as Jesus looked on earth, so the Holy Ghost looks" (87, 1st ed.). "Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain" (87). Hinn evidently does not mean that the Father and the Holy Spirit look exactly like Jesus, since he says that no one knows what the Father's "mysterious form" looks like in detail (72, 82) and that the Holy Spirit "doesn't have ears or a mouth" and "doesn't have eyes like mine" (86). Rather, he seems to mean simply that the Father and the Spirit, like Jesus, each have a body.
The notion that the three divine persons have three separate constitutions of spirit, soul, and body is inconsistent with orthodoxy because it implies that they are really three separate beings rather than (as Hinn also does say in passing) one divine being in three persons. This implication is underscored by Hinn's assertion later that "the Trinity, as we see, is comprised of three distinct and unique entities" (140, 1st ed.). Hinn pictures the Trinity as "a team working together in complete accord and eternal harmony" (144, 1st ed.; emphasis added).
So separate are the three persons that Hinn argues that each has personality traits unique to himself as compared to the other two (139). In particular, "the Holy Spirit is a member of the Trinity and yet is ["so completely," 1st ed.] different from the Father and the Son" (152). The Holy Spirit "reacts differently" (2d ed.; "totally different," 1st ed.) to those who are willfully sinning from the way the Father or the Son would react (140). He feels human emotions more deeply than either the Father or the Son; he is more sensitive, so that "He is touched in a deeper, more profound way than the other members of the Godhead" (153, 1st ed.). Because of this the Holy Spirit, unlike the Father or the Son, is "easily wounded" and "can be tormented by human beings" (91, 92). Thus blasphemy against the more "tender" Holy Spirit is unforgivable while blasphemy against the Father or the Son is not (154).
Finally, Hinn compromises the deity of Christ when he argues that "had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have ["may have likely," 2d ed.] sinned....Without the Holy Ghost Jesus would ["may," 2d ed.] have never made it" (135). This implies that Jesus overcame sin as a mere man empowered by the Spirit, and that he could have failed. While Jesus was filled and anointed by the Spirit, and while the Spirit was involved in Jesus' overcoming of temptation, Jesus was no mere man indwelled by the Spirit -- he was the divine Son of God incarnate. There are orthodox theologians who have held that Jesus was able to sin. I can agree or disagree with this assertion, depending on what is meant by it. But the real question here is not whether and in what sense Jesus might have sinned, but Hinn's assertion that Jesus would or might have sinned had it not been for the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Such a statement is by all accounts inconsistent with Hinn's confession that Jesus was God.
Along the same lines, Hinn goes on immediately to ask rhetorically, "Can you imagine Christ headed for the grave knowing He would remain there forever if the Holy Ghost would change His mind about raising Him from the dead?" (136, 1st ed.). In the revised printings this is changed to the less colorful statement, "He [Christ] even depended on the Spirit to raise Him from the death-grip of the grave." This removes the scandalous speculation about the Holy Spirit changing his mind, but leaves Jesus helpless in the grave. In fact, while of course the Holy Spirit was involved in Jesus' resurrection (Rom. 1:4; 8:9-11), Jesus as God the Son raised himself from the dead (John 2:19; 10:17-18). Peter even stated that it was impossible for Jesus to stay dead (Acts 2:24).
In short, in the original version of this book Hinn taught (no doubt unwittingly) a form of implicit tritheism (belief in three Gods or three divine beings). Certainly in no version of the book does Hinn teach explicit tritheism, since Hinn affirms that God is one being and never says they are three Gods. But his referring to the three persons as separate "entities," his insistence that they are markedly different in personality traits, and his teaching that each possesses a separate spirit, soul, and body, contradict the few passing references in the book to the Trinity as one triune being (70, 71, 74). Hinn's doctrine of the Trinity, then, at least in this version, may be classified as "aberrational" -- neither soundly orthodox nor thoroughly heretical, but a mixture of orthodox and unorthodox elements.
HINN'S DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY: VERSION #2
The revised version of Good Morning, Holy Spirit contains a number of significant changes in Hinn's teaching on the Trinity. Hinn's original position has been left intact except for changes (often only slight modifications) of his most obviously questionable statements. The only way to see this clearly is to read both versions of chapters 6, 9, and 10 (especially 81-82, 85-87, 90-91, 135-36, 139-40, 144, 152-53). Some of these changes have already been noted.
The most substantial changes in the book appear in chapter 6, where Hinn now appears to teach, not that the Father and the Holy Spirit possess bodies as intrinsic aspects of their constitution, but that they can reveal themselves in bodily form, as in theophanies. Now, undoubtedly this is a fully orthodox position. But the changes raise difficult questions.
Most generally, it is now difficult to understand why Hinn would describe his view as "an entirely new picture" that the church has ignored and avoided discussing, and that caused Hinn to be amazed when he learned it (80-82). There is nothing new or controversial about the Father and the Holy Spirit being able to reveal themselves in bodily forms in theophanies.
This problem surfaces in the revised version repeatedly. For example, in the original version, after speculating that the Holy Spirit looks like Jesus and therefore has a spirit body, Hinn commented, "Someday soon I'm going to find out for certain" (87). This sentence in the revised version now appears after Hinn's observation that "Jesus reveals the Holy Ghost as He does the Father." Is Hinn uncertain about that?
Worse, at least one passage still clearly affirms that the Holy Spirit possesses a body. In both versions it reads, "But what about the Holy Spirit? Does He also have a mind, a will, and emotions? Does He have a body? He certainly does" (84, emphasis added). Surely this can only mean that the Holy Spirit possesses a body as his intrinsic possession, just as he possesses a mind, will, and emotions. (Obviously, Hinn does not mean that the Spirit "has a mind" only in the sense that he can assume one for revelatory purposes!) Moreover, this body is distinct from those of the Father and the Son ("Does He also have...?"). Perhaps these statements will be likewise "clarified" in future printings.
In short, the changes made in this chapter fail to rid it thoroughly of the teaching, summarized in the chapter's title, that each of the three divine persons possesses a "spirit, soul, and body." As it stands the chapter is incoherent. Nor do the other changes made in the book eliminate the idea that the three persons possess differing personality traits, though this notion is considerably softened.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN
While the first version of this book is implicitly tritheistic, the revised version has had most (though not all) traces of overt tritheism removed. Yet the overall thrust of the book is still implicitly tritheistic. The danger is that people will absorb the tritheism still latent in the book and become implicitly tritheistic in some of their own thinking even if they adhere in theory to the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. The book in both versions, then, must be regarded as aberrational, though less clearly in the revised version.
It is important to realize that criticisms of this book cannot be ruled out of court on the grounds that the book is not absolutely heretical. Even if it might be regarded as passably Christian in a minimally orthodox way (say, a D-minus instead of an F!), it is certainly not sound doctrine (cf. 1 Tim. 1:3-7). This is enough to warrant public criticism and rejection of the book by orthodox Christians.
While we rejoice in the good Christian literature being published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, they must be held to account for publishing a book as unsound as this one.
-- Robert M. Bowman, Jr.
Ex-Mormons: Why We Left
Latayne Colvett Scott
(Baker Book House, 1990)
Despite the boom in materials on Mormonism in Christian bookstores over the past two decades, few works offer deep insights into the human dimension of how and why some Mormons actually become Christians. Latayne Colvett Scott has made an important and innovative contribution with her recent book, Ex-Mormons: Why We Left. Unlike the compilers of similar anthologies, Scott (an ex-Mormon herself) has attempted to systematically approach the phenomenon of leaving Mormonism.
In her introduction, the author wisely warns those eager for some "magic bullet" to bring loved ones out of Mormonism that none awaits them in the pages that follow. Instead, she offers thought-provoking insights and encouragement.
The bulk of the book is divided into two parts. Part One presents the testimonies of eight "well-known and little-known ex-Mormons," and Scott has chosen them well. She writes: "I didn't just want people who could spin a good story, but people who have lived valiantly as Christians in every sense of the word."Maturity and stability have an unmistakable authority of their own, and readers of this book will recognize it in the people who are within these pages" (p. 11).
Scott's participants are a diverse group, both in experience and in temperament. They include an inactive (or "Jack-") Mormon, a returned missionary, a former bishop, and a housewife. Each ran his or her own obstacle course in the long and unpredictable process of leaving Mormonism. One young woman underwent a series of meetings with Mormon general authorities. Another woman was forced to recognize the demonic origin of an apparition that appeared to her in broad daylight as her dead grandmother to testify of the church's truthfulness.
Part Two explores various factors involved in leaving Mormonism and effective nurture of ex-Mormons. Its practical chapters include titles like "Personal Costs and Compensations," "Mistakes Christians Make," and "Toward an Easier Transition."
Ex-Mormons: Why We Left helps those interested in evangelizing Mormons to realize that, by presenting information damaging to Mormonism, they often set in motion events that profoundly alter their contacts' lives on every level. All but one of the participants acknowledge that, despite "the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:8), their departure from Mormonism cost them heavily -- especially in their personal relationships.
Numerous flashes of insight reveal Mormons as flesh-and-blood humans -- not the cardboard-cutout cultists who exist in the minds of many Christians. The book discourages the hit-and-run style of encounter that too often passes for evangelism.
The volume has its shortcomings. Every testimony but Scott's is related (in sometimes stilted prose) in the third person. But in Part Two she switches her subjects to the first person! It would have been far more effective to maintain the first person throughout. Careless editing and organization have left a number of annoying errors and inconsistencies.
Despite its unevenness, Ex-Mormons: Why We Left gives realistic encouragement to those leaving Mormonism while helping Christians to present the truth more compassionately and intelligently.
-- Paul Carden
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Drunken Catholic priest blames Holy Wine
Drunken priest blames Holy Wine
ROME, ITALY Jun 29 2009 15:37
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-06-29-priest-blames-holy-wine-for-drinkdriving
http://www.ugee.com/Bizarre/Drunken-priest-blames-Holy-Wine.html
Rome - An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit pleaded to police that it was only because of the Holy Wine he had drunk as part of the mass, Ansa news agency reported on Saturday.
Police rejected the priest's excuse and revoked his driving licence anyway.
Now the 41-year-old priest is set to appeal against the ruling, saying his alcohol consumption was not "voluntary" since it was part of the Catholic ritual in the four masses that he had celebrated during the day.
He was caught coming off the Milan-Turin motorway with a blood alcohol content of 0.8 grams - above the authorised limit in Italy of 0.5 grams.
ROME, ITALY Jun 29 2009 15:37
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-06-29-priest-blames-holy-wine-for-drinkdriving
http://www.ugee.com/Bizarre/Drunken-priest-blames-Holy-Wine.html
Rome - An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit pleaded to police that it was only because of the Holy Wine he had drunk as part of the mass, Ansa news agency reported on Saturday.
Police rejected the priest's excuse and revoked his driving licence anyway.
Now the 41-year-old priest is set to appeal against the ruling, saying his alcohol consumption was not "voluntary" since it was part of the Catholic ritual in the four masses that he had celebrated during the day.
He was caught coming off the Milan-Turin motorway with a blood alcohol content of 0.8 grams - above the authorised limit in Italy of 0.5 grams.
SEX AND THE KENYAN CHURCH
Sex and the Church
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144018047&cid=4&
Published on 28/06/2009
By Oscar Obonyo
It appears as if there are no devils in Hell — they are all in the Church.
And deviant sex has nearly everything to do with it — child sex molestation, sodomy and pornography. Allegations of child sexual molestation against a priest, prosecution of a preacher over pornography, and priests and nuns’ confessions of adultery and breaking of celibacy vows have awakened the country to the realisation the standing of the Church is in a shambles.
It is becoming clear that some priests prey on children with abandon. They engage in sex escapades that are the province of the brothel and the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
Priests, pastors and evangelists go further: They record such actions in video and use the pornographic materials to entice others of equal depravity. Nuns tell harrowing stories of lesbianism in monasteries, sex with priests and even abortions.
There is no doubt that the vice that has afflicted the Church elsewhere in the world has caught up with Kenya. In the US, Ireland and Argentina, among others, the Catholic Church has had to investigate priests over allegations of sexually molesting children. And the findings have been ominous.
The culprits have either been transferred or defrocked. The Church has paid victims so that the crimes are not reported to the police. In one case in San Diego, US, a victim of sex abuse was paid $100,000 (Sh7.6 million).
African Anglican clergy have threatened to sever relations with the Church of England over ordination of gay clerics.
Pope Benedict XVI has apologised for and condemned the crimes during his trips to the affected parts of the world. During a recent tour of Australia, he said: "It is essential for the Church to reconcile, to prevent, to help and to see guilt in this problem. It must be clear that being a real priest is incompatible with this (sexual abuse) because priests are in the service of our Lord."
Incidentally, the apparent rise in sexual molestation coincides with the Pope’s proclamation of the period between June 16 and 19, next year, as the ‘Special Year of Priests’. And the Catholic Church in Kenya has taken the cue.
Time to pray
In a Kenya Episcopal Conference communication to priests, John Cardinal Njue explains the prayer session is meant to be "a year during which we can discover a new beauty and importance of the priesthood and each priest".
Coincidentally, sexual molestation has reportedly peaked in the Church at a time controversial Zambian prelate, Emmanuel Milingo, was in the country to ordain priests who want to marry. Milingo married a Korean woman, Maria Sung in 2001.
Today, Milingo leads the Married Priests Now! Movement. On Thursday, he presided over the ordination of Father Daniel Kasomo of Machakos as Kenya’s bishop of his splinter group. Kasomo told priests: "If you cannot do without it, please get married."
But Church leaders have condemned the vices and those who commit them.
Cardinal Njue dismisses any link between celibacy and child sexual molestation. Through his secretary and spokesperson, Father Calisto Nyagilo, the Cardinal says child defilers are psychopaths who have "absolutely nothing to do with celibacy".
"The Catholic Church does not condone paedophilic or criminal acts. However, the Church is made up of individuals and designed by and for human beings," said Nyagilo.
He says the Church does not protect individuals suspected of criminal acts. He cites Canon 22 of the Catholic Priesthood, "which allows the State to investigate and prosecute crime suspects".
But he is irked by the blanket judgement of the entire Church and priests.
The Reverend David Oginde of the Kenya Church concurs: "When it comes to moral issues, it is a matter of individual responsibility. And when failure sets in, it is wrong to generalise the gravity of the situation."
Individual weaknesses
Noting that some of the latest suspects "are from the religious quarters", Oginde says some may be victims of individual or institutional weaknesses "within Church structures".
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) General Secretary Canon Peter Karanja is worried. He says cases that touch on the "men of God" are sensitive because high moral behaviour is expected of them.
"However, crime is crime, abuse is abuse and nobody is immune to scrutiny. The dignity of the Church must be protected," he says.
But the matter is a hot potato for the Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala. He declined to comment: "If I were to share my personal views, anything I say will be construed to be the official stand of the Anglican Church."
Karanja attributes the apparent rise of reporting of sodomy cases to a vigilant media.
While lauding the media for making known the instances of child sexual molestation, Karanja is concerned about treatment of the reports.
"We hope that when individuals are mentioned, the media will investigate before subjecting suspects to the public court," he said.
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144018047&cid=4&
Published on 28/06/2009
By Oscar Obonyo
It appears as if there are no devils in Hell — they are all in the Church.
And deviant sex has nearly everything to do with it — child sex molestation, sodomy and pornography. Allegations of child sexual molestation against a priest, prosecution of a preacher over pornography, and priests and nuns’ confessions of adultery and breaking of celibacy vows have awakened the country to the realisation the standing of the Church is in a shambles.
It is becoming clear that some priests prey on children with abandon. They engage in sex escapades that are the province of the brothel and the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
Priests, pastors and evangelists go further: They record such actions in video and use the pornographic materials to entice others of equal depravity. Nuns tell harrowing stories of lesbianism in monasteries, sex with priests and even abortions.
There is no doubt that the vice that has afflicted the Church elsewhere in the world has caught up with Kenya. In the US, Ireland and Argentina, among others, the Catholic Church has had to investigate priests over allegations of sexually molesting children. And the findings have been ominous.
The culprits have either been transferred or defrocked. The Church has paid victims so that the crimes are not reported to the police. In one case in San Diego, US, a victim of sex abuse was paid $100,000 (Sh7.6 million).
African Anglican clergy have threatened to sever relations with the Church of England over ordination of gay clerics.
Pope Benedict XVI has apologised for and condemned the crimes during his trips to the affected parts of the world. During a recent tour of Australia, he said: "It is essential for the Church to reconcile, to prevent, to help and to see guilt in this problem. It must be clear that being a real priest is incompatible with this (sexual abuse) because priests are in the service of our Lord."
Incidentally, the apparent rise in sexual molestation coincides with the Pope’s proclamation of the period between June 16 and 19, next year, as the ‘Special Year of Priests’. And the Catholic Church in Kenya has taken the cue.
Time to pray
In a Kenya Episcopal Conference communication to priests, John Cardinal Njue explains the prayer session is meant to be "a year during which we can discover a new beauty and importance of the priesthood and each priest".
Coincidentally, sexual molestation has reportedly peaked in the Church at a time controversial Zambian prelate, Emmanuel Milingo, was in the country to ordain priests who want to marry. Milingo married a Korean woman, Maria Sung in 2001.
Today, Milingo leads the Married Priests Now! Movement. On Thursday, he presided over the ordination of Father Daniel Kasomo of Machakos as Kenya’s bishop of his splinter group. Kasomo told priests: "If you cannot do without it, please get married."
But Church leaders have condemned the vices and those who commit them.
Cardinal Njue dismisses any link between celibacy and child sexual molestation. Through his secretary and spokesperson, Father Calisto Nyagilo, the Cardinal says child defilers are psychopaths who have "absolutely nothing to do with celibacy".
"The Catholic Church does not condone paedophilic or criminal acts. However, the Church is made up of individuals and designed by and for human beings," said Nyagilo.
He says the Church does not protect individuals suspected of criminal acts. He cites Canon 22 of the Catholic Priesthood, "which allows the State to investigate and prosecute crime suspects".
But he is irked by the blanket judgement of the entire Church and priests.
The Reverend David Oginde of the Kenya Church concurs: "When it comes to moral issues, it is a matter of individual responsibility. And when failure sets in, it is wrong to generalise the gravity of the situation."
Individual weaknesses
Noting that some of the latest suspects "are from the religious quarters", Oginde says some may be victims of individual or institutional weaknesses "within Church structures".
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) General Secretary Canon Peter Karanja is worried. He says cases that touch on the "men of God" are sensitive because high moral behaviour is expected of them.
"However, crime is crime, abuse is abuse and nobody is immune to scrutiny. The dignity of the Church must be protected," he says.
But the matter is a hot potato for the Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala. He declined to comment: "If I were to share my personal views, anything I say will be construed to be the official stand of the Anglican Church."
Karanja attributes the apparent rise of reporting of sodomy cases to a vigilant media.
While lauding the media for making known the instances of child sexual molestation, Karanja is concerned about treatment of the reports.
"We hope that when individuals are mentioned, the media will investigate before subjecting suspects to the public court," he said.
Monday, 6 July 2009
YOU ARE SIMPLY WRONG ABOUT THE CATHOLICS: OH! REALLY
…thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5 )
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.(Hebrews 7:25)
My analysis
I really feel pity for people like Mr. Kaggwa Andrew who have been deceived by Roman Catholicism. I have communicated with Catholics for some time. I’m so amazed by their ignorance of the scriptures and their inconsistent reasoning while defending what they believe. Catholicism is indeed witchcraft, it is amazing how Catholics recite the same flawed arguments as if they are robots. The bible says that God has magnified his word even above his name( Psalms 138:2). Scripture does not say that God has magnified traditions of men above his word. Therefore it is with the word of God that I’m going to test Mr. Kaggwa Andrew’s assertions.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’The technical meaning of Catholic is “all things”; Catholic means all Christians or the whole Christian church. Taking yourself away from being a Catholic means you are not part of the universal church, or are separating yourself from it and Jesus. It’s funny but all Christians regardless of title and denomination are Catholics’’. Catholic means ‘all things’- this is interesting, you mean even ducks, geese, trees, stones and scorpions are catholic!!!!. He does not seem to know the difference between catholic and roman catholic church. How can Jesus be associated and expect his followers to associate with an institution such as the Roman catholic church which arges its followers to pray to the dead, pray the rosary, indulge it extra biblical rituals and traditions of men. etc . It is written that cursed is he who trusts in man(Jer.17:5). Scripture further cautions us to watch out against deception through philosophy and vain deceit whose purpose is to make us follow the traditions of men instead of following Christ(col.2:8).
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’Many people do not understand the values of Mary and the Saints… The respect we give Mary is a sign of gratitude and honour. It’s useless to honour and respect the son but abuse his mother. Even African wise men knew that thus the proverb, “A man who says his father’s wives are bad, includes himself and his mother” or “A man who disrespects his mother has no respect for himself.” Note how he prefers to defend his ‘argument’ using an African proverb instead of the word of God. Catholics do not want to admit that they worship Mary. They argue that they simply respect and honour Mary. If it is simply respect and honour, why make statues for Mary and even kneel before them? Why build temples for Mary. Did the Apostles and believers in the Book of acts do this? Where did this kind of behavior come from. Certainly from paganism.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’Mary is the mother of Christianity because the root and the origin of Christianity is Jesus, her son. “Christian” is simply an identity for all the followers of Christ. It’s a signature i.e. people from Uganda are Ugandans, Kenya has Kenyans and the followers of Christ are Christians’’….Respect for Mary is realising her role in saving this world. Praying through Mary is an intervention. When we sin, many of us can’t face God directly for we know our deeds are not right, we ask the mother to talk to the son for he will listen to her and have mercy. This should remind us that much as Jesus is divine, he was also human; he lived on earth, and like any human with scruples, he respected and still respects his mother. In John 1(2.1-12) Mary’s importance was evident in the Bible, when the others could not face Jesus because they were out of wine; Mary walked to Jesus and told him. Jesus obeyed his mother and changed water into wine, his first miracle’’. The role of Mary was to bare the son Jesus. Jesus is the savoir not Mary. It is Jesus who atoned for our sin, not Mary(Matthew 1:21). In fact, in (Luke 1:46) even Mary calls the Lord Jesus Christ her savoir. What a humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ! The word Christians comes form Christ. Andrew does not seem to differentiate between genuine Christians and counterfeit Christians. He thinks even Mormons and Jehovah witnesses are true Christians. The bible says they were first called Christians at Antioch(Acts 11:19-26). It is amazing that Catholicism is so different from the Christianity in the book of acts.
John 1(2.1-12) shows that the Mary of the bible is very diffeent from the Mary of Roman catholicism. The Mary of the bible points people to Jesus while the Mary of Roman Catholicism points to herself. The catholic Mary calls her self a mediator between God and Men (1 Timothy 2:5) and the door of heaven. This is pure blasphemy. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only mediator between men and God, he is the only door of the sheep(John 10:9) whoever enters by this door shall be saved. In John 1(2.1-12) Jesus called Mary a WOMAN and not mother. The Lord Jesus Christ was trying to show that he is God and Mary is a mere created human being.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’A saint is a person the Catholic Church recognizes as being holy because of the way they have lived or died. Christ usually manifests his divine nature through these people. When they die, they can’t simply be regarded as dead/late. They are so close to God that prayer through them to God can also work miracles. Saints have all lived extraordinary lives or died for what they believe true.Saints are not simply ordinary believers but almost one with God, having suffered stigmatas (wounds of Christ i.e. Fr Padre Pio), enjoyed their painful deaths (Uganda Martyrs sang as they burnt away), and given up all their wealth to preach the Gospel (though many are preaching to gain wealth today). They are not dead people but followers who have acquired the status that Jesus’ own disciples enjoyed. They are not dead because their influence still drives more people’’
In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in Heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth. In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or “canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop. In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice, the saints are revered, prayed to, and in some instances, worshipped. In the Bible, saints are called to revere, worship, and pray to God alone. (http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html)
What are Christian saints according to the Bible?
http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html
The word of God Categorically calls all born again believers saints . Apostle Paul in most of his letters begins by saluting the saints(ie born again beleivers concecrated to God). Therefore all born again christians are called saints. You do not need the authority of man, the Pope and his bishops to be declared a saint.Amen. Flee the catholic satanic system now. It is a billion miles away from the word of God. it is an antichrist system that leads to hell.Check out theses scriptures(see how apostle Paul calls believers saints).
1Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: (1 Corinthians 1:1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.( Ephesians 1:1-2)
1Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1: 1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:1-2)
Inside the Catholic Catechism
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat-ndx.html
Deceptive antics of the Catholic Charismatic renewal: Father Expedicto Magembe of Mountain Sion and Christ the King prayer Group
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/deceptive-antics-of-catholic.html
Unmasking Catholicism
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Book/index.html
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/index.html
Catholicism is typical witchcraft
http://www.cephasministry.com/index_catholic_files.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
CATHOLICISM IS OF THE DEVIL
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/catholicism_is_of_the_devil.htm
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
BE WARE OF CATHOLIC ECUMENISM
http://www.kizitomg.webs.com
SEE ARTICLE
You are simply wrong about the Catholics
SUNDAY LIFE | July 5, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sunday_life/You_are_simply_wrong_about_the_Catholics_87519.shtml
http://heyafrica.com/africa-news/you-are-simply-wrong-about-the-catholics
Many people do not understand the values of Mary and the Saints. The importance of Mary should be noted by all Christians who believe in Jesus Christ, writes Kaggwa Andrew.
On Monday15, June, Sanyu FM’s Breakfast with Fat Boy and Melanie were trying to solve a problem. A lady was concerned that her young sister was dating a born again Christian man who had started changing her that she had even done away with attending mass.
I am a Catholic and like the others, I could tell Yvonne (I do not remember if it was her name) to mind her business though we all know these are almost two different sectors; they constantly attack each other and usually go against each other’s values. Well, I wish to point out and correct some “facts” that Melanie made about the Catholic Church during the show.
Melanie said she does not belong to any denomination. But neither do we, we are just Catholics. The technical meaning of Catholic is “all things”; Catholic means all Christians or the whole Christian church. Taking yourself away from being a Catholic means you are not part of the universal church, or are separating yourself from it and Jesus. It’s funny but all Christians regardless of title and denomination are Catholics.
The respect we give Mary is a sign of gratitude and honour. It’s useless to honour and respect the son but abuse his mother. Even African wise men knew that thus the proverb, “A man who says his father’s wives are bad, includes himself and his mother” or “A man who disrespects his mother has no respect for himself.”
Mary is the mother of Christianity because the root and the origin of Christianity is Jesus, her son. “Christian” is simply an identity for all the followers of Christ. It’s a signature i.e. people from Uganda are Ugandans, Kenya has Kenyans and the followers of Christ are Christians.
Respect for Mary is realising her role in saving this world. Praying through Mary is an intervention. When we sin, many of us can’t face God directly for we know our deeds are not right, we ask the mother to talk to the son for he will listen to her and have mercy. This should remind us that much as Jesus is divine, he was also human; he lived on earth, and like any human with scruples, he respected and still respects his mother.
In John 1(2.1-12) Mary’s importance was evident in the Bible, when the others could not face Jesus because they were out of wine; Mary walked to Jesus and told him. Jesus obeyed his mother and changed water into wine, his first miracle. This goes even for the conversions; in the public eye, the Catholic church will not tell who has converted or not. For Melanie to say that Tony Blair has been the only attractive thing to happen in the Catholic Church in the past few years was just a personal assessment.
I’m too proud too; I can’t mention any converts because, again, faith is neither a trend nor trade. Conversion is a process, not occasional; Blair might have declared himself Catholic in 2007 but the process might have started as early as 2004. Accepting Christ involves changing the way we act, think, treat others, live our lives etc. All this cannot change all of a sudden when you listen to a pastor/ priest preach, much as his message may impact you.
We let converts understand Christ, prayer, fasting, and knowing their Christian virtues before we start giving them the paparazzi attention. About the gifts of the Holy Spirit, it’s not possible for one to teach the other how to speak in tongues if God did not give you the gift in the first place. If all believers get the gift of performing miracles, who will need assistance in the church? If all believers speak in tongues, how will the new converts understand the message? Who will interpret it?
When Melanie said something about “…when the father wants to teach children how to speak in tongues,” I felt the need to tell her that these are not taught. These are God-given gifts not to be advertised to the public.
God can give his gifts to everyone and contrary to what Melanie thinks, we believe in God talking to individuals; every time a voice tells you to do right against wrong, it’s the voice of God. Not all people that God talks to become saints. A saint is a person the Catholic Church reognises as being holy because of the way they have lived or died. Christ usually manifests his divine nature through these people. When they die, they can’t simply be regarded as dead/late. They are so close to God that prayer through them to God can also work miracles. Saints have all lived extraordinary lives or died for what they believe true.
Saints are not simply ordinary believers but almost one with God, having suffered stigmatas (wounds of Christ i.e. Fr Padre Pio), enjoyed their painful deaths (Uganda Martyrs sang as they burnt away), and given up all their wealth to preach the Gospel (though many are preaching to gain wealth today).
They are not dead people but followers who have acquired the status that Jesus’ own disciples enjoyed. They are not dead because their influence still drives more people to God even today. Saints pray for us to God in ways we can’t. It might not be written in the Bible but again when Jesus went to fast for 40 days, it was not written that we should carry on the practice yet we all do it and it’s not wrong.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5 )
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.(Hebrews 7:25)
My analysis
I really feel pity for people like Mr. Kaggwa Andrew who have been deceived by Roman Catholicism. I have communicated with Catholics for some time. I’m so amazed by their ignorance of the scriptures and their inconsistent reasoning while defending what they believe. Catholicism is indeed witchcraft, it is amazing how Catholics recite the same flawed arguments as if they are robots. The bible says that God has magnified his word even above his name( Psalms 138:2). Scripture does not say that God has magnified traditions of men above his word. Therefore it is with the word of God that I’m going to test Mr. Kaggwa Andrew’s assertions.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’The technical meaning of Catholic is “all things”; Catholic means all Christians or the whole Christian church. Taking yourself away from being a Catholic means you are not part of the universal church, or are separating yourself from it and Jesus. It’s funny but all Christians regardless of title and denomination are Catholics’’. Catholic means ‘all things’- this is interesting, you mean even ducks, geese, trees, stones and scorpions are catholic!!!!. He does not seem to know the difference between catholic and roman catholic church. How can Jesus be associated and expect his followers to associate with an institution such as the Roman catholic church which arges its followers to pray to the dead, pray the rosary, indulge it extra biblical rituals and traditions of men. etc . It is written that cursed is he who trusts in man(Jer.17:5). Scripture further cautions us to watch out against deception through philosophy and vain deceit whose purpose is to make us follow the traditions of men instead of following Christ(col.2:8).
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’Many people do not understand the values of Mary and the Saints… The respect we give Mary is a sign of gratitude and honour. It’s useless to honour and respect the son but abuse his mother. Even African wise men knew that thus the proverb, “A man who says his father’s wives are bad, includes himself and his mother” or “A man who disrespects his mother has no respect for himself.” Note how he prefers to defend his ‘argument’ using an African proverb instead of the word of God. Catholics do not want to admit that they worship Mary. They argue that they simply respect and honour Mary. If it is simply respect and honour, why make statues for Mary and even kneel before them? Why build temples for Mary. Did the Apostles and believers in the Book of acts do this? Where did this kind of behavior come from. Certainly from paganism.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’Mary is the mother of Christianity because the root and the origin of Christianity is Jesus, her son. “Christian” is simply an identity for all the followers of Christ. It’s a signature i.e. people from Uganda are Ugandans, Kenya has Kenyans and the followers of Christ are Christians’’….Respect for Mary is realising her role in saving this world. Praying through Mary is an intervention. When we sin, many of us can’t face God directly for we know our deeds are not right, we ask the mother to talk to the son for he will listen to her and have mercy. This should remind us that much as Jesus is divine, he was also human; he lived on earth, and like any human with scruples, he respected and still respects his mother. In John 1(2.1-12) Mary’s importance was evident in the Bible, when the others could not face Jesus because they were out of wine; Mary walked to Jesus and told him. Jesus obeyed his mother and changed water into wine, his first miracle’’. The role of Mary was to bare the son Jesus. Jesus is the savoir not Mary. It is Jesus who atoned for our sin, not Mary(Matthew 1:21). In fact, in (Luke 1:46) even Mary calls the Lord Jesus Christ her savoir. What a humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ! The word Christians comes form Christ. Andrew does not seem to differentiate between genuine Christians and counterfeit Christians. He thinks even Mormons and Jehovah witnesses are true Christians. The bible says they were first called Christians at Antioch(Acts 11:19-26). It is amazing that Catholicism is so different from the Christianity in the book of acts.
John 1(2.1-12) shows that the Mary of the bible is very diffeent from the Mary of Roman catholicism. The Mary of the bible points people to Jesus while the Mary of Roman Catholicism points to herself. The catholic Mary calls her self a mediator between God and Men (1 Timothy 2:5) and the door of heaven. This is pure blasphemy. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only mediator between men and God, he is the only door of the sheep(John 10:9) whoever enters by this door shall be saved. In John 1(2.1-12) Jesus called Mary a WOMAN and not mother. The Lord Jesus Christ was trying to show that he is God and Mary is a mere created human being.
Mr. Kaggwa Andrew argues that ‘’A saint is a person the Catholic Church recognizes as being holy because of the way they have lived or died. Christ usually manifests his divine nature through these people. When they die, they can’t simply be regarded as dead/late. They are so close to God that prayer through them to God can also work miracles. Saints have all lived extraordinary lives or died for what they believe true.Saints are not simply ordinary believers but almost one with God, having suffered stigmatas (wounds of Christ i.e. Fr Padre Pio), enjoyed their painful deaths (Uganda Martyrs sang as they burnt away), and given up all their wealth to preach the Gospel (though many are preaching to gain wealth today). They are not dead people but followers who have acquired the status that Jesus’ own disciples enjoyed. They are not dead because their influence still drives more people’’
In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in Heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth. In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or “canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop. In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice, the saints are revered, prayed to, and in some instances, worshipped. In the Bible, saints are called to revere, worship, and pray to God alone. (http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html)
What are Christian saints according to the Bible?
http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html
The word of God Categorically calls all born again believers saints . Apostle Paul in most of his letters begins by saluting the saints(ie born again beleivers concecrated to God). Therefore all born again christians are called saints. You do not need the authority of man, the Pope and his bishops to be declared a saint.Amen. Flee the catholic satanic system now. It is a billion miles away from the word of God. it is an antichrist system that leads to hell.Check out theses scriptures(see how apostle Paul calls believers saints).
1Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: (1 Corinthians 1:1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.( Ephesians 1:1-2)
1Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1: 1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:1-2)
Inside the Catholic Catechism
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat-ndx.html
Deceptive antics of the Catholic Charismatic renewal: Father Expedicto Magembe of Mountain Sion and Christ the King prayer Group
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/deceptive-antics-of-catholic.html
Unmasking Catholicism
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Book/index.html
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/index.html
Catholicism is typical witchcraft
http://www.cephasministry.com/index_catholic_files.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
CATHOLICISM IS OF THE DEVIL
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/catholicism_is_of_the_devil.htm
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
BE WARE OF CATHOLIC ECUMENISM
http://www.kizitomg.webs.com
SEE ARTICLE
You are simply wrong about the Catholics
SUNDAY LIFE | July 5, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sunday_life/You_are_simply_wrong_about_the_Catholics_87519.shtml
http://heyafrica.com/africa-news/you-are-simply-wrong-about-the-catholics
Many people do not understand the values of Mary and the Saints. The importance of Mary should be noted by all Christians who believe in Jesus Christ, writes Kaggwa Andrew.
On Monday15, June, Sanyu FM’s Breakfast with Fat Boy and Melanie were trying to solve a problem. A lady was concerned that her young sister was dating a born again Christian man who had started changing her that she had even done away with attending mass.
I am a Catholic and like the others, I could tell Yvonne (I do not remember if it was her name) to mind her business though we all know these are almost two different sectors; they constantly attack each other and usually go against each other’s values. Well, I wish to point out and correct some “facts” that Melanie made about the Catholic Church during the show.
Melanie said she does not belong to any denomination. But neither do we, we are just Catholics. The technical meaning of Catholic is “all things”; Catholic means all Christians or the whole Christian church. Taking yourself away from being a Catholic means you are not part of the universal church, or are separating yourself from it and Jesus. It’s funny but all Christians regardless of title and denomination are Catholics.
The respect we give Mary is a sign of gratitude and honour. It’s useless to honour and respect the son but abuse his mother. Even African wise men knew that thus the proverb, “A man who says his father’s wives are bad, includes himself and his mother” or “A man who disrespects his mother has no respect for himself.”
Mary is the mother of Christianity because the root and the origin of Christianity is Jesus, her son. “Christian” is simply an identity for all the followers of Christ. It’s a signature i.e. people from Uganda are Ugandans, Kenya has Kenyans and the followers of Christ are Christians.
Respect for Mary is realising her role in saving this world. Praying through Mary is an intervention. When we sin, many of us can’t face God directly for we know our deeds are not right, we ask the mother to talk to the son for he will listen to her and have mercy. This should remind us that much as Jesus is divine, he was also human; he lived on earth, and like any human with scruples, he respected and still respects his mother.
In John 1(2.1-12) Mary’s importance was evident in the Bible, when the others could not face Jesus because they were out of wine; Mary walked to Jesus and told him. Jesus obeyed his mother and changed water into wine, his first miracle. This goes even for the conversions; in the public eye, the Catholic church will not tell who has converted or not. For Melanie to say that Tony Blair has been the only attractive thing to happen in the Catholic Church in the past few years was just a personal assessment.
I’m too proud too; I can’t mention any converts because, again, faith is neither a trend nor trade. Conversion is a process, not occasional; Blair might have declared himself Catholic in 2007 but the process might have started as early as 2004. Accepting Christ involves changing the way we act, think, treat others, live our lives etc. All this cannot change all of a sudden when you listen to a pastor/ priest preach, much as his message may impact you.
We let converts understand Christ, prayer, fasting, and knowing their Christian virtues before we start giving them the paparazzi attention. About the gifts of the Holy Spirit, it’s not possible for one to teach the other how to speak in tongues if God did not give you the gift in the first place. If all believers get the gift of performing miracles, who will need assistance in the church? If all believers speak in tongues, how will the new converts understand the message? Who will interpret it?
When Melanie said something about “…when the father wants to teach children how to speak in tongues,” I felt the need to tell her that these are not taught. These are God-given gifts not to be advertised to the public.
God can give his gifts to everyone and contrary to what Melanie thinks, we believe in God talking to individuals; every time a voice tells you to do right against wrong, it’s the voice of God. Not all people that God talks to become saints. A saint is a person the Catholic Church reognises as being holy because of the way they have lived or died. Christ usually manifests his divine nature through these people. When they die, they can’t simply be regarded as dead/late. They are so close to God that prayer through them to God can also work miracles. Saints have all lived extraordinary lives or died for what they believe true.
Saints are not simply ordinary believers but almost one with God, having suffered stigmatas (wounds of Christ i.e. Fr Padre Pio), enjoyed their painful deaths (Uganda Martyrs sang as they burnt away), and given up all their wealth to preach the Gospel (though many are preaching to gain wealth today).
They are not dead people but followers who have acquired the status that Jesus’ own disciples enjoyed. They are not dead because their influence still drives more people to God even today. Saints pray for us to God in ways we can’t. It might not be written in the Bible but again when Jesus went to fast for 40 days, it was not written that we should carry on the practice yet we all do it and it’s not wrong.
Monday, 29 June 2009
MAY MICHAEL JACKSON’S SOUL REST IN PEACE: OH REALLY!!!
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. (Isaiah 48:22)
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?(Mark 8:36)
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke 12:15)
I was shocked to read a letter from a ‘Christian minister’ (see letter below) that ends with the phrase ‘May Michael Jackson’s soul rest in peace!’’. Whenever a person dies even if that person was in the occult, you HEAR Christians say may his or her soul rest in peace. How can your soul rest in peace when you rejected the lord Jesus Christ in your life time.
How CAN the king of Pop Michael Jackson rest in peace when he had connections with the occult. Evidence speaks loudly that Michael Jackson sold his SOUL TO THE DEVIL.
He ate the world but lost his soul. This should be a lesson to all Christians and non Christians that we are going to face the lord JESUS one day. WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN before that time or else no heaven. Check out the videos below. I urge all born again christians to watch the video THEY SOLD THEIR SOULD FOR ROCK AND ROLL.
EXPOSED: MICHAEL JACKSON SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL
http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/video-michael-jackson-exposed-they-sold-their-souls-for-rock-roll
THEY SOLD THEIR SOULD FOR ROCK AND ROLL
http://www.cuttingedge.org/videoroom.html
HOLLWOOD's WAR ON GOD
http://theater.goodfight.org
http://www.goodfight.org
Michael Jackson: The Man With Many Faces
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/michael_jackson.htm
Michael Jackson autopsy results leaked?
http://www.zimbio.com/Michael+Jackson+Dead/articles/lPss4q8mIXW/Michael+Jackson+autopsy+results+leaked
SATAN'S MUSIC
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/devils_music.htm
Jackson's Dangerous Album Cover Was Full of Occult Symbolism
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/090904dangerousalbum.htm
ALEISTER CROWLEY, THE MOST WICKED MAN THAT EVER LIVED AND THE WORLD LEADERS THAT WORSHIP HIM. (UPDATE)
http://www.zimbio.com/Aleister+Crowley/articles/12/ALEISTER+CROWLEY+MOST+WICKED+MAN+EVER+LIVED
SEE THIS ARTICLE
Michael Jackson; a subject for theological reflection
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Michael_Jackson_a_subject_for_theological_reflection_printer.shtml
Posted in: Opinions
By Amos Kasibante
Jun 29, 2009 - 3:24:31 AM
Michael Jackson should and will be a subject not only for journalistic comment or sociological and artistic study, but also for theological reflection. This suggestion might come as a surprise considering that unlike Bob Marley or Lucky Dube, Jackson does not mention God or spiritual subjects. And unlike Elvis Presley, it has not been said of Jackson that he was more famous than Jesus Christ. Does the suggestion to turn Jackson into a subject for theological reflection meant to inappropriately smuggle the famous King of Pop into the theological arena or turn him into a theological subject? No, because theological reflection does not limit itself to a few subjects, but reflects on any subject that impacts human beings and human history in a significant way. It is, therefore, not surprising that Jackson’s life has been described as iconic.
An icon is something or somebody that reflects depth in human life and helps humans to understand themselves better. It is a mirror reflecting human beings to themselves. The reason Jackson was famous was because he touched something very deep inside human beings.
He was able to transcend his own culture in USA , the West, South America and Africa, but appealed to people in India, Japan and China among others. However, we should see the genesis of his musical talent in the history and culture of USA and of Black America in particular. He must have been touched and gained inspiration from the Black soul tradition, which had its origins in religious experience. Not mystical experience as such but an experience that spoke from the depths, about suffering, endurance, and overcoming. Jackson’s Blackness is also crucial, for he brought stardom, hitherto restricted to White achievement, to the Black race. His talent is therefore a cultural contribution of the Black people to the culture of the world.
Michael tapped into the deep energy and creativity at the heart of human life, for music comes from the depths. It is part of creation itself. Music has a divine quality about it. A song that is popular in Christian circles in schools in Uganda says that Jesus is Lord of (the) dance. Song and dance is an imitation of the singing and dancing God. God has got style and moves with grace. The greatest gifts we have from the divine are creativity and imagination.
Another aspect of Jackson’s life that calls for theological reflection is the controversy surrounding his life.
There is a sense in which Jackson was a tragic figure. He was an extremely vulnerable, some would say insecure person. That made him love children, but it also rendered him susceptible to charges of child sexual abuse.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect was the plastic surgery, which turned his handsome baby-face into a kind of whitish mask. The actual cause of this death is yet to be established, but it is now common knowledge that his reliance on medication to relieve many of his physical and mental ailments might have been fatal.
But Jackson’s life is also a parable about the life of each one of us: Our vulnerability and capacity to self-destruct. And his tragic death says volumes about a fact which stairs us direct in the face, but which we often refuse to acknowledge - that death has no formula, that death is no respecter of persons, and that it does not take the elderly. May Michael Jackson’s soul rest in peace!
Rev. Kasibante lives in the United Kingdom
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?(Mark 8:36)
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke 12:15)
I was shocked to read a letter from a ‘Christian minister’ (see letter below) that ends with the phrase ‘May Michael Jackson’s soul rest in peace!’’. Whenever a person dies even if that person was in the occult, you HEAR Christians say may his or her soul rest in peace. How can your soul rest in peace when you rejected the lord Jesus Christ in your life time.
How CAN the king of Pop Michael Jackson rest in peace when he had connections with the occult. Evidence speaks loudly that Michael Jackson sold his SOUL TO THE DEVIL.
He ate the world but lost his soul. This should be a lesson to all Christians and non Christians that we are going to face the lord JESUS one day. WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN before that time or else no heaven. Check out the videos below. I urge all born again christians to watch the video THEY SOLD THEIR SOULD FOR ROCK AND ROLL.
EXPOSED: MICHAEL JACKSON SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL
http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/video-michael-jackson-exposed-they-sold-their-souls-for-rock-roll
THEY SOLD THEIR SOULD FOR ROCK AND ROLL
http://www.cuttingedge.org/videoroom.html
HOLLWOOD's WAR ON GOD
http://theater.goodfight.org
http://www.goodfight.org
Michael Jackson: The Man With Many Faces
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/michael_jackson.htm
Michael Jackson autopsy results leaked?
http://www.zimbio.com/Michael+Jackson+Dead/articles/lPss4q8mIXW/Michael+Jackson+autopsy+results+leaked
SATAN'S MUSIC
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/devils_music.htm
Jackson's Dangerous Album Cover Was Full of Occult Symbolism
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/090904dangerousalbum.htm
ALEISTER CROWLEY, THE MOST WICKED MAN THAT EVER LIVED AND THE WORLD LEADERS THAT WORSHIP HIM. (UPDATE)
http://www.zimbio.com/Aleister+Crowley/articles/12/ALEISTER+CROWLEY+MOST+WICKED+MAN+EVER+LIVED
SEE THIS ARTICLE
Michael Jackson; a subject for theological reflection
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Michael_Jackson_a_subject_for_theological_reflection_printer.shtml
Posted in: Opinions
By Amos Kasibante
Jun 29, 2009 - 3:24:31 AM
Michael Jackson should and will be a subject not only for journalistic comment or sociological and artistic study, but also for theological reflection. This suggestion might come as a surprise considering that unlike Bob Marley or Lucky Dube, Jackson does not mention God or spiritual subjects. And unlike Elvis Presley, it has not been said of Jackson that he was more famous than Jesus Christ. Does the suggestion to turn Jackson into a subject for theological reflection meant to inappropriately smuggle the famous King of Pop into the theological arena or turn him into a theological subject? No, because theological reflection does not limit itself to a few subjects, but reflects on any subject that impacts human beings and human history in a significant way. It is, therefore, not surprising that Jackson’s life has been described as iconic.
An icon is something or somebody that reflects depth in human life and helps humans to understand themselves better. It is a mirror reflecting human beings to themselves. The reason Jackson was famous was because he touched something very deep inside human beings.
He was able to transcend his own culture in USA , the West, South America and Africa, but appealed to people in India, Japan and China among others. However, we should see the genesis of his musical talent in the history and culture of USA and of Black America in particular. He must have been touched and gained inspiration from the Black soul tradition, which had its origins in religious experience. Not mystical experience as such but an experience that spoke from the depths, about suffering, endurance, and overcoming. Jackson’s Blackness is also crucial, for he brought stardom, hitherto restricted to White achievement, to the Black race. His talent is therefore a cultural contribution of the Black people to the culture of the world.
Michael tapped into the deep energy and creativity at the heart of human life, for music comes from the depths. It is part of creation itself. Music has a divine quality about it. A song that is popular in Christian circles in schools in Uganda says that Jesus is Lord of (the) dance. Song and dance is an imitation of the singing and dancing God. God has got style and moves with grace. The greatest gifts we have from the divine are creativity and imagination.
Another aspect of Jackson’s life that calls for theological reflection is the controversy surrounding his life.
There is a sense in which Jackson was a tragic figure. He was an extremely vulnerable, some would say insecure person. That made him love children, but it also rendered him susceptible to charges of child sexual abuse.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect was the plastic surgery, which turned his handsome baby-face into a kind of whitish mask. The actual cause of this death is yet to be established, but it is now common knowledge that his reliance on medication to relieve many of his physical and mental ailments might have been fatal.
But Jackson’s life is also a parable about the life of each one of us: Our vulnerability and capacity to self-destruct. And his tragic death says volumes about a fact which stairs us direct in the face, but which we often refuse to acknowledge - that death has no formula, that death is no respecter of persons, and that it does not take the elderly. May Michael Jackson’s soul rest in peace!
Rev. Kasibante lives in the United Kingdom
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The Poor African Born agains think working in Iraq is a blessing from God: ‘Ugandans subjected to slavery in Iraq’
Uganda Pentecostal Churches and the War in Iraq
Whomsoever will save his life shall loose it…(Luke 9:24)
Many Pentecostals churches IN Uganda are wash with testimonies of their faithfuls who were blessed by God because they served in Iraq as guards . Some of these people protect facilities of US army in Iraq. Some of the people who have served in Iraq are church ministers. Despite the fact that many people have amassed wealth from Iraq, God has nothing to do with this ‘blessing’. The god behind the war in Iraq is satan. It is amazing how born again saints are very willing to surrender their children to the devil for the sake of prosperity.
PAINFUL DECEPTIONS: THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1336167662031629480
This case shows the deception in the church . Many born again christians are not concerned about truth any more. What they want from the Lord Jesus Christ is material prosperity and prestige. They are ready to support the oppression of the poor for the sake of prosperity . God used the war in Iraq to test the hearts of men. Many Pastors and Christians in America and else where who supported the war in Iraq have been exposed by God. Many non-believers hate Christianity because of this level of hypocrisy.
GREED IS GOOD: THE AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM AND THE CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS IT
www.antipasministries.com/dvd_order.htm
WITCHCRAFT & THE PARANORMAL:UNLAWFULLY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE "SPIRIT WORLD"AND THE "WORLD OF MAN"
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000310.htm
If you are not born again, do not refuse Christ because of these hypocrites. Even the lord Jesus Christ talked about them and experienced them. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN. Check out what the Lord Jesus Christ stood for and decide by yourself.
Ugandan Pastors’ Love for America
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/309-ugandan-pastors-love-for-america.html
AMERICA: THE HIDEN FACE
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/america-hidden-face.html
LOOSE CUT, WERE THE TWIN TOWERS BLOWN BY EXPLOSIVES
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change+recut
SEE THIS ARTICLE
‘Ugandans subjected to slavery in Iraq’
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/685813
Wednesday, 24th June, 2009
By Henry Mukasa, Cyprian Musoke and Simon Longoli
Parliament yesterday heard of how some female Ugandans taken to Iraq with promises of lucrative jobs, ended up trapped in slavery and forced sex.
Makindye West MP Hussein Kyanjo (JEEMA) told the House presided over by the deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, he had spoken with five of the victims over the phone.
He said the women were promised secretarial jobs but ended up as house maids.
“They were used for other things outside the agreed work,” Kyanjo said.
“Although they were promised $400, none of them has received payment. They tried to raise these issues with the people they were working for.”
“Unfortunately, they were picked up and put in what appears to be a ‘safe house’,” Kyanjo narrated to an attentive House.
“They talked to me one after another. They said they are frequently beaten by their masters,” added Kyanjo.
The MP reported that the stranded girls were taken to Iraq by a company, Uganda Veterans which has offices in Muyenga, a Kampala suburb.
According to the MP, the women recall they dealt with Godfrey Karingiri, a one Kyalimpa and Gordon, all officials at the company.
He said the girls include Rachel and Mable Malagala, daughters of Mrs. Joyce Semakula of Katwe in Makindye Division and Doreen Nalubwama Kisakye, a daughter of Christopher Sempala of Nakulabye Eliot Zone in Rubaga Division.
Others are Enid Tushabe of Jeremiah Karuhanga from Kanyaryeru in Kiruhura and Sanyu Nakazibwe, a daughter to Sarah Nassimbwa of Makerere Kivulu in Kawempe Division.
“The girls have requested me to ask Parliament to find a way of bringing them back,” Kyanjo said.
He added: “I ask Parliament to direct the ministries of gender and labour and that of foreign affairs to explain how the purported company is running. Parliament should stop this company,” he appealed. Kyanjo said he had reported the girls’ plight to the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative and the Human Rights Watch.
Kadaga said if the report was true it would be tantamount to human trafficking by disguise.
She directed the clerk to take up the matter with the two ministries.
Both ministers and their deputies did not attend Parliament.
Sebuliba Mutumba (DP) said the case showed the urgency for the Government to design a policy for kyeyo seekers and companies ferrying them.
“They are being abused, raped and defiled.”
Whomsoever will save his life shall loose it…(Luke 9:24)
Many Pentecostals churches IN Uganda are wash with testimonies of their faithfuls who were blessed by God because they served in Iraq as guards . Some of these people protect facilities of US army in Iraq. Some of the people who have served in Iraq are church ministers. Despite the fact that many people have amassed wealth from Iraq, God has nothing to do with this ‘blessing’. The god behind the war in Iraq is satan. It is amazing how born again saints are very willing to surrender their children to the devil for the sake of prosperity.
PAINFUL DECEPTIONS: THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1336167662031629480
This case shows the deception in the church . Many born again christians are not concerned about truth any more. What they want from the Lord Jesus Christ is material prosperity and prestige. They are ready to support the oppression of the poor for the sake of prosperity . God used the war in Iraq to test the hearts of men. Many Pastors and Christians in America and else where who supported the war in Iraq have been exposed by God. Many non-believers hate Christianity because of this level of hypocrisy.
GREED IS GOOD: THE AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM AND THE CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS IT
www.antipasministries.com/dvd_order.htm
WITCHCRAFT & THE PARANORMAL:UNLAWFULLY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE "SPIRIT WORLD"AND THE "WORLD OF MAN"
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000310.htm
If you are not born again, do not refuse Christ because of these hypocrites. Even the lord Jesus Christ talked about them and experienced them. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN. Check out what the Lord Jesus Christ stood for and decide by yourself.
Ugandan Pastors’ Love for America
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/309-ugandan-pastors-love-for-america.html
AMERICA: THE HIDEN FACE
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/america-hidden-face.html
LOOSE CUT, WERE THE TWIN TOWERS BLOWN BY EXPLOSIVES
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change+recut
SEE THIS ARTICLE
‘Ugandans subjected to slavery in Iraq’
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/685813
Wednesday, 24th June, 2009
By Henry Mukasa, Cyprian Musoke and Simon Longoli
Parliament yesterday heard of how some female Ugandans taken to Iraq with promises of lucrative jobs, ended up trapped in slavery and forced sex.
Makindye West MP Hussein Kyanjo (JEEMA) told the House presided over by the deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, he had spoken with five of the victims over the phone.
He said the women were promised secretarial jobs but ended up as house maids.
“They were used for other things outside the agreed work,” Kyanjo said.
“Although they were promised $400, none of them has received payment. They tried to raise these issues with the people they were working for.”
“Unfortunately, they were picked up and put in what appears to be a ‘safe house’,” Kyanjo narrated to an attentive House.
“They talked to me one after another. They said they are frequently beaten by their masters,” added Kyanjo.
The MP reported that the stranded girls were taken to Iraq by a company, Uganda Veterans which has offices in Muyenga, a Kampala suburb.
According to the MP, the women recall they dealt with Godfrey Karingiri, a one Kyalimpa and Gordon, all officials at the company.
He said the girls include Rachel and Mable Malagala, daughters of Mrs. Joyce Semakula of Katwe in Makindye Division and Doreen Nalubwama Kisakye, a daughter of Christopher Sempala of Nakulabye Eliot Zone in Rubaga Division.
Others are Enid Tushabe of Jeremiah Karuhanga from Kanyaryeru in Kiruhura and Sanyu Nakazibwe, a daughter to Sarah Nassimbwa of Makerere Kivulu in Kawempe Division.
“The girls have requested me to ask Parliament to find a way of bringing them back,” Kyanjo said.
He added: “I ask Parliament to direct the ministries of gender and labour and that of foreign affairs to explain how the purported company is running. Parliament should stop this company,” he appealed. Kyanjo said he had reported the girls’ plight to the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative and the Human Rights Watch.
Kadaga said if the report was true it would be tantamount to human trafficking by disguise.
She directed the clerk to take up the matter with the two ministries.
Both ministers and their deputies did not attend Parliament.
Sebuliba Mutumba (DP) said the case showed the urgency for the Government to design a policy for kyeyo seekers and companies ferrying them.
“They are being abused, raped and defiled.”
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
AMERICAN SAINT NARRATES WHAT TOOK PLACE AT BENNY HINN HOOD WINKING HOLYSPIRIT FIRE CONFERENCE IN KAMPALA
Hoodwinking 101
http://www.lastingfoundations.com/jeremyblog/index.htm#090617
JUNE, 17, 2009
I can now say with complete confidence that the ‘healings’ going on at Toufik Benedictus (Benny) Hinn’s crusades are not genuine.
Over the years, both secular and Christian media have investigated Benny Hinn Ministries, and to date, not one iota of concrete evidence has been provided to aid in the validation of these ‘miracles.’
During the Fire Conference I attended in Kampala, many people were ‘healed,’ but in every case something invisible was supposedly cured. Bad circulation, or stomach cancer, or some nebulous pain only cap the list of visually unverifiable ‘miracles.’
A senior staff member with BHM even told me directly, “I don’t believe all of the miracles.”
I could write for hours on this one point, on the scam of it, on how Benny Hinn and all those associated with him will have to answer to God regarding those whose money they have stolen. That’s not to mention answering for those poor souls who died due to lack of medical treatment after Benny told them they were cured.
But these things have been written on at length, and a simple Google search will bring up ample reading material. Instead, I want to examine the machinery used to get people to believe this fraud is genuine.
The closest thing to which I can compare Benny’s conference is a rock concert. It starts with some lesser-known opening act (in this case a local choir), which is used to warm up the crowd. After roughly an hour of people singing and jumping, the main act takes center stage. Never in my life have I heard a concert crowd applaud and cheer as loudly as the Miracle Center Cathedral folks did for Benny Hinn.
Summertime in Kampala gets hot. I think it was only about 90 degrees that day, but the humidity was pushing 90%. Ten thousand people, all dressed in their Sunday best (I was in a full suit and tie) are then crammed into an auditorium with no air conditioning. Bottom line, the heat is stifling.
The doors to the event were opened many hours in advance, and in a country where people are typically late nearly, everyone had arrived at least two hours before the event started. With the exception of those lucky few in the front row, there was no water available. No one at all had food. So, by the time Benny actually took the stage, the entire crowd had been without access to food or water for roughly three to four hours.
The African people do not yet have the same skepticism most Americans do when it comes to televangelists. That skepticism is beginning to spread among the younger generation here, but as many pastors have told us, if someone from America says it on TV, it’s still taken as gospel by most people here. Benny Hinn is widely known from his This is Your Day program on TBN, and most of the people at that convention know only what they’ve seen on that program. They don’t know about the controversy. They don’t know that he has been investigated by a number of different organizations. They don’t know there’s no real evidence for his ‘miracles.’
They just believe.
There’s the scene. A larger-than-life figure purporting to bring a ‘healing anointing’ with him walks into a sauna-like room filled with tired, hungry, thirsty, desperate souls. Then he says the magic words…
“Oh my, I came here tonight intending to teach, but there’s just a tremendous spirit of healing here tonight.”
Pandemonium erupts.
Some people think that Benny’s organization plants all of the people that get ‘healed.’ I don’t believe that’s the case. They may plant some, but I don’t think they need to plant all of them. In medicine, there’s a phenomenon known as the Placebo Effect. In studies with patients who have terrible pain, they have given sugar pills to these patients telling them it’s a form of morphine. An overwhelming percentage of them report feeling a marked decrease in their pain. They believed the pill would make them feel better, so they felt better.
The vast majority of the ‘miracles’ that took place in Kampala can be explained by the Placebo Effect. You get a huge, hysterical crowd together, get them tired, hungry and thirsty so their mental acuity is somewhat dimmed, and tell them that, “Someone over to my left is feeling electricity going up and down their left leg. A circulation problem has just been healed.” Electricity is so vague a term that any number of people might feel it under those circumstances, and a ‘spirit of healing’ would have nothing to do with it.
This went on for well over an hour. When the crowd would get tired of standing, Benny would get animated and tell everyone to lift their hands to heaven in thanksgiving. Suddenly everyone would rise again. If someone tried to sit down, Benny would call to them directly and implore them to rise. In this manner was the hysteria prolonged.
But even this must be controlled. Benny carries with him some massive bodyguards, and these fellows, with earphones tucked into their collars, control the crowd of people trying to approach the stage to give a testimony of their ‘healing.’ My front row seat gave me a clear view of the largest fellow getting frustrated with lower-level bouncers for bringing the wrong person forward at the wrong time. The cameras never capture this.
I am also not surprised in the least that people fall backwards when Benny touches their chins. Everyone believes something will happen, so the Placebo Effect takes over. This ‘slaying in the Spirit’ is nothing more than exhausted people overcome with emotion. In more than one instance I observed the fellows who were supposed to ‘catch’ the falling people actually gently pull them down when they weren’t falling of their own accord.
The whole thing sickened me. I spent the entire weekend awestruck that these people could allow themselves to be so deceived. I was even more amazed at how comfortable everyone involved was at using the crowd’s belief and emotional fervor against them.
In the course of the weekend, that fervor combined with polluted teaching (see my post Blessings by Bribery for more on this) saw BHM leave town at least $800,000 richer than they arrived.
And in their wake, they leave boys like the one that approached me as I was trying to leave on Saturday night. Being the only white guy there in a suit not with BHM, I was approached by several people over the course of the weekend who thought I was a pastor with the conference.
This boy pulled me over to his friend. This friend was laying on the ground, covered in a blanket, a cripple. The boy implored me to help his friend. I was on the verge of tears as I tried to explain to this kid that I wasn’t with the ministry, and there was nothing that I could do.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matt. 7:15
If Christ wasn’t talking about men like Benny, then I can’t imagine who would fit that bill.
http://www.lastingfoundations.com/jeremyblog/index.htm#090617
JUNE, 17, 2009
I can now say with complete confidence that the ‘healings’ going on at Toufik Benedictus (Benny) Hinn’s crusades are not genuine.
Over the years, both secular and Christian media have investigated Benny Hinn Ministries, and to date, not one iota of concrete evidence has been provided to aid in the validation of these ‘miracles.’
During the Fire Conference I attended in Kampala, many people were ‘healed,’ but in every case something invisible was supposedly cured. Bad circulation, or stomach cancer, or some nebulous pain only cap the list of visually unverifiable ‘miracles.’
A senior staff member with BHM even told me directly, “I don’t believe all of the miracles.”
I could write for hours on this one point, on the scam of it, on how Benny Hinn and all those associated with him will have to answer to God regarding those whose money they have stolen. That’s not to mention answering for those poor souls who died due to lack of medical treatment after Benny told them they were cured.
But these things have been written on at length, and a simple Google search will bring up ample reading material. Instead, I want to examine the machinery used to get people to believe this fraud is genuine.
The closest thing to which I can compare Benny’s conference is a rock concert. It starts with some lesser-known opening act (in this case a local choir), which is used to warm up the crowd. After roughly an hour of people singing and jumping, the main act takes center stage. Never in my life have I heard a concert crowd applaud and cheer as loudly as the Miracle Center Cathedral folks did for Benny Hinn.
Summertime in Kampala gets hot. I think it was only about 90 degrees that day, but the humidity was pushing 90%. Ten thousand people, all dressed in their Sunday best (I was in a full suit and tie) are then crammed into an auditorium with no air conditioning. Bottom line, the heat is stifling.
The doors to the event were opened many hours in advance, and in a country where people are typically late nearly, everyone had arrived at least two hours before the event started. With the exception of those lucky few in the front row, there was no water available. No one at all had food. So, by the time Benny actually took the stage, the entire crowd had been without access to food or water for roughly three to four hours.
The African people do not yet have the same skepticism most Americans do when it comes to televangelists. That skepticism is beginning to spread among the younger generation here, but as many pastors have told us, if someone from America says it on TV, it’s still taken as gospel by most people here. Benny Hinn is widely known from his This is Your Day program on TBN, and most of the people at that convention know only what they’ve seen on that program. They don’t know about the controversy. They don’t know that he has been investigated by a number of different organizations. They don’t know there’s no real evidence for his ‘miracles.’
They just believe.
There’s the scene. A larger-than-life figure purporting to bring a ‘healing anointing’ with him walks into a sauna-like room filled with tired, hungry, thirsty, desperate souls. Then he says the magic words…
“Oh my, I came here tonight intending to teach, but there’s just a tremendous spirit of healing here tonight.”
Pandemonium erupts.
Some people think that Benny’s organization plants all of the people that get ‘healed.’ I don’t believe that’s the case. They may plant some, but I don’t think they need to plant all of them. In medicine, there’s a phenomenon known as the Placebo Effect. In studies with patients who have terrible pain, they have given sugar pills to these patients telling them it’s a form of morphine. An overwhelming percentage of them report feeling a marked decrease in their pain. They believed the pill would make them feel better, so they felt better.
The vast majority of the ‘miracles’ that took place in Kampala can be explained by the Placebo Effect. You get a huge, hysterical crowd together, get them tired, hungry and thirsty so their mental acuity is somewhat dimmed, and tell them that, “Someone over to my left is feeling electricity going up and down their left leg. A circulation problem has just been healed.” Electricity is so vague a term that any number of people might feel it under those circumstances, and a ‘spirit of healing’ would have nothing to do with it.
This went on for well over an hour. When the crowd would get tired of standing, Benny would get animated and tell everyone to lift their hands to heaven in thanksgiving. Suddenly everyone would rise again. If someone tried to sit down, Benny would call to them directly and implore them to rise. In this manner was the hysteria prolonged.
But even this must be controlled. Benny carries with him some massive bodyguards, and these fellows, with earphones tucked into their collars, control the crowd of people trying to approach the stage to give a testimony of their ‘healing.’ My front row seat gave me a clear view of the largest fellow getting frustrated with lower-level bouncers for bringing the wrong person forward at the wrong time. The cameras never capture this.
I am also not surprised in the least that people fall backwards when Benny touches their chins. Everyone believes something will happen, so the Placebo Effect takes over. This ‘slaying in the Spirit’ is nothing more than exhausted people overcome with emotion. In more than one instance I observed the fellows who were supposed to ‘catch’ the falling people actually gently pull them down when they weren’t falling of their own accord.
The whole thing sickened me. I spent the entire weekend awestruck that these people could allow themselves to be so deceived. I was even more amazed at how comfortable everyone involved was at using the crowd’s belief and emotional fervor against them.
In the course of the weekend, that fervor combined with polluted teaching (see my post Blessings by Bribery for more on this) saw BHM leave town at least $800,000 richer than they arrived.
And in their wake, they leave boys like the one that approached me as I was trying to leave on Saturday night. Being the only white guy there in a suit not with BHM, I was approached by several people over the course of the weekend who thought I was a pastor with the conference.
This boy pulled me over to his friend. This friend was laying on the ground, covered in a blanket, a cripple. The boy implored me to help his friend. I was on the verge of tears as I tried to explain to this kid that I wasn’t with the ministry, and there was nothing that I could do.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matt. 7:15
If Christ wasn’t talking about men like Benny, then I can’t imagine who would fit that bill.
The Un-gospel
The Un-gospel
http://www.lastingfoundations.com/jeremyblog/index.htm#090617
The greatest threat to new believers is not persecution. Even the baby Christian who has genuinely experienced the rebirth and new life of Christ can stand when things get rough. The greatest threat is not other religions. That same baby Christian would not trade his new life for an old death.
No, the greatest threat facing new or immature believers is the “other gospel.”
This threat is insidious. It masquerades as the “new life.” It uses all of the right jargon. Words like “Christ,” “love,” “life,” “restoration,” etc., get thrown around like candy from a parade float. And they’re often thrown by what seem like the nicest, most genuine, kind-hearted people in the world.
In America, a movement called Emergence Christianity holds the position of the most popular other gospel. Each year, millions of people (often teenagers or college students) join the ever-swelling ranks of these that still use Christ’s name, but hold no regard for His Word. They have determined that while we might be able to trust it, we cannot be trusted to understand it. Therefore, no one can claim to know what he really wants from us. All we can do is join in the Great Conversation. Gay or lesbian? Please, join in, they say. There’s room for all on the broad path. Their gospel is one of social reconciliation, an establishment of God’s kingdom on the earth now through peace, understanding and tolerance.
Africa has not yet seen the influx of “emergence” that America has. I have no doubt that it’s coming, for such lies know no borders, but for now, it remains confined to America and Europe. Africa faces a different scourge, and the enemy has tailored it precisely for these circumstances.
Here, the prosperity gospel is the order of the day. Proponents of this gospel prey on the difficult circumstances faced by these people, many of who live in the slums with open sewage flowing down Main Street. They twist stories in the Bible to say that just as God healed this person or allowed that person to prosper, he will do the same for them. If only they’ll first “plant a seed” (i.e., give me your money now so God will be forced to bless you later).
I witnessed this first hand a few weeks back. The pastor of one of the larger churches in Nairobi used the story in II Kings 6-7, where Syria had come against Israel. In the first verse of chapter 7, God promises that “tomorrow about this time” all shall again be well.
The promise was made for that people at that time in that situation. It was not made for all people for all time. Yet this pastor stood in front of over a thousand people and told them to pray and believe to “claim that this time tomorrow I will have my miracle, in Jesus name.”
This same pastor actually said that he doesn’t like to preach the cross. He instead wants to preach “beyond the cross.” I don’t understand this. What is there beyond the cross? What have we but our hope in what Christ purchased for us?
This prosperity gospel resides not “beyond the cross,” but completely and totally separated from the cross. The two are not even related. It is a different gospel, and such is the most prominently preached form of “Christianity” in Kenya. It has seeped into the churches, and it parades on TV. From the “TBN Africa” pulpit, Benny Hinn and Rod Parsley line their own pockets by preying on the fears and hopes of an ignorant audience.
Christ, and him crucified, is the only Gospel preached in the New Testament. Paul had harsh words for anyone preaching anything else:
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Gal. 1.6-8
The grace of Christ, which has purchased our freedom from sin, is the only Gospel. If anyone preaches anything else, he is to be accursed. It may sound harsh, but this is not my judgment. It is the judgment of the Word of God.
We must stand firm on Christ, our only foundation, and strongly proclaim the truth so young Christians will not be led astray by such lies.
http://www.lastingfoundations.com/jeremyblog/index.htm#090617
The greatest threat to new believers is not persecution. Even the baby Christian who has genuinely experienced the rebirth and new life of Christ can stand when things get rough. The greatest threat is not other religions. That same baby Christian would not trade his new life for an old death.
No, the greatest threat facing new or immature believers is the “other gospel.”
This threat is insidious. It masquerades as the “new life.” It uses all of the right jargon. Words like “Christ,” “love,” “life,” “restoration,” etc., get thrown around like candy from a parade float. And they’re often thrown by what seem like the nicest, most genuine, kind-hearted people in the world.
In America, a movement called Emergence Christianity holds the position of the most popular other gospel. Each year, millions of people (often teenagers or college students) join the ever-swelling ranks of these that still use Christ’s name, but hold no regard for His Word. They have determined that while we might be able to trust it, we cannot be trusted to understand it. Therefore, no one can claim to know what he really wants from us. All we can do is join in the Great Conversation. Gay or lesbian? Please, join in, they say. There’s room for all on the broad path. Their gospel is one of social reconciliation, an establishment of God’s kingdom on the earth now through peace, understanding and tolerance.
Africa has not yet seen the influx of “emergence” that America has. I have no doubt that it’s coming, for such lies know no borders, but for now, it remains confined to America and Europe. Africa faces a different scourge, and the enemy has tailored it precisely for these circumstances.
Here, the prosperity gospel is the order of the day. Proponents of this gospel prey on the difficult circumstances faced by these people, many of who live in the slums with open sewage flowing down Main Street. They twist stories in the Bible to say that just as God healed this person or allowed that person to prosper, he will do the same for them. If only they’ll first “plant a seed” (i.e., give me your money now so God will be forced to bless you later).
I witnessed this first hand a few weeks back. The pastor of one of the larger churches in Nairobi used the story in II Kings 6-7, where Syria had come against Israel. In the first verse of chapter 7, God promises that “tomorrow about this time” all shall again be well.
The promise was made for that people at that time in that situation. It was not made for all people for all time. Yet this pastor stood in front of over a thousand people and told them to pray and believe to “claim that this time tomorrow I will have my miracle, in Jesus name.”
This same pastor actually said that he doesn’t like to preach the cross. He instead wants to preach “beyond the cross.” I don’t understand this. What is there beyond the cross? What have we but our hope in what Christ purchased for us?
This prosperity gospel resides not “beyond the cross,” but completely and totally separated from the cross. The two are not even related. It is a different gospel, and such is the most prominently preached form of “Christianity” in Kenya. It has seeped into the churches, and it parades on TV. From the “TBN Africa” pulpit, Benny Hinn and Rod Parsley line their own pockets by preying on the fears and hopes of an ignorant audience.
Christ, and him crucified, is the only Gospel preached in the New Testament. Paul had harsh words for anyone preaching anything else:
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Gal. 1.6-8
The grace of Christ, which has purchased our freedom from sin, is the only Gospel. If anyone preaches anything else, he is to be accursed. It may sound harsh, but this is not my judgment. It is the judgment of the Word of God.
We must stand firm on Christ, our only foundation, and strongly proclaim the truth so young Christians will not be led astray by such lies.
BORN AGAIN SAINT IF YOU COMMIT SUICIDE YOU WILL GO TO HELL: SAVED TYCOON KILLS SELF OVER WIFE
Eternal Security: The Hiss of the Serpent
Today a local new paper in Uganda was awash with a ‘saved’ tycoon who committed suicide after loosing virtually all his material wealth.
‘’Tukamuhebwa who has been a top Kikuubo businessman (Jesus Cares Shop, Plot 70) went missing on Wednesday last week and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame.” A family member told this reporter last night that trouble befell the family last weekend when Tukamuhebwa received information that his cunning Loyce was siphoning money from the hard-earned shop and investing it in a secret multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs500m’’.
(http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1907&PHPSESSID=9420c3bfd9b91a01987531a040811f58) see, details below
ECOMOMIC CRISIS REDUCES AMERICAN TO PAUPERS
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000308.htm
With the upsurge of the global economic crisis many people have lost and are yet to loose a lot wealth and money . If you have put your trust in the things of the world, you are headed for danger. If you commit suicide you will be with satan in hell. DO NOT DO IT DEAR SAINT. The lord Jesus Christ said:
My kingdom is not of this world(John 18:36)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.(Matthew 6:19-12)
The word of God categorically says that :
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth(Colossians 3:1-2).
(15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.(1 John 2:15-18)
BE WARE OF THE HISS OF THE SERPENT UNDER THE LOGO ETERNAL SECURITY
There is a gospel of sin being propagated on the pulpit and on the net today by even born again PHD holders in theology and divinity. According to this gospel when you are born again, you can not be unborn; once you are saved you will always be saved. They argue that even if you commit suicide, even if you rape, steal, commit adultery, be addicted to porn, perform masturbation, be indulged in lesbianism and homosexuality, you can not loose your salvation. This is absolute rubbish- do not believe it, check out the word of God by your self. Do not trust PHDs, pastors, evangelists etc. Trust the word of God alone.
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, and WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR..(Romans 1:22- 25)
Somomite church says, even if you are an homosexual, it is okay, God loves you.
http://www.cathedralofhope.com/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=305&srcid=-2
EXPOSING THE GOSPEL OF SIN : ETERNAL SECURITY, THE HUGE GAMBLE
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/eternal-security-huge-gamble.html
While answering what the bible says about suicide ‘’gotquestions.org’’ argues that:
‘’According to the Bible, suicide is not what determines whether a person gains entrance into heaven. If an unsaved person commits suicide, he has done nothing but “expedite” his journey to hell. However, that person who committed suicide will ultimately be in hell for rejecting salvation through Christ, not because he committed suicide. What does the Bible say about a Christian who commits suicide? The Bible teaches that from the moment we truly believe in Christ, we are guaranteed eternal life (John 3:16). According to the Bible, Christians can know beyond any doubt that they possess eternal life (1 John 5:13). Nothing can separate a Christian from God’s love (Romans 8:38-39). If no “created thing” can separate a Christian from God’s love, and even a Christian who commits suicide is a “created thing,” then not even suicide can separate a Christian from God’s love. Jesus died for all of our sins, and if a true Christian, in a time of spiritual attack and weakness, commits suicide, that would still be a sin covered by the blood of Christ’’.
http://www.gotquestions.org/suicide-Bible-Christian.html
Do not believe this lie of the serpent. Amen
God’s warning to the Seven churches in Revelation 2-3 a debunk of eternal security
This eternal security nonsense can even be logically challenged by a child. God’s warning to the seven churches in Asia proves beyond reasonable doubt that eternal security is a myth. These were not churches of sorcerers, New agers or Kabbalists. These were churches of born again Christian believers. God warns some of these churches that if they do not repent, they will lose their crowns. God never said do not worry guys, you once saved always saved.
The Dead Men on the Pulpits
http://standingthegap.org/dead_men.htm
"To the angel of the church in Sardis. I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are DEAD! Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard, holdfast and repent. I come upon you as a thief! You have a few names who have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with Me in white. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments and I WILL NOT BLOT out his name from the Book of Life!" (Rev3:1-4)
Details of the article
PLANE TYCOON KILLS SELF OVER WIFE
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1907&PHPSESSID=9420c3bfd9b91a01987531a040811f58
A few years ago, city businessman Johnson Tukamuhebwa Rahure walked down the aisle his wife, Loyce, at the registrar’s office in Kampala. The couple then flew in a chartered helicopter for a glamorous reception in Bwongyera, Kajara, Ntungamo district. At the reception, Tukamuhebwa described his wife as a ‘ball of fire’ who was ‘full of ideas and energy.’ Seven years down the road, the same woman turned Tukamuhebwa into a ‘businessman in despair’ after running down his entire business empire and chewing all his money like an ATM leading Tukamuhebwa to commit suicide.
Tukamuhebwa who has been a top Kikuubo businessman (Jesus Cares Shop, Plot 70) went missing on Wednesday last week and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame.” A family member told this reporter last night that trouble befell the family last weekend when Tukamuhebwa received information that his cunning Loyce was siphoning money from the hard-earned shop and investing it in a secret multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs500m.
“Tukamuhebwa sold almost all his property to establish this business and therefore could not bear the consistent disappearance of cash at the hands of his wife,” a family source said.Among the properties he sold was a bungalow in Mengo at Shs180m, a house in Kisenyi at Shs100m and a farm of 100 cows in Kizaara, Ntungamo district at Shs60m. He also sold three mini buses and a recently acquired a Toyota Rav4 of UAK ...series. The money was injected in the shop but nothing can be seen on the ground as his heartless wife who managed the shop kept siphoning it.It is said that after realizing the poaching fingers in his wife, Tukamuhebwa picked his calculator on Wednesday and went into the store to do stock taking. To his horror, he discovered that the woman had almost nothing left yet they had just received a consignment of goods from Britannia worth Shs85m.
As fate would have it, on the same day the Britannia suppliers came to him and demanded for an advance payment of Shs45m which he could not raise.Tukamuhebwa whose success stemed from pushing a wheel barrow in Mulago could not stand what was before him and amidst bewilderment he scribbled: “whoever gets this note should search for my body and bury me next to my father’s grave in Kyamuntu-Bwongyera in Ntungamo district.” We have confirmed that that for a long time the couple has been entangled in financial wrangles that culminated into their separation six months ago. Tukamuhebwa later got saved and thinking that his rascal had learnt a lesson, he called her back. She returned and even promised to get saved, but fiend Loyce never kept her promise.
To fulfill her malevolence, Loyce made it impossible for her husband to work with his brothers in business, yet Tukamuhebwa was known to have brought his brothers to Kampala and trained them to succeed. She is also said to have made it impossible for them to get access to their matrimonial home after she labeled them thieves. The Police have started serious investigations coordinated by Kampala Extra Region CID Chief Kato. The Police also apprehended Loyce on Friday to assist in the investigations. She is being kept at Kampala Metropolitan station. Police said they have received information that a frustrated Tukamuhebwa was seen in Kyagwe heading to Bukunja road on Wednesday night where he is believed to have killed himself. “Whatever it takes we shall recover the body of Johnson and accord him a decent burial,” his brother James stated.Here below we reproduce the suicide note as written by the deceased, John Tukamuhebwa
Oburagwa
Nyowe Johnson Tukamuhebwa Mutabani owo mujenzi F Ruhaire Nimbasibura imwe abarikumanya hamwe nabatarikumanya.
Kandi namunonga ninsibura omukazi wangye owu Ruhanga yampaire okuba omukazi wangye hamwe nabana bangye boona abishiki, n’aboojo hamwe n’abaramu banje.
Kandi ninshembayo okusibura omukaikuru wangye owanzire akankuza ntine kamogo kona Ruhanga amuhe omugisha omuri byona.
Ruhanga kwarisima turyashanganayo omwiguru. Ekyatuma naruga omumagara gensi egi N’omukyara wangye Loyce okugaruka okurya sente za’bahindi zoona akazimaraho. Ndonzire okundagarukye omumaisho ga’bahindi okubambira nti omukazi wangye agarukire yarya esente zanyu. Kandi nkajunwa ahabwekwerinda ebibi nkebyo. Nyowe tinyine ekyokugambira abishemwe nti omukazi wangye agarukire yarya sente z’abahindi nikyo kyandetera okuruga omumagara gensegi ntine kibi n’omuntu ween hamwe nomumisho ga yesu ahashaha yomushango. Orarebe ebaruha egi agishomere abantu boona abangye kasita naruga omunsi egi.
Nyowe naza owa tata omwiguru Ruhanga abe niwe aryampa omwanya ogwokuturamu ntine mabanja ga Bantu. Ndamukize abishemwe mweena omunsi yona hamwe nabakutura abu mbire ningyendanabo omukushubura.
Amabanja goona gari omukitabo kya amabanja. Nkazara abaana munana abojo batano kandi abishiki Ni babiri bonka.Kumiribona omurambwe gwangye mutware omukyaro nsanje tata nabanyayazi.Nimbandeza okunzikaje kandi hatarigira omuntu wena owarira aha kuzika kwanje aha bwo kuba ndyaba nataha owa taata omwiguru.
The Suicide note (translated)
I am Johnson Tukamuhebwa, the son of the late F. Rahure. I’m bidding farewell to all of you who know me and those who do not know me. With much emphasis I’m saying good bye to my wife, all my children (boys and girls), brothers and sisters. Lastly I’m saying goodbye to my old mother who brought me into this world and raised me up without any damage on my body, may God bless her in every way and if God wishes we shall meet in heaven. What has driven me to part with my life is because of my wife Loyce who again ate all the Indians’ money.
I contemplated how I would go back to face the Indians and tell them again that my wife had eaten their money and it became impossible. Therefore, in order to keep away from such evil, I have nothing to say.
All I have to say is that my wife has again eaten the Indians’ money and this is what has pushed me to commit suicide and leave this life without any problem. Let me go and interface with Jesus on the Day of Judgment. Actually, the source of my death is Loyce Tukamuhebwa. Whoever lands on this letter should read it to everyone so that they know the reason I left this world.
I have gone to my father in heaven and may God who has given me time to leave this world without any one’s debt bless you. I send my regards to all the brethren in the entire world plus those I have been going with for salvation. All the debts are in the book of debts. I have left seven children; five boys and only two girls. My body should be laid to rest at Nshinje village. I wish my father and siblings a good burial ceremony and let nobody cry during the burial because I will be already with my father in heaven.
The author of this letter is myself; Johnson Tukamuhebwa.”
MISSING TYCOON MYSTERY DEEPENS
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1978
MISSING PLANE TYCOON'S WIFE SPEAKS OUT
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1986
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The Shoking Confession
Loyce Tukamuhebwa, the wife of the missing Kikuubo tycoon has exclusively spoken to Red Pepper and revealed what could have forced her husband to commit suicide.In a conversation with Red Pepper at Central Police Station, in Kampala soon after she was released from the cells yesterday, Loyce said her husband Johnson Tukamuhebwa who left a suicide note and has been missing for over a week now, had accumulated huge debts which he could not pay even if he sold his family.
Loyce, who looked distraught after spending four days in the coolers said her husband was living a resigned life after getting soaked in debts. Tukamuhebwa, a popular businessman in Kikubo went missing on Wednesday and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame”.Relatives said Loyce endlessly emptied the safe of their hard-earned shop and invested the money in a multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs300m.
However, in a new twist of events, Loyce revealed last night that she did not steal any money saying a combination of high interest loans and failure to stock take for a period of more than two years contributed to the couple’s fall from the skies to a hovel. She said the family had accumulated debts of Shs1.2bn and that they had mortgaged everything including the incomplete Kajjansi house to which they retreated after selling off their palatial homes in Mengo and Kisenyi.“We had three debts; Shs30m loan owned to Centenary Bank, Shs40m and Shs50m from Britannia and Kakira sugar respectively but we also had other debts totalling to a billion shillings from friends” she said. She added “Now that he has been missing for a week, it’s gut-wrenching, thinking that either he has got a rich-ass girlfriend somewhere and he’s happy, or he’s dead.”
“But he is a firefighter, he’s a retired soldier, he’s a warrior. He may have gone somewhere to look for money.”
Loyce said she was still in love with Johnson and that their romance was blossoming. She said they had reconciled their differences and they were living as a happy born again couple.“After we reconciled, I have never annoyed my husband, even one bit. Not at all,” she said. Loyce described the day her husband went missing, saying he came at the shop, did stock taking and left the shop looking extremely angry. “At 11pm, I telephoned but he could not pick his calls. I sent him about 30 messages but he could not reply; I called my neighbors and told them. “Let’s continue to talk about this case. Let’s continue our search for Johnson, I still love him,” she said.
Meanwhile police last night held a meeting with Loyce and relatives of Johnson and agreed to re-open the shop. The meeting which took place in Room 74 at CPS was chaired by Kampala Extra CID Chief P.T Kato and was attended by Tumusiime Rahure (brother of the missing tycoon), plus sons and daughters.They agreed to release the woman since she was not directly responsible for the disappearance of the tycoon.Police also released the keys of the shop and instructed family members to choose a few people who should run the shop and pay some debts.
However, the children of the missing tycoon especially Lovance Nshemereirwe were said to be distraught.
Sources say she broke down after police discovered herbs and funny pots in her father’s house in Kajjansi. “I can’t imagine my dad is the one who has been using these herbs,” Lovance sobbed. A source close to the family said: “She was stunned to see the herbs in her father’s house yet he was born again.“She’s been really worried about him, especially as he’s lost for more than a week. She wanted him to see her graduate,” a friend said. It was in Lovance that Johnson confided before his mysterious disappearance. He gave him an ATM card with its pin number after crediting that account with Shs4m.He then told the sexy girl: “Goodbye honey, I have gone somewhere too far but you can use that money for fees or anything good just in case I take long to return.”
FINANCIAL BOOM
It was out of his hard work that Tukamuhebwa managed to construct two plush bungalows in Mengo-Kisenyi with a queue of over 30 tenants and a farm in Ntungamo which he was later forced to sell to offset debts.
That farm was worth Shs300m, but due to pressure he sold it off at a give-away price of Shs100m. The two houses in Mengo were sold at a mere Shs200m and Shs120m despite their strategic location. He used the money to clear off some debts, bought a Rav4 and built a smaller house in Kajjansi.Tukamuhebwa had established a huge empire of business connections in world trade centers like India, Dubai and Mombasa from where he would get goods on credit and was worth Shs 3bn at the height of his fame. But the money kept on dwindling.After financial woos continued to escalate, relatives of the deceased say he decided to join a money lending SACCO that they had formed with a group of businessmen at the Kitara C/U church.
WHO IS LOYCE
She was born in Kyamuntu, Bwongyera in Kajara. Her home is adjacent that of her husband. Being close neighbors, the two developed a cozy relationship in their childhood and usually romped from forests or on goat rearing sprees. This romance later grew into marriage. But shortly after, Loyce started to siphon her hubby’s dime, a situation that forced Tukamuhebwa to chase her and get saved. On learning of this, Loyce came up saying she had gotten saved as well. Unsuspecting, Tukamuhebwa accepted her back and the two revived their love until last week’s events.
Today a local new paper in Uganda was awash with a ‘saved’ tycoon who committed suicide after loosing virtually all his material wealth.
‘’Tukamuhebwa who has been a top Kikuubo businessman (Jesus Cares Shop, Plot 70) went missing on Wednesday last week and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame.” A family member told this reporter last night that trouble befell the family last weekend when Tukamuhebwa received information that his cunning Loyce was siphoning money from the hard-earned shop and investing it in a secret multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs500m’’.
(http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1907&PHPSESSID=9420c3bfd9b91a01987531a040811f58) see, details below
ECOMOMIC CRISIS REDUCES AMERICAN TO PAUPERS
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000308.htm
With the upsurge of the global economic crisis many people have lost and are yet to loose a lot wealth and money . If you have put your trust in the things of the world, you are headed for danger. If you commit suicide you will be with satan in hell. DO NOT DO IT DEAR SAINT. The lord Jesus Christ said:
My kingdom is not of this world(John 18:36)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.(Matthew 6:19-12)
The word of God categorically says that :
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth(Colossians 3:1-2).
(15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.(1 John 2:15-18)
BE WARE OF THE HISS OF THE SERPENT UNDER THE LOGO ETERNAL SECURITY
There is a gospel of sin being propagated on the pulpit and on the net today by even born again PHD holders in theology and divinity. According to this gospel when you are born again, you can not be unborn; once you are saved you will always be saved. They argue that even if you commit suicide, even if you rape, steal, commit adultery, be addicted to porn, perform masturbation, be indulged in lesbianism and homosexuality, you can not loose your salvation. This is absolute rubbish- do not believe it, check out the word of God by your self. Do not trust PHDs, pastors, evangelists etc. Trust the word of God alone.
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, and WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR..(Romans 1:22- 25)
Somomite church says, even if you are an homosexual, it is okay, God loves you.
http://www.cathedralofhope.com/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=305&srcid=-2
EXPOSING THE GOSPEL OF SIN : ETERNAL SECURITY, THE HUGE GAMBLE
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/eternal-security-huge-gamble.html
While answering what the bible says about suicide ‘’gotquestions.org’’ argues that:
‘’According to the Bible, suicide is not what determines whether a person gains entrance into heaven. If an unsaved person commits suicide, he has done nothing but “expedite” his journey to hell. However, that person who committed suicide will ultimately be in hell for rejecting salvation through Christ, not because he committed suicide. What does the Bible say about a Christian who commits suicide? The Bible teaches that from the moment we truly believe in Christ, we are guaranteed eternal life (John 3:16). According to the Bible, Christians can know beyond any doubt that they possess eternal life (1 John 5:13). Nothing can separate a Christian from God’s love (Romans 8:38-39). If no “created thing” can separate a Christian from God’s love, and even a Christian who commits suicide is a “created thing,” then not even suicide can separate a Christian from God’s love. Jesus died for all of our sins, and if a true Christian, in a time of spiritual attack and weakness, commits suicide, that would still be a sin covered by the blood of Christ’’.
http://www.gotquestions.org/suicide-Bible-Christian.html
Do not believe this lie of the serpent. Amen
God’s warning to the Seven churches in Revelation 2-3 a debunk of eternal security
This eternal security nonsense can even be logically challenged by a child. God’s warning to the seven churches in Asia proves beyond reasonable doubt that eternal security is a myth. These were not churches of sorcerers, New agers or Kabbalists. These were churches of born again Christian believers. God warns some of these churches that if they do not repent, they will lose their crowns. God never said do not worry guys, you once saved always saved.
The Dead Men on the Pulpits
http://standingthegap.org/dead_men.htm
"To the angel of the church in Sardis. I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are DEAD! Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard, holdfast and repent. I come upon you as a thief! You have a few names who have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with Me in white. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments and I WILL NOT BLOT out his name from the Book of Life!" (Rev3:1-4)
Details of the article
PLANE TYCOON KILLS SELF OVER WIFE
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1907&PHPSESSID=9420c3bfd9b91a01987531a040811f58
A few years ago, city businessman Johnson Tukamuhebwa Rahure walked down the aisle his wife, Loyce, at the registrar’s office in Kampala. The couple then flew in a chartered helicopter for a glamorous reception in Bwongyera, Kajara, Ntungamo district. At the reception, Tukamuhebwa described his wife as a ‘ball of fire’ who was ‘full of ideas and energy.’ Seven years down the road, the same woman turned Tukamuhebwa into a ‘businessman in despair’ after running down his entire business empire and chewing all his money like an ATM leading Tukamuhebwa to commit suicide.
Tukamuhebwa who has been a top Kikuubo businessman (Jesus Cares Shop, Plot 70) went missing on Wednesday last week and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame.” A family member told this reporter last night that trouble befell the family last weekend when Tukamuhebwa received information that his cunning Loyce was siphoning money from the hard-earned shop and investing it in a secret multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs500m.
“Tukamuhebwa sold almost all his property to establish this business and therefore could not bear the consistent disappearance of cash at the hands of his wife,” a family source said.Among the properties he sold was a bungalow in Mengo at Shs180m, a house in Kisenyi at Shs100m and a farm of 100 cows in Kizaara, Ntungamo district at Shs60m. He also sold three mini buses and a recently acquired a Toyota Rav4 of UAK ...series. The money was injected in the shop but nothing can be seen on the ground as his heartless wife who managed the shop kept siphoning it.It is said that after realizing the poaching fingers in his wife, Tukamuhebwa picked his calculator on Wednesday and went into the store to do stock taking. To his horror, he discovered that the woman had almost nothing left yet they had just received a consignment of goods from Britannia worth Shs85m.
As fate would have it, on the same day the Britannia suppliers came to him and demanded for an advance payment of Shs45m which he could not raise.Tukamuhebwa whose success stemed from pushing a wheel barrow in Mulago could not stand what was before him and amidst bewilderment he scribbled: “whoever gets this note should search for my body and bury me next to my father’s grave in Kyamuntu-Bwongyera in Ntungamo district.” We have confirmed that that for a long time the couple has been entangled in financial wrangles that culminated into their separation six months ago. Tukamuhebwa later got saved and thinking that his rascal had learnt a lesson, he called her back. She returned and even promised to get saved, but fiend Loyce never kept her promise.
To fulfill her malevolence, Loyce made it impossible for her husband to work with his brothers in business, yet Tukamuhebwa was known to have brought his brothers to Kampala and trained them to succeed. She is also said to have made it impossible for them to get access to their matrimonial home after she labeled them thieves. The Police have started serious investigations coordinated by Kampala Extra Region CID Chief Kato. The Police also apprehended Loyce on Friday to assist in the investigations. She is being kept at Kampala Metropolitan station. Police said they have received information that a frustrated Tukamuhebwa was seen in Kyagwe heading to Bukunja road on Wednesday night where he is believed to have killed himself. “Whatever it takes we shall recover the body of Johnson and accord him a decent burial,” his brother James stated.Here below we reproduce the suicide note as written by the deceased, John Tukamuhebwa
Oburagwa
Nyowe Johnson Tukamuhebwa Mutabani owo mujenzi F Ruhaire Nimbasibura imwe abarikumanya hamwe nabatarikumanya.
Kandi namunonga ninsibura omukazi wangye owu Ruhanga yampaire okuba omukazi wangye hamwe nabana bangye boona abishiki, n’aboojo hamwe n’abaramu banje.
Kandi ninshembayo okusibura omukaikuru wangye owanzire akankuza ntine kamogo kona Ruhanga amuhe omugisha omuri byona.
Ruhanga kwarisima turyashanganayo omwiguru. Ekyatuma naruga omumagara gensi egi N’omukyara wangye Loyce okugaruka okurya sente za’bahindi zoona akazimaraho. Ndonzire okundagarukye omumaisho ga’bahindi okubambira nti omukazi wangye agarukire yarya esente zanyu. Kandi nkajunwa ahabwekwerinda ebibi nkebyo. Nyowe tinyine ekyokugambira abishemwe nti omukazi wangye agarukire yarya sente z’abahindi nikyo kyandetera okuruga omumagara gensegi ntine kibi n’omuntu ween hamwe nomumisho ga yesu ahashaha yomushango. Orarebe ebaruha egi agishomere abantu boona abangye kasita naruga omunsi egi.
Nyowe naza owa tata omwiguru Ruhanga abe niwe aryampa omwanya ogwokuturamu ntine mabanja ga Bantu. Ndamukize abishemwe mweena omunsi yona hamwe nabakutura abu mbire ningyendanabo omukushubura.
Amabanja goona gari omukitabo kya amabanja. Nkazara abaana munana abojo batano kandi abishiki Ni babiri bonka.Kumiribona omurambwe gwangye mutware omukyaro nsanje tata nabanyayazi.Nimbandeza okunzikaje kandi hatarigira omuntu wena owarira aha kuzika kwanje aha bwo kuba ndyaba nataha owa taata omwiguru.
The Suicide note (translated)
I am Johnson Tukamuhebwa, the son of the late F. Rahure. I’m bidding farewell to all of you who know me and those who do not know me. With much emphasis I’m saying good bye to my wife, all my children (boys and girls), brothers and sisters. Lastly I’m saying goodbye to my old mother who brought me into this world and raised me up without any damage on my body, may God bless her in every way and if God wishes we shall meet in heaven. What has driven me to part with my life is because of my wife Loyce who again ate all the Indians’ money.
I contemplated how I would go back to face the Indians and tell them again that my wife had eaten their money and it became impossible. Therefore, in order to keep away from such evil, I have nothing to say.
All I have to say is that my wife has again eaten the Indians’ money and this is what has pushed me to commit suicide and leave this life without any problem. Let me go and interface with Jesus on the Day of Judgment. Actually, the source of my death is Loyce Tukamuhebwa. Whoever lands on this letter should read it to everyone so that they know the reason I left this world.
I have gone to my father in heaven and may God who has given me time to leave this world without any one’s debt bless you. I send my regards to all the brethren in the entire world plus those I have been going with for salvation. All the debts are in the book of debts. I have left seven children; five boys and only two girls. My body should be laid to rest at Nshinje village. I wish my father and siblings a good burial ceremony and let nobody cry during the burial because I will be already with my father in heaven.
The author of this letter is myself; Johnson Tukamuhebwa.”
MISSING TYCOON MYSTERY DEEPENS
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1978
MISSING PLANE TYCOON'S WIFE SPEAKS OUT
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1986
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The Shoking Confession
Loyce Tukamuhebwa, the wife of the missing Kikuubo tycoon has exclusively spoken to Red Pepper and revealed what could have forced her husband to commit suicide.In a conversation with Red Pepper at Central Police Station, in Kampala soon after she was released from the cells yesterday, Loyce said her husband Johnson Tukamuhebwa who left a suicide note and has been missing for over a week now, had accumulated huge debts which he could not pay even if he sold his family.
Loyce, who looked distraught after spending four days in the coolers said her husband was living a resigned life after getting soaked in debts. Tukamuhebwa, a popular businessman in Kikubo went missing on Wednesday and family members later recovered a suicide note on Saturday stating: “I have decided to commit suicide because my wife Loyce Tukamuhebwa swindled all the money I had invested in business. As a saved person I could not stand the shame”.Relatives said Loyce endlessly emptied the safe of their hard-earned shop and invested the money in a multi-million housing project so far valued at Shs300m.
However, in a new twist of events, Loyce revealed last night that she did not steal any money saying a combination of high interest loans and failure to stock take for a period of more than two years contributed to the couple’s fall from the skies to a hovel. She said the family had accumulated debts of Shs1.2bn and that they had mortgaged everything including the incomplete Kajjansi house to which they retreated after selling off their palatial homes in Mengo and Kisenyi.“We had three debts; Shs30m loan owned to Centenary Bank, Shs40m and Shs50m from Britannia and Kakira sugar respectively but we also had other debts totalling to a billion shillings from friends” she said. She added “Now that he has been missing for a week, it’s gut-wrenching, thinking that either he has got a rich-ass girlfriend somewhere and he’s happy, or he’s dead.”
“But he is a firefighter, he’s a retired soldier, he’s a warrior. He may have gone somewhere to look for money.”
Loyce said she was still in love with Johnson and that their romance was blossoming. She said they had reconciled their differences and they were living as a happy born again couple.“After we reconciled, I have never annoyed my husband, even one bit. Not at all,” she said. Loyce described the day her husband went missing, saying he came at the shop, did stock taking and left the shop looking extremely angry. “At 11pm, I telephoned but he could not pick his calls. I sent him about 30 messages but he could not reply; I called my neighbors and told them. “Let’s continue to talk about this case. Let’s continue our search for Johnson, I still love him,” she said.
Meanwhile police last night held a meeting with Loyce and relatives of Johnson and agreed to re-open the shop. The meeting which took place in Room 74 at CPS was chaired by Kampala Extra CID Chief P.T Kato and was attended by Tumusiime Rahure (brother of the missing tycoon), plus sons and daughters.They agreed to release the woman since she was not directly responsible for the disappearance of the tycoon.Police also released the keys of the shop and instructed family members to choose a few people who should run the shop and pay some debts.
However, the children of the missing tycoon especially Lovance Nshemereirwe were said to be distraught.
Sources say she broke down after police discovered herbs and funny pots in her father’s house in Kajjansi. “I can’t imagine my dad is the one who has been using these herbs,” Lovance sobbed. A source close to the family said: “She was stunned to see the herbs in her father’s house yet he was born again.“She’s been really worried about him, especially as he’s lost for more than a week. She wanted him to see her graduate,” a friend said. It was in Lovance that Johnson confided before his mysterious disappearance. He gave him an ATM card with its pin number after crediting that account with Shs4m.He then told the sexy girl: “Goodbye honey, I have gone somewhere too far but you can use that money for fees or anything good just in case I take long to return.”
FINANCIAL BOOM
It was out of his hard work that Tukamuhebwa managed to construct two plush bungalows in Mengo-Kisenyi with a queue of over 30 tenants and a farm in Ntungamo which he was later forced to sell to offset debts.
That farm was worth Shs300m, but due to pressure he sold it off at a give-away price of Shs100m. The two houses in Mengo were sold at a mere Shs200m and Shs120m despite their strategic location. He used the money to clear off some debts, bought a Rav4 and built a smaller house in Kajjansi.Tukamuhebwa had established a huge empire of business connections in world trade centers like India, Dubai and Mombasa from where he would get goods on credit and was worth Shs 3bn at the height of his fame. But the money kept on dwindling.After financial woos continued to escalate, relatives of the deceased say he decided to join a money lending SACCO that they had formed with a group of businessmen at the Kitara C/U church.
WHO IS LOYCE
She was born in Kyamuntu, Bwongyera in Kajara. Her home is adjacent that of her husband. Being close neighbors, the two developed a cozy relationship in their childhood and usually romped from forests or on goat rearing sprees. This romance later grew into marriage. But shortly after, Loyce started to siphon her hubby’s dime, a situation that forced Tukamuhebwa to chase her and get saved. On learning of this, Loyce came up saying she had gotten saved as well. Unsuspecting, Tukamuhebwa accepted her back and the two revived their love until last week’s events.
Friday, 19 June 2009
CONFERENCE VOLUNTEER DEFENDS BENNY HINN’S SALE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTING FOR 50$ PER PERSON
MY REACTION
Dear Mr. Brian Mukisa , I have read you defence of the Benny Hinn’s June 2009 conference at Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral with amazement . I guess you are a born again person. You argue that paying registration fee for any conference is normal. You argue that it was okay to pay because this conference was for ministers and not lay persons.
Registration fee is normal for any conference
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Registration_fee_is_normal_for_any_conference_86552.shtml
This is an error in reasoning. Remember that what ever Christians do must be guided by the word of God. The word of God says freely you have received freely give. Do you expect the poor pastors from Masaka , Gulu, Luwero to afford 50$ . Let us be honest.
By the way how much research have you carried out on Benny hinn . Do you know that he once visited graves to get the anointing.
Pastor Benny Hinn’s grave yard escapades
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01ab.html
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.htlml
How can you defend such a person. The truth is, take it or leave it Benny hinn and Kayanja are not thieves but robbers. They are servants of the devil to say the least .
BENNY HINN'S TEACHINGS EXPOSED
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/bhinn.html
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/word_faith_movement.htm
I pray that God opens your eyes . I also once believed in Benny Hinn like you until God opened my eyes. Amen
Pastor Kayanja’s Strange Gospel of Money
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/342-pastor-kayanjas-strange-gospel-of-money.html
God bless you
Brian Mukisa'S article
Registration fee is normal for any conference
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Registration_fee_is_normal_for_any_conference_86552.shtml
Opinions | June 16, 2009
Brian Mukisa
I was privileged to volunteer on the organising committee for the just concluded East and Central Fire Conference hosted by a reknown evangelist, teacher and author- Pastor Benny Hinn. I write in response to some media reports directed towards the conference pre- registration fee. I notice the confusion arises from failure to understand the aim and purpose of the event. I need to state that a fire conference is organised for gospel ministers (pastors) and is different from a gospel crusade as many people have mistaken it. Pastor Benny Hinn last held a miracle crusade in Uganda in 2007 where he reached out to everyone. This did not require pre-registration or fees.
So, these events are not the same and should be looked at differently.
While it is true that attending the fire conference at the Miracle Centre Cathedral on June 5-6 required pre- registration of $ 50, the fees came with a prior delegate package, made up of conference materials.
Delegates also received special Benny Hinn Ministry unique offers and conference facilities. The conference brought together delegates from neighbouring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Sudan, Malawi, India and so many more. Logistics were required in advertising, hotel bookings, air and land transport, meals, sound and lighting enhancements for both local and foreign delegates. This is characteristic of any international meeting and the situation was not different for the fire conference.
While the debate rages, there is a puzzle about what the real motives of the commentators are, dominated by imaginations and fabrication about the attendance numbers and figures. Sweeping statements like “there are thousands of people who attended and this implies lots of money” are very misleading and vindictive, yet far from the reality.
What is fascinating is the hypocrisy and double standards by the comments. For instance, when a religious or spiritual group from Uganda arranges a ‘religious trip’ or a pilgrimage to whichever destination, it is never free. Isn’t this for spiritual empowerment and for advancement of a particular faith? How is this different from a group of Christians from Malawi or Burundi travelling for a fire conference in Kampala? Come on people!
The conference was a major step for Uganda not only spiritually but also uplifting the profile of the country globally. International media giants, Trinity Broadcasting Network and GOD TV, were present and will run special programming of the event to a global audience. The benefits will later accrue to Uganda. The presence of foreign delegates definitely had a positive effect on the overall economy.
The recent attacks on the host, Pastor Robet Kayanja, are rather harsh, misguided and unfortunate, resulting from misinformation on the purpose and target people for the conference. Pastor Hinn will host a similar event in Ukraine in July and the delegates will have to pay. So Uganda is no exception. For the delegates who attended the fire conference, the conference was priceless, life-changing and in-depth teaching from the Word of God.
We should thank Pastor Kayanja, an internationally respected ambassador of the gospel and other stakeholders for organising a successful event and uplifting Uganda’s profile than pulling him down. For the Bible says in Philippians 1:6, “He that begun a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
brianmukisa@yahoo.com
Dear Mr. Brian Mukisa , I have read you defence of the Benny Hinn’s June 2009 conference at Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral with amazement . I guess you are a born again person. You argue that paying registration fee for any conference is normal. You argue that it was okay to pay because this conference was for ministers and not lay persons.
Registration fee is normal for any conference
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Registration_fee_is_normal_for_any_conference_86552.shtml
This is an error in reasoning. Remember that what ever Christians do must be guided by the word of God. The word of God says freely you have received freely give. Do you expect the poor pastors from Masaka , Gulu, Luwero to afford 50$ . Let us be honest.
By the way how much research have you carried out on Benny hinn . Do you know that he once visited graves to get the anointing.
Pastor Benny Hinn’s grave yard escapades
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01ab.html
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.htlml
How can you defend such a person. The truth is, take it or leave it Benny hinn and Kayanja are not thieves but robbers. They are servants of the devil to say the least .
BENNY HINN'S TEACHINGS EXPOSED
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/bhinn.html
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/word_faith_movement.htm
I pray that God opens your eyes . I also once believed in Benny Hinn like you until God opened my eyes. Amen
Pastor Kayanja’s Strange Gospel of Money
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/342-pastor-kayanjas-strange-gospel-of-money.html
God bless you
Brian Mukisa'S article
Registration fee is normal for any conference
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Registration_fee_is_normal_for_any_conference_86552.shtml
Opinions | June 16, 2009
Brian Mukisa
I was privileged to volunteer on the organising committee for the just concluded East and Central Fire Conference hosted by a reknown evangelist, teacher and author- Pastor Benny Hinn. I write in response to some media reports directed towards the conference pre- registration fee. I notice the confusion arises from failure to understand the aim and purpose of the event. I need to state that a fire conference is organised for gospel ministers (pastors) and is different from a gospel crusade as many people have mistaken it. Pastor Benny Hinn last held a miracle crusade in Uganda in 2007 where he reached out to everyone. This did not require pre-registration or fees.
So, these events are not the same and should be looked at differently.
While it is true that attending the fire conference at the Miracle Centre Cathedral on June 5-6 required pre- registration of $ 50, the fees came with a prior delegate package, made up of conference materials.
Delegates also received special Benny Hinn Ministry unique offers and conference facilities. The conference brought together delegates from neighbouring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Sudan, Malawi, India and so many more. Logistics were required in advertising, hotel bookings, air and land transport, meals, sound and lighting enhancements for both local and foreign delegates. This is characteristic of any international meeting and the situation was not different for the fire conference.
While the debate rages, there is a puzzle about what the real motives of the commentators are, dominated by imaginations and fabrication about the attendance numbers and figures. Sweeping statements like “there are thousands of people who attended and this implies lots of money” are very misleading and vindictive, yet far from the reality.
What is fascinating is the hypocrisy and double standards by the comments. For instance, when a religious or spiritual group from Uganda arranges a ‘religious trip’ or a pilgrimage to whichever destination, it is never free. Isn’t this for spiritual empowerment and for advancement of a particular faith? How is this different from a group of Christians from Malawi or Burundi travelling for a fire conference in Kampala? Come on people!
The conference was a major step for Uganda not only spiritually but also uplifting the profile of the country globally. International media giants, Trinity Broadcasting Network and GOD TV, were present and will run special programming of the event to a global audience. The benefits will later accrue to Uganda. The presence of foreign delegates definitely had a positive effect on the overall economy.
The recent attacks on the host, Pastor Robet Kayanja, are rather harsh, misguided and unfortunate, resulting from misinformation on the purpose and target people for the conference. Pastor Hinn will host a similar event in Ukraine in July and the delegates will have to pay. So Uganda is no exception. For the delegates who attended the fire conference, the conference was priceless, life-changing and in-depth teaching from the Word of God.
We should thank Pastor Kayanja, an internationally respected ambassador of the gospel and other stakeholders for organising a successful event and uplifting Uganda’s profile than pulling him down. For the Bible says in Philippians 1:6, “He that begun a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
brianmukisa@yahoo.com
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Bishop Senyonjo holds secret gay meeting
Senyonjo holds secret gay meeting
News | June 16, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Senyonjo_holds_secret_gay_meeting_86540.shtml
Alfred Wandera & Martin Ssebuyira
Kampala
A former Anglican Church cleric and human rights advocate, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, yesterday convened a secret gay meeting to discuss the rights and ways of dealing with the ever increasing public resentment.
In a secret meeting dubbed ‘Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders’ at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel in Entebbe, participants were mainly young men with braided hair while female participants were clad in male suits.
Bishop Senyonjo was excommunicated from the Anglican Church a few years ago over his sympathy with gay practices.
The sources at the hotel who preferred anonymity said the meeting was organised by Akina Mama wa Afrika to address gay problems.
They said it is a an annual international event organised since 2006.
The participants of the meeting were afraid of the media and they kept on dodging journalists.
“It is not a gay conference. I am just helping to counsel these young men of a sexual minority group,” Bishop Senyonjo stammered after being besieged by journalists during a conference break.
He said he is a trained counselor in sexuality who wants to aid the isolated groups.
“You can’t judge these people by merely looking at them. You need to talk to them to know their problems to help them,” he said, adding that associating with the gays made his church to misunderstand him leading to his dismissal.
Bishop Senyonjo, formerly bishop of west Buganda Diocese, was ordered to stop wearing deaconry robes and formed a new denomination called the Charismatic Church of Uganda where he was consecrated bishop.
News | June 16, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Senyonjo_holds_secret_gay_meeting_86540.shtml
Alfred Wandera & Martin Ssebuyira
Kampala
A former Anglican Church cleric and human rights advocate, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, yesterday convened a secret gay meeting to discuss the rights and ways of dealing with the ever increasing public resentment.
In a secret meeting dubbed ‘Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders’ at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel in Entebbe, participants were mainly young men with braided hair while female participants were clad in male suits.
Bishop Senyonjo was excommunicated from the Anglican Church a few years ago over his sympathy with gay practices.
The sources at the hotel who preferred anonymity said the meeting was organised by Akina Mama wa Afrika to address gay problems.
They said it is a an annual international event organised since 2006.
The participants of the meeting were afraid of the media and they kept on dodging journalists.
“It is not a gay conference. I am just helping to counsel these young men of a sexual minority group,” Bishop Senyonjo stammered after being besieged by journalists during a conference break.
He said he is a trained counselor in sexuality who wants to aid the isolated groups.
“You can’t judge these people by merely looking at them. You need to talk to them to know their problems to help them,” he said, adding that associating with the gays made his church to misunderstand him leading to his dismissal.
Bishop Senyonjo, formerly bishop of west Buganda Diocese, was ordered to stop wearing deaconry robes and formed a new denomination called the Charismatic Church of Uganda where he was consecrated bishop.
Capitalism has invaded the Church of Christ
Capitalism has invaded the Church of Christ
Op-Ed | June 14, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/oped/Capitalism_has_invaded_the_Church_of_Christ_86398.shtml
Oboth David Jackson
It is amazing how capitalism has made a grand entry into the Ministry of Christ. The announcement by Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Miracle Center that those interested in attending Evangelist Benny Hinn’s ‘Fire Conference’ must first of all part with 50$ (Ush 120,000) left many of us opened mouthed.
Many thought it was a joke of some kind, but the good pastor went a head to implement the announcement.
Word making the round indicates that over 20,000 people attended the conference. That means the “Men of God’ smiled their way to the bank with a cool US $1,000,000 (Shs 2.4 billion) un taxed. Hmn!, that is not your usual sum of money, considering the current global economic hardship.
The question is, what percentage did God, the benevolent giver of miracles and free talent get? This is total deviation from the biblical teaching that warns Christians against love for money.
Now, Pastor Kayanja has made it official that there is no free thing, including listening to the word of God. Where then does this leave the poor for whom, Jesus came to save since the message of hope is now for sale.
The Bible talks of Jesus attending a church service and watched with interest as the rich Pharisees walked with a swagger to deliver their offerings.
It was only when an old haggard woman made her way to the alter and offered a coin, indeed her life savings that Jesus made his remarks. Her offertory came from the heart and pleased God. It was not a show off of wealth as Pastor Kayanja is trying to introduce.
The Bible again tells us a story in the Acts of Apostles of some unscrupulous man who came to Peter with an offer to pay money in order to receive some of the miracle working powers that Peter had.
Pastor Kayanja knows very well what happened to that man. The fact that receiving tips on how to enjoy a perfect union between mankind and God from men of God is now not free of charge, shows a clear difference between the present day men of God and Jesus, the author of miracles who freely taught multitudes and sometimes fed them without taking a cent from them.
Pastor Kayanja said at the Press Conference to announce the arrival of Benny Hinn that Ugandans should understand that there are no free things in the world today.
He said preparations for the conference cost them a lot of money and therefore the registration fee will go towards offsetting the costs.
Well, do you see any difference between a music promoter who brings in Shaggy with the aim of making a profit in gate collection and Pastor Kayanja?
Kayanja is a Pastor to one of the several Pentecostal churches with a membership of close to 30,000 people. Like any organised church, I suppose the Miracle Center has Evangelism committee responsible for the preparation and mobilisation of funds for conferences such as Hinn’s Fire Conference. Charging a fee to listen to the word of God is unforgivable.
Mr Kayanja and Hinn should realise that they shot their way to prominence, fame and wealth because of God who did not charge them a single coin for the power, God’s presence and indeed the miracles that happen in their ministries. It is therefore an insult to the Lord and a mockery of God’s word to ask people to pay to listen to the word of God.
At this rate, don’t be surprised when you hear Pastor Kayanja asking non-members of his church to first pay before setting foot in his church. It wouldn’t surprise me if he asked his fellow pastors to first make deposits before he accepts invitation to appear as guest preacher in their churches.
God, where is the world heading?
djoboth@yahoo.com
Also See
More on Ugandans and Born Again pastors
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/Allan_Tacca/More_on_Ugandans_and_Born_Again_pastors_86397.shtml
Op-Ed | June 14, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/oped/Capitalism_has_invaded_the_Church_of_Christ_86398.shtml
Oboth David Jackson
It is amazing how capitalism has made a grand entry into the Ministry of Christ. The announcement by Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Miracle Center that those interested in attending Evangelist Benny Hinn’s ‘Fire Conference’ must first of all part with 50$ (Ush 120,000) left many of us opened mouthed.
Many thought it was a joke of some kind, but the good pastor went a head to implement the announcement.
Word making the round indicates that over 20,000 people attended the conference. That means the “Men of God’ smiled their way to the bank with a cool US $1,000,000 (Shs 2.4 billion) un taxed. Hmn!, that is not your usual sum of money, considering the current global economic hardship.
The question is, what percentage did God, the benevolent giver of miracles and free talent get? This is total deviation from the biblical teaching that warns Christians against love for money.
Now, Pastor Kayanja has made it official that there is no free thing, including listening to the word of God. Where then does this leave the poor for whom, Jesus came to save since the message of hope is now for sale.
The Bible talks of Jesus attending a church service and watched with interest as the rich Pharisees walked with a swagger to deliver their offerings.
It was only when an old haggard woman made her way to the alter and offered a coin, indeed her life savings that Jesus made his remarks. Her offertory came from the heart and pleased God. It was not a show off of wealth as Pastor Kayanja is trying to introduce.
The Bible again tells us a story in the Acts of Apostles of some unscrupulous man who came to Peter with an offer to pay money in order to receive some of the miracle working powers that Peter had.
Pastor Kayanja knows very well what happened to that man. The fact that receiving tips on how to enjoy a perfect union between mankind and God from men of God is now not free of charge, shows a clear difference between the present day men of God and Jesus, the author of miracles who freely taught multitudes and sometimes fed them without taking a cent from them.
Pastor Kayanja said at the Press Conference to announce the arrival of Benny Hinn that Ugandans should understand that there are no free things in the world today.
He said preparations for the conference cost them a lot of money and therefore the registration fee will go towards offsetting the costs.
Well, do you see any difference between a music promoter who brings in Shaggy with the aim of making a profit in gate collection and Pastor Kayanja?
Kayanja is a Pastor to one of the several Pentecostal churches with a membership of close to 30,000 people. Like any organised church, I suppose the Miracle Center has Evangelism committee responsible for the preparation and mobilisation of funds for conferences such as Hinn’s Fire Conference. Charging a fee to listen to the word of God is unforgivable.
Mr Kayanja and Hinn should realise that they shot their way to prominence, fame and wealth because of God who did not charge them a single coin for the power, God’s presence and indeed the miracles that happen in their ministries. It is therefore an insult to the Lord and a mockery of God’s word to ask people to pay to listen to the word of God.
At this rate, don’t be surprised when you hear Pastor Kayanja asking non-members of his church to first pay before setting foot in his church. It wouldn’t surprise me if he asked his fellow pastors to first make deposits before he accepts invitation to appear as guest preacher in their churches.
God, where is the world heading?
djoboth@yahoo.com
Also See
More on Ugandans and Born Again pastors
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/Allan_Tacca/More_on_Ugandans_and_Born_Again_pastors_86397.shtml
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Eating Jesus: The catholic Favorite verse
Also see, Why the current Pentecostalism is of the devil???
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Charismatic%20Movement/chaos.htm
What About John Chapter 6?
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/john6.htm
As you may know, the Catholic religion claims to eat Jesus. They call this blasphemy the eucharist. In the past, the popes made it illegal for Catholics to read the Bible so they wouldn't know you can't eat Jesus. For those true Christians that denied that Catholic priests had the power to make Jesus come down from heaven so you could eat Him, they were killed, period. Millions of Christians were killed by popish Romanists--including greedy priests who loved torture and the wages of unrighteousness--this is DOCUMENTED...
BUT NOW that God's people have flooded the world with scriptures and because Rome cannot control every country, it has changed its Satanic strategy. In the last decade or so, Catholic apologists have been teaching the people selected verses of scripture in an attempt to Christianize their pagan beliefs. John chapter 6 is one of the most common passages I hear from idolatrus Catholics. Of course the writer below didn't use the King James Bible in quoting so if you want to read what the real Bible says you can go here. Nevertheless, he stopped short even in his corrupted version.
An E-mail From an Idolatrous Catholic
JOHN CHAPTER 6
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.
My Response
Aren't you forgetting to read the last verse of this passage (John 6:63) which shows [Jesus] didn't mean this literally?
It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth; THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: THE WORDS I SPEAK ARE SPIRIT, and they are life.
In His knowledge that the Catholic religion would twist this, He made it clear that He was not speaking literally. (Click here to see what Jesus really meant in John chapter 6.)
Tracy
--
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com
There are many other points that could made about this such as the Catholic religion contradicting its own evil tenets. For example, in the passage the writer quoted, he said "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life" -- YET the Catholic religion says you can't be sure that you have eternal life--they call it the sin of presumption. So even their eucharist doesn't do what they say it does. As I think about it, this is the only thing I've seen about the Catholic religion that I agree with--THEY cannot say for sure they are going to heaven because they are hellbound if they believe this dung!
Get saved and you can know for sure that heaven will be your home! Knowing Jesus is not religion, it is relationship. Jesus told the hellbound in Matthew chapter 7, "I never KNEW you." You got to KNOW the Lord, not just have a few facts in your head and some idolatry--ain't going to cut it.
Everytime you put that cracker in your mouth and call it Jesus, God hates it. It is an abomination to Him. Everytime a nun tells a child, "Go visit Jesus in that little box, He's lonely in there," God hates it. It is a stink in His holy nostrils. Jesus is High and Lifted up and is positioned at the right hand of the throne of God. If you stay in this abomination the Catholic religion, always remember, God hates it. The Bible makes it abundantly clear.
Then what did Jesus mean in John Chapter 6?
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/john6pt2.htm
A Catholic gentleman recently asked this question after reading this and his inquiry REALLY touched me. Catholic friend, it is not my intention to do you any evil or to cause you suffering when I explain the Catholic religion on this site. It is my intention to show you that what you've been told is not true. It is my intention to let you know that Jesus died and rose so that you could KNOW FOR SURE YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN. Listen to what the apostle John said in 1 John 5:13,
These things have I WRITTEN unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
This said, I will answer what Jesus meant when He said we must eat His flesh and drink His blood. Let's turn to John chapter 6 in our Bibles and go through it. The eternal word will leave no doubt as to its meaning.
JOHN 6 VERSES 1 THROUGH 21
In this first part of the chapter Jesus feeds 5,000 people with just five barley loaves and two little fish.
JOHN 6 VERSES 22 THROUGH 25
The following day, the people went looking for Jesus.
JOHN 6 VERSES 26 THROUGH 27
When the people found Jesus, He told them that they didn't look for Him because of the miracle they had just experienced. They came looking for Him because they wanted some more food (v. 26). Then He told them not to labour for the meat that perishes but for the meat which would give them everlasting life. Jesus said He would give to them.
JOHN 6 VERSES 28 THROUGH 29
Then the people said, "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?"
Jesus' response in v. 29 is very important to understand...
"This is the work of God, that ye
BELIEVE on him whom he hath sent."
JOHN 6 VERSES 30 THROUGH 31
Look at the hardness of the peoples' hearts in v. 30. They said, "What SIGN shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?" Did you see it? Only the day before He performed that huge miracle before them and they totally ignored it saying, "Show us something so we'll believe you". They did not believe in Jesus.
Then in v. 31 the people mention how their fathers, the Israelites, ate manna in the desert. Remember God fed them out there for 40 years. The people now wanted Jesus to feed them all the food they wanted.
JOHN 6 VERSES 32 THROUGH 33
Jesus then told them that God is giving them the TRUE bread from heaven. Jesus told them "The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and GIVETH LIFE unto the world." In other words, Jesus is the bread that gives nourishment to the world. But what kind of nourishment? We shall soon see.
JOHN 6 VERSES 34 THROUGH 35
Then the people said, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." Jesus responded by telling them, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE: he that COMETH TO ME shall never hunger; and he that BELIEVETH ON ME shall never thirst."
We all know that no physical bread can make us full for the rest of our lives and no physical drink can quench our thirst for the rest of our lives. Then what did He mean? We shall soon see.
JOHN 6 VERSES 36 THROUGH 40
Jesus then plainly tells the people that even though they had SEEN Him they did not believe in Him. In verse 40 He told them once again, "And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and BELIEVETH on him, may have everlasting life."
Jesus said if we come to Him and BELIEVE in Him we will get everlasting life just like eating physical bread gives us physical life. The people were talking about physical life, Jesus was talking about the spiritual--where we will spend eternal life.
JOHN 6 VERSES 41 THROUGH 42
The people didn't want to hear this believing business because they didn't believe in Him. They murmured at him because he said that he was the bread that came down from heaven. They started thinking back about His supposed family (Joseph was not His father). They basically said in verse 42, "We know his mother and father. How can he say he came down from heaven?"
JOHN 6 VERSES 43 THROUGH 47
Jesus then told the people that anyone who hears and learns from God the Father will come to Him, others won't. He told them what they needed to do and they ignored it and even got indignant about it. Once again Jesus tells them what to do, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that BELIEVETH on me hath everlasting life."
JOHN 6 VERSES 48 THROUGH 51 -- THE BREAKDOWN
Now Jesus breaks it all the way down in these verses. These greedy ol' people were just concerned with having their stomach's full so He spoke to them on that level which seemed to be the only they could understand. He basically told them, "Your fathers ate manna and they are DEAD. I am the living bread, eat me and YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER. My body is the bread I will give for the life of the world."
What did He mean by eat me?
Remember He told them that the work of God was to BELIEVE on Jesus.
To believe is to accept, internalize, and absorb which is what eating is--allowing an outside substance to come inside of you. But unlike physical bread which is eaten and cast out through the digestive system, the spiritual bread, the word of God, is eaten/internalized through belief and never cast out. It remains inside of us. In verse 58, Jesus explains that when we eat Him it is "NOT as your fathers did eat manna and are dead". It is not the same kind of eating. It is INTERNALIZING, ACCEPTING, BELIEVING HIM.
Jesus' flesh is food because His flesh was crucified on the cross to pay for our death penalty of hell and the lake of fire--this is eternal death. If we believe that this happened and confess Him we will not experience spiritual death. We will go to heaven--this is eternal life. Believing/internalizing/eating this fact gives us eternal life. We need physical bread to stay alive, we need belief in His sacrifice (spiritual bread) so we can live forever.
What about the blood? Jesus blood is drink because the shedding of blood is required to forgive our sins. The blood forgives our sins and washes them away forever so we can live with a Holy and Just God who NEVER sins and can't live with sin. Hebrews 9:22 says blood is required in order to get forgiveness of sins/remission,
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Once again, if we accept Jesus, internalize Him, yea eat Him, we have ETERNAL LIFE. The people were talking about physical life, Jesus was talking about SPIRITUAL life. Remember, when asked what we have to do to do the works of God, Jesus said,
"He that BELIEVETH on me hath everlasting LIFE."
When we believe on Jesus Christ, He actually lives inside of us, never to be purged like physical bread like the eucharist which goes out in the dung! A Catholic who holds to the eucharist as being Jesus says that my God is in their feces! Ridiculous.
Because I believe, Jesus lives in me.
JOHN 6 VERSES 52 THROUGH 69
This caused the unbelieving Jews to say, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" They are still thinking about physical life and physical bread. Jesus is talking about spiritual life and spiritual bread. He has told them over and over that the work of God is to believe on Him and they repeatedly refuse to believe on Him and persist in seeking physical bread.
In v. 55, Jesus said, "My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." Many people were offended at the thought of what they perceived as cannibalism. Because of their unbelief, they were still thinking in the physical realm.
What about the disciples that left him? Was it because they had to literally eat His flesh and drink His blood? No! They left because they did not believe the claims that Jesus made just like the greedy people who didn't believe either. Because they did not believe, they could not understand what Jesus was saying (see I Cor 2:14).
In verse 63, Jesus asked the disciples that murmured, "Doth this offend you? It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth (gives life); THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and they are life." He told them plainly that He was not talking literally. He said, "...the words that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT." He also told them here that the physical flesh profits NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH, NIL, NADA--NOTHING!
The Catholic religion purposely leaves out verses 63-64 when claiming that John 6 is about the eucharist. The word, "eucharist" is not even in the Bible. There is no concept of the eucharist in Bible--but there is in pagan religion...
What we've done here is straight exposition from the Bible. You don't have to take my word for it, you can get your Bible and do the exact same thing--compare this to your Bible. We are talking about the difference between life and death here. It would behoove any Catholic to check this out and decide if they want to continue trusting the eucharist for their eternal life instead of trusting the real Jesus who loves them and died for them.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Charismatic%20Movement/chaos.htm
What About John Chapter 6?
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/john6.htm
As you may know, the Catholic religion claims to eat Jesus. They call this blasphemy the eucharist. In the past, the popes made it illegal for Catholics to read the Bible so they wouldn't know you can't eat Jesus. For those true Christians that denied that Catholic priests had the power to make Jesus come down from heaven so you could eat Him, they were killed, period. Millions of Christians were killed by popish Romanists--including greedy priests who loved torture and the wages of unrighteousness--this is DOCUMENTED...
BUT NOW that God's people have flooded the world with scriptures and because Rome cannot control every country, it has changed its Satanic strategy. In the last decade or so, Catholic apologists have been teaching the people selected verses of scripture in an attempt to Christianize their pagan beliefs. John chapter 6 is one of the most common passages I hear from idolatrus Catholics. Of course the writer below didn't use the King James Bible in quoting so if you want to read what the real Bible says you can go here. Nevertheless, he stopped short even in his corrupted version.
An E-mail From an Idolatrous Catholic
JOHN CHAPTER 6
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.
My Response
Aren't you forgetting to read the last verse of this passage (John 6:63) which shows [Jesus] didn't mean this literally?
It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth; THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: THE WORDS I SPEAK ARE SPIRIT, and they are life.
In His knowledge that the Catholic religion would twist this, He made it clear that He was not speaking literally. (Click here to see what Jesus really meant in John chapter 6.)
Tracy
--
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com
There are many other points that could made about this such as the Catholic religion contradicting its own evil tenets. For example, in the passage the writer quoted, he said "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life" -- YET the Catholic religion says you can't be sure that you have eternal life--they call it the sin of presumption. So even their eucharist doesn't do what they say it does. As I think about it, this is the only thing I've seen about the Catholic religion that I agree with--THEY cannot say for sure they are going to heaven because they are hellbound if they believe this dung!
Get saved and you can know for sure that heaven will be your home! Knowing Jesus is not religion, it is relationship. Jesus told the hellbound in Matthew chapter 7, "I never KNEW you." You got to KNOW the Lord, not just have a few facts in your head and some idolatry--ain't going to cut it.
Everytime you put that cracker in your mouth and call it Jesus, God hates it. It is an abomination to Him. Everytime a nun tells a child, "Go visit Jesus in that little box, He's lonely in there," God hates it. It is a stink in His holy nostrils. Jesus is High and Lifted up and is positioned at the right hand of the throne of God. If you stay in this abomination the Catholic religion, always remember, God hates it. The Bible makes it abundantly clear.
Then what did Jesus mean in John Chapter 6?
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/john6pt2.htm
A Catholic gentleman recently asked this question after reading this and his inquiry REALLY touched me. Catholic friend, it is not my intention to do you any evil or to cause you suffering when I explain the Catholic religion on this site. It is my intention to show you that what you've been told is not true. It is my intention to let you know that Jesus died and rose so that you could KNOW FOR SURE YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN. Listen to what the apostle John said in 1 John 5:13,
These things have I WRITTEN unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
This said, I will answer what Jesus meant when He said we must eat His flesh and drink His blood. Let's turn to John chapter 6 in our Bibles and go through it. The eternal word will leave no doubt as to its meaning.
JOHN 6 VERSES 1 THROUGH 21
In this first part of the chapter Jesus feeds 5,000 people with just five barley loaves and two little fish.
JOHN 6 VERSES 22 THROUGH 25
The following day, the people went looking for Jesus.
JOHN 6 VERSES 26 THROUGH 27
When the people found Jesus, He told them that they didn't look for Him because of the miracle they had just experienced. They came looking for Him because they wanted some more food (v. 26). Then He told them not to labour for the meat that perishes but for the meat which would give them everlasting life. Jesus said He would give to them.
JOHN 6 VERSES 28 THROUGH 29
Then the people said, "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?"
Jesus' response in v. 29 is very important to understand...
"This is the work of God, that ye
BELIEVE on him whom he hath sent."
JOHN 6 VERSES 30 THROUGH 31
Look at the hardness of the peoples' hearts in v. 30. They said, "What SIGN shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?" Did you see it? Only the day before He performed that huge miracle before them and they totally ignored it saying, "Show us something so we'll believe you". They did not believe in Jesus.
Then in v. 31 the people mention how their fathers, the Israelites, ate manna in the desert. Remember God fed them out there for 40 years. The people now wanted Jesus to feed them all the food they wanted.
JOHN 6 VERSES 32 THROUGH 33
Jesus then told them that God is giving them the TRUE bread from heaven. Jesus told them "The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and GIVETH LIFE unto the world." In other words, Jesus is the bread that gives nourishment to the world. But what kind of nourishment? We shall soon see.
JOHN 6 VERSES 34 THROUGH 35
Then the people said, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." Jesus responded by telling them, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE: he that COMETH TO ME shall never hunger; and he that BELIEVETH ON ME shall never thirst."
We all know that no physical bread can make us full for the rest of our lives and no physical drink can quench our thirst for the rest of our lives. Then what did He mean? We shall soon see.
JOHN 6 VERSES 36 THROUGH 40
Jesus then plainly tells the people that even though they had SEEN Him they did not believe in Him. In verse 40 He told them once again, "And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and BELIEVETH on him, may have everlasting life."
Jesus said if we come to Him and BELIEVE in Him we will get everlasting life just like eating physical bread gives us physical life. The people were talking about physical life, Jesus was talking about the spiritual--where we will spend eternal life.
JOHN 6 VERSES 41 THROUGH 42
The people didn't want to hear this believing business because they didn't believe in Him. They murmured at him because he said that he was the bread that came down from heaven. They started thinking back about His supposed family (Joseph was not His father). They basically said in verse 42, "We know his mother and father. How can he say he came down from heaven?"
JOHN 6 VERSES 43 THROUGH 47
Jesus then told the people that anyone who hears and learns from God the Father will come to Him, others won't. He told them what they needed to do and they ignored it and even got indignant about it. Once again Jesus tells them what to do, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that BELIEVETH on me hath everlasting life."
JOHN 6 VERSES 48 THROUGH 51 -- THE BREAKDOWN
Now Jesus breaks it all the way down in these verses. These greedy ol' people were just concerned with having their stomach's full so He spoke to them on that level which seemed to be the only they could understand. He basically told them, "Your fathers ate manna and they are DEAD. I am the living bread, eat me and YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER. My body is the bread I will give for the life of the world."
What did He mean by eat me?
Remember He told them that the work of God was to BELIEVE on Jesus.
To believe is to accept, internalize, and absorb which is what eating is--allowing an outside substance to come inside of you. But unlike physical bread which is eaten and cast out through the digestive system, the spiritual bread, the word of God, is eaten/internalized through belief and never cast out. It remains inside of us. In verse 58, Jesus explains that when we eat Him it is "NOT as your fathers did eat manna and are dead". It is not the same kind of eating. It is INTERNALIZING, ACCEPTING, BELIEVING HIM.
Jesus' flesh is food because His flesh was crucified on the cross to pay for our death penalty of hell and the lake of fire--this is eternal death. If we believe that this happened and confess Him we will not experience spiritual death. We will go to heaven--this is eternal life. Believing/internalizing/eating this fact gives us eternal life. We need physical bread to stay alive, we need belief in His sacrifice (spiritual bread) so we can live forever.
What about the blood? Jesus blood is drink because the shedding of blood is required to forgive our sins. The blood forgives our sins and washes them away forever so we can live with a Holy and Just God who NEVER sins and can't live with sin. Hebrews 9:22 says blood is required in order to get forgiveness of sins/remission,
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Once again, if we accept Jesus, internalize Him, yea eat Him, we have ETERNAL LIFE. The people were talking about physical life, Jesus was talking about SPIRITUAL life. Remember, when asked what we have to do to do the works of God, Jesus said,
"He that BELIEVETH on me hath everlasting LIFE."
When we believe on Jesus Christ, He actually lives inside of us, never to be purged like physical bread like the eucharist which goes out in the dung! A Catholic who holds to the eucharist as being Jesus says that my God is in their feces! Ridiculous.
Because I believe, Jesus lives in me.
JOHN 6 VERSES 52 THROUGH 69
This caused the unbelieving Jews to say, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" They are still thinking about physical life and physical bread. Jesus is talking about spiritual life and spiritual bread. He has told them over and over that the work of God is to believe on Him and they repeatedly refuse to believe on Him and persist in seeking physical bread.
In v. 55, Jesus said, "My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." Many people were offended at the thought of what they perceived as cannibalism. Because of their unbelief, they were still thinking in the physical realm.
What about the disciples that left him? Was it because they had to literally eat His flesh and drink His blood? No! They left because they did not believe the claims that Jesus made just like the greedy people who didn't believe either. Because they did not believe, they could not understand what Jesus was saying (see I Cor 2:14).
In verse 63, Jesus asked the disciples that murmured, "Doth this offend you? It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth (gives life); THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and they are life." He told them plainly that He was not talking literally. He said, "...the words that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT." He also told them here that the physical flesh profits NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH, NIL, NADA--NOTHING!
The Catholic religion purposely leaves out verses 63-64 when claiming that John 6 is about the eucharist. The word, "eucharist" is not even in the Bible. There is no concept of the eucharist in Bible--but there is in pagan religion...
What we've done here is straight exposition from the Bible. You don't have to take my word for it, you can get your Bible and do the exact same thing--compare this to your Bible. We are talking about the difference between life and death here. It would behoove any Catholic to check this out and decide if they want to continue trusting the eucharist for their eternal life instead of trusting the real Jesus who loves them and died for them.
EXPOSING THE GOSPEL OF SIN : ETERNAL SECURITY, THE HUGE GAMBLE
We truly live in the last days and there is great deception in almost all corners on the face of this earth. To state it candidly, we live in days of deception and lies. Our society and generation seems to move and dwell in lies and deception. Lies and deception is what our adulterous society uses to make things going.
From Pastor to Politician to Prophet to President, all tell lies and run organizations by lies and deception. Organized and Institutionalized lies and deception is the order of the day and way of controlling the masses. The Church has not been immune to deception. As a matter of fact Jesus Christ strongly warned us that there would be deception so great in the Last days just before He returned that if possible, the elect would be deceived.
To the saints, read the Bible on your own and test whatever that preacher and PhD Pastor teach on the pulpit… You will be amazed and flabbergasted at how deception is being sold and lies are being preached on the pulpit instead of truth. Truth has been cast aside in this adulterous generation. Truth has been cast aside from the pulpit by the celebrated preachers of today…
One of the greatest lie and deception out there in the Church today is that once you are saved you are always saved and regardless of what you do or how you walk, you have your salvation secured and nothing will take that away from you.
This deception is so bad that many Christians have embraced the world while sitting on their pews on Sunday services. All sins spoken about in Romans chapter one are currently in the Church and practiced by those who call themselves Christians. Their preachers tell them that their Salvation is secured regardless. Kato Mivule (Watch Out! You Could Lose Your Salvation)(http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/230-watch-out-you-could-lose-your-salvation.html)
Harsh? What's worse, to standby while the likes of Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll, & John Macarthur tell people they can live in open sin, deny God and even commit suicide and still be assured of heaven because they had a past moment of faith? You tell me. The hearts of people have become rock hard sitting under this type preaching mainly because it has gone unopposed for so long that 'millions' believe it to be the truth! Like any form of well conceived propaganda, after long exposure to the outright lies and half truths, the human mind becomes numb to fact. Do you really think Satan and his minions are playing games here? The battle for human souls is intense, brutal with no holds bared! Why do you suppose Paul warned us so many times to be prepared? (Eph6:12-18, 2Cor10:1-6) He recognized the profoundness of this warfare and NEVER ceased to WARN the Righteous & the Wicked that sin would led them into spiritual ruin, (Acts20:26-33, Gal6:7-10, Rom8:13, Eph5:5, 1Thess4:7-8) and send their souls into hell fire.
Why then do the vast majority of preachers, pastors & church leaders condone sin as human 'weakness' and allow these common misconceptions about the Grace of God to prevail in their congregations? They have bought into the lies of Satan's minions and are convinced that a 'Past' Moment of Faith is all it takes to inherit eternal life and nothing anyone can do afterwards will effect the outcome of their salvation. Although many variations of this prevailing view exist within the church, the end result is always the same: A spiritually dead, totally ineffective, lukewarm mass of professing Christians who excuse their sin and have absolutely NO FEAR of God whatsoever. The concept that someone could actually live without sinning everyday in thought, word & deed is as foreign to them as the Warnings contained in Scripture. They are told by innuendo (continually) that God is Love, NOTHING can snatch them out of His Hand, and NO ONE can separate them from His Love! (John10:27, Rom8:38-39)
Thus the obvious conclusion impressed upon the human mind is: "Grace is God's accommodation for my natural weakness." And all manner of sin, wickedness and immorality is permitted because 'no one' is perfect! YET Scripture declares exactly the opposite view: Titus2:11-14, 1Pet1:13-23, 2:13-17, 4:1-2, 5:8-9, 2Pet1:4
http://standingthegap.org/dead_men.htm. Mike Desario
Eternal Security is a myth
http://www.standingthegap.org/Myth.htm
Exposing the Gospel of Sin
http://www.standingthegap.org
The Ministers who preach the Gospel of sin
http://www.standingthegap.org/Wolf%20page/site%20page/wolf_page.htm
Dial-the truth ministries Promotes the Once saved always saved myth
http://www.av1611.org/etern.html
SEE HOW these eternal security guys dodge scriptures like Heb. 3:14
http://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-security.html
Despite their wonderful research, jesus-is-savior.com supports the eternal security false doctrine. GO to this link
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/false_doctrines.htm
Check under the heading Charismatic heresies , you will see an article titled ‘’can you lose your salvation’’. You will see the article below by Stewart
http://www.dividedbytruth.org/BD/lose_salvation.htm
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED NOSENSE EXPOSED
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/05/once-saved-always-saved-nosense-exposed.html
ETERNAL SECURITY, THE HUGE GAMBLE
http://www.lorendavis.com/news_articles_eternal.html
WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY?
This is also known as the doctrine of ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED. Eternal Security is the most preached about topic in church, on Christian radio and television. It is the most dominant theme in Christian bookstores. Is this a true or false doctrine? Does it matter? Why is Eternal Security such a HUGE GAMBLE?
This doctrine is probably the most widespread message preached in Christianity.
PROFILING THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY:
1. Relating to being born again, they teach that if one is born, ONE CAN’T BE UNBORN. There is NO SUCH THING AS BACKSLIDING. IF ONE GOES BACK IT PROVES HE NEVER REALLY WAS SAVED.
2. IF ONE HAS EVER BEEN BORN INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, HE WILL ALWAYS BE A CHILD OF GOD. (Like his earthly family, he will always be the son of his parents whether he is good or bad).
3. We are SAVED BY GRACE, so God knows WE ARE JUST SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE and that we are still going to sin.
4. We have THE “UNCONDITIONAL” LOVE OF GOD. A GOD OF LOVE WOULD NOT SEND ANY OF HIS CHILDREN TO HELL (just like a parent would not punish their children that severely for any mistakes they made).
5. A JUST GOD WOULD NOT SEND PEOPLE TO HELL FOR SIN OR BEING BAD.
6. If WE HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST, AND STILL LIVE IN SIN, WE WILL STILL GO TO HEAVEN.
7. AFTER ACCEPTING CHRIST, NOTHING YOU DO OR DON’T DO FROM THAT POINT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE.
They use Ephesians 2:8, 9 to substantiate this “For BY GRACE are YE SAVED through faith, NOT OF YOURSELVES: It is the GIFT OF GOD; NOT OF WORKS, lest any man boast.”
8. CHRISTIANS ARE GOING TO SIN, WE HAVE JUST BEEN FORGIVEN.
9. *2 Corinthians 5:21, “He was made sin that knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”
This is a major scripture that those who advocate Eternal Security pervert to say “Jesus alone without works”, makes us righteous and acceptable before God. In other words, whether you sin or not, if you believe in Jesus you are righteous and will go to heaven.
THE ETERNAL SECURITY OR THE “PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS” DOCTRINE HAS BEEN PROFILED BY A FAMOUS AUTHOR, TELEVISION AND RADIO PREACHER.
These are some quotes from his book regarding ‘THE CASE THAT SALVATION CANNOT BE LOST’.
He says and I quote, “Once and for all He gives us an IRREVOCABLE RELATIONSHIP
with a Savior who promises to protect us by his own power, all the way home.” “Although DISOBEDIENT CHRISTIANS CANNOT LOSE THEIR SALVATION, there still is much
to lose. The conscious fellowship with God. The approval of God. Influence for God. Love, joy, peace, patience, self-control. Reward. Everything that makes life meaningful.”
“…the Bible makes it clear,” he continues, “that God will, by His own power, preserve their faith and security.” “They may not be acting on that faith the way they should, but it is still there. When that person repeatedly renounces Christ and appeals to some other basis for salvation—we must assume that such an individual was never saved in the first place.” “As long as I believe and trust in Christ, God sees me as being “in Him”, and as long as I am hiding “IN CHRIST”, I have His protection.” “Could my faith or lack of faith determine whether I am presently “in” or “out” of Christ?” “According to Galatians 2:20, I have been: co-crucified with Christ; co-buried in Christ; co-resurrected in Christ; FREED FROM SIN IN CHRIST. This is the Christian’s basis for security. In Christ, I have already paid for my crimes against God. That’s history. It’s past. It’s done. Paul said it so clearly. In Christ, I died to sin. In Christ I am alive forever more.”
He goes on, “This wouldn’t make sense if Paul hadn’t been teaching something that some would interpret as A LICENSE TO SIN” “It is only when we realize that OUR SALVATION DEPENDS ON OUR CONFIDENCE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE RATHER ON WHAT WE WILL DO”. “…NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE DESPISE THE IDEA OF LOOKING AT SECURITY AS A LICENSE TO SIN, we don’t live up to our new potential and privilege in Christ”.
Still quoting,
“I John. 2:1, 2 Jesus gave Himself for a propitiation for our sins,” “This deals with Christ’s protection of our sa280lvation in the present.” “BEING IN CHRIST WE HAVE THE ULTIMATE DEFENSE.” “HE’S NEVER LOST A CASE—and never will. Some have speculated that this Public Defender has never actually had to argue a case. They believe he merely holds up His hands.” “THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE HANDS THAT ALWAYS WINS.”
Finally, “HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR SALVATION WHEN YOU ARE IN
JESUS CHRIST. He Himself is your advocate; intercessor; payment for sin; righteousness before God and man.” When one accepts Christ not only does it take care of the SINS OF THE
PAST, BUT ALSO SINS THAT WILL BE COMMITTED IN THE FUTURE.
Think about this statement. If this were true, then God would be an unjust biased judge who shows favoritism and perverts judgment. That is totally opposite of what the Bible teaches about a JUST GOD.
One preacher said, “Christian security is not something that depends on human performance.”
“Even though He could see all of our sin and rebellion, He still chose us in Christ. His sovereign decision was completely apart from human merit.” “He pre-decided the outcome, while working with our will in a way that is beyond our ability to understand.” “He predetermined the outcome in eternity past.”
He continues,
*Romans 8:28-32 (This scripture is foundational to those who teach eternal security).
This description of God’s plan doesn’t mention the human side. It doesn’t say anything about His waiting to see whether we would receive Christ and then hang on by faith until the end.” “God justifies those He calls to Christ. In legal terms, that means He declares righteous those who believe in His Son.” “God says that we are not to be charged with eternal punishment for our sin.” “Who can find us guilty after God had declared us innocent.” “Because of our spiritual immaturity, we often sin.” “… but God responds in our defense”. “Who do you think you are to accuse someone whom I have declared righteous.”
“The one you accuse of sin is one that I have pre-chosen and justified Myself.” “We are given a new status that covers our future as well as our past.” “Not under law but under grace. This is the ultimate kind of immunity and PERPETUAL PARDON.” “The issue of sin has been settled by the death of Christ once and for all.” “IN CHRIST, THERE IS LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE FUTURE AS WELL AS THE PAST.” “He has unilaterally resolved the sin question once and for all, there is nothing in the future that can keep the foreknown, predestined, called, justified, and glorified child of God from getting to the place God has prepared for him.” “The apostle Paul seemed at a loss to explain what it meant when someone strayed from the faith.” “The apostle had to admit that there are many things about being saved and who is not saved that only God knows.” “This reminds us that we cannot always tell who is and who is not a child of God.” “It is easier if we assume that Christians are those who live like Christians, and non-Christians are those who don’t. But appearances can be deceiving.”
“Without losing their security and their IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION, Christians can easily lose their battle over sin.” “Such failures can sometimes cause a child of God, for a while at least, to be indistinguishable from a child of Satan.” “Paul was at the same time admitting that someone who was in Christ could still fall into all of the sins,” “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 “Didn’t the apostle Paul himself show signs of uncertainty in 1 Corinthians 9:27 No. In the first passage, Paul was not concerned about losing his salvation but about losing his usefulness as a servant of Christ.” End quote
This is a classic example of using some scriptures and ignoring others. Choosing which scriptures one will believe, and those you won’t believe. This doctrine is a product of theological SPIN MASTERS. It is saying the same thing the devil is saying, “It doesn’t matter how you live, you are still alright.”
Some use Romans 4:4-6 to teach Eternal Security
“Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision? Not to circumcision, but uncircumcision?”1
The Bible is saying here is that unless one has believed on Christ it doesn’t matter whether He is circumcised or uncircumcised, he still is not saved. Christ doesn’t impute sin to those who have accepted Him and repented of their sins. This is only referring to past sins not ones that are committed in the future. THIS DOES NOT GIVE ONE AN EXEMPTION SO HE CAN CONTINUE SINNING IN THE FUTURE WITHOUT REPENTING AND STILL BE ASSURED OF HEAVEN.
ANOTHER FAMOUS BIBLE TEACHER IN THE “SPIRIT FILLED” RANKS teaches a DISGUISED Eternal Security
He quotes, “I John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son CLEANSETH us from all sin.”He says, “You see, as long as you walk in the light—EVEN THOUGH YOU MISS IT—THERE IS A CONTINUAL CLEANSING OF SIN.” “Because I was walking in the light I had at the time, the Lord cleansed me from my mistakes, faults, failures, and shortcomings.”
He is saying God cleanses us WITHOUT OUR EVER REPENTING OR ASKING. That is nothing but a thin veil of the Eternal Security doctrine. That preacher in the Spirit filled ranks came out of a traditional denomination that believes in Eternal Security.
SCRIPTURES PROVE THE ETERNAL SECURITY DOCTRINE IS A MAJOR ERROR
“Once Saved Always Saved” proponents use the argument that GOD SAID HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US and they quote, John 10:28 “No man can take you from my hand.”
There is no dispute that NO ONE CAN TAKE US OUT OF GOD’S HAND. BUT THE BIBLE SHOWS THAT WE CAN TAKE OURSELVES OUT OF GOD’S HAND.
*Revelation 3:11 “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that NO MAN TAKE THY CROWN.” (Even yourself)
*Isaiah 65:11 “But ye are THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD.” It is impossible to forsake someone that you were never with.
*2 Timothy 2:12 referring to Christ says, “…IF WE DENY HIM, HE ALSO WILL DENY US.”
*Judges 6:13 “now THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN US.”
*Hosea 4:6 “Because thou hast REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I WILL REJECT THEE.”
SCRIPTURES PROVING THAT ONE CAN LOSE HIS SALVATION AFTER BEING SAVED
*I Timothy 4:1 “SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH.”
*Hebrews 3:12 “take heed, lest there be any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in DEPARTING (once saved) FROM THE LIVING GOD.”
*Proverbs 26:11 “As it happened unto them according to the true proverb, THE DOG IS TURNED AGAIN TO HIS VOMIT.”
BACKSLIDING
*Hebrews 4:11 “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, LEST ANY MAN FALL after the same example of unbelief.”
*Jude 24 “Unto Him that is able to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING.” (He is able, but you must cooperate with Him).
*Proverbs 14:14 “The BACKSLIDER in heart shall be filled with his own ways.” (Not the ways of the Lord).
*Psalms 44:18 “Our heart is NOT TURNED BACK.” (Showing it is possible).
*Jeremiah 7:24 “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and the imagination of their evil heart, and WENT BACKWARD and not forward.”
*Jeremiah 8:5 “Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING? They hold fast deceit, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN.”
*Jeremiah 15:6 God says, “THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME, saith the Lord, thou art GONE BACKWARD: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I AM WEARY OF REPENTING.” (like confession once a week to a priest; or going to the altar every week to repent and get saved again, with the full intent of continuing the same sinful lifestyle).
*John 6:66-67 “Many of His disciples(it says HIS disciples) went BACK, and WALKED NO MORE WITH HIM. Then said Jesus“.... unto THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?”
*1 Corinthians 15:2 “…by which also ye are saved, IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY what I preached unto you, UNLESS YE HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN.”
*Hebrews 4:14 “...let us HOLD FAST OUR PROFESSION.”
*2 Thessalonians 2:3 “LET NO MAN (nor denomination) DECEIVE YOU... that day shall not come except THERE COME A GREAT FALLING AWAY FIRST.” (You cannot fall from a cliff if you haven’t been on top of it first. You cannot fall away from God unless you have known him first).
*John 8:31 Jesus said, “If ye CONTINUE in my Word, then are YE MY DISCIPLES INDEED.”
*Acts 14:22 says, “CONFIRMING THE SOULS of the disciples”. (this is not a confirmation ritual of a church to confirm the soul of some child). This is EXHORTING THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH.
*Psalm 119:109 “MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND.”
*Colossians 1:23 “if YE CONTINUE IN THE FAITH, grounded and settled, and be NOT MOVED AWAY FROM THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL.”
*Galatians 5:7 “YE DID RUN WELL; WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH.”
*Philippians 2:12 “WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR
AND TREMBLING.”
According to the scriptures, once a person is saved he must guard his life carefully or he can lose his salvation. Otherwise, the above scriptures mean nothing.
*Matthew 24:13, Jesus said, “But he that shall ENDURE UNTO THE END, the same SHALL BE SAVED.” Also (Matthew 10:22).
*Luke 17:32 "Remember Lot's wife." After coming out of Sodom she looked back.
WHAT ABOUT JUDAS ISCARIOT
*John 17:12 “While I was in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and NONE OF THEM IS LOST, BUT THE SON OF PERDITION.” (He had to have been one of them before he could be lost).
*Acts 1:16-17 speaking about Judas says, “For HE WAS NUMBERED WITH US, AND HAD OBTAINED PART OF THIS MINISTRY.”
*v. 20, “...and HIS BISHOPRIC LET ANOTHER TAKE.”
*v. 25 “That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which BY TRANSGRESSION JUDAS FELL.” According to the Bible, Judas was an Apostle (which was impossible to be if he was not a child of God), but LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, SIN.
As I mentioned in the chapter on “Salvation”, the Grace of God is very important related to salvation. But the wonderful grace of God has been spun and perverted into a literal license to sin.
PERVERSIONS OF THE GRACE MESSAGE
“I am just a sinner saved by Grace. God knows the way I am and accepts me anyway.” “I believe in Jesus as my Savior, so I am saved no matter what I do.” “Christ died for sinners; I am a sinner; therefore I am saved by His Grace and cannot backslide or lose my soul. I am eternally secure.”
REFUTING THE PERVERSION OF THE GRACE MESSAGE
*Jude 4 says “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, UNGODLY MEN, TURNING THE GRACE OF GOD INTO LASCIVIOUSNESS.” (This is making one believe he can sin without feeling guilty about it; believing that the Grace of God covers whatever sins we are committing. This teaching deadens the conscience. The Word of God deals with how one is living NOW not just in the past.
*Romans 6:14, “For SIN” . (It is the Grace of God in Christ Jesus that gives you the power not to sin, not to free you to sin).
*Romans 6:1 “What shall we say then? SHALL WE CONTINUE TO SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?”
*v. 15, “What then? SHALL WE SIN, because we are not underthe law, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID.”
*Galatians 2:21, “DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD.”
*Romans 8:13 “For IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE: but IF ye through the spirit do MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE.”
*Hebrews 12:14-17 “Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: LOOKING DILIGENTLY LEST ANY MAN FAIL OF THE GRACE OF GOD; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: lestthere be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for HE FOUND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE, THOUGH HE SOUGHT IT CAREFULLY WITH TEARS.”
*Hebrew 10:29-31 “...and hath DONE DESPITE THE SPIRIT OF GRACE.”
In other words, have intentionally PRESUMED UPON AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF GOD’S GRACE. God’s Grace and mercy is incredible, but God will not be taken as a fool.
*Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
*Galatians 1:6 “I marvel that ye are so soon REMOVED FROM HIM that called you into
THE GRACE OF CHRIST UNTO ANOTHER GOSPEL.”
To teach and believe such a thing is to deny the Gospel and Jesus Christ Himself! The Grace message has been spun by professional theological spin masters to teach people that THE BOTTOM LINE IS, THAT THEY CAN STILL LIVE IN SIN AND EXPECT TO GO TO HEAVEN, because of the Grace of God. This is a gross perversion of the Gospel. God is not behind this message. This teaching comes straight from the doctrines of Baal, Satan himself. God would never contradict His Word like this.
CAN ONE SIN AND STAY SAVED?
*1 Corinthians 9:27"But I KEEP MY BODY, AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION: (some believe as long as one says they believe on Jesus it doesn’t matter what they do in the body), LEST THAT BY ANY MEANS, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY..”
*Jeremiah 14:7"O Lord, though OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US, ...for our BACKSLIDINGS ARE MANY; WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE.”
*Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.”
*Galatians 2:7 “Is Christ the MINISTER OF SIN? God forbid!”
*Isaiah 29:13 says, “Wherefore the Lord said, for as much as this people draw near me with their mouth (they are religious), and with their lips do honour me, but HAVE REMOVED THEIR HEART FAR FROM ME.”
*Matthew 9:17 Jesus said that we can’t “PUT NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.”
*John 5:14, Jesus said, “SIN NO MORE lest a worse thing come upon you.”
*Proverbs 14:16 “A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but the FOOL RAGETH AND IS CONFIDENT..”
*Psalm 119:11 “Thy Word hath I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.”
*Ezekiel 3:20 says, “Again, WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN DOTH TURN FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND COMMIT INIQUITY, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, HE SHALL DIE IN HIS SIN, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED.”
*v. 21, “Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that therighteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.”
*Hebrew 10:26-32 “IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH...THERE REMAINETH...A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING OF JUDGMENT.”
*1 John 3:7-8 “Little children, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.”
*II Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
SIN WILL CAUSE ONE TO LOSE HIS SOUL
*1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul said, “But I KEEP MY BODY, and BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY.” (This should show in no uncertain terms that sins of the flesh can cause one to BE A CASTAWAY FROM CHRIST).
*2 Peter 2:4 “For IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, but CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL...” (Verse 5) “... And SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD, but saved
Noah a preacher of righteousness” (but destroyed the ungodly in the flood).
*v. 6 “And turning the cities of SODOM AND GOMORRA into ashes CONDEMNED THEM with an overthrow, MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE unto THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY.”
*v. 10 “...presumptuous are they (presumptuous thinking they can live a life of sin and still be right with God), SELF-WILLED…”
*Isaiah 1:21 “How is THE FAITHFUL CITY BECOME A HARLOT! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”
*Isaiah 1:4 “Ah SINFUL NATION, A PEOPLE LADEN WITH INIQUITY, a seed of
evil- doers: they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.” One cannot go away from a place he has never been.
*2 Peter 2:14-22 “Having eyes full of adultery, and that CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN; BEGUILING (corrupting) UNSTABLE SOULS (the Once Saved Always Saved Doctrine BEGUILES unstable souls, making them believe if they sin they will still go to heaven) ...cursed children: which have FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY, and are GONE ASTRAY.”
*v. 20 “For if AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,THEY ARE ENTANGLED THEREIN, and OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS WORSE THAN THE FIRST.”
*Romans 11:20-21 “…because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if GOD SPARED NOT THE NATURAL BRANCHES, TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.”
WHAT DOES BORN AGAIN REALLY MEAN?
*2 Corinthians 5:17 “If any man be in Christ he is A NEW CREATURE. OLD THINGS, (the life of sin) ARE PAST AWAY; and behold, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW.” If one is not changed, he is not in Christ nor does he have Christ’s righteousness.
*1 John 5:18 “WE KNOW that WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT; but HE THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD KEEPETH HIMSELF.”
*I John 3:9 “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
JESUS’ WARNING
*Matthew 15:3, Jesus said, “YOU HOLD THE TRADITIONS OF MEN ABOVE THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.”
*Matthew 15:7-8, “He answered and said unto them; well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, THIS PEOPLE HONORETH ME WITH THEIR LIPS BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.”
*verse 9, “Howbeit in vain do they worship me, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.”
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF ONE HAS MADE A PUBLIC PROFESSION OF FAITH IN CHRIST; ONE CANNOT LIVE IN SIN AND BE ETERNALLY SECURE, ACCORDING TO VOLUMES OF SCRIPTURES.
*Isaiah 48:1, describes those who preach this doctrine. “They MAKE MENTION THE GOD OF ISRAEL, but NOT IN TRUTH, NOR IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
*2 Timothy 2:19 “The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, LET EVERY ONE THAT NAMETH THE NAME OF CHRIST DEPART FROM INIQUITY.”
Millions of professing Christians live in adultery, lying, stealing, cheating, and idolatry...exactly like the worshippers of Baal.
*2 Peter 2:18 “For when THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY, THEY ALLURE THROUGH THE LUST OF THE FLESH, ...those that were clean escaped from them who LIVE IN ERROR.”
Most of the biggest “seeker sensitive” churches teach the doctrine of Eternal Security. This is an inoffensive, feel good Gospel that says what people want to hear. They can have Christ and their life of sins, and go to heaven, too. This type of teaching is done solely for soothing the consciences of people and for the purposes of gaining bigger memberships and more money. Those preaching this do not really believe the Bible nor do they care whether or not their members go to heaven or hell. They constantly assure their people that everything is okay when in reality it is not.
*Revelation 2:14 “I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the Doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a STUMBLING BLOCK BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and TO COMMIT FORNICATION.”
ETERNAL SECURITY IS A DOCTRINE OF BAAL. It produces a lifestyle which is no different than what the pagan Baal worshippers of old lived.
ONE’S NAME CAN BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE
*Exodus 32:32 “Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, BLOT ME, I pray thee, OUT OF THY BOOK which thou hast written.”
*Exodus 32:33 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I BLOT OUT OF MY BOOK.
*Deuteronomy 9:14 “Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and BLOT OUT THEIR NAME FROM UNDER HEAVEN:”
*Revelation 22:19 “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
*Revelation 3:5, “He THAT OVERCOMETH...I WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
It is impossible to blot out a name that is not there in the first place! .
IT IS A DANGEROUS THING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GRACE OF GOD.
*Hebrews 12:17 “For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”
*Psalm 106:35 “They MINGLED WITH THE HEATHEN, AND LEARNED THEIR WORKS.”
We know the grace of God is a marvelous thing, that God would send Jesus to die for our sins and forgive us when we confess our sins and call on Him, but TO BELIEVE AND PRACTICE THE ETERNAL SECURITY DOCTRINE where one believes he can break the Ten Commandments and live a sinful life and still think he is going to go to heaven, IS A HUGE GAMBLE WITH YOUR ETERNAL SOUL. This doctrine contradicts a massive amount of scriptures that teach the opposite, that commands us to live a godly life. Because of the Eternal Security Doctrine many professing Christians live hypocritical lives. Their lifestyle is very little different than the ‘non-Christian’, pagan.
Another method of teaching Eternal Security is done by disguising and perverting the Bible’s teaching on righteousness. See the article ‘THE PERVERSION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’ on www.lorendavis.com
From Pastor to Politician to Prophet to President, all tell lies and run organizations by lies and deception. Organized and Institutionalized lies and deception is the order of the day and way of controlling the masses. The Church has not been immune to deception. As a matter of fact Jesus Christ strongly warned us that there would be deception so great in the Last days just before He returned that if possible, the elect would be deceived.
To the saints, read the Bible on your own and test whatever that preacher and PhD Pastor teach on the pulpit… You will be amazed and flabbergasted at how deception is being sold and lies are being preached on the pulpit instead of truth. Truth has been cast aside in this adulterous generation. Truth has been cast aside from the pulpit by the celebrated preachers of today…
One of the greatest lie and deception out there in the Church today is that once you are saved you are always saved and regardless of what you do or how you walk, you have your salvation secured and nothing will take that away from you.
This deception is so bad that many Christians have embraced the world while sitting on their pews on Sunday services. All sins spoken about in Romans chapter one are currently in the Church and practiced by those who call themselves Christians. Their preachers tell them that their Salvation is secured regardless. Kato Mivule (Watch Out! You Could Lose Your Salvation)(http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/230-watch-out-you-could-lose-your-salvation.html)
Harsh? What's worse, to standby while the likes of Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll, & John Macarthur tell people they can live in open sin, deny God and even commit suicide and still be assured of heaven because they had a past moment of faith? You tell me. The hearts of people have become rock hard sitting under this type preaching mainly because it has gone unopposed for so long that 'millions' believe it to be the truth! Like any form of well conceived propaganda, after long exposure to the outright lies and half truths, the human mind becomes numb to fact. Do you really think Satan and his minions are playing games here? The battle for human souls is intense, brutal with no holds bared! Why do you suppose Paul warned us so many times to be prepared? (Eph6:12-18, 2Cor10:1-6) He recognized the profoundness of this warfare and NEVER ceased to WARN the Righteous & the Wicked that sin would led them into spiritual ruin, (Acts20:26-33, Gal6:7-10, Rom8:13, Eph5:5, 1Thess4:7-8) and send their souls into hell fire.
Why then do the vast majority of preachers, pastors & church leaders condone sin as human 'weakness' and allow these common misconceptions about the Grace of God to prevail in their congregations? They have bought into the lies of Satan's minions and are convinced that a 'Past' Moment of Faith is all it takes to inherit eternal life and nothing anyone can do afterwards will effect the outcome of their salvation. Although many variations of this prevailing view exist within the church, the end result is always the same: A spiritually dead, totally ineffective, lukewarm mass of professing Christians who excuse their sin and have absolutely NO FEAR of God whatsoever. The concept that someone could actually live without sinning everyday in thought, word & deed is as foreign to them as the Warnings contained in Scripture. They are told by innuendo (continually) that God is Love, NOTHING can snatch them out of His Hand, and NO ONE can separate them from His Love! (John10:27, Rom8:38-39)
Thus the obvious conclusion impressed upon the human mind is: "Grace is God's accommodation for my natural weakness." And all manner of sin, wickedness and immorality is permitted because 'no one' is perfect! YET Scripture declares exactly the opposite view: Titus2:11-14, 1Pet1:13-23, 2:13-17, 4:1-2, 5:8-9, 2Pet1:4
http://standingthegap.org/dead_men.htm. Mike Desario
Eternal Security is a myth
http://www.standingthegap.org/Myth.htm
Exposing the Gospel of Sin
http://www.standingthegap.org
The Ministers who preach the Gospel of sin
http://www.standingthegap.org/Wolf%20page/site%20page/wolf_page.htm
Dial-the truth ministries Promotes the Once saved always saved myth
http://www.av1611.org/etern.html
SEE HOW these eternal security guys dodge scriptures like Heb. 3:14
http://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-security.html
Despite their wonderful research, jesus-is-savior.com supports the eternal security false doctrine. GO to this link
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/false_doctrines.htm
Check under the heading Charismatic heresies , you will see an article titled ‘’can you lose your salvation’’. You will see the article below by Stewart
http://www.dividedbytruth.org/BD/lose_salvation.htm
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED NOSENSE EXPOSED
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/05/once-saved-always-saved-nosense-exposed.html
ETERNAL SECURITY, THE HUGE GAMBLE
http://www.lorendavis.com/news_articles_eternal.html
WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY?
This is also known as the doctrine of ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED. Eternal Security is the most preached about topic in church, on Christian radio and television. It is the most dominant theme in Christian bookstores. Is this a true or false doctrine? Does it matter? Why is Eternal Security such a HUGE GAMBLE?
This doctrine is probably the most widespread message preached in Christianity.
PROFILING THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY:
1. Relating to being born again, they teach that if one is born, ONE CAN’T BE UNBORN. There is NO SUCH THING AS BACKSLIDING. IF ONE GOES BACK IT PROVES HE NEVER REALLY WAS SAVED.
2. IF ONE HAS EVER BEEN BORN INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, HE WILL ALWAYS BE A CHILD OF GOD. (Like his earthly family, he will always be the son of his parents whether he is good or bad).
3. We are SAVED BY GRACE, so God knows WE ARE JUST SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE and that we are still going to sin.
4. We have THE “UNCONDITIONAL” LOVE OF GOD. A GOD OF LOVE WOULD NOT SEND ANY OF HIS CHILDREN TO HELL (just like a parent would not punish their children that severely for any mistakes they made).
5. A JUST GOD WOULD NOT SEND PEOPLE TO HELL FOR SIN OR BEING BAD.
6. If WE HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST, AND STILL LIVE IN SIN, WE WILL STILL GO TO HEAVEN.
7. AFTER ACCEPTING CHRIST, NOTHING YOU DO OR DON’T DO FROM THAT POINT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE.
They use Ephesians 2:8, 9 to substantiate this “For BY GRACE are YE SAVED through faith, NOT OF YOURSELVES: It is the GIFT OF GOD; NOT OF WORKS, lest any man boast.”
8. CHRISTIANS ARE GOING TO SIN, WE HAVE JUST BEEN FORGIVEN.
9. *2 Corinthians 5:21, “He was made sin that knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”
This is a major scripture that those who advocate Eternal Security pervert to say “Jesus alone without works”, makes us righteous and acceptable before God. In other words, whether you sin or not, if you believe in Jesus you are righteous and will go to heaven.
THE ETERNAL SECURITY OR THE “PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS” DOCTRINE HAS BEEN PROFILED BY A FAMOUS AUTHOR, TELEVISION AND RADIO PREACHER.
These are some quotes from his book regarding ‘THE CASE THAT SALVATION CANNOT BE LOST’.
He says and I quote, “Once and for all He gives us an IRREVOCABLE RELATIONSHIP
with a Savior who promises to protect us by his own power, all the way home.” “Although DISOBEDIENT CHRISTIANS CANNOT LOSE THEIR SALVATION, there still is much
to lose. The conscious fellowship with God. The approval of God. Influence for God. Love, joy, peace, patience, self-control. Reward. Everything that makes life meaningful.”
“…the Bible makes it clear,” he continues, “that God will, by His own power, preserve their faith and security.” “They may not be acting on that faith the way they should, but it is still there. When that person repeatedly renounces Christ and appeals to some other basis for salvation—we must assume that such an individual was never saved in the first place.” “As long as I believe and trust in Christ, God sees me as being “in Him”, and as long as I am hiding “IN CHRIST”, I have His protection.” “Could my faith or lack of faith determine whether I am presently “in” or “out” of Christ?” “According to Galatians 2:20, I have been: co-crucified with Christ; co-buried in Christ; co-resurrected in Christ; FREED FROM SIN IN CHRIST. This is the Christian’s basis for security. In Christ, I have already paid for my crimes against God. That’s history. It’s past. It’s done. Paul said it so clearly. In Christ, I died to sin. In Christ I am alive forever more.”
He goes on, “This wouldn’t make sense if Paul hadn’t been teaching something that some would interpret as A LICENSE TO SIN” “It is only when we realize that OUR SALVATION DEPENDS ON OUR CONFIDENCE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE RATHER ON WHAT WE WILL DO”. “…NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE DESPISE THE IDEA OF LOOKING AT SECURITY AS A LICENSE TO SIN, we don’t live up to our new potential and privilege in Christ”.
Still quoting,
“I John. 2:1, 2 Jesus gave Himself for a propitiation for our sins,” “This deals with Christ’s protection of our sa280lvation in the present.” “BEING IN CHRIST WE HAVE THE ULTIMATE DEFENSE.” “HE’S NEVER LOST A CASE—and never will. Some have speculated that this Public Defender has never actually had to argue a case. They believe he merely holds up His hands.” “THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE HANDS THAT ALWAYS WINS.”
Finally, “HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR SALVATION WHEN YOU ARE IN
JESUS CHRIST. He Himself is your advocate; intercessor; payment for sin; righteousness before God and man.” When one accepts Christ not only does it take care of the SINS OF THE
PAST, BUT ALSO SINS THAT WILL BE COMMITTED IN THE FUTURE.
Think about this statement. If this were true, then God would be an unjust biased judge who shows favoritism and perverts judgment. That is totally opposite of what the Bible teaches about a JUST GOD.
One preacher said, “Christian security is not something that depends on human performance.”
“Even though He could see all of our sin and rebellion, He still chose us in Christ. His sovereign decision was completely apart from human merit.” “He pre-decided the outcome, while working with our will in a way that is beyond our ability to understand.” “He predetermined the outcome in eternity past.”
He continues,
*Romans 8:28-32 (This scripture is foundational to those who teach eternal security).
This description of God’s plan doesn’t mention the human side. It doesn’t say anything about His waiting to see whether we would receive Christ and then hang on by faith until the end.” “God justifies those He calls to Christ. In legal terms, that means He declares righteous those who believe in His Son.” “God says that we are not to be charged with eternal punishment for our sin.” “Who can find us guilty after God had declared us innocent.” “Because of our spiritual immaturity, we often sin.” “… but God responds in our defense”. “Who do you think you are to accuse someone whom I have declared righteous.”
“The one you accuse of sin is one that I have pre-chosen and justified Myself.” “We are given a new status that covers our future as well as our past.” “Not under law but under grace. This is the ultimate kind of immunity and PERPETUAL PARDON.” “The issue of sin has been settled by the death of Christ once and for all.” “IN CHRIST, THERE IS LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE FUTURE AS WELL AS THE PAST.” “He has unilaterally resolved the sin question once and for all, there is nothing in the future that can keep the foreknown, predestined, called, justified, and glorified child of God from getting to the place God has prepared for him.” “The apostle Paul seemed at a loss to explain what it meant when someone strayed from the faith.” “The apostle had to admit that there are many things about being saved and who is not saved that only God knows.” “This reminds us that we cannot always tell who is and who is not a child of God.” “It is easier if we assume that Christians are those who live like Christians, and non-Christians are those who don’t. But appearances can be deceiving.”
“Without losing their security and their IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION, Christians can easily lose their battle over sin.” “Such failures can sometimes cause a child of God, for a while at least, to be indistinguishable from a child of Satan.” “Paul was at the same time admitting that someone who was in Christ could still fall into all of the sins,” “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 “Didn’t the apostle Paul himself show signs of uncertainty in 1 Corinthians 9:27 No. In the first passage, Paul was not concerned about losing his salvation but about losing his usefulness as a servant of Christ.” End quote
This is a classic example of using some scriptures and ignoring others. Choosing which scriptures one will believe, and those you won’t believe. This doctrine is a product of theological SPIN MASTERS. It is saying the same thing the devil is saying, “It doesn’t matter how you live, you are still alright.”
Some use Romans 4:4-6 to teach Eternal Security
“Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision? Not to circumcision, but uncircumcision?”1
The Bible is saying here is that unless one has believed on Christ it doesn’t matter whether He is circumcised or uncircumcised, he still is not saved. Christ doesn’t impute sin to those who have accepted Him and repented of their sins. This is only referring to past sins not ones that are committed in the future. THIS DOES NOT GIVE ONE AN EXEMPTION SO HE CAN CONTINUE SINNING IN THE FUTURE WITHOUT REPENTING AND STILL BE ASSURED OF HEAVEN.
ANOTHER FAMOUS BIBLE TEACHER IN THE “SPIRIT FILLED” RANKS teaches a DISGUISED Eternal Security
He quotes, “I John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son CLEANSETH us from all sin.”He says, “You see, as long as you walk in the light—EVEN THOUGH YOU MISS IT—THERE IS A CONTINUAL CLEANSING OF SIN.” “Because I was walking in the light I had at the time, the Lord cleansed me from my mistakes, faults, failures, and shortcomings.”
He is saying God cleanses us WITHOUT OUR EVER REPENTING OR ASKING. That is nothing but a thin veil of the Eternal Security doctrine. That preacher in the Spirit filled ranks came out of a traditional denomination that believes in Eternal Security.
SCRIPTURES PROVE THE ETERNAL SECURITY DOCTRINE IS A MAJOR ERROR
“Once Saved Always Saved” proponents use the argument that GOD SAID HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US and they quote, John 10:28 “No man can take you from my hand.”
There is no dispute that NO ONE CAN TAKE US OUT OF GOD’S HAND. BUT THE BIBLE SHOWS THAT WE CAN TAKE OURSELVES OUT OF GOD’S HAND.
*Revelation 3:11 “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that NO MAN TAKE THY CROWN.” (Even yourself)
*Isaiah 65:11 “But ye are THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD.” It is impossible to forsake someone that you were never with.
*2 Timothy 2:12 referring to Christ says, “…IF WE DENY HIM, HE ALSO WILL DENY US.”
*Judges 6:13 “now THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN US.”
*Hosea 4:6 “Because thou hast REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I WILL REJECT THEE.”
SCRIPTURES PROVING THAT ONE CAN LOSE HIS SALVATION AFTER BEING SAVED
*I Timothy 4:1 “SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH.”
*Hebrews 3:12 “take heed, lest there be any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in DEPARTING (once saved) FROM THE LIVING GOD.”
*Proverbs 26:11 “As it happened unto them according to the true proverb, THE DOG IS TURNED AGAIN TO HIS VOMIT.”
BACKSLIDING
*Hebrews 4:11 “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, LEST ANY MAN FALL after the same example of unbelief.”
*Jude 24 “Unto Him that is able to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING.” (He is able, but you must cooperate with Him).
*Proverbs 14:14 “The BACKSLIDER in heart shall be filled with his own ways.” (Not the ways of the Lord).
*Psalms 44:18 “Our heart is NOT TURNED BACK.” (Showing it is possible).
*Jeremiah 7:24 “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and the imagination of their evil heart, and WENT BACKWARD and not forward.”
*Jeremiah 8:5 “Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING? They hold fast deceit, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN.”
*Jeremiah 15:6 God says, “THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME, saith the Lord, thou art GONE BACKWARD: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I AM WEARY OF REPENTING.” (like confession once a week to a priest; or going to the altar every week to repent and get saved again, with the full intent of continuing the same sinful lifestyle).
*John 6:66-67 “Many of His disciples(it says HIS disciples) went BACK, and WALKED NO MORE WITH HIM. Then said Jesus“.... unto THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?”
*1 Corinthians 15:2 “…by which also ye are saved, IF YE KEEP IN MEMORY what I preached unto you, UNLESS YE HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN.”
*Hebrews 4:14 “...let us HOLD FAST OUR PROFESSION.”
*2 Thessalonians 2:3 “LET NO MAN (nor denomination) DECEIVE YOU... that day shall not come except THERE COME A GREAT FALLING AWAY FIRST.” (You cannot fall from a cliff if you haven’t been on top of it first. You cannot fall away from God unless you have known him first).
*John 8:31 Jesus said, “If ye CONTINUE in my Word, then are YE MY DISCIPLES INDEED.”
*Acts 14:22 says, “CONFIRMING THE SOULS of the disciples”. (this is not a confirmation ritual of a church to confirm the soul of some child). This is EXHORTING THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH.
*Psalm 119:109 “MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND.”
*Colossians 1:23 “if YE CONTINUE IN THE FAITH, grounded and settled, and be NOT MOVED AWAY FROM THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL.”
*Galatians 5:7 “YE DID RUN WELL; WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH.”
*Philippians 2:12 “WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR
AND TREMBLING.”
According to the scriptures, once a person is saved he must guard his life carefully or he can lose his salvation. Otherwise, the above scriptures mean nothing.
*Matthew 24:13, Jesus said, “But he that shall ENDURE UNTO THE END, the same SHALL BE SAVED.” Also (Matthew 10:22).
*Luke 17:32 "Remember Lot's wife." After coming out of Sodom she looked back.
WHAT ABOUT JUDAS ISCARIOT
*John 17:12 “While I was in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and NONE OF THEM IS LOST, BUT THE SON OF PERDITION.” (He had to have been one of them before he could be lost).
*Acts 1:16-17 speaking about Judas says, “For HE WAS NUMBERED WITH US, AND HAD OBTAINED PART OF THIS MINISTRY.”
*v. 20, “...and HIS BISHOPRIC LET ANOTHER TAKE.”
*v. 25 “That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which BY TRANSGRESSION JUDAS FELL.” According to the Bible, Judas was an Apostle (which was impossible to be if he was not a child of God), but LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, SIN.
As I mentioned in the chapter on “Salvation”, the Grace of God is very important related to salvation. But the wonderful grace of God has been spun and perverted into a literal license to sin.
PERVERSIONS OF THE GRACE MESSAGE
“I am just a sinner saved by Grace. God knows the way I am and accepts me anyway.” “I believe in Jesus as my Savior, so I am saved no matter what I do.” “Christ died for sinners; I am a sinner; therefore I am saved by His Grace and cannot backslide or lose my soul. I am eternally secure.”
REFUTING THE PERVERSION OF THE GRACE MESSAGE
*Jude 4 says “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, UNGODLY MEN, TURNING THE GRACE OF GOD INTO LASCIVIOUSNESS.” (This is making one believe he can sin without feeling guilty about it; believing that the Grace of God covers whatever sins we are committing. This teaching deadens the conscience. The Word of God deals with how one is living NOW not just in the past.
*Romans 6:14, “For SIN” . (It is the Grace of God in Christ Jesus that gives you the power not to sin, not to free you to sin).
*Romans 6:1 “What shall we say then? SHALL WE CONTINUE TO SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?”
*v. 15, “What then? SHALL WE SIN, because we are not underthe law, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID.”
*Galatians 2:21, “DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD.”
*Romans 8:13 “For IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE: but IF ye through the spirit do MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE.”
*Hebrews 12:14-17 “Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: LOOKING DILIGENTLY LEST ANY MAN FAIL OF THE GRACE OF GOD; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: lestthere be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for HE FOUND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE, THOUGH HE SOUGHT IT CAREFULLY WITH TEARS.”
*Hebrew 10:29-31 “...and hath DONE DESPITE THE SPIRIT OF GRACE.”
In other words, have intentionally PRESUMED UPON AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF GOD’S GRACE. God’s Grace and mercy is incredible, but God will not be taken as a fool.
*Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
*Galatians 1:6 “I marvel that ye are so soon REMOVED FROM HIM that called you into
THE GRACE OF CHRIST UNTO ANOTHER GOSPEL.”
To teach and believe such a thing is to deny the Gospel and Jesus Christ Himself! The Grace message has been spun by professional theological spin masters to teach people that THE BOTTOM LINE IS, THAT THEY CAN STILL LIVE IN SIN AND EXPECT TO GO TO HEAVEN, because of the Grace of God. This is a gross perversion of the Gospel. God is not behind this message. This teaching comes straight from the doctrines of Baal, Satan himself. God would never contradict His Word like this.
CAN ONE SIN AND STAY SAVED?
*1 Corinthians 9:27"But I KEEP MY BODY, AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION: (some believe as long as one says they believe on Jesus it doesn’t matter what they do in the body), LEST THAT BY ANY MEANS, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY..”
*Jeremiah 14:7"O Lord, though OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US, ...for our BACKSLIDINGS ARE MANY; WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE.”
*Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.”
*Galatians 2:7 “Is Christ the MINISTER OF SIN? God forbid!”
*Isaiah 29:13 says, “Wherefore the Lord said, for as much as this people draw near me with their mouth (they are religious), and with their lips do honour me, but HAVE REMOVED THEIR HEART FAR FROM ME.”
*Matthew 9:17 Jesus said that we can’t “PUT NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.”
*John 5:14, Jesus said, “SIN NO MORE lest a worse thing come upon you.”
*Proverbs 14:16 “A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but the FOOL RAGETH AND IS CONFIDENT..”
*Psalm 119:11 “Thy Word hath I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.”
*Ezekiel 3:20 says, “Again, WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN DOTH TURN FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND COMMIT INIQUITY, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, HE SHALL DIE IN HIS SIN, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED.”
*v. 21, “Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that therighteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.”
*Hebrew 10:26-32 “IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH...THERE REMAINETH...A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING OF JUDGMENT.”
*1 John 3:7-8 “Little children, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.”
*II Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
SIN WILL CAUSE ONE TO LOSE HIS SOUL
*1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul said, “But I KEEP MY BODY, and BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY.” (This should show in no uncertain terms that sins of the flesh can cause one to BE A CASTAWAY FROM CHRIST).
*2 Peter 2:4 “For IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, but CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL...” (Verse 5) “... And SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD, but saved
Noah a preacher of righteousness” (but destroyed the ungodly in the flood).
*v. 6 “And turning the cities of SODOM AND GOMORRA into ashes CONDEMNED THEM with an overthrow, MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE unto THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY.”
*v. 10 “...presumptuous are they (presumptuous thinking they can live a life of sin and still be right with God), SELF-WILLED…”
*Isaiah 1:21 “How is THE FAITHFUL CITY BECOME A HARLOT! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”
*Isaiah 1:4 “Ah SINFUL NATION, A PEOPLE LADEN WITH INIQUITY, a seed of
evil- doers: they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.” One cannot go away from a place he has never been.
*2 Peter 2:14-22 “Having eyes full of adultery, and that CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN; BEGUILING (corrupting) UNSTABLE SOULS (the Once Saved Always Saved Doctrine BEGUILES unstable souls, making them believe if they sin they will still go to heaven) ...cursed children: which have FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY, and are GONE ASTRAY.”
*v. 20 “For if AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,THEY ARE ENTANGLED THEREIN, and OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS WORSE THAN THE FIRST.”
*Romans 11:20-21 “…because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if GOD SPARED NOT THE NATURAL BRANCHES, TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.”
WHAT DOES BORN AGAIN REALLY MEAN?
*2 Corinthians 5:17 “If any man be in Christ he is A NEW CREATURE. OLD THINGS, (the life of sin) ARE PAST AWAY; and behold, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW.” If one is not changed, he is not in Christ nor does he have Christ’s righteousness.
*1 John 5:18 “WE KNOW that WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT; but HE THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD KEEPETH HIMSELF.”
*I John 3:9 “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
JESUS’ WARNING
*Matthew 15:3, Jesus said, “YOU HOLD THE TRADITIONS OF MEN ABOVE THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.”
*Matthew 15:7-8, “He answered and said unto them; well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, THIS PEOPLE HONORETH ME WITH THEIR LIPS BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.”
*verse 9, “Howbeit in vain do they worship me, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.”
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF ONE HAS MADE A PUBLIC PROFESSION OF FAITH IN CHRIST; ONE CANNOT LIVE IN SIN AND BE ETERNALLY SECURE, ACCORDING TO VOLUMES OF SCRIPTURES.
*Isaiah 48:1, describes those who preach this doctrine. “They MAKE MENTION THE GOD OF ISRAEL, but NOT IN TRUTH, NOR IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
*2 Timothy 2:19 “The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, LET EVERY ONE THAT NAMETH THE NAME OF CHRIST DEPART FROM INIQUITY.”
Millions of professing Christians live in adultery, lying, stealing, cheating, and idolatry...exactly like the worshippers of Baal.
*2 Peter 2:18 “For when THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY, THEY ALLURE THROUGH THE LUST OF THE FLESH, ...those that were clean escaped from them who LIVE IN ERROR.”
Most of the biggest “seeker sensitive” churches teach the doctrine of Eternal Security. This is an inoffensive, feel good Gospel that says what people want to hear. They can have Christ and their life of sins, and go to heaven, too. This type of teaching is done solely for soothing the consciences of people and for the purposes of gaining bigger memberships and more money. Those preaching this do not really believe the Bible nor do they care whether or not their members go to heaven or hell. They constantly assure their people that everything is okay when in reality it is not.
*Revelation 2:14 “I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the Doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a STUMBLING BLOCK BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and TO COMMIT FORNICATION.”
ETERNAL SECURITY IS A DOCTRINE OF BAAL. It produces a lifestyle which is no different than what the pagan Baal worshippers of old lived.
ONE’S NAME CAN BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE
*Exodus 32:32 “Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, BLOT ME, I pray thee, OUT OF THY BOOK which thou hast written.”
*Exodus 32:33 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I BLOT OUT OF MY BOOK.
*Deuteronomy 9:14 “Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and BLOT OUT THEIR NAME FROM UNDER HEAVEN:”
*Revelation 22:19 “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
*Revelation 3:5, “He THAT OVERCOMETH...I WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
It is impossible to blot out a name that is not there in the first place! .
IT IS A DANGEROUS THING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GRACE OF GOD.
*Hebrews 12:17 “For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”
*Psalm 106:35 “They MINGLED WITH THE HEATHEN, AND LEARNED THEIR WORKS.”
We know the grace of God is a marvelous thing, that God would send Jesus to die for our sins and forgive us when we confess our sins and call on Him, but TO BELIEVE AND PRACTICE THE ETERNAL SECURITY DOCTRINE where one believes he can break the Ten Commandments and live a sinful life and still think he is going to go to heaven, IS A HUGE GAMBLE WITH YOUR ETERNAL SOUL. This doctrine contradicts a massive amount of scriptures that teach the opposite, that commands us to live a godly life. Because of the Eternal Security Doctrine many professing Christians live hypocritical lives. Their lifestyle is very little different than the ‘non-Christian’, pagan.
Another method of teaching Eternal Security is done by disguising and perverting the Bible’s teaching on righteousness. See the article ‘THE PERVERSION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’ on www.lorendavis.com
Pastors quizzed again over sodomy claims
Pastors quizzed again over sodomy claims
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/684941
Tuesday, 16th June, 2009
By Herbert Ssempogo
PASTORS Martin Ssempa and Solomon Male were yesterday interrogated again over allegations that Miracle Centre Church Pastor Robert Kayanja sodomised six boys.
The Police want to establish if they bribed Kayanja’s accusers to say he sodomised them. Although the pastors say they were simply helping the victims to get justice, Kayanja believes they are not acting in good faith but bent on tarnishing his image.
Male and Ssempa arrived at the Central Police Station in Kampala at 10:00am.
First to face the Police was Ssempa, the pastor of Makerere Community Church. The detectives questioned him for four hours. Ssempa, wearing a black robe, walked out at 2:00pm after recording a statement.
He said he and the Police had discussed the difficulty in proving the allegations. “We have discussed the challenges of collecting evidence,” he said. “For example, if a boy says he was forced to carry out oral sex, how can that be investigated?” he asked.
The Police, Ssempa disclosed, also asked him if other people had complained against Kayanja, to which he said ‘yes’. However, he did not name anyone. Ssempa urged Kayanja to step aside as the leader of Miracle Centre to allow for unimpeded investigations.
He said he had written to Pastor Mitala, the leader of the watchdog committee of pentecostal pastors, to tell Kayanja to pave way for the investigation. He said he had copied the letter to ethics state minister Nsaba Buturo.
As he spoke, Male went in to meet the detectives and was still being interrogated by press time. Earlier, Male of Arise and Shine Ministries, expressed concern that the investigators had devoted their time questioning them instead of Kayanja, the suspect.
The duo was first questioned earlier last month at the Criminal Investigations Directorate head office in Kibuli. They recorded statements.
Six boys, Samson Mukisa, David Mulakazi, Robson Matovu, James Ntwatwa, Ronnie Matovu and Brian Akansiimwe accused Kayanja of sodomising them.
However, in a dramatic turn of events, Matovu and Mukisa currently under “police protection”, retracted the allegations, saying Male and Ssempa bribed them.
Other pastors who have been interrogated over the matter are Kayanja, Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre and his colleague, Bob Kayiira.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/684941
Tuesday, 16th June, 2009
By Herbert Ssempogo
PASTORS Martin Ssempa and Solomon Male were yesterday interrogated again over allegations that Miracle Centre Church Pastor Robert Kayanja sodomised six boys.
The Police want to establish if they bribed Kayanja’s accusers to say he sodomised them. Although the pastors say they were simply helping the victims to get justice, Kayanja believes they are not acting in good faith but bent on tarnishing his image.
Male and Ssempa arrived at the Central Police Station in Kampala at 10:00am.
First to face the Police was Ssempa, the pastor of Makerere Community Church. The detectives questioned him for four hours. Ssempa, wearing a black robe, walked out at 2:00pm after recording a statement.
He said he and the Police had discussed the difficulty in proving the allegations. “We have discussed the challenges of collecting evidence,” he said. “For example, if a boy says he was forced to carry out oral sex, how can that be investigated?” he asked.
The Police, Ssempa disclosed, also asked him if other people had complained against Kayanja, to which he said ‘yes’. However, he did not name anyone. Ssempa urged Kayanja to step aside as the leader of Miracle Centre to allow for unimpeded investigations.
He said he had written to Pastor Mitala, the leader of the watchdog committee of pentecostal pastors, to tell Kayanja to pave way for the investigation. He said he had copied the letter to ethics state minister Nsaba Buturo.
As he spoke, Male went in to meet the detectives and was still being interrogated by press time. Earlier, Male of Arise and Shine Ministries, expressed concern that the investigators had devoted their time questioning them instead of Kayanja, the suspect.
The duo was first questioned earlier last month at the Criminal Investigations Directorate head office in Kibuli. They recorded statements.
Six boys, Samson Mukisa, David Mulakazi, Robson Matovu, James Ntwatwa, Ronnie Matovu and Brian Akansiimwe accused Kayanja of sodomising them.
However, in a dramatic turn of events, Matovu and Mukisa currently under “police protection”, retracted the allegations, saying Male and Ssempa bribed them.
Other pastors who have been interrogated over the matter are Kayanja, Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre and his colleague, Bob Kayiira.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
The Move by Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze to Meet Benny Hinn and the catholic church was a Miscalculation
I was surprised to hear of the move by anti-sodomy pastors in Uganda to meet Pastor Benny Hinn over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s sodomy allegations. These guys(kayanja and HINN) are the same. Pastor Benny Hinn is aware about Pastor Robert Kayanja’s sodomy saga . Benny Hinn himself is embedded in so many scandals. His colleague Paul Crouch, the TBN mogul has also been accused of sodomy and has paid thousands of dollars to his victim.
Paul Crouch and Sodomy Allegations???
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA THE TBN SUPERBOY IN HOMOSEXUAL ALLEGATIONS ?????
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/340-lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugandas-evangelical-churches.html
Pastor Benny Hinn , Pastor Robert Kayanja inc. are Christian Mafias who are interested in Money, Power and Prestige. They do not care whether boys are sodomized in the process. Pastor Martin Sempa is aware of Benny’s controversies for example his visit to Aimee and Kathryn Kuhlman’s graves . Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze should put their trust in God alone. God is in control of this battle and is going to fight it to the end . Satan can not stop satan
Pastor Benny Hinn’s gave yard escapades
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01ab.html
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.html
Kayanja to block his accusers from meeting Benny Hinn
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_to_block_his_accusers_from_meeting_Benny_Hinn_85974.shtml
BENNY Hinn silent about Kayanja’s sodomy saga : Check out this article by one of the Media fanatics of Benny Hinn
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3732&Itemid=71
Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze Meet the catholic church
It was reported that the anti-sodomy pastors have met the catholic church over sodomy. It was reported that , Pastor Michael Kyazze thanked the ‘’ Catholic Church for instituting investigations into allegations of homosexuality against its members. He said Male and Ssempa were invited by the Catholic Church for a meeting after a young man recently accused Father Anthony Musaala of sodomy. Male confirmed attending the meeting with Ssempa but declined to divulge details.’’
Anti Sodomy Born again Pastors meet catholic church
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3669&Itemid=59
The catholic church, sodomy and ecumenical hypocrisy in Uganda
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugadan.html
This meeting with the catholic church is creating an impression that the catholic church is doing a thorough investigation about homosexuality in its midst. The truth is that the catholic in Uganda has covered homosexuality in its schools, among its clergy for years . The catholic church is the most hypocritical institution as far as seeking justice for victims of sodomy is concerned. How can you associate with such an institution. Satan can not fight satan. Avoid being compromised by the catholic church. You are helping to peddle the lie that the catholic church is more concerned about justice for the poor than born again churches.
The truth is that the catholic church has disempowered the poor, cheated the poor, sexually abused the poor, changed the word of God for Filthy lucre sake like the rotten prosperity so called born again word faith movement . Remember Pastor Robert Kayanja has catholic connections. He was one time shown on TV defending himself against homosexual allegations before catholic and Anglican clergy . Have nothing to do with the catholic church dear Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Trust God alone. He is in control . You risk being called catholic spies and kingpins.
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
God bless
Paul Crouch and Sodomy Allegations???
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA THE TBN SUPERBOY IN HOMOSEXUAL ALLEGATIONS ?????
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/340-lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugandas-evangelical-churches.html
Pastor Benny Hinn , Pastor Robert Kayanja inc. are Christian Mafias who are interested in Money, Power and Prestige. They do not care whether boys are sodomized in the process. Pastor Martin Sempa is aware of Benny’s controversies for example his visit to Aimee and Kathryn Kuhlman’s graves . Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze should put their trust in God alone. God is in control of this battle and is going to fight it to the end . Satan can not stop satan
Pastor Benny Hinn’s gave yard escapades
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01ab.html
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.html
Kayanja to block his accusers from meeting Benny Hinn
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_to_block_his_accusers_from_meeting_Benny_Hinn_85974.shtml
BENNY Hinn silent about Kayanja’s sodomy saga : Check out this article by one of the Media fanatics of Benny Hinn
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3732&Itemid=71
Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze Meet the catholic church
It was reported that the anti-sodomy pastors have met the catholic church over sodomy. It was reported that , Pastor Michael Kyazze thanked the ‘’ Catholic Church for instituting investigations into allegations of homosexuality against its members. He said Male and Ssempa were invited by the Catholic Church for a meeting after a young man recently accused Father Anthony Musaala of sodomy. Male confirmed attending the meeting with Ssempa but declined to divulge details.’’
Anti Sodomy Born again Pastors meet catholic church
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3669&Itemid=59
The catholic church, sodomy and ecumenical hypocrisy in Uganda
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugadan.html
This meeting with the catholic church is creating an impression that the catholic church is doing a thorough investigation about homosexuality in its midst. The truth is that the catholic in Uganda has covered homosexuality in its schools, among its clergy for years . The catholic church is the most hypocritical institution as far as seeking justice for victims of sodomy is concerned. How can you associate with such an institution. Satan can not fight satan. Avoid being compromised by the catholic church. You are helping to peddle the lie that the catholic church is more concerned about justice for the poor than born again churches.
The truth is that the catholic church has disempowered the poor, cheated the poor, sexually abused the poor, changed the word of God for Filthy lucre sake like the rotten prosperity so called born again word faith movement . Remember Pastor Robert Kayanja has catholic connections. He was one time shown on TV defending himself against homosexual allegations before catholic and Anglican clergy . Have nothing to do with the catholic church dear Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Sempa and Michael Kyazze. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Trust God alone. He is in control . You risk being called catholic spies and kingpins.
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
God bless
Pastor Tom Mugerwa of Mutundwe Christian Fellowship Takes over Pastor Augustine Yiga’s air time on WBS TV
Who is Pastor Tom Mugerwa ?
Pastor Tom Mugerwa of Mutundwe Christian fellowship is one of the pastors in Uganda with a good mission. His mission is :
…. is to prepare the body of Christ in these last days, so that Christ takes with him a perfect Church. He ministers under the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the perfect message of deliverance and perfection in God. "Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect"Mathew 5:48. His greatest desire is that we walk in the presence of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and live a life on earth as intended by Him, right to eternity(http://www.mcfministries.org).
Mutundwe Christian Fellowship
http://www.mcfministries.org/about_us.php
No longer ruled by bad habits
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=525&newsId=675328
Pastor Tom Mugerwa of Mutundwe Christian Fellowship at the lunch hour
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=43%3Aeasy-thursday&id=504%3Amalita-wamala&Itemid=71
He has in fact written a wonderful book titled,’’ to be Perfected in Christ’’. He emphasizes holiness, righteousness and purity of heart . He has a 30 minute programme on LTV every Sunday from 7:00- 7:30am . Recently, he started a second TV programme on WBS television, every Sunday from 7:30-8:00 am. This WBS airtime was formerly utilized by Pastor Augustine Yiga who advocates for revenge. Yiga is popularly known as ‘abizayo’ – the one who sends back witchcraft to the sender. This guy has done a lot of damage to the born again faith in Uganda.
WHO IS PASTOR AUGUSTINE YIGA?
http://www.augerministries.org/about_our_pastor.php
PASTOR AUGUSTINE YIGA : LUCIFERIAN OR BORN AGAIN
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/03/pastor-augustine-yiga-luciferian-or.html
Pastor Kills in the Name of Jesus
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=174&newsId=554695
When Pastor Tom came on air, he aired testimonies of people who got break throughs after forgiving their enemies . Pastor Tom Mugerwa emphasizes forgiving enemies. Repairing the damage done by Yiga is a good move.
Pastor Tom Mugerwa and the onslaught of the American Prosperity Gospel
Uganda still has humble men of God like Pastor Tom Mugerwa and Pastor Stephen Senfuma who emphasize the inner man and perfection in Christ. However these humble men of God seem to be unaware of the satanic monster called the prosperity gospel.
Who is Pastor Stephen Senfuma?
http://www.uccug.org
REACTION TO PASTOR STEPHEN SENFUMA’S BOOK, ‘’THE LAW AND GRACE’’
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/01/reaction-to-pastor-stephen-senfumas.html
Both Pastors Tom Mugerwa and Stephen Senfuma have programmes on Light House Television(LTV) but they are unaware of the catholic forces and anti Christ spirit behind many of the preachers on TBN and LTV . Preachers like Benny Hinn, Joyce Mayer, Kenneth Copeland etc . I always laugh when Pastor Tom Mugerwa praises Benny Hinn’s Holy spirit connection. He says that a man like Benny hinn connects with the holy spirit who enables him to heal the sick. These Pastors are unaware that most of these LTV American pastors are preaching that Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross. They say that Jesus Paid for our sins in hell. Humble men of God like Pastor Tom Mugerwa and Stephen Senfuma are innocently in spiritual fornication with TBN apostates. Their churches are already infested with the prosperity gospel.
Joyce Meyer believes that Jesus paid for your sins in Hell and not on the cross
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/10/false-teacher-joyce-meyer-is-coming-to.html
The confusing worlds of Benny Hinn
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
Is Jesus Christ Really Concerned About Sound Doctrine?
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/339-is-jesus-christ-really-concerned-about-sound-doctrine.html
Pastor Tom Mugerwa’s Tithing and curses breaking Gospel
One of the major weaknesses of Pastor Mugerwa’s Ministry is the curse breaking and tithing false gospel . Mutundwe Christian Fellowship preaches that if you do not tithe , you will be cursed by God . Pastor Tom’s argument that sin brings a curse is logical however, he insists that a born again Christian can be under a curse. While addressing the issue; ‘’Can a Christian Live under a Curse’’in his bood titled God’s Covenant, (God’s Covenant , P.77) , Pastor Tom Mugerwa argues that YES it is possible for a Christian to live under a curse; If he was cursed before getting saved and the curse has not been broken since salvation. This is heresy because scripture says that Christ become a curse for our sake(Galatians 3:13)and therefore it is impossible for a saved Christian (truly washed by the blood of Christ) to be under a curse.
If the saved Christian has an unbroken curse(a curse that Christ’s finished work on the cross can not break)(John 19:30) then who has the power to beak that curse. The pastor???(how laughable)and what does he use to beak it. Still on P.77 of the same book, Pastor Tom Mugerwa argues that a Christian can be cursed if comes from a wicked family(he quotes Proverbs 3:33) to support his argument. According to Ezekiel 18:20, the word of God categorically states that; The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Mutundwe Christian fellowship should repent and stick to true doctrine. Desist from psychology and distortion of scripture. "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Only a little bit of leaven or yeast is needed to make all of the dough rise(1 Cor. 5:6) Only one bad apple is needed to spoil the whole bushel.
Can a Saved Christian be cursed ???
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/331-christians-in-a-globalized-world-can-saved-christians-be-cursed.html
Generational Curses for the Christian Believer?
http://www.geocities.com/cobblestoneministries/Generational_Curses.html
BREAKING GENERATION CURSES:VENOM FROM HELL
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaking-of-covenants-and-generation.html
SHOULD BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS CHANGE NAMES
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/should-born-again-christians-change-our.html
PROSPERITY GOSPEL HALL OF SHAME
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/prosperity-gosple-hall-of-shame-why.html
Deception in the Ugandan Born Again Church
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/deception-in-ugandan-church.html
"TITHING" IS NOT FOR CHRISTIANS
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~revival/lie-4.html
A Few Financial Questions For Ugandan Pastors Today
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/147-A%20Few%20Financial%20Questions%20For%20Ugandan%20Pastors%20Today.html
DO NOT BELIEVE THE TITHING LIE: UNDER THE NEW COVENANT CHRISTIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE AND NOT TITHE. PRECISELY THE TITHING LAW IS OBSOLETE AND DEFUNCT.. AMEN
http://tekoapublishing.com/books/tithing/index.html
You will be Cursed if you do not Tithe: OH! REALLY
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-are-wrong-on-tithing-pastor-peter.html
God bles you
Pastor Tom Mugerwa of Mutundwe Christian fellowship is one of the pastors in Uganda with a good mission. His mission is :
…. is to prepare the body of Christ in these last days, so that Christ takes with him a perfect Church. He ministers under the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the perfect message of deliverance and perfection in God. "Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect"Mathew 5:48. His greatest desire is that we walk in the presence of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and live a life on earth as intended by Him, right to eternity(http://www.mcfministries.org).
Mutundwe Christian Fellowship
http://www.mcfministries.org/about_us.php
No longer ruled by bad habits
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=525&newsId=675328
Pastor Tom Mugerwa of Mutundwe Christian Fellowship at the lunch hour
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=43%3Aeasy-thursday&id=504%3Amalita-wamala&Itemid=71
He has in fact written a wonderful book titled,’’ to be Perfected in Christ’’. He emphasizes holiness, righteousness and purity of heart . He has a 30 minute programme on LTV every Sunday from 7:00- 7:30am . Recently, he started a second TV programme on WBS television, every Sunday from 7:30-8:00 am. This WBS airtime was formerly utilized by Pastor Augustine Yiga who advocates for revenge. Yiga is popularly known as ‘abizayo’ – the one who sends back witchcraft to the sender. This guy has done a lot of damage to the born again faith in Uganda.
WHO IS PASTOR AUGUSTINE YIGA?
http://www.augerministries.org/about_our_pastor.php
PASTOR AUGUSTINE YIGA : LUCIFERIAN OR BORN AGAIN
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/03/pastor-augustine-yiga-luciferian-or.html
Pastor Kills in the Name of Jesus
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=174&newsId=554695
When Pastor Tom came on air, he aired testimonies of people who got break throughs after forgiving their enemies . Pastor Tom Mugerwa emphasizes forgiving enemies. Repairing the damage done by Yiga is a good move.
Pastor Tom Mugerwa and the onslaught of the American Prosperity Gospel
Uganda still has humble men of God like Pastor Tom Mugerwa and Pastor Stephen Senfuma who emphasize the inner man and perfection in Christ. However these humble men of God seem to be unaware of the satanic monster called the prosperity gospel.
Who is Pastor Stephen Senfuma?
http://www.uccug.org
REACTION TO PASTOR STEPHEN SENFUMA’S BOOK, ‘’THE LAW AND GRACE’’
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/01/reaction-to-pastor-stephen-senfumas.html
Both Pastors Tom Mugerwa and Stephen Senfuma have programmes on Light House Television(LTV) but they are unaware of the catholic forces and anti Christ spirit behind many of the preachers on TBN and LTV . Preachers like Benny Hinn, Joyce Mayer, Kenneth Copeland etc . I always laugh when Pastor Tom Mugerwa praises Benny Hinn’s Holy spirit connection. He says that a man like Benny hinn connects with the holy spirit who enables him to heal the sick. These Pastors are unaware that most of these LTV American pastors are preaching that Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross. They say that Jesus Paid for our sins in hell. Humble men of God like Pastor Tom Mugerwa and Stephen Senfuma are innocently in spiritual fornication with TBN apostates. Their churches are already infested with the prosperity gospel.
Joyce Meyer believes that Jesus paid for your sins in Hell and not on the cross
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/10/false-teacher-joyce-meyer-is-coming-to.html
The confusing worlds of Benny Hinn
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/benny-hinn-to-visit-uganda-south-africa.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
Is Jesus Christ Really Concerned About Sound Doctrine?
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/339-is-jesus-christ-really-concerned-about-sound-doctrine.html
Pastor Tom Mugerwa’s Tithing and curses breaking Gospel
One of the major weaknesses of Pastor Mugerwa’s Ministry is the curse breaking and tithing false gospel . Mutundwe Christian Fellowship preaches that if you do not tithe , you will be cursed by God . Pastor Tom’s argument that sin brings a curse is logical however, he insists that a born again Christian can be under a curse. While addressing the issue; ‘’Can a Christian Live under a Curse’’in his bood titled God’s Covenant, (God’s Covenant , P.77) , Pastor Tom Mugerwa argues that YES it is possible for a Christian to live under a curse; If he was cursed before getting saved and the curse has not been broken since salvation. This is heresy because scripture says that Christ become a curse for our sake(Galatians 3:13)and therefore it is impossible for a saved Christian (truly washed by the blood of Christ) to be under a curse.
If the saved Christian has an unbroken curse(a curse that Christ’s finished work on the cross can not break)(John 19:30) then who has the power to beak that curse. The pastor???(how laughable)and what does he use to beak it. Still on P.77 of the same book, Pastor Tom Mugerwa argues that a Christian can be cursed if comes from a wicked family(he quotes Proverbs 3:33) to support his argument. According to Ezekiel 18:20, the word of God categorically states that; The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Mutundwe Christian fellowship should repent and stick to true doctrine. Desist from psychology and distortion of scripture. "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Only a little bit of leaven or yeast is needed to make all of the dough rise(1 Cor. 5:6) Only one bad apple is needed to spoil the whole bushel.
Can a Saved Christian be cursed ???
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/331-christians-in-a-globalized-world-can-saved-christians-be-cursed.html
Generational Curses for the Christian Believer?
http://www.geocities.com/cobblestoneministries/Generational_Curses.html
BREAKING GENERATION CURSES:VENOM FROM HELL
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaking-of-covenants-and-generation.html
SHOULD BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS CHANGE NAMES
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/should-born-again-christians-change-our.html
PROSPERITY GOSPEL HALL OF SHAME
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/12/prosperity-gosple-hall-of-shame-why.html
Deception in the Ugandan Born Again Church
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/deception-in-ugandan-church.html
"TITHING" IS NOT FOR CHRISTIANS
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~revival/lie-4.html
A Few Financial Questions For Ugandan Pastors Today
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/147-A%20Few%20Financial%20Questions%20For%20Ugandan%20Pastors%20Today.html
DO NOT BELIEVE THE TITHING LIE: UNDER THE NEW COVENANT CHRISTIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE AND NOT TITHE. PRECISELY THE TITHING LAW IS OBSOLETE AND DEFUNCT.. AMEN
http://tekoapublishing.com/books/tithing/index.html
You will be Cursed if you do not Tithe: OH! REALLY
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-are-wrong-on-tithing-pastor-peter.html
God bles you
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
The Kakande Ministries : Prophet Samuel Kakande Marries Fifth Wife
Scandal As Pastor Kakande Weds Fifth Time
The Redpepper, Wednesday, 10th June, 2009
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1653&PHPSESSID=b705e3bc296e842abcea9e3c9318168f
- And You Can’t Believe, All This In 5 Years
Pastor Samuel Kakande of the Mulago based Synagogue Church of All Nations has been exposed as a pastor with excessive libido after he recently walked the aisle the fifth time in just 10 years.
The pastor who calls himself a prophet shocked his followers last Sunday when he paraded a cute light skinned Phillipino as his 5th wife and showed pictures of his secret wedding to her in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
Kakande took many by surprise when he married secretly a saucy Philippino in Manila town, only to introduce her to his followers during the last Sunday service. The lavish wedding took place in one of the prominent churches in the Philippines. The bride has been identified as Popanes Citia, a famous businesswoman in that far eastern country.
The shock is that Kakande has wed for a fifth time contrary to any church’s teaching where an individual can only wed again after the death -and not just divorce- of his or her partner. Last Sunday Kakande paraded his latest catch to his followers after delivering his sermon during the service that ended at about 8pm. The believers jubilated and burst into hymns soon after the controversial pastor had introduced his new catch.
A snoop who attended the service confirmed last night that “After delivering his sermon and anointing his believers with oil purposely to cleanse them of all the evils, the polygamous Kakande requested his believers to stay a little longer”.
It was at this point, according to our snoop that Kakande, clad in a pale gray suit said: “Though the service has ended, please don’t go back home immediately because I have something special to tell you.”
With all eyes glued on the pastor, the believers were dumbfounded when the ushers began showing Kakande’s wedding on the projector.
The believers who, this time couldn’t believe their eyes began shouting Jesus’ name as if he was standing close to the church door. Smiling with blessedness and goodness and smiling ear to ear, Kakande and Citia began strolling around the altar as if they had just taken the vows a few minutes earlier as their pompous wedding was being shown on the screen.
Having watched the video for a few minutes, Kakande requested the ushers to play him Namawa’s love song titled ‘Tambula ndabbe oba ye ggwe gwe nnalonda’ to which the couple danced like caterpillars in love.
Kakande lied that he was tired of being a bachelor. “I was tired of rushing to my home late in the night to prepare supper myself,” Kakande who sounded like he had just fallen in love said. Holding his wife tightly, he said “I decided to marry a foreigner because ‘I don’t want God to curse me for choosing a wife from my congregation’.
Asked why he decided to hold his wedding in a foreign country, Kakande said that his in-laws insisted on having their daughter wed in their presence. He however, assured the congregation that another wedding will be held in the near future. Shouting slogans in praise of Kakande’s suggestion, the believers pledged lots of money and by the end of day, approximately over Shs150M had been pledged.
The pompous pastor cautioned his believers against his fellow pastors whom he said would at any time criticize his ac-tion. “I know many people are going to talk about my wedding especially pastors who have for long been witch hunting me but I request you to pay a deaf ear,” Kakande concluded.
5th time
But our readers who are a little bit old know Kakande has been married many times before and we can confirm this is his fifth wedding! Our eagle eyed snoops can authoritatively confirm to you that the divine honey sucker first married Loyce Kakande and the two have at least two children. The two started the Mulago church together as prophet and prophetess having inherited suspicious powers from Yeboah. But they split over witchcraft accusations. Loyce now lives in London leading a lonely and dejected life.
Kakande then wedded a Congolese in DRC after which the loverbirds flew to Kampala for a romantic lifetime. However, their romance was short-lived after Kakande thorough-sipped the foreigner’s juice for a few years before dropping her.
The adventurous man of God decided to take a ride to Rwanda in 2007 where he spotted, hooked and wedded a beautiful Rwandese babe. He, swiftly like a kingfisher, set on her water-logged marshes.
At their wedding that took place in Rwanda Kakande took 10 Friesian cows on top of Shs170M to meet his flashy bride price.
However, this hurriedly arranged liaison so mistaken to be unconditional love soon faded and the two bitterly broke up last year. Desperate enough for an alternative in life, the preacher sighted another juicy blonde at his healing crusade in Philippines.
The gifted man of God has gone an extra mile of bringing this delicacy here in Uganda for a sexual healing campaign. “It is so surprising how a man of God can thus change women like undies from time to time. This is an expression of too much desire for females which the Bible doesn’t acknowledge as holy,” an expert said last night.
Fellow clergymen are wondering how Kakande could go on a marrying spree when he has not divorced his previous wives or allowed them to first die.
Pastor Kakande Sex Secrets Leak
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1672&PHPSESSID=3433bbd67ae72ae5aebf4c1eb791dc05
The Redpepper, Thursday 11, June, 2009
Shocking details of the secret sex life of Pastor Samuel Kakande of the Mulago- based Synagogue of All Nations Church have leaked. And they are such an interesting tale that you shouldn’t miss them.
In 1988 Pastor Samuel Kakande married Loyce and the duo romped like there was no tomorrow. Their sultry nocturnal activities were blessed with two kids, Yeboah and Obiri.
The pair painted the streets of Kampala red and attended parties and social gatherings hand in hand. They loved each other and ran the church together as prophet and prophetess leading sections of the city society to nickname them ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
But as time went on, Loyce started getting hot gossip from family well wishers that Kakande had started to develop a cozy relationship with some of his female followers including married women. And whenever Loyce asked Kakande (in bed) about the reports, the latter would vehemently deny.
Due to the luxury at her disposal, Loyce opted to keep quiet.
NANTONGO story
More rumours entered Loyce’s ear until one day she nabbed Kakande visiting one Margaret Nantongo, a city business woman whom many suspected of carrying a dangerous infection. Kakande was so upset and one night a strange fire backed by strange voices attacked Nantongo at her home in Ntinda and killed her.
As rumours intensfied Loyce quit Kakande’s home at the Mulago church.
According to Pastor Male who served as Kakande’s deputy for over ten years, Kakande developed bad blood with Loyce over accusations of witchcraft and devil worship.
SEXY LOYCE FLEES, BRAWL ENSUES
Loyce grabbed her two kids and ran to the home of one Samuel Ssenyonyi in Kerezia Zone, Makindye.
She also started a church at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Equatoria.Burning with rage Kakande drove to Loyce’s new place and asked for his kids.
Eye witnesses say he nearly cut Loyce into pieces had it not been for the physical intervention of Ssenyonyi and one Ahamada. As the brawl intensified in which furious Kakande was spitting fire as defiant Loyce reiterated her determination to keep the kids, worried local council officials called the police.
KAKANDE WHOPPER GOES WILD
Following the disgraceful departure of his mother of two, Kandahar-war-hero Kakande was not ready to sleep in a cold bed. Already tired of Ugandan girls; Kakande ensured his whopper crossed the border.
SEX IN BUNIA - CONGO
As luck would have it, his thirsty whopper zeroed- in on one Emily, a very beautiful and well endowed Congolese belle.
The two held a lavish wedding ceremony in Bunia because back in Uganda, he had separated (not divorced) with Loyce. There was fear that Loyce would cause chaos and disrupt the wedding.
After the grand ceremony, the pair came to Uganda and settled in the plush Kampala suburb of Muyenga where they romped and enjoyed sizzling romance.
Misfortune then befell Kakande after the Congolese wife failed to conceive accusing Kakande of firing blanks. In a desperate search for a kid, Kakande even considered encroaching on the sacred territory of Emily’s younger sister they lived with in Muyenga. This was too much for Emily to bear and she ran away.
Consequently, Kakande’s whopper turned into another direction and scooped a water-logged Munyarwanda babe.The two romped until recently when the pair split over sex rumours.
The Pastor’s whopper never felt tired and advised its owner to go farther – a situation that saw Kakande hook and walk down the aisle a pencil-thin Phillipino.
WHY KAKANDE CHANGES WOMEN LIKE UNDIES
Pastor Solomon Male in an exclusive interview last night said he strongly believes his ex boss has no love but lust. “He is a serial monogamist. He separates, marries and takes them to any church of his preference,” Male said.
He added that maverick Kakande likes foreign women because every one in Uganda knows about his activities and many a father would not let their daughters marry him.
“That Phillipino needs to be informed not to annoy Kakande because when he is bitter, he wields machetes,” warned Male who has championed a war against the evils in the Pentecostal Churches.
Family sources said Kakande seems to have lost the ability to sire babies the reason he spends many hours at church leaving his wives to languish at home alone.
NABBI Kakande n’omugole we okuva mu Phillipines, Citia Popanes.
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=684591
Bya Musasi Waffe
NABBI Samuel Kakande owa Synagouge Church of all Nations akubye omukazi Omufiripiino empeta n’abeera omukazi owookusatu gw’agattiddwa naye mu bufumbo obutukuvu mu bbanga lya myaka 21.
Yasooka kuwasa Loyce Nana mu 1988 ne bazaala abaana babiri era baamala ebbanga ddene nga babeera bombi. Baali basabira mu kkanisa yaabwe Kubbiri e Mulago era bombi nga babuulizi ba njiri ab’ettutumu.
Baafuna obutakaanya ne baawukana kyokka baakola ekitali kya bulijjo buli omu bwe yavaayo n’atandika okwanika obuziina bwa munne mu lujjudde.
Nana yasooka n’abeera mu b’enganda ze ng’Abalokole bwe bagezaako okumutabaganya ne bba. Bwe byagaana kwe kusalawo okugenda e London gy’ali kati.
Kakande yamala ebbanga nga talina mukazi okutuusa bwe yagenda ku muliraano e Congo gye yaggya mwanamuwala Emily Pendeza n’amukuba empeta era baabagattira Congo.
Bwe yali akomawo n’omugole yaddira mu kitiibwa era abagoberezi be bangi abaakung’aana okumwaniriza. Oluvannyuma omukazi yamwanjula eri abagoberezi be era ne bategeka omukolo okuddamu embaga.
Emily teyazaala mwana ebbanga lye yamala ne Nabbi Kakande era oluvannyuma baayawukana n’abeera yekka.
Waatandika okubaawo oluvvuvuumo nga Kakande bw’alina omukazi Omunyarwanda gwe yali ategeka okuwasa kyokka embaga n’etebaawo.
Ku ntandikwa y’omwezi guno Kakande yawasizza Popanes Citia Omufilipino ng’embaga yabadde mu kibuga Manila eky’omu Phillipines
Mwanamuwala ono yakuguka mu byabulambuzi era ku mbaga eno Kakande teyabadde na waaluganda lwe yenna ng’abooludda lw’omukazi be bokka abaabaddeko.
Bwe yakomyewo yayanjjudde mukazi we mu kkanisa era abagoberezi ne bamusaba okuddamu okutegeka embaga. Mu kaseera katono beetemye ensimbi ezisoba mu bukadde 150. Olunaku embaga eno lw’egenda okubaawo terumanyiddwa.
Wabula gye buvuddeko, Nabbi Kakande yategeeza NewVision bwe yamubuuza lwaki awasa omukazi omulala ate nga bw’abeera akuba ekiragaano alayira okubeera n’omukazi gw’abeera awasa okutuusa okufa. Yategeeza nti tabeera na mukazi asuka mu omu omulundi gumu.
Nagamba nti kyava awasa aba atuuse ku mbeera etamusobozesa kubeera na mukazi we ng’okuwaliriza okubeera naye ng’amanyidde ddala nti tebakaanya era tebalabagana kiyinza okuvaako obulabe oba obutabanguko mu maka.
Kakande agamba nti okuwasa omukazi omulala amala kulemagana ne gwabadde naye noolwekyo tebayinza kugamba nti alina abakazi abasuka mu omu, kubanga abeera n’omukazi omu era bwe batuuka ku butakaanya ng’oyo amuleka ng’afuna omulala era ye takirabamu mutawaana.
Yakkakkasa nga bw’atayinza kuddira mukazi gw’abeera ayawukanye naye kubanga tayagala era takkiririza mu nkola ya kubeera n’abakazi abasuka mu omu mu kiseera ky’ekimu era kino akimannyi nti Bayibuli tekikkiriza.
Published on: Saturday, 13th June, 2009
Inside ‘Prophet’ Kakande’s Church
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=720:inside-prophet-kakandes-church&catid=34:news&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 19:45
Prophet Samuel Kakande of The Synagogue Church of all Nations is not new to controversy.
His claim to cure all ailments including HIV/AIDS is not new.
So is his standoff with the umbrella body of Pentecostal churches that disowned him in 2006.
“Kakande disobeyed the word of God and decided to create his religion. He is not accountable to us. We have a code of conduct that Kakande failed to cope with. Therefore, any criminal actions by him or his followers can only be answered by the Internal Affairs ministry or Police,” Alex Mitala, head of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Christians, (NFBAC) told the press then.
He is known for his ‘blessed water’ that he claims to possess healing power. His followers scramble for it on the first Sunday of every month.
In his church, soda, water and cakes are sold. So are envelopes in which people enclose written problems, names, addresses and tithe.
Kakande’s website www.thekakandeministries.org features testimonies and medical reports of people who claim to have tested HIV-positive but turned negative after his prayers.
While this has been disputed by some of his former allies, the site carries pictures of people who claim that their sero status has changed.
The inside of the church is like Hollywood, with screens that telecast church proceedings. When Kakande is not present, pre-recorded sermons are telecast.
Throughout the service, money changes hands between waitresses wearing aprons and members of the congregation buying snacks.
Some hymns have kadongo kamu tunes and praise Kakande and the late John Obiri-Yeboah, the founder of the church.
The latter’s son Kojo Nana Obiri-Yeboah is the Ghanaian pastor who was, in 2007, arrested at Entebbe Airport with a shock electric machine.
It was suspected that the machine is used to induce ‘miracles’.
Praises for Kakande are not limited to hymns. They are also reflected in presentations by Sunday school children on TV screens.
Devoid of the usual Sunday school songs and drama, the children’s shows involve carefully crafted statements. One of them describes Kakande as a ‘Professor’ in God’s issues.
“Munno mu nsawo, ye munno ddala”, one kid said, meaning, a generous friend is a friend indeed.
Testimonies
Most testimonies are about healing from Kakande’s prayers. They are carefully selected.
Strangers are not given chance to testify.
“You are not a member of this church, Prophet didn’t pray for you, so what testimony are you going to give? You have no testimony,” said an aide when this reporter tried to register.
Whether Kakande’s church is a cult as some people have suggested is open to debate. The Macmillan Advanced Learners Dictionary defines a cult as, “a religious group, especially one with beliefs that most
people consider strange or dangerous”
Attempts to talk to Kakande failed as his phone was off. A lady who picked his home land line also said he wasn’t at home.
Kakande runs a programme on Radio West every Saturday 10-11:00 p.m. featuring his sermon and testimonies of people he has healed.
Grace Kembabazi who translates Kakande’s sermons from English to Runyankole often gives out her number on air.
This writer called Kembabazi, disguised as an avid listener, and sought clarification on some issues about the church. On sale of items in the church, she said it was worshipers who demanded it as the long service and large number of worshipers makes it difficult to move in and out for refreshments.
Kembabazi also says video recordings of people’s confessions can only be used on TV with their consent. “That is why people leave their mobile numbers,” she said.
Kakande also runs a programme on WBS featuring sermons and testimonies. His website also says the church sells video recordings of people’s testimonies and his sermons.
In a telephone interview, Apostle Alex Mitala, the Overseer of NFBAC, distanced the churches from such practices as confessing sins publicly, dividing people along tribal lines, selling groceries and water in church.
However, Rev. Canon. Aaron Mwesigye, the Provincial Secretary Church of Uganda said it’s okay for people to confess their sins publicly in church “if they are guided by the holy spirit.”
mcmubs@observer.ug
other articles
The Discretion of my kingdom
www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/126/134692
John Obiri Yeboah spirit and the Pentecostal movement in Uganda
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/328-why-pastor-solomon-male-was-disowned-by-pastor-joseph-sserwada-and-pharisees-inc.html
Pastors disown Kakande
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/498699/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
Endooliito zirudde mu basumba abalokole
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=174&newsId=495707
Mutabani wa Nabbi Yeboah aleese bwiino
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/60/507756/NABBI%20Samuel%20Kakande
The Redpepper, Wednesday, 10th June, 2009
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1653&PHPSESSID=b705e3bc296e842abcea9e3c9318168f
- And You Can’t Believe, All This In 5 Years
Pastor Samuel Kakande of the Mulago based Synagogue Church of All Nations has been exposed as a pastor with excessive libido after he recently walked the aisle the fifth time in just 10 years.
The pastor who calls himself a prophet shocked his followers last Sunday when he paraded a cute light skinned Phillipino as his 5th wife and showed pictures of his secret wedding to her in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
Kakande took many by surprise when he married secretly a saucy Philippino in Manila town, only to introduce her to his followers during the last Sunday service. The lavish wedding took place in one of the prominent churches in the Philippines. The bride has been identified as Popanes Citia, a famous businesswoman in that far eastern country.
The shock is that Kakande has wed for a fifth time contrary to any church’s teaching where an individual can only wed again after the death -and not just divorce- of his or her partner. Last Sunday Kakande paraded his latest catch to his followers after delivering his sermon during the service that ended at about 8pm. The believers jubilated and burst into hymns soon after the controversial pastor had introduced his new catch.
A snoop who attended the service confirmed last night that “After delivering his sermon and anointing his believers with oil purposely to cleanse them of all the evils, the polygamous Kakande requested his believers to stay a little longer”.
It was at this point, according to our snoop that Kakande, clad in a pale gray suit said: “Though the service has ended, please don’t go back home immediately because I have something special to tell you.”
With all eyes glued on the pastor, the believers were dumbfounded when the ushers began showing Kakande’s wedding on the projector.
The believers who, this time couldn’t believe their eyes began shouting Jesus’ name as if he was standing close to the church door. Smiling with blessedness and goodness and smiling ear to ear, Kakande and Citia began strolling around the altar as if they had just taken the vows a few minutes earlier as their pompous wedding was being shown on the screen.
Having watched the video for a few minutes, Kakande requested the ushers to play him Namawa’s love song titled ‘Tambula ndabbe oba ye ggwe gwe nnalonda’ to which the couple danced like caterpillars in love.
Kakande lied that he was tired of being a bachelor. “I was tired of rushing to my home late in the night to prepare supper myself,” Kakande who sounded like he had just fallen in love said. Holding his wife tightly, he said “I decided to marry a foreigner because ‘I don’t want God to curse me for choosing a wife from my congregation’.
Asked why he decided to hold his wedding in a foreign country, Kakande said that his in-laws insisted on having their daughter wed in their presence. He however, assured the congregation that another wedding will be held in the near future. Shouting slogans in praise of Kakande’s suggestion, the believers pledged lots of money and by the end of day, approximately over Shs150M had been pledged.
The pompous pastor cautioned his believers against his fellow pastors whom he said would at any time criticize his ac-tion. “I know many people are going to talk about my wedding especially pastors who have for long been witch hunting me but I request you to pay a deaf ear,” Kakande concluded.
5th time
But our readers who are a little bit old know Kakande has been married many times before and we can confirm this is his fifth wedding! Our eagle eyed snoops can authoritatively confirm to you that the divine honey sucker first married Loyce Kakande and the two have at least two children. The two started the Mulago church together as prophet and prophetess having inherited suspicious powers from Yeboah. But they split over witchcraft accusations. Loyce now lives in London leading a lonely and dejected life.
Kakande then wedded a Congolese in DRC after which the loverbirds flew to Kampala for a romantic lifetime. However, their romance was short-lived after Kakande thorough-sipped the foreigner’s juice for a few years before dropping her.
The adventurous man of God decided to take a ride to Rwanda in 2007 where he spotted, hooked and wedded a beautiful Rwandese babe. He, swiftly like a kingfisher, set on her water-logged marshes.
At their wedding that took place in Rwanda Kakande took 10 Friesian cows on top of Shs170M to meet his flashy bride price.
However, this hurriedly arranged liaison so mistaken to be unconditional love soon faded and the two bitterly broke up last year. Desperate enough for an alternative in life, the preacher sighted another juicy blonde at his healing crusade in Philippines.
The gifted man of God has gone an extra mile of bringing this delicacy here in Uganda for a sexual healing campaign. “It is so surprising how a man of God can thus change women like undies from time to time. This is an expression of too much desire for females which the Bible doesn’t acknowledge as holy,” an expert said last night.
Fellow clergymen are wondering how Kakande could go on a marrying spree when he has not divorced his previous wives or allowed them to first die.
Pastor Kakande Sex Secrets Leak
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1672&PHPSESSID=3433bbd67ae72ae5aebf4c1eb791dc05
The Redpepper, Thursday 11, June, 2009
Shocking details of the secret sex life of Pastor Samuel Kakande of the Mulago- based Synagogue of All Nations Church have leaked. And they are such an interesting tale that you shouldn’t miss them.
In 1988 Pastor Samuel Kakande married Loyce and the duo romped like there was no tomorrow. Their sultry nocturnal activities were blessed with two kids, Yeboah and Obiri.
The pair painted the streets of Kampala red and attended parties and social gatherings hand in hand. They loved each other and ran the church together as prophet and prophetess leading sections of the city society to nickname them ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
But as time went on, Loyce started getting hot gossip from family well wishers that Kakande had started to develop a cozy relationship with some of his female followers including married women. And whenever Loyce asked Kakande (in bed) about the reports, the latter would vehemently deny.
Due to the luxury at her disposal, Loyce opted to keep quiet.
NANTONGO story
More rumours entered Loyce’s ear until one day she nabbed Kakande visiting one Margaret Nantongo, a city business woman whom many suspected of carrying a dangerous infection. Kakande was so upset and one night a strange fire backed by strange voices attacked Nantongo at her home in Ntinda and killed her.
As rumours intensfied Loyce quit Kakande’s home at the Mulago church.
According to Pastor Male who served as Kakande’s deputy for over ten years, Kakande developed bad blood with Loyce over accusations of witchcraft and devil worship.
SEXY LOYCE FLEES, BRAWL ENSUES
Loyce grabbed her two kids and ran to the home of one Samuel Ssenyonyi in Kerezia Zone, Makindye.
She also started a church at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Equatoria.Burning with rage Kakande drove to Loyce’s new place and asked for his kids.
Eye witnesses say he nearly cut Loyce into pieces had it not been for the physical intervention of Ssenyonyi and one Ahamada. As the brawl intensified in which furious Kakande was spitting fire as defiant Loyce reiterated her determination to keep the kids, worried local council officials called the police.
KAKANDE WHOPPER GOES WILD
Following the disgraceful departure of his mother of two, Kandahar-war-hero Kakande was not ready to sleep in a cold bed. Already tired of Ugandan girls; Kakande ensured his whopper crossed the border.
SEX IN BUNIA - CONGO
As luck would have it, his thirsty whopper zeroed- in on one Emily, a very beautiful and well endowed Congolese belle.
The two held a lavish wedding ceremony in Bunia because back in Uganda, he had separated (not divorced) with Loyce. There was fear that Loyce would cause chaos and disrupt the wedding.
After the grand ceremony, the pair came to Uganda and settled in the plush Kampala suburb of Muyenga where they romped and enjoyed sizzling romance.
Misfortune then befell Kakande after the Congolese wife failed to conceive accusing Kakande of firing blanks. In a desperate search for a kid, Kakande even considered encroaching on the sacred territory of Emily’s younger sister they lived with in Muyenga. This was too much for Emily to bear and she ran away.
Consequently, Kakande’s whopper turned into another direction and scooped a water-logged Munyarwanda babe.The two romped until recently when the pair split over sex rumours.
The Pastor’s whopper never felt tired and advised its owner to go farther – a situation that saw Kakande hook and walk down the aisle a pencil-thin Phillipino.
WHY KAKANDE CHANGES WOMEN LIKE UNDIES
Pastor Solomon Male in an exclusive interview last night said he strongly believes his ex boss has no love but lust. “He is a serial monogamist. He separates, marries and takes them to any church of his preference,” Male said.
He added that maverick Kakande likes foreign women because every one in Uganda knows about his activities and many a father would not let their daughters marry him.
“That Phillipino needs to be informed not to annoy Kakande because when he is bitter, he wields machetes,” warned Male who has championed a war against the evils in the Pentecostal Churches.
Family sources said Kakande seems to have lost the ability to sire babies the reason he spends many hours at church leaving his wives to languish at home alone.
NABBI Kakande n’omugole we okuva mu Phillipines, Citia Popanes.
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=684591
Bya Musasi Waffe
NABBI Samuel Kakande owa Synagouge Church of all Nations akubye omukazi Omufiripiino empeta n’abeera omukazi owookusatu gw’agattiddwa naye mu bufumbo obutukuvu mu bbanga lya myaka 21.
Yasooka kuwasa Loyce Nana mu 1988 ne bazaala abaana babiri era baamala ebbanga ddene nga babeera bombi. Baali basabira mu kkanisa yaabwe Kubbiri e Mulago era bombi nga babuulizi ba njiri ab’ettutumu.
Baafuna obutakaanya ne baawukana kyokka baakola ekitali kya bulijjo buli omu bwe yavaayo n’atandika okwanika obuziina bwa munne mu lujjudde.
Nana yasooka n’abeera mu b’enganda ze ng’Abalokole bwe bagezaako okumutabaganya ne bba. Bwe byagaana kwe kusalawo okugenda e London gy’ali kati.
Kakande yamala ebbanga nga talina mukazi okutuusa bwe yagenda ku muliraano e Congo gye yaggya mwanamuwala Emily Pendeza n’amukuba empeta era baabagattira Congo.
Bwe yali akomawo n’omugole yaddira mu kitiibwa era abagoberezi be bangi abaakung’aana okumwaniriza. Oluvannyuma omukazi yamwanjula eri abagoberezi be era ne bategeka omukolo okuddamu embaga.
Emily teyazaala mwana ebbanga lye yamala ne Nabbi Kakande era oluvannyuma baayawukana n’abeera yekka.
Waatandika okubaawo oluvvuvuumo nga Kakande bw’alina omukazi Omunyarwanda gwe yali ategeka okuwasa kyokka embaga n’etebaawo.
Ku ntandikwa y’omwezi guno Kakande yawasizza Popanes Citia Omufilipino ng’embaga yabadde mu kibuga Manila eky’omu Phillipines
Mwanamuwala ono yakuguka mu byabulambuzi era ku mbaga eno Kakande teyabadde na waaluganda lwe yenna ng’abooludda lw’omukazi be bokka abaabaddeko.
Bwe yakomyewo yayanjjudde mukazi we mu kkanisa era abagoberezi ne bamusaba okuddamu okutegeka embaga. Mu kaseera katono beetemye ensimbi ezisoba mu bukadde 150. Olunaku embaga eno lw’egenda okubaawo terumanyiddwa.
Wabula gye buvuddeko, Nabbi Kakande yategeeza NewVision bwe yamubuuza lwaki awasa omukazi omulala ate nga bw’abeera akuba ekiragaano alayira okubeera n’omukazi gw’abeera awasa okutuusa okufa. Yategeeza nti tabeera na mukazi asuka mu omu omulundi gumu.
Nagamba nti kyava awasa aba atuuse ku mbeera etamusobozesa kubeera na mukazi we ng’okuwaliriza okubeera naye ng’amanyidde ddala nti tebakaanya era tebalabagana kiyinza okuvaako obulabe oba obutabanguko mu maka.
Kakande agamba nti okuwasa omukazi omulala amala kulemagana ne gwabadde naye noolwekyo tebayinza kugamba nti alina abakazi abasuka mu omu, kubanga abeera n’omukazi omu era bwe batuuka ku butakaanya ng’oyo amuleka ng’afuna omulala era ye takirabamu mutawaana.
Yakkakkasa nga bw’atayinza kuddira mukazi gw’abeera ayawukanye naye kubanga tayagala era takkiririza mu nkola ya kubeera n’abakazi abasuka mu omu mu kiseera ky’ekimu era kino akimannyi nti Bayibuli tekikkiriza.
Published on: Saturday, 13th June, 2009
Inside ‘Prophet’ Kakande’s Church
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=720:inside-prophet-kakandes-church&catid=34:news&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 19:45
Prophet Samuel Kakande of The Synagogue Church of all Nations is not new to controversy.
His claim to cure all ailments including HIV/AIDS is not new.
So is his standoff with the umbrella body of Pentecostal churches that disowned him in 2006.
“Kakande disobeyed the word of God and decided to create his religion. He is not accountable to us. We have a code of conduct that Kakande failed to cope with. Therefore, any criminal actions by him or his followers can only be answered by the Internal Affairs ministry or Police,” Alex Mitala, head of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Christians, (NFBAC) told the press then.
He is known for his ‘blessed water’ that he claims to possess healing power. His followers scramble for it on the first Sunday of every month.
In his church, soda, water and cakes are sold. So are envelopes in which people enclose written problems, names, addresses and tithe.
Kakande’s website www.thekakandeministries.org features testimonies and medical reports of people who claim to have tested HIV-positive but turned negative after his prayers.
While this has been disputed by some of his former allies, the site carries pictures of people who claim that their sero status has changed.
The inside of the church is like Hollywood, with screens that telecast church proceedings. When Kakande is not present, pre-recorded sermons are telecast.
Throughout the service, money changes hands between waitresses wearing aprons and members of the congregation buying snacks.
Some hymns have kadongo kamu tunes and praise Kakande and the late John Obiri-Yeboah, the founder of the church.
The latter’s son Kojo Nana Obiri-Yeboah is the Ghanaian pastor who was, in 2007, arrested at Entebbe Airport with a shock electric machine.
It was suspected that the machine is used to induce ‘miracles’.
Praises for Kakande are not limited to hymns. They are also reflected in presentations by Sunday school children on TV screens.
Devoid of the usual Sunday school songs and drama, the children’s shows involve carefully crafted statements. One of them describes Kakande as a ‘Professor’ in God’s issues.
“Munno mu nsawo, ye munno ddala”, one kid said, meaning, a generous friend is a friend indeed.
Testimonies
Most testimonies are about healing from Kakande’s prayers. They are carefully selected.
Strangers are not given chance to testify.
“You are not a member of this church, Prophet didn’t pray for you, so what testimony are you going to give? You have no testimony,” said an aide when this reporter tried to register.
Whether Kakande’s church is a cult as some people have suggested is open to debate. The Macmillan Advanced Learners Dictionary defines a cult as, “a religious group, especially one with beliefs that most
people consider strange or dangerous”
Attempts to talk to Kakande failed as his phone was off. A lady who picked his home land line also said he wasn’t at home.
Kakande runs a programme on Radio West every Saturday 10-11:00 p.m. featuring his sermon and testimonies of people he has healed.
Grace Kembabazi who translates Kakande’s sermons from English to Runyankole often gives out her number on air.
This writer called Kembabazi, disguised as an avid listener, and sought clarification on some issues about the church. On sale of items in the church, she said it was worshipers who demanded it as the long service and large number of worshipers makes it difficult to move in and out for refreshments.
Kembabazi also says video recordings of people’s confessions can only be used on TV with their consent. “That is why people leave their mobile numbers,” she said.
Kakande also runs a programme on WBS featuring sermons and testimonies. His website also says the church sells video recordings of people’s testimonies and his sermons.
In a telephone interview, Apostle Alex Mitala, the Overseer of NFBAC, distanced the churches from such practices as confessing sins publicly, dividing people along tribal lines, selling groceries and water in church.
However, Rev. Canon. Aaron Mwesigye, the Provincial Secretary Church of Uganda said it’s okay for people to confess their sins publicly in church “if they are guided by the holy spirit.”
mcmubs@observer.ug
other articles
The Discretion of my kingdom
www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/126/134692
John Obiri Yeboah spirit and the Pentecostal movement in Uganda
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/328-why-pastor-solomon-male-was-disowned-by-pastor-joseph-sserwada-and-pharisees-inc.html
Pastors disown Kakande
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/498699/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
Endooliito zirudde mu basumba abalokole
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=174&newsId=495707
Mutabani wa Nabbi Yeboah aleese bwiino
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/60/507756/NABBI%20Samuel%20Kakande
Monday, 8 June 2009
Deceptive antics of the Catholic Charismatic renewal: Father Expedicto Magembe of Mountain Sion and Christ the King prayer Group
....can a leopard change its spots..(Jeremiah 13:23)
Last Sunday on 7th June, 2009 at 2:00 pm I watched a very eloquent lady preacher on WBS TV . She was preaching on the holy spirit . I thought she was a pastor from one of the born again churches. She was really good . I was shocked to learn that she is from the catholic so called Christ the King Prayer group, Kampala. The catholic church is under panic . Many of its former faithfuls like my self have fled the satanic catholic church. In order to prevent further exodus from the catholic church , the church has started the so called charismatic renewal . This system of Satan has preachers who look to be born again. They now hide their rosaries and other catholic deco.. while on TV so that they are not easily recognized. I want to state categorically that these are liars, do not be part of them. You can not be born again and remain in the catholic satanic system.
There is a place called Mount Zion prayer center under Fr. Expedito Magembe where so called born again catholics go to pray. They have really mastered what is going on in the Pentecostal churches and imitate it in order to keep catholics deceived.
Mount Sion Prayer Center-Father Expedito Magembe Catholic Church
www.mtsionbukalango.org
www.mtsionbukalango.org/testimonials.html
www.prayabout.com/churches?q=Mt.Zion+Prayer+Centre-Bukalango
Look at the article below that I have translated from a local Luganda news paper in order to see this deception of Satan. See, how they call them selves children of Mary . See, how the Lord Jesus Christ, our savoir is relegated to the periphery. Do not be fooled by the catholic charismatic renewal .
Ecumenical deception: Rev. Fr.Expedito Magembe the Devil’s anointed one
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/ecumenical-deception-rev-frexpedito.html
ECUMENICAL DECEPTION UNFOLDS:FR.MUSAALA SINGS IN BORN AGAIN CHURCH
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/ecumenical-deception-unfoldsfrmusaala.html
BE WARE OF THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL DECEPTION IN Uganda
http://www.uccro.org/index.php
www.uccro.org/prayermeeting.php
http://www.uccro.org/testimonies.php
Debunking the Uganda Martyrs Myth: Did these young men simply believe a lie???
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/debunking-uganda-martyrs-myth-did-these.html
Julius Nyerere (RIP), the first President of Tanzania set on road to sainthood
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/julius-nyerere-rip-first-president-of.html
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
CATHOLICISM THE WIDER ROAD TO DESTRUCTION
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
Taking Africa back to Satan: Pope Benedict XVI visits Cameroon
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/taking-africa-back-to-satan-pope.html
CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE
Bukalango : Where the catholic faithfuls fight with the devils the whole Night
Bukedde Kussande, Saturday, 6th June, 2009
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=683823
By Moses Jaggwe
I welcome you to the night of chasing devils at Mountain Sion Prayer Centre at Bukalango under Father Expedicto Magembe. Last Saturday was a day to chase devils and it went like this:
At 5:00 o’clock in the evening: the catholic faithfuls started arriving with their mats at the field where they gathered
At 8:00 o’clock in the night : some of the catholic faithfuls slept a bit as they waited for the ceremony of chasing devils
At10:00 o’clock in the night : Father Magembe arrived and greeted the faithfuls as follows: ‘’children of Mary are you present ‘’The faithful reply in a sleepy tone.
After realizing that they were not replying audibly, he requested them to stand up and inquired whether they are okay. They still replied in a sleepy tone ’’ Are you overcoming’’ They all reply, Yes, Father. Halleluya, They all reply Amen
The Father then invited John Baptist Mukajanga to speak to the congregation. He started like this.
Praise God, children of Mary. I want us to do what has brought us here . Halleluya, They all reply Amen. Some of you are passing through certain terrible conditions, some of you were bewitched but I want to tell you none of this is going to remain with you today. They all reply, let them go, we are fed up.
Today all of you who have come here must be healed. Any one who is not healed must be taken to hospital . Do not bring sick people to spend a night here any more. Just bring the picture of the sick person. The power of prayer will meet the sick people wherever they are.
Some of you are in the walls of curses, others in different kinds of bondages. I want every body to lift their hands . They lift up their hands. Start introducing your self to Jesus, tell him I have come as a cursed person, as a sick person but I have come on this day of Pentecost on which I will receive my deliverance.
Don’t put your hands down. Continue to introduce yourself to Jesus. Some people(devils) start crying that leave us we came to kill them. The ones who were crying went to the front and Mukajanga touched them and pronounced them healed.
It written in Matthew 18:18 that when two pray in my name they will be healed. There is power moving in your bodies. Now let that devil that was sent to you go. Cries can be heard thought the field .
At one o’clock in the night : Mukajanga finalized the ceremony of chasing devils and handed the microphone over to father Magembe who immediately started the holy mass.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE IN LUGANDA
Bukalango:Abakkiriza gye balwana ekiro kyonna nga bagoba sitaani
Bukedde Kussande, Saturday, 6th June, 2009
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=683823
Bya Moses Jaggwe
NKWANIRIZZA mu kiro ky’okugoba amasitaani ku Mountain Sion Prayer Centre e Bukalango ekikulemberwa Faaza Expedicto Magembe. Olwomukaaga oluwedde kwabadde kugoba masitaani era kwatambudde bwe kuti:
Ku ssaawa 11:00 ez’akawungeezi: Abakkiriza baatandise okutuuka buli omu n’omukeeka gwe mu kisaawe we baakung’aanidde.
Ssaawa 2:00 ez’ekiro:
Abamu baawunzise emitwe beebakemu okwetegekera omukolo gw’okugoba sitaani.
Ssaawa 4:00: Faaza Magembe yatuuse.
Yazuukusizza abaabadde beebase n’okubalamusa nti “Abaana ba Maria gyemuli?” (Baddamu mu ngeri ya kimpoowooze).
Yalabye guli gutyo kwe kubasaba bayimirire n’ababuuza oba bali bulungi. Era okuddamu kwabadde kwa kimpowooze. “Waliwo ku mmwe gwe navumye, lwaki temunziramu? Kale abaana ba Maria muwangula (Baddamu n’eddoboozi ery’omwanguka nti ‘Yee… Faaza). Halleluya mwenna (Baddamu Amiina.)
Wano yayise John Baptist Mukajanga okubaako by’ayogera era yatandise bw’ati:
“Mukama yeebazibwe abaana ba Maria? Njagala leero tukole ekituleese wano, Halleluya (Baddamu amiina). Abamu mubadde mulina bye muyitamu eyo gye mubeera, abalala babasindikira amalogo naye mbagamba nti olwaleero tewali kigenda kusigalawo. (Baddamu mu ddoboozi ery’omwanguka nti ‘bigende twakoowa’).
Olwaleero abantu mwenna abazze e Bukalango okubasabira muteekwa okuwonyezebwa ne muddayo ewammwe, ataawone nga mumutwala mu ddwaaliro. Temuddayo kuleeta eno mulwadde yenna kusula wano waakiri muleete ekifaananyi kye, amaanyi g’essaala gajja kuyita mu kifaananyi ekyo gamutuukeko.
Abamu muli mu bisenge bya bikolimo, abalala mu busibe obw’enjawulo. Njagala buli omu awanike emikono gye waggulu (bawanika) tandika okweyanjula eri Yezu Kristu omugambe nti nzize nze ng’omukolimire, omulwadde naye nzize ku lunaku lwa Pentekooti luno lwe nnaasumululwa.
Toggyaayo mikono gyo nga Mukama akusumulula yongera okweyanjula. (abamu bavuddeyo nga bakaaba nti ffe tuleke twajja kubatta. Obwedda bakaaba badda mu maaso nga Mukajanga abakwatako nti ggwe owonye.)
Kyawandiikibwa mu Mataayo 18:18 nti, ‘Babiri bwe banaasabanga mu linnya lyange banaawonyezebwanga’, waliwo amaanyi agatambula mu mibiri gyammwe kati leka sitaani oyo eyakusindikibwa agende. (Emiranga gisaanikira ekisaawe)
Ssaawa 7:00 ez’ekiro: Mukajanga yamalirizza okugoba amasitaani akazindaalo n’akaddiza Faaza Magembe Mmisa n’etandika.
Published on: Saturday, 6th June, 2009
Last Sunday on 7th June, 2009 at 2:00 pm I watched a very eloquent lady preacher on WBS TV . She was preaching on the holy spirit . I thought she was a pastor from one of the born again churches. She was really good . I was shocked to learn that she is from the catholic so called Christ the King Prayer group, Kampala. The catholic church is under panic . Many of its former faithfuls like my self have fled the satanic catholic church. In order to prevent further exodus from the catholic church , the church has started the so called charismatic renewal . This system of Satan has preachers who look to be born again. They now hide their rosaries and other catholic deco.. while on TV so that they are not easily recognized. I want to state categorically that these are liars, do not be part of them. You can not be born again and remain in the catholic satanic system.
There is a place called Mount Zion prayer center under Fr. Expedito Magembe where so called born again catholics go to pray. They have really mastered what is going on in the Pentecostal churches and imitate it in order to keep catholics deceived.
Mount Sion Prayer Center-Father Expedito Magembe Catholic Church
www.mtsionbukalango.org
www.mtsionbukalango.org/testimonials.html
www.prayabout.com/churches?q=Mt.Zion+Prayer+Centre-Bukalango
Look at the article below that I have translated from a local Luganda news paper in order to see this deception of Satan. See, how they call them selves children of Mary . See, how the Lord Jesus Christ, our savoir is relegated to the periphery. Do not be fooled by the catholic charismatic renewal .
Ecumenical deception: Rev. Fr.Expedito Magembe the Devil’s anointed one
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/ecumenical-deception-rev-frexpedito.html
ECUMENICAL DECEPTION UNFOLDS:FR.MUSAALA SINGS IN BORN AGAIN CHURCH
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/ecumenical-deception-unfoldsfrmusaala.html
BE WARE OF THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL DECEPTION IN Uganda
http://www.uccro.org/index.php
www.uccro.org/prayermeeting.php
http://www.uccro.org/testimonies.php
Debunking the Uganda Martyrs Myth: Did these young men simply believe a lie???
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/debunking-uganda-martyrs-myth-did-these.html
Julius Nyerere (RIP), the first President of Tanzania set on road to sainthood
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/julius-nyerere-rip-first-president-of.html
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
CATHOLICISM THE WIDER ROAD TO DESTRUCTION
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
Taking Africa back to Satan: Pope Benedict XVI visits Cameroon
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/taking-africa-back-to-satan-pope.html
CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE
Bukalango : Where the catholic faithfuls fight with the devils the whole Night
Bukedde Kussande, Saturday, 6th June, 2009
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=683823
By Moses Jaggwe
I welcome you to the night of chasing devils at Mountain Sion Prayer Centre at Bukalango under Father Expedicto Magembe. Last Saturday was a day to chase devils and it went like this:
At 5:00 o’clock in the evening: the catholic faithfuls started arriving with their mats at the field where they gathered
At 8:00 o’clock in the night : some of the catholic faithfuls slept a bit as they waited for the ceremony of chasing devils
At10:00 o’clock in the night : Father Magembe arrived and greeted the faithfuls as follows: ‘’children of Mary are you present ‘’The faithful reply in a sleepy tone.
After realizing that they were not replying audibly, he requested them to stand up and inquired whether they are okay. They still replied in a sleepy tone ’’ Are you overcoming’’ They all reply, Yes, Father. Halleluya, They all reply Amen
The Father then invited John Baptist Mukajanga to speak to the congregation. He started like this.
Praise God, children of Mary. I want us to do what has brought us here . Halleluya, They all reply Amen. Some of you are passing through certain terrible conditions, some of you were bewitched but I want to tell you none of this is going to remain with you today. They all reply, let them go, we are fed up.
Today all of you who have come here must be healed. Any one who is not healed must be taken to hospital . Do not bring sick people to spend a night here any more. Just bring the picture of the sick person. The power of prayer will meet the sick people wherever they are.
Some of you are in the walls of curses, others in different kinds of bondages. I want every body to lift their hands . They lift up their hands. Start introducing your self to Jesus, tell him I have come as a cursed person, as a sick person but I have come on this day of Pentecost on which I will receive my deliverance.
Don’t put your hands down. Continue to introduce yourself to Jesus. Some people(devils) start crying that leave us we came to kill them. The ones who were crying went to the front and Mukajanga touched them and pronounced them healed.
It written in Matthew 18:18 that when two pray in my name they will be healed. There is power moving in your bodies. Now let that devil that was sent to you go. Cries can be heard thought the field .
At one o’clock in the night : Mukajanga finalized the ceremony of chasing devils and handed the microphone over to father Magembe who immediately started the holy mass.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE IN LUGANDA
Bukalango:Abakkiriza gye balwana ekiro kyonna nga bagoba sitaani
Bukedde Kussande, Saturday, 6th June, 2009
http://www.bukeddekussande.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=3&newsCategoryId=186&newsId=683823
Bya Moses Jaggwe
NKWANIRIZZA mu kiro ky’okugoba amasitaani ku Mountain Sion Prayer Centre e Bukalango ekikulemberwa Faaza Expedicto Magembe. Olwomukaaga oluwedde kwabadde kugoba masitaani era kwatambudde bwe kuti:
Ku ssaawa 11:00 ez’akawungeezi: Abakkiriza baatandise okutuuka buli omu n’omukeeka gwe mu kisaawe we baakung’aanidde.
Ssaawa 2:00 ez’ekiro:
Abamu baawunzise emitwe beebakemu okwetegekera omukolo gw’okugoba sitaani.
Ssaawa 4:00: Faaza Magembe yatuuse.
Yazuukusizza abaabadde beebase n’okubalamusa nti “Abaana ba Maria gyemuli?” (Baddamu mu ngeri ya kimpoowooze).
Yalabye guli gutyo kwe kubasaba bayimirire n’ababuuza oba bali bulungi. Era okuddamu kwabadde kwa kimpowooze. “Waliwo ku mmwe gwe navumye, lwaki temunziramu? Kale abaana ba Maria muwangula (Baddamu n’eddoboozi ery’omwanguka nti ‘Yee… Faaza). Halleluya mwenna (Baddamu Amiina.)
Wano yayise John Baptist Mukajanga okubaako by’ayogera era yatandise bw’ati:
“Mukama yeebazibwe abaana ba Maria? Njagala leero tukole ekituleese wano, Halleluya (Baddamu amiina). Abamu mubadde mulina bye muyitamu eyo gye mubeera, abalala babasindikira amalogo naye mbagamba nti olwaleero tewali kigenda kusigalawo. (Baddamu mu ddoboozi ery’omwanguka nti ‘bigende twakoowa’).
Olwaleero abantu mwenna abazze e Bukalango okubasabira muteekwa okuwonyezebwa ne muddayo ewammwe, ataawone nga mumutwala mu ddwaaliro. Temuddayo kuleeta eno mulwadde yenna kusula wano waakiri muleete ekifaananyi kye, amaanyi g’essaala gajja kuyita mu kifaananyi ekyo gamutuukeko.
Abamu muli mu bisenge bya bikolimo, abalala mu busibe obw’enjawulo. Njagala buli omu awanike emikono gye waggulu (bawanika) tandika okweyanjula eri Yezu Kristu omugambe nti nzize nze ng’omukolimire, omulwadde naye nzize ku lunaku lwa Pentekooti luno lwe nnaasumululwa.
Toggyaayo mikono gyo nga Mukama akusumulula yongera okweyanjula. (abamu bavuddeyo nga bakaaba nti ffe tuleke twajja kubatta. Obwedda bakaaba badda mu maaso nga Mukajanga abakwatako nti ggwe owonye.)
Kyawandiikibwa mu Mataayo 18:18 nti, ‘Babiri bwe banaasabanga mu linnya lyange banaawonyezebwanga’, waliwo amaanyi agatambula mu mibiri gyammwe kati leka sitaani oyo eyakusindikibwa agende. (Emiranga gisaanikira ekisaawe)
Ssaawa 7:00 ez’ekiro: Mukajanga yamalirizza okugoba amasitaani akazindaalo n’akaddiza Faaza Magembe Mmisa n’etandika.
Published on: Saturday, 6th June, 2009
UNICEF PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY IN UGANDAN SCHOOLS
Sodomy books invade schools
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3692&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
THE OBSERVER, Monday, 08 June 2009 06:38
It states that we are all born homosexuals and that it is normal for teenagers to be sexually attracted to peers of the same sex. This book was distributed to schools and now the government is struggling to withdraw it
The government is investigating circumstances under which a book with content that promotes homosexuality was distributed to peer- educators in schools.
About 15,000 copies of the controversial book, The Teenager’s Toolkit, some of them in Luo, are in circulation.
An official of the Ministry of Education and Sports has told The Observer that the ministry was never part of the publication whose origin has been traced to Unicef, the UN agency that promotes education and health of children.
Of particular concern to the Ministry of Education are some sections in the book that state that it is normal for children to get sexually attracted to peers of the same sex because “we are born homosexuals.”
The first alarm over this book was raised about two months ago by the Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, when he told Parliament that Unicef-Uganda is one of the agencies promoting homosexuality in schools through books.
Buturo told The Observer last week that the UN agency had since apologised and offered to withdraw all copies of the book from circulation.
The apology followed a meeting that Unicef held with three ministers; of Health, of Gender, Labour and Social Development as well as Buturo.
“We met them (Unicef) and they expressed regret. They also agreed to withdraw the books and work with us in producing the right material,” Buturo said on phone.
The spokesman of Ministry of Education, Aggrey Kibenge, said in a separate interview, that the ministry is investigating how and where the books were distributed and parties involved. “We are also advising head teachers of schools where the books were distributed to disregard and withdraw them.”
“The Ministry of Education had no say in its compilation and distribution,” he added.
Nsaba Buturo told Parliament on April 14 that several other agencies such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline Human Rights Defenders and East Horn of Africa Human Rights were promoting homosexuality.
These organisations, he alleged, were working with local groups that depend on them for funds, to spread homosexuality in Uganda.
BORN HOMO?
The 120-page book reads on page 86: “Many people are sexually attracted to people of the same sex…we are born with these feelings about who we like sexually, and who we do not like sexually. It is natural.”
The book adds: “It is quite normal when you are growing up to fall in love with some one of your own sex.”
The book then justifies same sex relations saying it is ideal when one is, “in a place where they do not meet people of the opposite sex for example in school hostels.”
It adds that homosexuality is okay where one is, “forced to have sex with someone of the same sex because the other person is violent or because they need money or food.” The book, specifically written for teenagers (between 15-19 years) adds that people with sexual feelings for people of the same sex are often unhappy because, “they do not understand their own feelings.”
It implores peer educators to support teenagers who aren’t “sure about their sexual feelings” and “support someone who knows that he or she is a gay or lesbian, but afraid to tell any one.”
The book also encourages young people to love lesbians and gay people. “The important thing is to be open-minded and to show love and respect to all your friends.”
DISOWNED
The book acknowledges “valuable contributions” from the ministries of Health, Gender Labour and Social Development and bears the Court of Arms that portrays it as a government publication.
But Buturo says government was never part of it. “It is not a government publication. None of those ministries and government agencies were consulted as the book suggests. They were brought in without their consent.”
He said there will be no disciplinary action against those who authored and distributed the book.
“The important thing is that they have regretted and offered to work with us in producing the right material.”
Unicef too has disowned the book, saying it is a publication of the government of Uganda. Chulho Hyun, the Chief of Communications at Unicef in Uganda said: “It is a government of Uganda publication which Unicef supported at government request.” Chulho Hyun said that in line with many human rights instruments that bar any form of discrimination, Unicef does not advocate for any sexual orientation.
He said that if there are concerns with any parts of the book, it is not Unicef’s responsibility to change it. He said Unicef would however sponsor publication of another book, if government so wishes.
But a copy of the book that The observer has seen states: “This manual was produced by Unicef -Uganda in collaboration with Healthlink Worldwide. The materials may be copied or adapted for non-commercial use provided that Unicef is acknowledged.”
About 10,000 copies of the book were printed in 2002 and 5,000 copies translated into Luo and printed in 2006.
FOR ADULTS
Stephen Langa, The Executive Director Family Life Network, a Christian organisation that preaches abstinence from sex before marriage and counsels couples, says the book is suitable for pre-marital counselling.
For instance while describing as half true the claim that it is a woman’s duty is to please the man when having sex, the book states: “Also, women like to be touched, kissed and talked to, to help them get excited before they are ready for sex. It can be very painful for a woman if a man puts his *** in her *** before she is ready and before the *** is wet.”
Langa added that the book generally promotes pornography, “Sex education should be taught in context of morality. If you don’t, like the book does, then it becomes pornography.”
He also criticises the book for emphasising condoms instead of abstinence among young people.
mcmubs@observer.
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3692&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
THE OBSERVER, Monday, 08 June 2009 06:38
It states that we are all born homosexuals and that it is normal for teenagers to be sexually attracted to peers of the same sex. This book was distributed to schools and now the government is struggling to withdraw it
The government is investigating circumstances under which a book with content that promotes homosexuality was distributed to peer- educators in schools.
About 15,000 copies of the controversial book, The Teenager’s Toolkit, some of them in Luo, are in circulation.
An official of the Ministry of Education and Sports has told The Observer that the ministry was never part of the publication whose origin has been traced to Unicef, the UN agency that promotes education and health of children.
Of particular concern to the Ministry of Education are some sections in the book that state that it is normal for children to get sexually attracted to peers of the same sex because “we are born homosexuals.”
The first alarm over this book was raised about two months ago by the Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, when he told Parliament that Unicef-Uganda is one of the agencies promoting homosexuality in schools through books.
Buturo told The Observer last week that the UN agency had since apologised and offered to withdraw all copies of the book from circulation.
The apology followed a meeting that Unicef held with three ministers; of Health, of Gender, Labour and Social Development as well as Buturo.
“We met them (Unicef) and they expressed regret. They also agreed to withdraw the books and work with us in producing the right material,” Buturo said on phone.
The spokesman of Ministry of Education, Aggrey Kibenge, said in a separate interview, that the ministry is investigating how and where the books were distributed and parties involved. “We are also advising head teachers of schools where the books were distributed to disregard and withdraw them.”
“The Ministry of Education had no say in its compilation and distribution,” he added.
Nsaba Buturo told Parliament on April 14 that several other agencies such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline Human Rights Defenders and East Horn of Africa Human Rights were promoting homosexuality.
These organisations, he alleged, were working with local groups that depend on them for funds, to spread homosexuality in Uganda.
BORN HOMO?
The 120-page book reads on page 86: “Many people are sexually attracted to people of the same sex…we are born with these feelings about who we like sexually, and who we do not like sexually. It is natural.”
The book adds: “It is quite normal when you are growing up to fall in love with some one of your own sex.”
The book then justifies same sex relations saying it is ideal when one is, “in a place where they do not meet people of the opposite sex for example in school hostels.”
It adds that homosexuality is okay where one is, “forced to have sex with someone of the same sex because the other person is violent or because they need money or food.” The book, specifically written for teenagers (between 15-19 years) adds that people with sexual feelings for people of the same sex are often unhappy because, “they do not understand their own feelings.”
It implores peer educators to support teenagers who aren’t “sure about their sexual feelings” and “support someone who knows that he or she is a gay or lesbian, but afraid to tell any one.”
The book also encourages young people to love lesbians and gay people. “The important thing is to be open-minded and to show love and respect to all your friends.”
DISOWNED
The book acknowledges “valuable contributions” from the ministries of Health, Gender Labour and Social Development and bears the Court of Arms that portrays it as a government publication.
But Buturo says government was never part of it. “It is not a government publication. None of those ministries and government agencies were consulted as the book suggests. They were brought in without their consent.”
He said there will be no disciplinary action against those who authored and distributed the book.
“The important thing is that they have regretted and offered to work with us in producing the right material.”
Unicef too has disowned the book, saying it is a publication of the government of Uganda. Chulho Hyun, the Chief of Communications at Unicef in Uganda said: “It is a government of Uganda publication which Unicef supported at government request.” Chulho Hyun said that in line with many human rights instruments that bar any form of discrimination, Unicef does not advocate for any sexual orientation.
He said that if there are concerns with any parts of the book, it is not Unicef’s responsibility to change it. He said Unicef would however sponsor publication of another book, if government so wishes.
But a copy of the book that The observer has seen states: “This manual was produced by Unicef -Uganda in collaboration with Healthlink Worldwide. The materials may be copied or adapted for non-commercial use provided that Unicef is acknowledged.”
About 10,000 copies of the book were printed in 2002 and 5,000 copies translated into Luo and printed in 2006.
FOR ADULTS
Stephen Langa, The Executive Director Family Life Network, a Christian organisation that preaches abstinence from sex before marriage and counsels couples, says the book is suitable for pre-marital counselling.
For instance while describing as half true the claim that it is a woman’s duty is to please the man when having sex, the book states: “Also, women like to be touched, kissed and talked to, to help them get excited before they are ready for sex. It can be very painful for a woman if a man puts his *** in her *** before she is ready and before the *** is wet.”
Langa added that the book generally promotes pornography, “Sex education should be taught in context of morality. If you don’t, like the book does, then it becomes pornography.”
He also criticises the book for emphasising condoms instead of abstinence among young people.
mcmubs@observer.
Pastor Kayanja’s strange gospel of money
Pastor Kayanja’s strange gospel of money
DAILY MONITOR, LETTERS | June 7, 2009 LETTERS | June 7, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sun_letters/Wedding_headaches_86068.shtml
Pastor Robert Kayanja has been questioned by the Ugandan media as to why every person is supposed to pay $50 for the Benny Hinn Holy Spirit outpouring. Pastor Robert Kayanja argues that the gospel is not cheap. He says that Ugandans are used to free things yet there are no free things. He does not quote scripture to substantiate his arguments.
The word of God says categorically that freely you have received freely give (Matthew 10:8). It is also written that: “the love of money is the roots of all evil” (I Tim 6:10). The word of God says you will see them by their fruits not by their suits.
Ps. Kayanja is a smart businessman. He knows that if 20,000 people register for the so-called Holy Spirit outpouring, he will make over $2m.
Michael George Kizito,
BENNY Hinn silent about Kayanja’s sodomy saga : Check out this article by one of the Media fanatics of Benny Hinn
Great time at Benny Hinn conference
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3732&Itemid=71
Written by MALITA WAMALA
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:48
The only disappointing aspect about the Benny Hinn Fire Conference was the time I got home. Since majority of delegates had reached Rubaga Miracle Centre by 4p.m. to get good seats, it was not on the cards for us to leave after midnight! Yet there I was, letting myself into the house a few minutes to 1a.m. on Friday. Not that I was complaining. It had been worth every minute, every penny.The praise and worship was great and given the circumstances with the media and all, I was a bit apprehensive about what the turn up would be like.Would people put all the press reports before what God had prepared for us? I did not know what to expect.
Which was an added advantage for me, because getting there, it was amazing seeing people trickle in even after the conference had kicked off and the 10,500-seater cathedral was packed beyond its capacity. What was even a bigger tear-jerker was when Pastor Robert Kayanja and his wife Jessica took to the pulpit to welcome the delegates and frenzied screams only comparable to those coming from a football pitch when Arsenal has scored against Man-U, erupted and lasted for minutes. It was their way of telling the visibly thinner Miracle Centre pastor, ‘We have your back, don’t worry’.
And not one word was said about the sodomy allegations throughout the night. We had more important things on our minds; like what God was planning for us that night. At Namboole Stadium in 2007 when Ps. Benny Hinn held a miracle crusade, I was so caught up in the worship that I didn’t realise the evangelist had arrived on the podium until I heard the deafening clapping and screaming from the stadium. This time, I wanted to record that moment. I kept one eye on that door through which he was expected to come.
But the next thing I knew Christians were jumping up and down at 8.35p.m, screaming and waving plastic chairs, bags and handkerchiefs in the air.
By the time the dust settled, there he was in his trademark suit with the dove emblem at the breast. This time it was blue. I was truly at a Pastor Benny Hinn Fire Conference and not watching it on TBN!
The conference started off very much like one of his healing crusades as he worshipped and prayed for the sick for the first hour, before he launched into his teaching about the Holy Spirit.
The most memorable thing I picked from the teaching was the stark difference between the power of God and the presence of God. He noted that many of today’s Christians have the power of God (which is responsible for the miracles, healings and extraordinary things), but have lost the presence of God.
He said without God’s presence, which is only manifested through repentance, prayer, reading the Word and worship, a minister of God can easily be destroyed by the power of God s/he has.
And unlike what we commonly say as “feeling God’s presence”, he said the presence of God which is the Spirit of God cannot be felt; it manifests. What is felt is the anointing, or power of God.
When God’s presence manifests, usually the most a person can do is speak in tongues, or simply cry. It is too overwhelming and at the same time gentle for words or coherent speech.
We do need the power of God, yes – it is the only way the world will know and accept Christ – but above all, we need the presence of God which automatically comes with the power of God, but not vice versa.
In fact Ps. Benny said, he prayed that God kills him first, before He ever strips him of His presence. Or just the way David said in Psalm 51, “…Take not your Holy Spirit from me”.
malita@observer.ug
DAILY MONITOR, LETTERS | June 7, 2009 LETTERS | June 7, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sun_letters/Wedding_headaches_86068.shtml
Pastor Robert Kayanja has been questioned by the Ugandan media as to why every person is supposed to pay $50 for the Benny Hinn Holy Spirit outpouring. Pastor Robert Kayanja argues that the gospel is not cheap. He says that Ugandans are used to free things yet there are no free things. He does not quote scripture to substantiate his arguments.
The word of God says categorically that freely you have received freely give (Matthew 10:8). It is also written that: “the love of money is the roots of all evil” (I Tim 6:10). The word of God says you will see them by their fruits not by their suits.
Ps. Kayanja is a smart businessman. He knows that if 20,000 people register for the so-called Holy Spirit outpouring, he will make over $2m.
Michael George Kizito,
BENNY Hinn silent about Kayanja’s sodomy saga : Check out this article by one of the Media fanatics of Benny Hinn
Great time at Benny Hinn conference
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3732&Itemid=71
Written by MALITA WAMALA
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:48
The only disappointing aspect about the Benny Hinn Fire Conference was the time I got home. Since majority of delegates had reached Rubaga Miracle Centre by 4p.m. to get good seats, it was not on the cards for us to leave after midnight! Yet there I was, letting myself into the house a few minutes to 1a.m. on Friday. Not that I was complaining. It had been worth every minute, every penny.The praise and worship was great and given the circumstances with the media and all, I was a bit apprehensive about what the turn up would be like.Would people put all the press reports before what God had prepared for us? I did not know what to expect.
Which was an added advantage for me, because getting there, it was amazing seeing people trickle in even after the conference had kicked off and the 10,500-seater cathedral was packed beyond its capacity. What was even a bigger tear-jerker was when Pastor Robert Kayanja and his wife Jessica took to the pulpit to welcome the delegates and frenzied screams only comparable to those coming from a football pitch when Arsenal has scored against Man-U, erupted and lasted for minutes. It was their way of telling the visibly thinner Miracle Centre pastor, ‘We have your back, don’t worry’.
And not one word was said about the sodomy allegations throughout the night. We had more important things on our minds; like what God was planning for us that night. At Namboole Stadium in 2007 when Ps. Benny Hinn held a miracle crusade, I was so caught up in the worship that I didn’t realise the evangelist had arrived on the podium until I heard the deafening clapping and screaming from the stadium. This time, I wanted to record that moment. I kept one eye on that door through which he was expected to come.
But the next thing I knew Christians were jumping up and down at 8.35p.m, screaming and waving plastic chairs, bags and handkerchiefs in the air.
By the time the dust settled, there he was in his trademark suit with the dove emblem at the breast. This time it was blue. I was truly at a Pastor Benny Hinn Fire Conference and not watching it on TBN!
The conference started off very much like one of his healing crusades as he worshipped and prayed for the sick for the first hour, before he launched into his teaching about the Holy Spirit.
The most memorable thing I picked from the teaching was the stark difference between the power of God and the presence of God. He noted that many of today’s Christians have the power of God (which is responsible for the miracles, healings and extraordinary things), but have lost the presence of God.
He said without God’s presence, which is only manifested through repentance, prayer, reading the Word and worship, a minister of God can easily be destroyed by the power of God s/he has.
And unlike what we commonly say as “feeling God’s presence”, he said the presence of God which is the Spirit of God cannot be felt; it manifests. What is felt is the anointing, or power of God.
When God’s presence manifests, usually the most a person can do is speak in tongues, or simply cry. It is too overwhelming and at the same time gentle for words or coherent speech.
We do need the power of God, yes – it is the only way the world will know and accept Christ – but above all, we need the presence of God which automatically comes with the power of God, but not vice versa.
In fact Ps. Benny said, he prayed that God kills him first, before He ever strips him of His presence. Or just the way David said in Psalm 51, “…Take not your Holy Spirit from me”.
malita@observer.ug
Did Benny Hinn really heal Moses during his 2007 visit?
Did Benny Hinn really heal Moses during his 2007 visit?
DAILY MONITOR, LETTERS | June 8, 2009LETTERS | June 8, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/letters/Did_these_pastors_die_for_us_No_Christ_did_86097.shtml
On May 18-19, 2007, Benny Hinn conducted his “Holy Spirit Miracle Crusade” in Uganda at the Nelson Mandela National Stadium in Kampala. One of the most amazing stories that was shared with everyone was the story of Moses. At the close of the first service, the young man came to the platform. Pastor Benny noticed that Moses was wearing no shoes.
He quickly learned that Moses had been crippled since birth. “The moving story of Moses” goes on to state that Moses entered Hinn’s crusade in a wheelchair, was accompanied by his sister, and that the 28-year-old Moses took his first steps during the crusade. Benny Hinn said : “Listen. The man has just walked for the first time in his life.” Here’s a young man who says, ‘I want to be saved’. He’s healed. He’s happy about that but he really wants to be saved.
I mean, this is one of the greatest miracles I’ve seen in really a long time. You know, to see a young man crippled from birth just standing for the first time in his life--and he stood with no shoes on, with clothes that weren’t that nice. But the next night when he came back, he had new shoes, new clothing and now he is in a Bible school’’.
Moses is seen limping to the stage. As he approaches the stairs to the stage, Moses is assisted up the stairs. Two “catchers” are behind Moses at the bottom of the stairs. As Moses slowly hobbled up the stairs, he uses the stair-rails to assist him. His left leg remained bent inward during his climb. When Moses finally reached the top of the stairs and onto the stage, he was not only assisted by his sister, he limped to Benny Hinn with outstretched arms.
Therefore, was Moses really healed?
Kizito Michael George
DAILY MONITOR, LETTERS | June 8, 2009LETTERS | June 8, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/letters/Did_these_pastors_die_for_us_No_Christ_did_86097.shtml
On May 18-19, 2007, Benny Hinn conducted his “Holy Spirit Miracle Crusade” in Uganda at the Nelson Mandela National Stadium in Kampala. One of the most amazing stories that was shared with everyone was the story of Moses. At the close of the first service, the young man came to the platform. Pastor Benny noticed that Moses was wearing no shoes.
He quickly learned that Moses had been crippled since birth. “The moving story of Moses” goes on to state that Moses entered Hinn’s crusade in a wheelchair, was accompanied by his sister, and that the 28-year-old Moses took his first steps during the crusade. Benny Hinn said : “Listen. The man has just walked for the first time in his life.” Here’s a young man who says, ‘I want to be saved’. He’s healed. He’s happy about that but he really wants to be saved.
I mean, this is one of the greatest miracles I’ve seen in really a long time. You know, to see a young man crippled from birth just standing for the first time in his life--and he stood with no shoes on, with clothes that weren’t that nice. But the next night when he came back, he had new shoes, new clothing and now he is in a Bible school’’.
Moses is seen limping to the stage. As he approaches the stairs to the stage, Moses is assisted up the stairs. Two “catchers” are behind Moses at the bottom of the stairs. As Moses slowly hobbled up the stairs, he uses the stair-rails to assist him. His left leg remained bent inward during his climb. When Moses finally reached the top of the stairs and onto the stage, he was not only assisted by his sister, he limped to Benny Hinn with outstretched arms.
Therefore, was Moses really healed?
Kizito Michael George
Friday, 5 June 2009
CID officers dropped from Pastor Robert Kayanja sodomy inquiry
CID officers dropped from sodomy inquiry
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional-special/CID_officers_dropped_from_sodomy_inquiry_85931.shtml
Andrew Bagala
Kampala
Two senior detectives have been dropped from the investigations into sodomy allegations against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre.
Weeks after President Museveni criticised the Criminal Investigations Directorate’s handling of the inquiry, in which seven people are accusing Pastor Kayanja, the police has assigned, Ms Grace Akullo, the head of the narcotics unit, to take over the case, replacing Mr Venacio Tumuhimbise and Mr Amos Munyeneza.
One of the alleged victims, Mr Samson Mukisa had accused Mr Munyeneza of forcing him to retract a statement.
Pastor Kayanja was early this year accused by six victims - Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu of sodomising them while they served in his church.
GRILLED: Pastor Kyazze (L) at Central Police Station in Kampala on Tuesday. PHOTO BY YUSUF MUZIRANSA
However CID chief Edward Ochom later cleared Pastor Kayanja and instead chose to investigate the alleged victims and pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Solomon Male, Annet Kyomuhendo and Bob Kayiira accusing them of setting up Pastor Kayanja.
President Museveni’s intervention, after the pastors criticised the Police conduct, forced the Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, to convene a meeting of the warring parties in which the CID was directed to conduct the inquiry in a more professional manner.
Pastor Kyazze was on Tuesday interrogated for seven hours at the Central Police Station. The Police also summoned another pastor, Felix Ssemujju, who allegedly received the victims at Omega Healing Centre in Namasuba, to appear at CPS today.
But Pastor Kyazze said he does not believe in the Police inquiry. He said an independent commission should be established to investigate sodomy in the country.
“We shall not stop to talk for the victims of abuse. The issue is not Kyazze or Ssempa or Male. The issue is about the victims of sodomy,” he said.
Pastor Kyazze added: “I told the detective what I know about the sodomy victims and told them that nothing will prevent us from fighting homosexuality.”
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional-special/CID_officers_dropped_from_sodomy_inquiry_85931.shtml
Andrew Bagala
Kampala
Two senior detectives have been dropped from the investigations into sodomy allegations against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre.
Weeks after President Museveni criticised the Criminal Investigations Directorate’s handling of the inquiry, in which seven people are accusing Pastor Kayanja, the police has assigned, Ms Grace Akullo, the head of the narcotics unit, to take over the case, replacing Mr Venacio Tumuhimbise and Mr Amos Munyeneza.
One of the alleged victims, Mr Samson Mukisa had accused Mr Munyeneza of forcing him to retract a statement.
Pastor Kayanja was early this year accused by six victims - Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu of sodomising them while they served in his church.
GRILLED: Pastor Kyazze (L) at Central Police Station in Kampala on Tuesday. PHOTO BY YUSUF MUZIRANSA
However CID chief Edward Ochom later cleared Pastor Kayanja and instead chose to investigate the alleged victims and pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Solomon Male, Annet Kyomuhendo and Bob Kayiira accusing them of setting up Pastor Kayanja.
President Museveni’s intervention, after the pastors criticised the Police conduct, forced the Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, to convene a meeting of the warring parties in which the CID was directed to conduct the inquiry in a more professional manner.
Pastor Kyazze was on Tuesday interrogated for seven hours at the Central Police Station. The Police also summoned another pastor, Felix Ssemujju, who allegedly received the victims at Omega Healing Centre in Namasuba, to appear at CPS today.
But Pastor Kyazze said he does not believe in the Police inquiry. He said an independent commission should be established to investigate sodomy in the country.
“We shall not stop to talk for the victims of abuse. The issue is not Kyazze or Ssempa or Male. The issue is about the victims of sodomy,” he said.
Pastor Kyazze added: “I told the detective what I know about the sodomy victims and told them that nothing will prevent us from fighting homosexuality.”
Govt rights body takes on Kayanja sodomy case
Govt rights body takes on Kayanja sodomy case
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3668&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 16:26
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has commenced parallel investigations into allegations of sodomy against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre.
A committee comprising three Commissioners; Constantine Karusoke, former Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons Service Joseph Etima, and Agaba Maguru has been formed to investigate the matter.
The Observer has been told that all concerned parties in the allegations—including the accused and his accusers - have been summoned to appear before the commission.
The commission’s chairman, Meddie Kagwa, confirmed that investigations had started. “We received a formal complaint from [lawyer] Andrew Kasirye and we have since taken on the investigations,” he said.
He said Kasirye lodged a complaint with the Commission, saying Police had “mishandled” investigations into his client’s case.
Kaggwa, however, declined to divulge the scope of their investigations.
“It is prejudicial to discuss that but we shall talk to whoever will be available to offer useful information to the investigations,” Kaggwa said.
The Commission has already heard from Pastor Solomon Male, one of the pastors who say they counselled young men who claim to have been sexually abused by Pastor Kayanja.
Samson Mukisa, David Mukalazi, Robinson Matovu, James Ntwatwa, Ronnie Mutebi and Akansimwe Brian recently claimed that they had been sodomised by Kayanja. Mukisa and Matovu have since retracted their claims under mysterious circumstances. The claims are currently a subject of Police investigations.
“I told them how our case has been mishandled, the harassment and arrests that [the] sodomy victims have faced at Police hands,” Male said.
Some people, including President Museveni, have recently expressed displeasure in the way Police handled the investigation. This was after the Director of CID, Edward Ochom, turned the heat against the accusers and declared Kayanja innocent.
Asked if it was alright for the Commission to carry out parallel investigations into a case that is being handled by the Police, Kaggwa said, “it is okay as long as the issue involved is of a human rights nature.”
He could not however say when the Commission would come up with its findings. “I can’t tell when it will be concluded, but we want it to end as soon as possible.”
He said it was too early to tell the likely penalties because the investigation team was yet to hear from all sides.
“Our work is to listen to complaints, if we find it fit we forward them to a tribunal which if convinced about the merits of the case orders for compensation. He also said the Commission can reconcile the parties if they so wish.
Article 53 of the Constitution gives the Uganda Human Rights Commission powers of a court to summon or question any person in respect of any matter it’s investigating. It can also order for compensation of victims or any other legal remedy.
Meanwhile, Pastor Kayanja has threatened to sue Stephen Langa, the Executive Director Family Life Network, for what he calls defamation.
Through his lawyers; Katende, Ssempebwa and Co Advocates, Kayanja has written to Langa giving him one week to retract his statement and apologise for the comments he made in our story, ‘KPC’s Pastor Langa Fuels Kayanja Sodomy Allegations’ (June 1-3, 2009).
In the article, Langa, a counsellor, told The Observer that he wasn’t surprised about the allegations against Kayanja because he had counselled men who claimed to have been sodomised by the pastor as early as the 1990s.
Kayanja’s “notice of intention to sue” however, offers Langa out of court settlement if he apologises.
Langa, however, told us after receiving the letter that his remarks were made in good faith and he stands by them.
The same lawyers had earlier accused The Observer of fighting other people’s wars.
A lawyer with the firm, contacted The Observer and said that the allegations against Kayanja were a hate campaign orchestrated by the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches. He said this body was hitting at Kayanja because he had refused to join it.
He claimed that this organisation has been using Pastors Michael Kyazze and Solomon Male to malign Kayanja. Ironically, Male has in the past been disowned by the same group.
The lawyer also said that this fellowship wanted to frustrate Kayanja’s plans to host a renowned American evangelist, Benny Hinn.
Benny Hinn, a senior Pastor of World Healing Church International based in Irving Texas, will be in the country this weekend for a two-day visit dubbed “Fire Conference.” It will be hosted by Kayanja at his Rubaga Miracle Centre between June 5-6.
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3668&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 16:26
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has commenced parallel investigations into allegations of sodomy against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre.
A committee comprising three Commissioners; Constantine Karusoke, former Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons Service Joseph Etima, and Agaba Maguru has been formed to investigate the matter.
The Observer has been told that all concerned parties in the allegations—including the accused and his accusers - have been summoned to appear before the commission.
The commission’s chairman, Meddie Kagwa, confirmed that investigations had started. “We received a formal complaint from [lawyer] Andrew Kasirye and we have since taken on the investigations,” he said.
He said Kasirye lodged a complaint with the Commission, saying Police had “mishandled” investigations into his client’s case.
Kaggwa, however, declined to divulge the scope of their investigations.
“It is prejudicial to discuss that but we shall talk to whoever will be available to offer useful information to the investigations,” Kaggwa said.
The Commission has already heard from Pastor Solomon Male, one of the pastors who say they counselled young men who claim to have been sexually abused by Pastor Kayanja.
Samson Mukisa, David Mukalazi, Robinson Matovu, James Ntwatwa, Ronnie Mutebi and Akansimwe Brian recently claimed that they had been sodomised by Kayanja. Mukisa and Matovu have since retracted their claims under mysterious circumstances. The claims are currently a subject of Police investigations.
“I told them how our case has been mishandled, the harassment and arrests that [the] sodomy victims have faced at Police hands,” Male said.
Some people, including President Museveni, have recently expressed displeasure in the way Police handled the investigation. This was after the Director of CID, Edward Ochom, turned the heat against the accusers and declared Kayanja innocent.
Asked if it was alright for the Commission to carry out parallel investigations into a case that is being handled by the Police, Kaggwa said, “it is okay as long as the issue involved is of a human rights nature.”
He could not however say when the Commission would come up with its findings. “I can’t tell when it will be concluded, but we want it to end as soon as possible.”
He said it was too early to tell the likely penalties because the investigation team was yet to hear from all sides.
“Our work is to listen to complaints, if we find it fit we forward them to a tribunal which if convinced about the merits of the case orders for compensation. He also said the Commission can reconcile the parties if they so wish.
Article 53 of the Constitution gives the Uganda Human Rights Commission powers of a court to summon or question any person in respect of any matter it’s investigating. It can also order for compensation of victims or any other legal remedy.
Meanwhile, Pastor Kayanja has threatened to sue Stephen Langa, the Executive Director Family Life Network, for what he calls defamation.
Through his lawyers; Katende, Ssempebwa and Co Advocates, Kayanja has written to Langa giving him one week to retract his statement and apologise for the comments he made in our story, ‘KPC’s Pastor Langa Fuels Kayanja Sodomy Allegations’ (June 1-3, 2009).
In the article, Langa, a counsellor, told The Observer that he wasn’t surprised about the allegations against Kayanja because he had counselled men who claimed to have been sodomised by the pastor as early as the 1990s.
Kayanja’s “notice of intention to sue” however, offers Langa out of court settlement if he apologises.
Langa, however, told us after receiving the letter that his remarks were made in good faith and he stands by them.
The same lawyers had earlier accused The Observer of fighting other people’s wars.
A lawyer with the firm, contacted The Observer and said that the allegations against Kayanja were a hate campaign orchestrated by the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches. He said this body was hitting at Kayanja because he had refused to join it.
He claimed that this organisation has been using Pastors Michael Kyazze and Solomon Male to malign Kayanja. Ironically, Male has in the past been disowned by the same group.
The lawyer also said that this fellowship wanted to frustrate Kayanja’s plans to host a renowned American evangelist, Benny Hinn.
Benny Hinn, a senior Pastor of World Healing Church International based in Irving Texas, will be in the country this weekend for a two-day visit dubbed “Fire Conference.” It will be hosted by Kayanja at his Rubaga Miracle Centre between June 5-6.
'Pastors are after cars, suits, not hearts', says one of them
'Pastors are after cars, suits, not hearts', says one of them
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3669&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 16:28
A Kampala pastor has accused colleagues of amassing material wealth while paying a deaf ear to social vices that threaten to rip apart Pentecostal churches in Uganda.
Pastor Michael Kyazze, Head of Discipline in the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda, says Kampala is a city of hundreds of clergymen competing to drive posh cars and wear expensive suits while sodomy gets firmly entrenched in born-again churches.
“Kampala is a city of clergies with about 700 pastors but where are they when we want them to clean the church? Why are they silent about the plight of boys who have fallen victim in a system we are serving?” asked Kyazze.
The Omega Healing Centre pastor who said that what he was revealing was “an edited version” of the decay in the church, added: “I cry for Uganda where the insignificant have no one to defend them. I am ashamed of the pastors in this nation…I have seen people with cars, suits, who go to radio programmes and ask for tithe but I haven’t seen people with hearts.”
He said that most of the boys who are reportedly sodomised by church leaders are children picked from the streets seeking help, “only to be abused by people in institutions meant to give them hope.”
He appealed to pastors involved in the vice to repent. “Headmasters, students…have all confessed; now we want pastors to confess [their sins],” he said.
Kyazze made the remarks last Sunday while preaching at his Omega Healing Centre on Entebbe Road.
Kyazze, one of the pastors to accuse Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre of sexually abusing boys, has been out of the country for about two months.
He appeared before the CID Police to substantiate his claims against Kayanja early this week.
His colleagues; Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Bob Kayiira have since recorded their statements but have accused the Police of bias.
Kyazze said preachers who are afraid to speak out against sodomy should quit ministry.
“Since I came, some of them have been calling me whispering on phones. If they are cowards who can’t speak the truth, they should leave the Bible. It is an irony that they fear yet most of them boast of great powers.”
He claimed that the issue of sodomy in the church is much bigger than what has been reported in the media.
“You don’t know how many young men want to share their story but are afraid of guns, the connections…”
He said keeping quiet about the problem makes victims detest salvation. Kyazze quoted one of the alleged victims of a pastor saying: “He ruined my life. The more I see him preach on TV, the more I hate the Jesus he preaches.”
Ironically, Kyazze accused the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches where he is Secretary for Discipline, of not taking a stand in his defence.
“I have seen Solomon Male take children to Police, Mulago but I have never seen the National Fellowship speak in my defence, it’s like OAU.”
He commended the Catholic Church for instituting investigations into allegations of homosexuality against its members.
He said Male and Ssempa were invited by the Catholic Church for a meeting after a young man recently accused Father Anthony Musaala of sodomy.
Male confirmed attending the meeting with Ssempa but declined to divulge details.
Kyazze also praised Male as being a true pastor.
“Male has no car, he moves on the street, in taxis but he speaks against people who have bodyguards and guns in their cars. Even the powerful Sserwadda needs other pastors before attacking him,” Kyazze said.
A group of pastors, led by Joseph Sserwadda recently denounced Male as a liar who is bent on tarnishing the names of other pastors. They also said that he is not a pastor because he has no church. But Kyazze came to Male’s defence, saying even Jesus had no church.
Some of the alleged sodomy victims have however retracted their statements, saying that they had been coached and given money by Kyazze to pin Kayanja.
He was also accused of kidnapping Kayanja’s aide, Chris Muwonge.
He however denied the charges.
“There is no need to bribe because evidence speaks for itself. Rather than waste Shs 50m, I would rather organise a mass wedding,” said the pastor who pioneered the practice of mass weddings in the country.
Kyazze says he will not stop talking about sodomy in the media as suggested recently by the Police. He said: “mission no more silence” was started by Kayanja and should continue.
He added: “I have sprayed cockroaches and they have come out of their hiding places, then someone wants to come and kill them?”
Kyazze’s church recently started a special service every last Sunday of the month where people claiming to be sodomy victims share their experiences.
“It handles toxic issues. Those who come are treated to heavy things and hard rocks. That is why we limit it to people above 18 years,” he said.
Commenting on Kyazze’s claims that the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches was doing nothing, the chairman, Alex Mitala, said Kyazze should not blame anybody because he [Kyazze] is in charge of discipline.
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3669&Itemid=59
Written by Michael Mubangizi
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 16:28
A Kampala pastor has accused colleagues of amassing material wealth while paying a deaf ear to social vices that threaten to rip apart Pentecostal churches in Uganda.
Pastor Michael Kyazze, Head of Discipline in the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda, says Kampala is a city of hundreds of clergymen competing to drive posh cars and wear expensive suits while sodomy gets firmly entrenched in born-again churches.
“Kampala is a city of clergies with about 700 pastors but where are they when we want them to clean the church? Why are they silent about the plight of boys who have fallen victim in a system we are serving?” asked Kyazze.
The Omega Healing Centre pastor who said that what he was revealing was “an edited version” of the decay in the church, added: “I cry for Uganda where the insignificant have no one to defend them. I am ashamed of the pastors in this nation…I have seen people with cars, suits, who go to radio programmes and ask for tithe but I haven’t seen people with hearts.”
He said that most of the boys who are reportedly sodomised by church leaders are children picked from the streets seeking help, “only to be abused by people in institutions meant to give them hope.”
He appealed to pastors involved in the vice to repent. “Headmasters, students…have all confessed; now we want pastors to confess [their sins],” he said.
Kyazze made the remarks last Sunday while preaching at his Omega Healing Centre on Entebbe Road.
Kyazze, one of the pastors to accuse Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre of sexually abusing boys, has been out of the country for about two months.
He appeared before the CID Police to substantiate his claims against Kayanja early this week.
His colleagues; Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Bob Kayiira have since recorded their statements but have accused the Police of bias.
Kyazze said preachers who are afraid to speak out against sodomy should quit ministry.
“Since I came, some of them have been calling me whispering on phones. If they are cowards who can’t speak the truth, they should leave the Bible. It is an irony that they fear yet most of them boast of great powers.”
He claimed that the issue of sodomy in the church is much bigger than what has been reported in the media.
“You don’t know how many young men want to share their story but are afraid of guns, the connections…”
He said keeping quiet about the problem makes victims detest salvation. Kyazze quoted one of the alleged victims of a pastor saying: “He ruined my life. The more I see him preach on TV, the more I hate the Jesus he preaches.”
Ironically, Kyazze accused the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches where he is Secretary for Discipline, of not taking a stand in his defence.
“I have seen Solomon Male take children to Police, Mulago but I have never seen the National Fellowship speak in my defence, it’s like OAU.”
He commended the Catholic Church for instituting investigations into allegations of homosexuality against its members.
He said Male and Ssempa were invited by the Catholic Church for a meeting after a young man recently accused Father Anthony Musaala of sodomy.
Male confirmed attending the meeting with Ssempa but declined to divulge details.
Kyazze also praised Male as being a true pastor.
“Male has no car, he moves on the street, in taxis but he speaks against people who have bodyguards and guns in their cars. Even the powerful Sserwadda needs other pastors before attacking him,” Kyazze said.
A group of pastors, led by Joseph Sserwadda recently denounced Male as a liar who is bent on tarnishing the names of other pastors. They also said that he is not a pastor because he has no church. But Kyazze came to Male’s defence, saying even Jesus had no church.
Some of the alleged sodomy victims have however retracted their statements, saying that they had been coached and given money by Kyazze to pin Kayanja.
He was also accused of kidnapping Kayanja’s aide, Chris Muwonge.
He however denied the charges.
“There is no need to bribe because evidence speaks for itself. Rather than waste Shs 50m, I would rather organise a mass wedding,” said the pastor who pioneered the practice of mass weddings in the country.
Kyazze says he will not stop talking about sodomy in the media as suggested recently by the Police. He said: “mission no more silence” was started by Kayanja and should continue.
He added: “I have sprayed cockroaches and they have come out of their hiding places, then someone wants to come and kill them?”
Kyazze’s church recently started a special service every last Sunday of the month where people claiming to be sodomy victims share their experiences.
“It handles toxic issues. Those who come are treated to heavy things and hard rocks. That is why we limit it to people above 18 years,” he said.
Commenting on Kyazze’s claims that the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches was doing nothing, the chairman, Alex Mitala, said Kyazze should not blame anybody because he [Kyazze] is in charge of discipline.
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Benny Hinn to Visit Uganda, South Africa and Congo in June 2009 : A void this Well without Water
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the midst of darkness is reserved for ever.(2 Peter 2:17)
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the fresh… .(2 Peter 2:18)
I urge born again Ugandans, South Africans, Congolese and all Africans to avoid this servant of the devil. Read the links and sources in the article below to familiarize your self with the confusing history, heresies and serpent characteristics of HINN.
Benny Hinn Uganda Tour June 5-6, 2009
….freely you have received freely give ( Matthew 10:8)
Pastor Robert Kayanja has been questioned by the Ugandan media as to why every person is supposed to pay 50$ for the Benny Hinn Holy Spirit outpouring. Pastor Robert Kayanja argues that the gospel is not cheap. He says that Ugandans are used to free things yet there are no free things. He does not quote scripture to substantiate his arguments. The word of God says categorically that freely you have received freely give( Matthew 10:8).Well, The love of money is the roots of all evil( I Tim 6:10). The word of God says you will see them by their fruits not by their suits. Dear Pastor Robert Kayanja your fruits are very clear. They are very visible for every one to see. You have sown the wind your will reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7)
Benny Hinn charges $50 for fellowship
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/683679
Benny Hinn arrives today
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Benny_Hinn_arrives_today_85982.shtml
Kayanja to block his accusers from meeting Benny Hinn
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_to_block_his_accusers_from_meeting_Benny_Hinn_85974.shtml
The God of Prosperity parrots like Robert Kayanja is POWER, MONEY AND PRESITIGE. Imagine, individuals are supposed to pay 50$(US dollars)(over 100,000 Uganda shillings) to attend this so-called Benny Hinn ‘holy spirit outpouring’. What about the poor who can not even raise 1$ for transport? This is not Jesus, this is satan from the pit of hell, this is Mammon, this is Lucifer to say the least. PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA IS A 'SMART'BUSINESS MAN, HE KNOWS THAT IF 20,000 PEOPLE REGISTER FOR THE SO CALLED HOLY SPIRIT OUT POURING, HE WILL MAKE Over 2 MILLION US DOLLARS. SMART GUY$$$. THIS WILL SUSTAIN HIS LUXURIOUS LIFE STYLE JUST LIKE BENNY HINN.
WHO IS BENNY HINN?
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_miracles.html
Pastor Justin Peter’s experience of Benny Hinn Ministries
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/justin.pdf
http://www.justinpeters.org/support.htm
BENNY HINN: THE GREATEST HERETIC OF OUR TIME
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/Benny_Hinn.htm
Benny Hinn, the catholic Necromancer
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/05/benny-hinn-catholic-necromancer.html
Was the 'crippled' man really healed?
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/BHinn35.htm
CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!: PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA IS BRINGING BACK BENNY HINN TO UGANDA IN June 2009
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/11/can-you-imagine-pastor-robert-kayanja.html
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Paul Crouch and Sodomy Allegations???
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA THE TBN SUPERBOY IN HOMOSEXUAL ALLEGATIONS ?????
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/340-lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugandas-evangelical-churches.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the fresh… .(2 Peter 2:18)
I urge born again Ugandans, South Africans, Congolese and all Africans to avoid this servant of the devil. Read the links and sources in the article below to familiarize your self with the confusing history, heresies and serpent characteristics of HINN.
Benny Hinn Uganda Tour June 5-6, 2009
….freely you have received freely give ( Matthew 10:8)
Pastor Robert Kayanja has been questioned by the Ugandan media as to why every person is supposed to pay 50$ for the Benny Hinn Holy Spirit outpouring. Pastor Robert Kayanja argues that the gospel is not cheap. He says that Ugandans are used to free things yet there are no free things. He does not quote scripture to substantiate his arguments. The word of God says categorically that freely you have received freely give( Matthew 10:8).Well, The love of money is the roots of all evil( I Tim 6:10). The word of God says you will see them by their fruits not by their suits. Dear Pastor Robert Kayanja your fruits are very clear. They are very visible for every one to see. You have sown the wind your will reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7)
Benny Hinn charges $50 for fellowship
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/683679
Benny Hinn arrives today
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Benny_Hinn_arrives_today_85982.shtml
Kayanja to block his accusers from meeting Benny Hinn
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_to_block_his_accusers_from_meeting_Benny_Hinn_85974.shtml
The God of Prosperity parrots like Robert Kayanja is POWER, MONEY AND PRESITIGE. Imagine, individuals are supposed to pay 50$(US dollars)(over 100,000 Uganda shillings) to attend this so-called Benny Hinn ‘holy spirit outpouring’. What about the poor who can not even raise 1$ for transport? This is not Jesus, this is satan from the pit of hell, this is Mammon, this is Lucifer to say the least. PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA IS A 'SMART'BUSINESS MAN, HE KNOWS THAT IF 20,000 PEOPLE REGISTER FOR THE SO CALLED HOLY SPIRIT OUT POURING, HE WILL MAKE Over 2 MILLION US DOLLARS. SMART GUY$$$. THIS WILL SUSTAIN HIS LUXURIOUS LIFE STYLE JUST LIKE BENNY HINN.
WHO IS BENNY HINN?
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_miracles.html
Pastor Justin Peter’s experience of Benny Hinn Ministries
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/justin.pdf
http://www.justinpeters.org/support.htm
BENNY HINN: THE GREATEST HERETIC OF OUR TIME
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/Benny_Hinn.htm
Benny Hinn, the catholic Necromancer
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/05/benny-hinn-catholic-necromancer.html
Was the 'crippled' man really healed?
http://www.christianresearchservice.com/BHinn35.htm
CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!: PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA IS BRINGING BACK BENNY HINN TO UGANDA IN June 2009
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/11/can-you-imagine-pastor-robert-kayanja.html
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Paul Crouch and Sodomy Allegations???
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA THE TBN SUPERBOY IN HOMOSEXUAL ALLEGATIONS ?????
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/340-lies-sex-and-hypocrisy-in-ugandas-evangelical-churches.html
Roger Oakland's letter to Paul Crouch regarding TBN promotion of Roman Catholic dogma
http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml
Warming to Pastor Robert Kayanja about TBN’s Promotion of Roman Catholicism
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-letter-to-pastor-robert-kayanja
Debunking the Uganda Martyrs Myth: Did these young men simply believe a lie???
"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." {Revelation 17:6}
…the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them (Luke 9:55-56)
My Analysis
Were these Uganda Martyrs born again??
Every 3rd June, thousands of Catholic and Anglican Ugandans in addition to other pilgrims from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo etc flock Namugongo shrines to celebrate the so called martyrdom of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic young men who were killed by King Mwanga II of Buganda. I’m 100% sure that the catholic martyrs did not make it heaven. I also highly doubt that their Anglican counterparts made it to heaven too. A critical look at Uganda’s history reveals beyond reasonable doubt that the missionaries who introduced Catholicism and Anglicanism to Uganda were spiritual politicians who were using Jesus as a cover in order to pave away for the colonization of Uganda hence the adage that’’ the flag followed the cross’’. So, were the Uganda Martyrs killed for their faith in Jesus or their faith in Catholicism and Anglicanism. There is no evidence that these young men had completely abandoned their traditional gods. The legacy of worshipping Jesus along side the traditional gods still lives on today. Many Catholics and Anglicans in Uganda continue to worship Jesus along side their traditional gods.
Uganda Martyrs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Uganda
The Christian Martyrs of Uganda
http://www.buganda.com/martyrs.htm
Catholic Uganda Martyrs!!! Give me a break. How about the millions that the Catholic Church killed during the inquisition
Catholics in Uganda make the Uganda Martyrs a very big issue. However the Catholic Church has killed more martyrs of Jesus Christ than any other religion. Many people were killed by the Catholic Church for translating the bible in English. Million of saints perished during the catholic inquisition. Unfortunately many naïve Catholics are unaware of this. Since history books have been largely rewritten, few people know specific details of this murderous campaign that lasted over 1,200 years, killing 75 million people. But, once you understand the unprecedented horrors of the Inquisition, you will never look at Roman Catholicism the same way again(http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1676.cfm).
THE TRUE FACE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INQUISITION -- ROTTEN SPIRITUAL FRUIT FROM THE ABYSS OF HELL
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1676.cfm
The Catholic Inquisition and The Tools of Torture
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=571538940742386630
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
Ever heard of the Inquisition, from 1200 A.D. to 1800 A.D. . . ? It's never mentioned any longer. We hear a lot about the Jewish Holocaust when 6 million Jews perished under Hitler. But most people don't know that Hitler was a Roman Catholic and an instrument of the Holy Office. Hitler was never excommunicated for his crimes against humanity and causing the deaths of millions of people; whereas Martin Luther was excommunicated for translating the Bible into German!!
http://www.reformation.org/inquisit.html
THE INQUISITION:
A Study in Absolute Catholic Power
http://www.mtc.org/inquis.html
ARTICLE ON THE UGANDA MARTYRS DAY
Uganda commemorates martyrs' day
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/683565
Wednesday, 3rd June, 2009
THOUSANDS of Christians yesterday braved the scorching sun and later an afternoon downpour to pay homage to the Christian martyrs in Namugongo.
The function marked 123 years since 45 Christian converts, 22 Catholics and 23 Anglicans, were killed at the orders of the Kabaka of Buganda, Basamula Mwanga II, after they refused to denounce their faith.
The majority of martyrs were burnt to death while others were beheaded and castrated in 1886. The 22 Catholic martyrs were canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1964.
In addition to the 22 catholics killed by Mwanga, 2 other martyrs, Gildo Irwa and Daudi Okello who died in northern Uganda in the early 1900s and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002 are also on the list.
At the shrine of the Catholic martyrs, MPs from western Uganda, including NRM secretary general Amama Mbabazi and Henry Banyenzaki, excited the crowd when they joined in to perform the kitagururo, a traditional Bakiga dance.
The two have been at loggerheads over the Temangalo land issue, while Banyenzaki is on the NRM list of so-called ‘rebel MPs’.
Pilgrims travelled from as far as Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the DR Congo and Burundi, some on foot, while others flew in from the US, Europe, Zambia and Nigeria. This year’s celebrations were led by Kabale diocese, with Bishop Callist Rubaramira as chief celebrant. He was assisted by the archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga.
President Yoweri Museveni attended the Catholic celebrations, along with the widow of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, cabinet ministers, opposition leaders and MPs. Among the opposition leaders were Kizza Besigye (FDC), Ssebaana Kizito (DP), Miria Obote (UPC) and Ken Lukyamuzi (CP).
“Consider the short time the martyrs had known faith. Within six years, they became committed to Jesus and were ready to die for him. They could not be compromised in the evils of their time. They walked to their deaths singing hymns,” Rubaramira said in his sermon.
He decried Christians who indulge in evil practices such as corruption, intolerance, ritual murder, abortion and witchcraft. President Museveni, who greeted the congregation in about seven languages, quoted the parable of the talents, decrying Ugandans who do not use their talents.
“Our bodies are sick from preventable diseases and we go hungry because we do not work hard.”
The crowd was so big that the Police had to block people from entering the venue. Loudspeakers amplified the various speakers’ messages, while projector screens relayed pictures for those who were too far to see anything. As early as 7:00am, pilgrims were seen trekking from Kireka to Namugongo.
Vehicles to the venue were forced to move at a snail pace to avoid running over pedestrians. Traffic police and UTODA wardens were at hand to guide VIP vehicles.
At the Church of Uganda shrine a few kilometers away, Anglican leaders, led by Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, decried the rate at which homosexuality, human sacrifice and witchcraft were invading the country. “People no longer respect their fellow human beings. On February 25, 2009 we launched a campaign against human sacrifice. We must fight these evils,” Orombi said.
The colourful function, organised by Mukono and Namirembe dioceses, was attended by Anglican bishops, clergies and government officials.
“We should not be called Christians by names but our actions should portray our image. Why should one sacrifice children, practice witchcraft and corruption when he is called a Christian?” Prime Minister Nsibambi said in a speech delivered by Minister Dorothy Hyuha.
Deputy Speaker Rebecca Kadaga wondered why the President and the Chief Justice, Benjamin Odoki, did not attend the Anglican celebrations, which had a smaller crowd, yet they are Anglicans.
By Raymond Baguma, Catherine Bekunda, Juliet Lukwago, Mary Karugaba and Juliet Waiswa
…the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them (Luke 9:55-56)
My Analysis
Were these Uganda Martyrs born again??
Every 3rd June, thousands of Catholic and Anglican Ugandans in addition to other pilgrims from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo etc flock Namugongo shrines to celebrate the so called martyrdom of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic young men who were killed by King Mwanga II of Buganda. I’m 100% sure that the catholic martyrs did not make it heaven. I also highly doubt that their Anglican counterparts made it to heaven too. A critical look at Uganda’s history reveals beyond reasonable doubt that the missionaries who introduced Catholicism and Anglicanism to Uganda were spiritual politicians who were using Jesus as a cover in order to pave away for the colonization of Uganda hence the adage that’’ the flag followed the cross’’. So, were the Uganda Martyrs killed for their faith in Jesus or their faith in Catholicism and Anglicanism. There is no evidence that these young men had completely abandoned their traditional gods. The legacy of worshipping Jesus along side the traditional gods still lives on today. Many Catholics and Anglicans in Uganda continue to worship Jesus along side their traditional gods.
Uganda Martyrs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Uganda
The Christian Martyrs of Uganda
http://www.buganda.com/martyrs.htm
Catholic Uganda Martyrs!!! Give me a break. How about the millions that the Catholic Church killed during the inquisition
Catholics in Uganda make the Uganda Martyrs a very big issue. However the Catholic Church has killed more martyrs of Jesus Christ than any other religion. Many people were killed by the Catholic Church for translating the bible in English. Million of saints perished during the catholic inquisition. Unfortunately many naïve Catholics are unaware of this. Since history books have been largely rewritten, few people know specific details of this murderous campaign that lasted over 1,200 years, killing 75 million people. But, once you understand the unprecedented horrors of the Inquisition, you will never look at Roman Catholicism the same way again(http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1676.cfm).
THE TRUE FACE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INQUISITION -- ROTTEN SPIRITUAL FRUIT FROM THE ABYSS OF HELL
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1676.cfm
The Catholic Inquisition and The Tools of Torture
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=571538940742386630
ROME'S PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/4ef3f30d5ea4253059dc014c8c9f6db3-79.html
Ever heard of the Inquisition, from 1200 A.D. to 1800 A.D. . . ? It's never mentioned any longer. We hear a lot about the Jewish Holocaust when 6 million Jews perished under Hitler. But most people don't know that Hitler was a Roman Catholic and an instrument of the Holy Office. Hitler was never excommunicated for his crimes against humanity and causing the deaths of millions of people; whereas Martin Luther was excommunicated for translating the Bible into German!!
http://www.reformation.org/inquisit.html
THE INQUISITION:
A Study in Absolute Catholic Power
http://www.mtc.org/inquis.html
ARTICLE ON THE UGANDA MARTYRS DAY
Uganda commemorates martyrs' day
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/683565
Wednesday, 3rd June, 2009
THOUSANDS of Christians yesterday braved the scorching sun and later an afternoon downpour to pay homage to the Christian martyrs in Namugongo.
The function marked 123 years since 45 Christian converts, 22 Catholics and 23 Anglicans, were killed at the orders of the Kabaka of Buganda, Basamula Mwanga II, after they refused to denounce their faith.
The majority of martyrs were burnt to death while others were beheaded and castrated in 1886. The 22 Catholic martyrs were canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1964.
In addition to the 22 catholics killed by Mwanga, 2 other martyrs, Gildo Irwa and Daudi Okello who died in northern Uganda in the early 1900s and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002 are also on the list.
At the shrine of the Catholic martyrs, MPs from western Uganda, including NRM secretary general Amama Mbabazi and Henry Banyenzaki, excited the crowd when they joined in to perform the kitagururo, a traditional Bakiga dance.
The two have been at loggerheads over the Temangalo land issue, while Banyenzaki is on the NRM list of so-called ‘rebel MPs’.
Pilgrims travelled from as far as Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the DR Congo and Burundi, some on foot, while others flew in from the US, Europe, Zambia and Nigeria. This year’s celebrations were led by Kabale diocese, with Bishop Callist Rubaramira as chief celebrant. He was assisted by the archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga.
President Yoweri Museveni attended the Catholic celebrations, along with the widow of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, cabinet ministers, opposition leaders and MPs. Among the opposition leaders were Kizza Besigye (FDC), Ssebaana Kizito (DP), Miria Obote (UPC) and Ken Lukyamuzi (CP).
“Consider the short time the martyrs had known faith. Within six years, they became committed to Jesus and were ready to die for him. They could not be compromised in the evils of their time. They walked to their deaths singing hymns,” Rubaramira said in his sermon.
He decried Christians who indulge in evil practices such as corruption, intolerance, ritual murder, abortion and witchcraft. President Museveni, who greeted the congregation in about seven languages, quoted the parable of the talents, decrying Ugandans who do not use their talents.
“Our bodies are sick from preventable diseases and we go hungry because we do not work hard.”
The crowd was so big that the Police had to block people from entering the venue. Loudspeakers amplified the various speakers’ messages, while projector screens relayed pictures for those who were too far to see anything. As early as 7:00am, pilgrims were seen trekking from Kireka to Namugongo.
Vehicles to the venue were forced to move at a snail pace to avoid running over pedestrians. Traffic police and UTODA wardens were at hand to guide VIP vehicles.
At the Church of Uganda shrine a few kilometers away, Anglican leaders, led by Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, decried the rate at which homosexuality, human sacrifice and witchcraft were invading the country. “People no longer respect their fellow human beings. On February 25, 2009 we launched a campaign against human sacrifice. We must fight these evils,” Orombi said.
The colourful function, organised by Mukono and Namirembe dioceses, was attended by Anglican bishops, clergies and government officials.
“We should not be called Christians by names but our actions should portray our image. Why should one sacrifice children, practice witchcraft and corruption when he is called a Christian?” Prime Minister Nsibambi said in a speech delivered by Minister Dorothy Hyuha.
Deputy Speaker Rebecca Kadaga wondered why the President and the Chief Justice, Benjamin Odoki, did not attend the Anglican celebrations, which had a smaller crowd, yet they are Anglicans.
By Raymond Baguma, Catherine Bekunda, Juliet Lukwago, Mary Karugaba and Juliet Waiswa
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Julius Nyerere (RIP), the first President of Tanzania set on road to sainthood
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:16-17)
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)
The Catholic Church( widest road to destruction) in Uganda has started a campaign to make Late president Julius Nyerere a saint.
In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in Heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth. In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or “canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop. In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice, the saints are revered, prayed to, and in some instances, worshipped. In the Bible, saints are called to revere, worship, and pray to God alone. (http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html)
What are Christian saints according to the Bible?
http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html
There is no doubt in mind that the late Julius Nyerere did many wonderful things however , the most important question to ask is ; Was he born again? No born again Christian can be born again and remain in this catholic satanic system. The bible categorically states that our works are filthy rags so, the works of Late Julius Nyerere were simply filthy rags . He died in a lie , he believed a lie, clear and simple. The canonization of Julius Nyerere is just another political trick by the catholic church to keep people deceived . It is amazing that even ‘born again’ Janet Museveni was in support of this. The bible says you will see them by their fruits.
Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0220681820070302
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/03/05/85645.html
The word of God Categorically calls all born again believers saints . Apostle Paul in most of his letters begins by saluting the saints(ie born again beleivers concecrated to God). Therefore all born again christians are called saints. You do not need the authority of man, the Pope and his bishops to be declared a saint.Amen. Flee the catholic satanic system now. It is a billion miles away from the word of God. it is an antichrist system that leads to hell.Check out theses scriptures(see how apostle Paul calls believers saints).
1Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: (1 Corinthians 1:1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.( Ephesians 1:1-2)
1Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1: 1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:1-2)
Unmasking Catholicism
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Book/index.html
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/index.html
Saint to be MOTHER TERESA'S LETTERS RECOUNT CRISIS OF FAITH
http://www.calvarypo.org/pages/hands/0480.htm
Saint to be MOTHER TERESA: A SERVANT OF SATAN AND THE ANTICHRIST
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/teresa/general.htm
CATHOLICISM THE WIDER ROAD TO DESTRUCTION
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
Taking Africa back to Satan: Pope Benedict XVI visits Cameroon
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/taking-africa-back-to-satan-pope.html
Nyerere set on road to sainthood
Daily Monitor News | June 2, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Nyerere_set_on_road_to_sainthood_85833.shtml
Walter Wafula
Kampala
He fought for freedom, he struggled for unity and he helped Uganda achieve the peace that its people enjoy today.
In his honour, Julius Nyerere (RIP), the first President of Tanzania, will be christened a Saint by the Catholic Church in the near future.
Nyerere, a key founder of the Organisation of African Unity, will be honoured for the spiritual and political role he played in helping many African nations, including Uganda, to achieve unity, peace and political stability, according to Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, the Kampala Archbishop.
This was revealed at a special prayer ceremony held in honour of Nyerere who passed on in October 1999, at the Namugongo Martyrs Shrine in Kiira Town Council yesterday. The ceremony coincided with the arrival of hundreds of people from around the world who flock to the shrine every June 3, to celebrate the killing of 22 passionate and faithful Uganda Martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Christianity.
The ceremony was presided over by President Yoweri Museveni, his wife Janet, Mr Benjamin Mkapa, another ex-Tanzanian president, Ms Mariam Nyerere, the wife to Julius Nyerere and their family among other people.
Speaking to the congregation, President Museveni welcomed the move to canonise Nyerere who helped exiled Ugandans in 1978, to oust Uganda’s ex-president Idi Amin Dada.
President Museveni described the Saint-to- be, as a “freedom fighter” and a “unifier of people” drawing from his successful efforts in uniting a divided Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and bringing celebrated and long-lasting peace to Tanzania and Uganda.
“Tanzania like any other African country is diverse in terms of ethnic groups and religion. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was able to use Swahili to unite the people,” President Museveni said of the late Pan-African.
Bishop Lwanga said the process to honour Nyerere was on-going, and he will be canonised a saint in future. Nyerere has already been declared a servant of God by the Catholic Church, the first step in becoming a saint.
Mr Mkapa described the late as a leader who disliked to be worshiped.
“He knew he was human, and he lived like many others -being a good leader,” Mr Mkapa said.
Nyerere fit to be a saint — Museveni
Monday, 1st June, 2009
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/683324
By Raymond Baguma
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has supported the ongoing campaign in the Catholic Church to have former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere recognised as a saint.
The campaign to bestow sainthood on Nyerere began on January 26, 2006 when the Vatican accepted a request from the Bishop of Musoma in northern Tanzania to canonise the late leader. The Vatican then granted him the title of ‘Servant of God.’
Museveni yesterday praised Nyerere for uniting the different religious groups in Tanzania and advancing Swahili as a common language to unite the ethnically diverse country. Today, Tanzania is the most peaceful country in Africa with no civil wars, Museveni observed.
He was speaking during special prayers, held at Catholic Martyrs’ shrine in Namugongo, for the beatification of the late Mwalimu.
Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, and Bishop Emeritus Edward Baharagate. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was among the dignitaries present. The Nyerere family was led by the widow, Maria Gabriel Magige.
The family and many Tanzanians donned scarves with Kiswahili messages calling for Nyerere’s canonisation. They also wore uniform wrappers. The choir from Marian Faith Healing Centre in Dar-es-Salaam sang Kiswahili hymns.
After mass, Museveni narrated his first meeting with the former leader when he was still a student at Dar-es-Salaam University in 1968. “He was blessed with extraordinary wisdom and compassion for the oppressed. He loved freedom and unity for all people, and he was a fearless freedom fighter.”
He said during the 1970s, Nyerere supported freedom movements in Vietnam, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, Namibia as well as Uganda. Museveni also pointed out that Nyerere’s role was instrumental in the restoration of peace in Burundi.
“He was like the Ugandan martyrs who stood for truth against sin; even at the expense of their lives. I join those who are praying for the canonisation of Mwalimu as a saint. He was not only a freedom fighter, he was also a man of God.”
Mkapa, who was Tanzania’s third President, praised the fact that Nyerere always remained humble. “I stayed with him from 1966 until his passing away. He was a leader of the independence struggle. He abhorred being worshiped. He knew he was human and lived like any other being.”
Prayers for Nyerere’s canonisation, organised by the widow, have been conducted at the Namugongo shrine since 2007.
Hundreds of Tanzanian, Kenyan and Rwandan pilgrims are currently in the country to commemorate Uganda Martyrs’ Day, celebrated annually on June 3.
Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0220681820070302
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/03/05/85645.html
By Katie Nguyen
In a world where politicians are usually cast as villains and sinners, Tanzania`s founding father Julius Nyerere may yet turn out to be a saint.
Eight years after he died at the age of 77, the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania is leading a call to beatify the statesman who in life earned worldwide respect for his pan-Africanist vision.
The act of being declared `blessed` by the Pope, for which one miracle has to be recognised by the Vatican, is the last step in the Church`s long path before sainthood.
If it happened, his elevation would be a rare honour for Africa, which some say badly needs heroes to counter-balance a series of corrupt leaders and greedy despots who have tarnished the continent's post-colonial history.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, said the campaign to have Nyerere beatified was a message to leaders who had fallen by the moral wayside.
`When you speak of politicians -- they are known as liars, they are known for not keeping their word.
When we say someone is involved in business -- it`s like closing the doors to heaven,` Pengo told Reuters.
`Our aim is mainly to encourage politicians, statesmen and businessmen to live a life that is capable of leading them to sainthood,` he said in an interview at Dar es Salaam's St Joseph`s Cathedral, overlooking the Indian Ocean waterfront.
Pengo said an appeal, known as a cause for beatification, was sent in 2005 to Rome.
The appeal begins the process to determine whether Nyerere was worthy of beatification.
It may take years if not decades for Rome to make a ruling.
`MWALIMU`
Most Tanzanians remember Nyerere -- a slight man with a penchant for Mao-style suits -- as an honest leader who led his people to independence in 1961. He then dismantled tribalism, by advancing Kiswahili as the national language and culture, to make Tanzania one of Africa`s most peaceful nations.
Nyerere ruled for 23 years before stepping down voluntarily in 1985 a rarity in African politics.
Even after death, Nyerere's picture is often found hanging alongside that of current President Jakaya Kikwete, while his name is uttered with hushed reverence by many Tanzanians who still call him their teacher -- `Mwalimu` in Kiswahili.
The son of a tribal chief, Nyerere was said to have remained true to his mission upbringing, becoming a devout Catholic who often fasted, attended Mass on an almost daily basis and translated parts of the Bible into his native Zanaki language.
He earned respect for his integrity and his lifestyle was modest to the point of austerity -- in stark contrast to the excesses of his contemporaries, including Uganda`s Idi Amin, Zaire`s Mobutu Sese Seko and Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam .
A university professor who knew Nyerere said he always carried a copy of the Bible and the 1967 Arusha Declaration, which was meant to turn Tanzania into a model of self-reliance.
But critics say Nyerere`s perceived saintliness was undone by his political legacy.
His experiment with socialism left Tanzania poorer and hungrier than when he came to power.
Some recall with bitterness the economic hardship brought about by Nyerere`s `Ujamaa` system of collective farming and sweeping nationalisations that laid claim to land, property, industries, businesses and even schools.
`My grandfather told me how much pain he still has from the suffering he underwent working in the nationalised plantations, and getting nothing in return,` said Alfayo, a trader who did not wish to give his last name.
`For that, I don`t think Nyerere deserves to be a saint.`
A civil servant who only gave his name as Musa questioned the motives behind the sainthood drive.
Ujamaa is not part of the Bible and he did not die for his beliefs.
This push to make Nyerere a saint is all political, he said.
DICTATOR?
World leaders applauded Nyerere for his pan-Africanist vision and his work on peace efforts in Rwanda and Burundi.
His funeral drew a host of former revolutionaries who had plotted their campaigns from Dar es Salaam during the heady scramble for independence of the 1960s and 1970s.
But Nyerere's heralded statesmanship belies simmering resentment at home over his refusal to allow multiparty politics, which critics say set the stage for four decades of ruling party government.
`He wanted to preserve power. Maybe he did not kill people as other dictators, but by suppressing dissent he was not different from any other dictator,` said Ismail Jussa, a senior official in the main opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party.
The view was echoed by Christopher Mtikila, a Pentecostal preacher who successfully won a court case allowing independent candidates to run in Tanzania`s next election due in 2010.
`He was the one to sing for all of us. If you thought any different you were thinking treason," he told Reuters.
If the Roman Catholic Church succeeds in beatifying Nyerere, it would eventually allow relics, prayers and images of him to be honoured in places of worship, with the Vatican's permission.
But for some churchgoers leaving an evening Mass at Dar es Salaam's sunbleached Gothic cathedral, that's a step too far.
`The church should seek another title for Nyerere. True, he was a devout Catholic, but the title he already has as 'Father of the Nation' is enough,` said Haule, a telecoms firm driver.
SOURCE: Guardian
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)
The Catholic Church( widest road to destruction) in Uganda has started a campaign to make Late president Julius Nyerere a saint.
In Roman Catholic theology, the saints are in Heaven. In the Bible, the saints are on earth. In Roman Catholic teaching, a person does not become a saint unless he/she is “beatified” or “canonized” by the Pope or prominent bishop. In the Bible, everyone who has received Jesus Christ by faith is a saint. In Roman Catholic practice, the saints are revered, prayed to, and in some instances, worshipped. In the Bible, saints are called to revere, worship, and pray to God alone. (http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html)
What are Christian saints according to the Bible?
http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html
There is no doubt in mind that the late Julius Nyerere did many wonderful things however , the most important question to ask is ; Was he born again? No born again Christian can be born again and remain in this catholic satanic system. The bible categorically states that our works are filthy rags so, the works of Late Julius Nyerere were simply filthy rags . He died in a lie , he believed a lie, clear and simple. The canonization of Julius Nyerere is just another political trick by the catholic church to keep people deceived . It is amazing that even ‘born again’ Janet Museveni was in support of this. The bible says you will see them by their fruits.
Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0220681820070302
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/03/05/85645.html
The word of God Categorically calls all born again believers saints . Apostle Paul in most of his letters begins by saluting the saints(ie born again beleivers concecrated to God). Therefore all born again christians are called saints. You do not need the authority of man, the Pope and his bishops to be declared a saint.Amen. Flee the catholic satanic system now. It is a billion miles away from the word of God. it is an antichrist system that leads to hell.Check out theses scriptures(see how apostle Paul calls believers saints).
1Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: (1 Corinthians 1:1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.( Ephesians 1:1-2)
1Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1: 1-2)
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:1-2)
Unmasking Catholicism
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Book/index.html
http://www.catholicconcerns.com/index.html
Saint to be MOTHER TERESA'S LETTERS RECOUNT CRISIS OF FAITH
http://www.calvarypo.org/pages/hands/0480.htm
Saint to be MOTHER TERESA: A SERVANT OF SATAN AND THE ANTICHRIST
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/teresa/general.htm
CATHOLICISM THE WIDER ROAD TO DESTRUCTION
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/history-of-papacy-heresies-of-rome.html
Taking Africa back to Satan: Pope Benedict XVI visits Cameroon
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/taking-africa-back-to-satan-pope.html
Nyerere set on road to sainthood
Daily Monitor News | June 2, 2009
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Nyerere_set_on_road_to_sainthood_85833.shtml
Walter Wafula
Kampala
He fought for freedom, he struggled for unity and he helped Uganda achieve the peace that its people enjoy today.
In his honour, Julius Nyerere (RIP), the first President of Tanzania, will be christened a Saint by the Catholic Church in the near future.
Nyerere, a key founder of the Organisation of African Unity, will be honoured for the spiritual and political role he played in helping many African nations, including Uganda, to achieve unity, peace and political stability, according to Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, the Kampala Archbishop.
This was revealed at a special prayer ceremony held in honour of Nyerere who passed on in October 1999, at the Namugongo Martyrs Shrine in Kiira Town Council yesterday. The ceremony coincided with the arrival of hundreds of people from around the world who flock to the shrine every June 3, to celebrate the killing of 22 passionate and faithful Uganda Martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Christianity.
The ceremony was presided over by President Yoweri Museveni, his wife Janet, Mr Benjamin Mkapa, another ex-Tanzanian president, Ms Mariam Nyerere, the wife to Julius Nyerere and their family among other people.
Speaking to the congregation, President Museveni welcomed the move to canonise Nyerere who helped exiled Ugandans in 1978, to oust Uganda’s ex-president Idi Amin Dada.
President Museveni described the Saint-to- be, as a “freedom fighter” and a “unifier of people” drawing from his successful efforts in uniting a divided Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and bringing celebrated and long-lasting peace to Tanzania and Uganda.
“Tanzania like any other African country is diverse in terms of ethnic groups and religion. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was able to use Swahili to unite the people,” President Museveni said of the late Pan-African.
Bishop Lwanga said the process to honour Nyerere was on-going, and he will be canonised a saint in future. Nyerere has already been declared a servant of God by the Catholic Church, the first step in becoming a saint.
Mr Mkapa described the late as a leader who disliked to be worshiped.
“He knew he was human, and he lived like many others -being a good leader,” Mr Mkapa said.
Nyerere fit to be a saint — Museveni
Monday, 1st June, 2009
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/683324
By Raymond Baguma
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has supported the ongoing campaign in the Catholic Church to have former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere recognised as a saint.
The campaign to bestow sainthood on Nyerere began on January 26, 2006 when the Vatican accepted a request from the Bishop of Musoma in northern Tanzania to canonise the late leader. The Vatican then granted him the title of ‘Servant of God.’
Museveni yesterday praised Nyerere for uniting the different religious groups in Tanzania and advancing Swahili as a common language to unite the ethnically diverse country. Today, Tanzania is the most peaceful country in Africa with no civil wars, Museveni observed.
He was speaking during special prayers, held at Catholic Martyrs’ shrine in Namugongo, for the beatification of the late Mwalimu.
Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, and Bishop Emeritus Edward Baharagate. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was among the dignitaries present. The Nyerere family was led by the widow, Maria Gabriel Magige.
The family and many Tanzanians donned scarves with Kiswahili messages calling for Nyerere’s canonisation. They also wore uniform wrappers. The choir from Marian Faith Healing Centre in Dar-es-Salaam sang Kiswahili hymns.
After mass, Museveni narrated his first meeting with the former leader when he was still a student at Dar-es-Salaam University in 1968. “He was blessed with extraordinary wisdom and compassion for the oppressed. He loved freedom and unity for all people, and he was a fearless freedom fighter.”
He said during the 1970s, Nyerere supported freedom movements in Vietnam, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, Namibia as well as Uganda. Museveni also pointed out that Nyerere’s role was instrumental in the restoration of peace in Burundi.
“He was like the Ugandan martyrs who stood for truth against sin; even at the expense of their lives. I join those who are praying for the canonisation of Mwalimu as a saint. He was not only a freedom fighter, he was also a man of God.”
Mkapa, who was Tanzania’s third President, praised the fact that Nyerere always remained humble. “I stayed with him from 1966 until his passing away. He was a leader of the independence struggle. He abhorred being worshiped. He knew he was human and lived like any other being.”
Prayers for Nyerere’s canonisation, organised by the widow, have been conducted at the Namugongo shrine since 2007.
Hundreds of Tanzanian, Kenyan and Rwandan pilgrims are currently in the country to commemorate Uganda Martyrs’ Day, celebrated annually on June 3.
Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0220681820070302
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/03/05/85645.html
By Katie Nguyen
In a world where politicians are usually cast as villains and sinners, Tanzania`s founding father Julius Nyerere may yet turn out to be a saint.
Eight years after he died at the age of 77, the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania is leading a call to beatify the statesman who in life earned worldwide respect for his pan-Africanist vision.
The act of being declared `blessed` by the Pope, for which one miracle has to be recognised by the Vatican, is the last step in the Church`s long path before sainthood.
If it happened, his elevation would be a rare honour for Africa, which some say badly needs heroes to counter-balance a series of corrupt leaders and greedy despots who have tarnished the continent's post-colonial history.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, said the campaign to have Nyerere beatified was a message to leaders who had fallen by the moral wayside.
`When you speak of politicians -- they are known as liars, they are known for not keeping their word.
When we say someone is involved in business -- it`s like closing the doors to heaven,` Pengo told Reuters.
`Our aim is mainly to encourage politicians, statesmen and businessmen to live a life that is capable of leading them to sainthood,` he said in an interview at Dar es Salaam's St Joseph`s Cathedral, overlooking the Indian Ocean waterfront.
Pengo said an appeal, known as a cause for beatification, was sent in 2005 to Rome.
The appeal begins the process to determine whether Nyerere was worthy of beatification.
It may take years if not decades for Rome to make a ruling.
`MWALIMU`
Most Tanzanians remember Nyerere -- a slight man with a penchant for Mao-style suits -- as an honest leader who led his people to independence in 1961. He then dismantled tribalism, by advancing Kiswahili as the national language and culture, to make Tanzania one of Africa`s most peaceful nations.
Nyerere ruled for 23 years before stepping down voluntarily in 1985 a rarity in African politics.
Even after death, Nyerere's picture is often found hanging alongside that of current President Jakaya Kikwete, while his name is uttered with hushed reverence by many Tanzanians who still call him their teacher -- `Mwalimu` in Kiswahili.
The son of a tribal chief, Nyerere was said to have remained true to his mission upbringing, becoming a devout Catholic who often fasted, attended Mass on an almost daily basis and translated parts of the Bible into his native Zanaki language.
He earned respect for his integrity and his lifestyle was modest to the point of austerity -- in stark contrast to the excesses of his contemporaries, including Uganda`s Idi Amin, Zaire`s Mobutu Sese Seko and Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam .
A university professor who knew Nyerere said he always carried a copy of the Bible and the 1967 Arusha Declaration, which was meant to turn Tanzania into a model of self-reliance.
But critics say Nyerere`s perceived saintliness was undone by his political legacy.
His experiment with socialism left Tanzania poorer and hungrier than when he came to power.
Some recall with bitterness the economic hardship brought about by Nyerere`s `Ujamaa` system of collective farming and sweeping nationalisations that laid claim to land, property, industries, businesses and even schools.
`My grandfather told me how much pain he still has from the suffering he underwent working in the nationalised plantations, and getting nothing in return,` said Alfayo, a trader who did not wish to give his last name.
`For that, I don`t think Nyerere deserves to be a saint.`
A civil servant who only gave his name as Musa questioned the motives behind the sainthood drive.
Ujamaa is not part of the Bible and he did not die for his beliefs.
This push to make Nyerere a saint is all political, he said.
DICTATOR?
World leaders applauded Nyerere for his pan-Africanist vision and his work on peace efforts in Rwanda and Burundi.
His funeral drew a host of former revolutionaries who had plotted their campaigns from Dar es Salaam during the heady scramble for independence of the 1960s and 1970s.
But Nyerere's heralded statesmanship belies simmering resentment at home over his refusal to allow multiparty politics, which critics say set the stage for four decades of ruling party government.
`He wanted to preserve power. Maybe he did not kill people as other dictators, but by suppressing dissent he was not different from any other dictator,` said Ismail Jussa, a senior official in the main opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party.
The view was echoed by Christopher Mtikila, a Pentecostal preacher who successfully won a court case allowing independent candidates to run in Tanzania`s next election due in 2010.
`He was the one to sing for all of us. If you thought any different you were thinking treason," he told Reuters.
If the Roman Catholic Church succeeds in beatifying Nyerere, it would eventually allow relics, prayers and images of him to be honoured in places of worship, with the Vatican's permission.
But for some churchgoers leaving an evening Mass at Dar es Salaam's sunbleached Gothic cathedral, that's a step too far.
`The church should seek another title for Nyerere. True, he was a devout Catholic, but the title he already has as 'Father of the Nation' is enough,` said Haule, a telecoms firm driver.
SOURCE: Guardian
Monday, 1 June 2009
Lies, sex and hypocrisy in Ugandan Pentecostal Churches
My Analysis
The article below that appeared in the Sunday Monitor, is a very good expose. However, I strongly disagree with the tendency of the Ugandan media which is by and large pro-catholic and pro-Anglican to allude that Born again churches should emulate the Catholic and Anglican churches who solve problems internally. Let us look at this argument:
‘’Father Nicholas Sendagala of the Catholic Christ the King Church says Christianity requires that such controversial issues are handled internally in order to aid the reformation of the accused rather than let it degenerate into a public spat. It is a view shared by Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye of the All Saints Cathedral who says that if he was suspected of wrongdoing, the hierarchy in the Anglican institution would require that his cases be solved by higher authorities within the Church and not be made public as if they were gloating over his errors. It is this lack of hierarchy in the Pentecostal churches, he says, that explains why most of the dirty linen is washed in public. “Without hierarchy, accountability becomes shaky and I have heard even the Pentecostal pastors like [Deo] Sserwada admit that one of their biggest weaknesses is the lack of a hierarchy,” says Mwesigye. lack of hierarchy and the absence of any formal education or requirement mean that anyone with some knowledge of the bible, a booming voice, a good translator and the ability to move large crowds with words can start a church any day. While the traditional churches have oversight institutions and are governed by the Trustees Incorporation Act, many of the Pentecostal churches are a power unto themselves and only answerable to God and their pastors’’.
It should be noted the Catholic Church in Ireland for example has been exposed by the Ryan Commission for abusing minors for over 60 years. The Catholic Church in USA has paid million of dollars to sexually abused victims. If the church has been handling issues internally as father Nicholas Sendagala argues, how comes this rot is coming out now. What the Catholic Church calls solving issues internally is actually protecting abusers and hiding the sin in the church. Born again Christians can never emulate this.
Catholic Church in Ireland- 60 years Sexual abuse scandal
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/catholic-church-in-ireland-60-sexual.html
Bishop apology over 'evil' abuse: We are sorry but we shall never compesate the abuse victims
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions?? Is this Justice or catholic cover up and hypocrisy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8065797.stm
Irish abuse report is 'shocking'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058224.stm
Ryan Commission reportin Full
http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt
Irish child abuse: The Ryan Report cover-up
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/irel-m26.shtml
Born-Again in Christ and Proud to Be So
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/born-again-in-christ-and-proud-to-be-so.html
Dear Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye, If there are effective internal structures within the Anglican church, how comes the media is awash with homosexuality in the Anglican church. How comes a protestant denomination like the anglican church is now in ecumenical unity with the catholic church. What has happened to the so called structures. The argument that Pentecostal churches have so many controversies because the pastors therein lack formal qualification is a very flawed argument. If formal qualifications were so much important, did the Apostles have these qualifications? How comes that the catholic and Anglican churches with all their formal qualifications baptize infants, yet scripture tells us to baptize one who has believed(Mark 16:16).When one goes to a catholic seminary one comes out with catholic doctrine, When one goes to an Anglican seminary one comes out with Anglican doctrine. So, what is the Use??and what can be emulated from such?? Despite the hidings and coverups, the catholic and anglican churches are so rotten that one would be spiritually blind to emulate them.
Eunice Rukundo urgues that, ‘’While religious leaders from the traditional Catholic and Anglican churches often criticize the government when it errors, most Pentecostal churches are stridently apolitical, preferring to preach a gospel of economic prosperity rather than dabble in politics’’. This is correct however, why should you be critical against president Museveni and his government, and keep silent about the witchcraft, sorcery and Satanism practiced by Kingdoms such as Buganda whose leaders claim to be Christian. Maana FIINA, the leader of the Witchdoctors in Uganda one time said on Radio Buganda, that they(meaning the witchdoctors) are the ones holding the kingdom(She was ofcource speaking the truth)
. How comes the critical Anglican and Catholic clergy kept silent about this. Isn’t this incredible hypocrisy.
Recently, the Catholic, anglican and SDA clergy, went at Old Kampala mosque to stop divisions among moslems. The moslems refused to listen to these hypocrites.
BISHOP OROMBI AND BISHOP CYPRIAN KIZITO GO TO MOSQUE TO SOLVE CHURCH WRANGLES ???
http://www.newvision.co.ug/PA/8/13/669463
http://allafrica.com/stories/200901280275.html
Eunice Rukundo’s article is similar to the one written by Bernard Tabaire who argues that Catholics and Anglican are happy about the sodomy allegations in the Pentecostal movement.
Catholics, Anglicans laugh loudly as Pentecostals ‘sodom’ things up
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/Tabaire/Catholics_Anglicans_laugh_loudly_as_Pentecostals_sodom_things_up_85249.shtml
The Berean spirit in the Born again faith might wake up the sleeping catholic and anglican dogs(I mean goats)
The argument that born again Christians should not expose evil to the public like the catholic and Anglican churches is a very flawed argument. Born again Christians can never be like the catholic and Anglican hypocrites who compromise with sin. It is true, there is a problem in the church, but we are not afraid to expose it after all Christ said, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed(Luke 12:2). Do you know that people like my self left the 'beautiful catholic churches'(in material terms) and went to the ugly born again churches because I was searching for truth? Exposing lies in the born again church is a sign that we have born agains who can not sacrifice truth for the sake of a denomination. This is good. People have come to know that false prophets have entered the born again fraternity. This is good.
The catholic and Anglican churches are aware that the critical Berean spirit(Acts 17:11) in the born again church might spill over to the catholic and Anglican churches and this means disaster for these churches who have disempowered their followers for centuries by not allowing them to read the word for themselves and to question the teachings in the church. If the dirt in the catholic and Anglican churches in Uganda comes out, people will be shocked. Remember recently Christians in the Anglican church in Kitgum took the Law in their hands?? by questioning the impartiality of their bishop. They rejected Bishop Orombi's urgument that, "You do not elect bishops. They are anointed by God. Bishop Ojwang may be weak, not sharp and not able to speak well, but God anointed him," . A truly born again Christian knows the Lord Jesus Christ personally. So, he/she can not backslide because a given pastor has been discovered to be gay.
New Vision, May 10, 2009: Worshipers Clash With Kitgum Bishop
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/16/680861
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905110130.html
No Revival No Rain in Uganda but Spiritual Drought and Barrenness
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/324-no-revival-no-rain-in-uganda-but-spiritual-drought-and-barrenness.html
Lies, sex and hypocrisy in Pentecostal Churches
Daily Monitor News | May 31, 2009
Eunice Rukundo
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sun_news/Lies_sex_and_hypocrisy_in_Pentecostal_Churches_85741.shtml
Kampala
A story currently doing the rounds in the intelligence circles goes like this: that around 1988, with the National Resistance Movement government trying to lay down its political roots after shooting its way to power two years earlier, senior regime officials were approached by a young religious preacher.
The preacher had a proposal; in exchange for financial and other support, he would strengthen the Pentecostal movement in the country and use it to break or reduce the influence of the Catholic Church over the largely Anglican new government.
The idea, the story says, was quickly snapped up. The preacher received facilitation and went on to form one of the churches that was at the heart of the growth of the Pentecostal movement in the country. The pastor, like many others, remains close to the government and the Pentecostal movement remains firmly pro-government.
This story cannot be independently corroborated but the anecdotal evidence – of the pastor’s close links to the regime, and the political stance of the Pentecostal churches – is self-evident. While religious leaders from the traditional Catholic and Anglican churches often criticise the government when it errors, most Pentecostal churches are stridently apolitical, preferring to preach a gospel of economic prosperity rather than dabble in politics.
The Pentecostal Movement now finds itself in a public scandal that appears to go to the very core of its foundations. Pastor Robert Kayanja, arguably the richest, most-influential and most visible patriarch of the Pentecostal Movement stands accused of sodomy. His accusers include a handful of young men who have sworn affidavits to support their accusations and are backed by other senior Pentecostal pastors including Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Michael Kyazze.
The allegations and counter-allegations have played out like a third rate Mexican soap opera; some of the alleged victims have changed their statements faster than one can say ‘Hallelujah’ and publicly accused their backers of offering them money to frame their alleged defiler. Pastor Kayanja’s side has not acted entirely honestly in the matter either; police sources indicate that claims of one of their own being abducted appear to be false and an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
The police, too, are not beyond reproach. Senior officials have been frantically fighting off allegations that they bent over backwards – an admittedly poor pun in light of the current allegations – to dismiss the allegations against Pastor Kayanja. The corridors of the police headquarters at Parliamentary Avenue are awash with claims – vigorously denied – that money might have changed hands.
It is not clear what will come of the current allegations. A senior police officer told Sunday Monitor that investigations had been concluded and that it is now up to the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine whether Pastor Kayanja should defend himself in court or whether the accusers and their backers should be charged with giving false information to the police.
Whichever way it goes, the current scandal is only the latest in the Pentecostal Movement. Two other pastors, Grace Kitaka and Isaac Kiweweesi denied public allegations of sodomy while Pastor Jackson Senyonga, 41, of Christian Life Centre was questioned by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations over allegations, which he denied, that he had fondled a 13-year-old girl aboard a United Airlines flight on August 16th in 2008.
It is not just sex scandals, though. The Pentecostal churches have been awash with scandals involving lies, extortion, smuggling and all sorts of nefarious allegations. Pastor Kayanja has been here before, when it was discovered that his incomplete house on the shores of Lake Victoria was being used to smuggle alcohol into the country but he pointed out – and authorities accepted – that it was a scam run by the private security guards at the house of which he had nothing to do.
Other scandals have revolved around a core belief in the Pentecostal churches and one of their main attractions; the ability of pastors to perform miracles. In May 2008, Grace Kushemereire accused Pastor Imelda Namutebi of paying her to testify that her prayers had cured her of HIV, the virus that causes Aids and for which scientists say there is no cure.
The deal, Ms Kushemereire said, had been struck back in 1999 for which she was receiving a monthly stipend of Shs350,000 and protection for her false testimony. When the payments stopped and Ms Kushemereire threatened to spill the beans in 2005, goons turned up and beat up her daughter to try and gag her.
The most bizarre miracle scandal, however, involved a foreign pastor, technology and some shocking revelations. Pastor Kojo Obiri Yeboah, a Ghanaian ‘expatriate’ pastor based in Uganda was arrested at Entebbe International Airport on July 5, 2007, with a device that administered electric shocks which authorities said was probably used to hoodwink members of the congregation that they had been filled by the Holy Spirit. The deadly device, the pastor said, was a birthday present to his children.
Other churches, of course, are not without scandals but the Pentecostal churches appear to be the worst run. Apostle Alex Mitala, who heads the National Fellowship for Born Again Pentecostals in Uganda, an umbrella body of sorts, puts this down to differences in the way such scandals are handled.
“The only difference is that we on our part operate openly, allowing each person to report wherever they think they can get help, whether it is police and not the churches’ board charged with resolving such issues,” Mr Mitala told Sunday Monitor. He added that even when a case is handled by the board and the accused is found guilty, the offended is allowed the liberty to forgive or pursue the case with the courts of law.
“When it is a criminal case/allegation, the police have the right to get involved and since as Pentecostals we don’t have anything to hide, we let them.”
Father Nicholas Sendagala of the Catholic Christ the King Church says Christianity requires that such controversial issues are handled internally in order to aid the reformation of the accused rather than let it degenerate into a public spat.
It is a view shared by Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye of the All Saints Cathedral who says that if he was suspected of wrongdoing, the hierarchy in the Anglican institution would require that his cases be solved by higher authorities within the Church and not be made public as if they were gloating over his errors. It is this lack of hierarchy in the Pentecostal churches, he says, that explains why most of the dirty linen is washed in public.
“Without hierarchy, accountability becomes shaky and I have heard even the Pentecostal pastors like [Deo] Sserwada admit that one of their biggest weaknesses is the lack of a hierarchy,” says Mwesigye.
The lack of hierarchy and the absence of any formal education or requirement mean that anyone with some knowledge of the bible, a booming voice, a good translator and the ability to move large crowds with words can start a church any day. While the traditional churches have oversight institutions and are governed by the Trustees Incorporation Act, many of the Pentecostal churches are a power unto themselves and only answerable to God and their pastors.
Amidst this shaky framework, the prosperity gospel, which celebrates the acquisition – and, if the behaviour of several pastor’s is anything to go by, the flaunting – of wealth, sparks off stiff competition for congregations and the offertory that they carry with them.
Almost all accused pastors dismiss the allegations as smear campaigns by their rivals and this, Rev. Mwesigye says, might be a symptom of a clash for cash. “You will notice that the more prominent the pastor involved at the time, the louder the scandals,” he says.
The youthful ‘victims’, Nicholas Sengoba, a social critic and newspaper columnist argues, are attracted to the Pentecostal churches by this glamour and celebration of wealth and prosperity.
“For the pervert sex, it could be because this whole thing is a struggle for power right from individual basis,” he says. “Reputable persons will need a manipulatable (sic) victim who can keep their misdeeds under wraps which could be why the younger congregation is falling victim more than say adults of the pastor’s age groups.”
The incessant scandals have sown some doubt among believers with some either changing churches or moving to smaller, less flashy ones although the evidence here is more anecdotal than scientific.
In many cases, though, the Pentecostal church and many of the accused pastors have remained resilient and, in a few cases, even using the allegations against them as evidence of the devil trying to derail their good deeds.
On Pastor Kayanja’s Rubaga Miracle Centre website, a believer posted the following note of encouragement: “Pastor whatever is happening to you in this today`s world... it is the Satan trying to shake this world... The devil doesn’t attack nobodies...the opposition is a indication for a new position God is taking you...Dogs never bark to parked cars but moving ones...yours as a driver is to put the next gear and sojourn by faith.”
The best example of this can be seen at Holy Fire Church in Namulanda on Entebbe Road.
After the church leader Pastor William Muwanguzi disappeared amidst fraud allegations – the Hummer-driving, high flying pastor said his Congolese wife had gone back to Congo with the cash in question – the congregation picked itself up, regrouped under the leadership of one of the church’s junior pastors and started all over again.
Others, however, remain doubtful like the proverbial lost lambs.
“Honestly I have tried to ignore these rumours but have now started to be confused,” says one believer from Kampala Pentecostal Church, one of the oldest in the country.
Another from Rubaga Miracle Centre who also refused to reveal her identity says she somehow had suspicions when these rumours about her pastor started and now she doesn’t know who to believe.
What next?
Although the scandals will leave several reputations in tatters, Apostle Mitala says the Pentecostal movement will remain strong.
“Such religious scandals have been on for years in every sect but they never stopped people from joining up,” he said. “Are there no people becoming Muslims because of scandals or Catholics after all the wars, rumours and allegations against them? No.”
While some members of the congregations might become disheartened, the Pentecostal churches will continue to bring in the numbers. “Pastors are only human and can error,” says a member of the Rubaga Miracle Centre, speaking anonymously so as not to offend other members of the Centre. “It is those people who go to the churches for the pastors and not God who are in trouble not me who comes for God and only consider pastors as His vessel.”
Another believer, who only gave her name as Eleanor, says she has shifted from the big, glamorous churches to a smaller one. Mostly, though, she has taken the matter of her faith into her hands, literally. “I don’t know who is right or wrong anymore so I buy as many books and recordings of the gospel as I can and try to do my Bible study at home,” Eleanor told Sunday Monitor. “But you have to fellowship sometimes so I go to one of the smaller churches. If I don’t trust their character, how can I trust their gospel?”
Robby Muhumuza, a born-again believer working with World Vision, East Africa, a Christian NGO, says although he agrees that the allegations may not cause too much damage to the Pentecostal Movement but are a source of great embarrassment to the individuals involved.
“I don’t believe that one person’s sins should be paid for by the whole church but they are embarrassing the Pentecostal church especially the intrigue of kidnaps, forced confessions and all that,” he says. Specific damage on these individuals and whether it would extend to the whole church however would depend on whether the allegations are found to be true or not. None of the pastors named in these allegations is yet to face court or conviction.
Sarah, who goes to KPC, says although she is glad her church is not involved, she would rethink her options if one of her church leaders was accused. “If he apologised, I would stay in the church. I would however move if he remained adamant and even worse tried to justify his actions,” she says.
Muhumuza says the consequences would go beyond whether people went to church or not to maybe a split in the Pentecostal Movement if there were pro- and anti-homosexual pastors like was the case with Church of England’s openly gay reverend, Gene Robinson.
For an institution that goes back more than 2,000 years, the church has had its fair share of trials and tribulations. The Anglicans broke away from the Catholic Church in protest against the dogmatic teachings while many Pentecostals broke away from the Anglican Church to preach a hopeful gospel of wealth and prosperity. Only time will tell whether the scandals that perennially besiege the Pentecostal Movement will lead to another breakaway.
The current fight in Uganda, which has pitted the most powerful pastors against one another, might provide some clues about which way the Movement will evolve.
It will also help reveal who of the accused and the accusers are telling the truth, the hypocrites who preach water and drink wine and the professionalism of the investigators themselves. In the meantime, the grass will continue to suffer and young boys are best advised not to share beds with their pastors. The Lord might work in mysterious ways, but the Devil often works at night.
erukundo@ug.nationmedia.com
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A general wave of discomfort had started to spread throughout the country by 2006 about allegations that Pentecostal pastors were amassing wealth by fleecing their impoverished congregations through tithes, offertory and payment for blessings and favours from God.
In April 2006, Pastor Solomon Male accused pastors Simeon Kayiiwa, John Kakande and Prophetess Imelda Namutebi of using witchcraft to perform miracles and keep people in their church in a bid to continue collecting tithe and have many people paying for blessings. The two male pastors apparently got powers from John Obua, a Nigerian Pastor who died in Uganda and is believed to be the founder of the Born Again Christian churches in Uganda.
That same month saw an HIV+ lady, Frances Adroa heading to the courts of law alleging that the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) had not delivered on their promise to miraculously heal her of the virus as promised for which she had offered her car in July 2005.
Around the same time, one Julius Lukyamuzi came up accusing Pastor Grace Kitaka of sodomising him and Pastor Imelda Namutebi of covering up the sex offences in the name of protecting the church. Somewhere in the midst of these sodomy allegations featured Pastor Leslie Handel of Abundant Life faith centre as one of the pastors accused of being gay, again by Pastor Male.
A Ghanaian Pastor, Kojo Obiri Yeboah’s July 5, 2007 apprehension at Entebbe airport for possessing an electric touch machine he was being suspected of shocking believers with, claiming it was the Holy Spirit, was as amusing as it was absurd.
And then in October 2006, Pastor David Kigganda made headlines when he publicly divorced his wife Hadijja Nassejje for allegedly cheating on him with a Chapati baker. He also revealed plans to take all their children for DNA testing.
Then in May 2008, 55-year-old Grace Kushemereire also came up with a shocking revelation of how Pastor Namutebi had apparently approached her in 1999 to partner with her in a deal where the former falsely testified that Namutebi’s prayers healed her of HIV in exchange for a monthly pay of Shs350,000 and protection. Namutebi had also been accused of ‘stealing’ the man she is currently married to, Tom Kula, from another woman who had allegedly come to her for counselling.
A few months later, 41-year-old Jackson Senyonga of Christian Life Centre was arrested for having allegedly fondled a 13 year-old girl aboard a United Airlines flight on August 16th in 2008.
ln May 2008, Pastor William Muwanguzi of Holy Fire Church along Namulanda was arrested over the disappearance of a reconditioned 4-wheel drive Toyota Land Cruiser which he later claimed had been taken by his wife to Congo.
Around September 2008, Pastor Isaac Kiweweesi of Kasanga Miracle Centre was also accused of using small boys sexually. One member of his church David Arinaitwe aged 28, claimed that the pastor had sodomised him for years.
Rubaga Miracle Centre’s Robert Kayanga currently battles sodomy allegations by two boys claiming they were sexually abused by the pastor. In 2006, the Uganda Revenue Authority was reported to have impounded smuggled wines at the same pastor’s House in Gaba. He denied owning the wine, saying the house was not inhabited and could have been used by smugglers to hide their merchandise.
– Compiled by Eunice Rukundo
In the spot
Mr Robert Kayanja of Miracle Centre
Cathedral
The first most Ugandans of earlier generations ever heard of the Pentecostals after T.L. Osborn was Robert Kayanja. The eye catching 10, 500 seat edifice that is miracle centre cathedral started as a papyrus reed structure with Mr Kayanja and a few other young ministers having a ‘congregation’ of just one.
Powerful, rich and charismatic, Mr Kayanja has managed to amass one of the largest congregations while maintaining a clean reputation, until there were allegations that there was smuggled wine hidden at his home in Kawuku, near Kampala.
Of the pastor’s biography, the Church’s website, http://kayanja.org, tells a unordinary story of a miracle baby that should have died in place of its mother at birth but survived to be called to ministry at 17. Mr Kayanja is said to have fully launched into ministry at 22 to head Miracle Centre Cathedral. He oversees a bible college, and children’s outreaches.
Mr Solomon Male of Arising for Christ
“I will not rest until the church is free of such decadence” is how Mr Male responded when he was accused by fellow pastors of washing their dirty linen in the public. An outspoken critic of corruption, deceit, false miracles, extortion and the prosperity gospel in born again churches, Mr Male was converted in October 1987, becoming one of the ministers of Mr Kakande’s Church (The Synagogue Church of All Nations) but denouncing it in 1992 as a cult.
Not attached to any particular Church for a while, Mr Male was at one time attacked and referred to as an imposter by fellow pastors who argued that he couldn’t be a pastor without a Church. To this, Mr Male had argued that he didn’t need a Church to comment on the ills being done against Christians in the born again churches. In 1999, he founded the Arising for Christ Ministries (ARCH), as an umbrella organisation of pastors and preachers and evangilists who want to restore “the sanctity of Christ and to rid the Church of fake and selfish people posing as pastors.’
The organisation said in January 2008 to have compiled a list of 300 believers who accuse born-again pastors of extortion, fraud, sex slavery among other crimes
Mr Martin Sempa of Makerere Community Church
Mr Martin Sempa is not new to scandal and usually surfaces in times of sex-related controversies like homosexuality and pornography. The youthful pastor, who concentrates his ministry amongst the youth is based at Makerere University.Mr Sempa’s core message, abstinence until marriage and faithfulness within marriage as the key solution to HIV prevention, is delivered with compassion and humour. The pastor endeavours to stoop to the youth’s levels making them comfortable and attracting more to him.
Mr Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre
The senior pastor at the Zana-based Church is known to his congregation as a man of integrity, intolerant to sin and down to earth. Having just moved into his own house in Kajjansi recently, his congregation defends him as an honest pastor not interested in amassing wealth. Omega Healing Centre, in existence since 2005 has close to 2,000 members now, about 80% youth, and still stands in a semi-permanent structure still under construction. Mr Kyazze is also in charge of doctrine and discipline at the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda and has not been implicated in any scandal before. He is most popular for intiating the mass wedding tradition.
Complied by Eunice Rukundo
The article below that appeared in the Sunday Monitor, is a very good expose. However, I strongly disagree with the tendency of the Ugandan media which is by and large pro-catholic and pro-Anglican to allude that Born again churches should emulate the Catholic and Anglican churches who solve problems internally. Let us look at this argument:
‘’Father Nicholas Sendagala of the Catholic Christ the King Church says Christianity requires that such controversial issues are handled internally in order to aid the reformation of the accused rather than let it degenerate into a public spat. It is a view shared by Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye of the All Saints Cathedral who says that if he was suspected of wrongdoing, the hierarchy in the Anglican institution would require that his cases be solved by higher authorities within the Church and not be made public as if they were gloating over his errors. It is this lack of hierarchy in the Pentecostal churches, he says, that explains why most of the dirty linen is washed in public. “Without hierarchy, accountability becomes shaky and I have heard even the Pentecostal pastors like [Deo] Sserwada admit that one of their biggest weaknesses is the lack of a hierarchy,” says Mwesigye. lack of hierarchy and the absence of any formal education or requirement mean that anyone with some knowledge of the bible, a booming voice, a good translator and the ability to move large crowds with words can start a church any day. While the traditional churches have oversight institutions and are governed by the Trustees Incorporation Act, many of the Pentecostal churches are a power unto themselves and only answerable to God and their pastors’’.
It should be noted the Catholic Church in Ireland for example has been exposed by the Ryan Commission for abusing minors for over 60 years. The Catholic Church in USA has paid million of dollars to sexually abused victims. If the church has been handling issues internally as father Nicholas Sendagala argues, how comes this rot is coming out now. What the Catholic Church calls solving issues internally is actually protecting abusers and hiding the sin in the church. Born again Christians can never emulate this.
Catholic Church in Ireland- 60 years Sexual abuse scandal
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/catholic-church-in-ireland-60-sexual.html
Bishop apology over 'evil' abuse: We are sorry but we shall never compesate the abuse victims
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions?? Is this Justice or catholic cover up and hypocrisy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8065797.stm
Irish abuse report is 'shocking'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058224.stm
Ryan Commission reportin Full
http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt
Irish child abuse: The Ryan Report cover-up
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/irel-m26.shtml
Born-Again in Christ and Proud to Be So
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/born-again-in-christ-and-proud-to-be-so.html
Dear Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye, If there are effective internal structures within the Anglican church, how comes the media is awash with homosexuality in the Anglican church. How comes a protestant denomination like the anglican church is now in ecumenical unity with the catholic church. What has happened to the so called structures. The argument that Pentecostal churches have so many controversies because the pastors therein lack formal qualification is a very flawed argument. If formal qualifications were so much important, did the Apostles have these qualifications? How comes that the catholic and Anglican churches with all their formal qualifications baptize infants, yet scripture tells us to baptize one who has believed(Mark 16:16).When one goes to a catholic seminary one comes out with catholic doctrine, When one goes to an Anglican seminary one comes out with Anglican doctrine. So, what is the Use??and what can be emulated from such?? Despite the hidings and coverups, the catholic and anglican churches are so rotten that one would be spiritually blind to emulate them.
Eunice Rukundo urgues that, ‘’While religious leaders from the traditional Catholic and Anglican churches often criticize the government when it errors, most Pentecostal churches are stridently apolitical, preferring to preach a gospel of economic prosperity rather than dabble in politics’’. This is correct however, why should you be critical against president Museveni and his government, and keep silent about the witchcraft, sorcery and Satanism practiced by Kingdoms such as Buganda whose leaders claim to be Christian. Maana FIINA, the leader of the Witchdoctors in Uganda one time said on Radio Buganda, that they(meaning the witchdoctors) are the ones holding the kingdom(She was ofcource speaking the truth)
. How comes the critical Anglican and Catholic clergy kept silent about this. Isn’t this incredible hypocrisy.
Recently, the Catholic, anglican and SDA clergy, went at Old Kampala mosque to stop divisions among moslems. The moslems refused to listen to these hypocrites.
BISHOP OROMBI AND BISHOP CYPRIAN KIZITO GO TO MOSQUE TO SOLVE CHURCH WRANGLES ???
http://www.newvision.co.ug/PA/8/13/669463
http://allafrica.com/stories/200901280275.html
Eunice Rukundo’s article is similar to the one written by Bernard Tabaire who argues that Catholics and Anglican are happy about the sodomy allegations in the Pentecostal movement.
Catholics, Anglicans laugh loudly as Pentecostals ‘sodom’ things up
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/Tabaire/Catholics_Anglicans_laugh_loudly_as_Pentecostals_sodom_things_up_85249.shtml
The Berean spirit in the Born again faith might wake up the sleeping catholic and anglican dogs(I mean goats)
The argument that born again Christians should not expose evil to the public like the catholic and Anglican churches is a very flawed argument. Born again Christians can never be like the catholic and Anglican hypocrites who compromise with sin. It is true, there is a problem in the church, but we are not afraid to expose it after all Christ said, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed(Luke 12:2). Do you know that people like my self left the 'beautiful catholic churches'(in material terms) and went to the ugly born again churches because I was searching for truth? Exposing lies in the born again church is a sign that we have born agains who can not sacrifice truth for the sake of a denomination. This is good. People have come to know that false prophets have entered the born again fraternity. This is good.
The catholic and Anglican churches are aware that the critical Berean spirit(Acts 17:11) in the born again church might spill over to the catholic and Anglican churches and this means disaster for these churches who have disempowered their followers for centuries by not allowing them to read the word for themselves and to question the teachings in the church. If the dirt in the catholic and Anglican churches in Uganda comes out, people will be shocked. Remember recently Christians in the Anglican church in Kitgum took the Law in their hands?? by questioning the impartiality of their bishop. They rejected Bishop Orombi's urgument that, "You do not elect bishops. They are anointed by God. Bishop Ojwang may be weak, not sharp and not able to speak well, but God anointed him," . A truly born again Christian knows the Lord Jesus Christ personally. So, he/she can not backslide because a given pastor has been discovered to be gay.
New Vision, May 10, 2009: Worshipers Clash With Kitgum Bishop
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/16/680861
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905110130.html
No Revival No Rain in Uganda but Spiritual Drought and Barrenness
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/324-no-revival-no-rain-in-uganda-but-spiritual-drought-and-barrenness.html
Lies, sex and hypocrisy in Pentecostal Churches
Daily Monitor News | May 31, 2009
Eunice Rukundo
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sun_news/Lies_sex_and_hypocrisy_in_Pentecostal_Churches_85741.shtml
Kampala
A story currently doing the rounds in the intelligence circles goes like this: that around 1988, with the National Resistance Movement government trying to lay down its political roots after shooting its way to power two years earlier, senior regime officials were approached by a young religious preacher.
The preacher had a proposal; in exchange for financial and other support, he would strengthen the Pentecostal movement in the country and use it to break or reduce the influence of the Catholic Church over the largely Anglican new government.
The idea, the story says, was quickly snapped up. The preacher received facilitation and went on to form one of the churches that was at the heart of the growth of the Pentecostal movement in the country. The pastor, like many others, remains close to the government and the Pentecostal movement remains firmly pro-government.
This story cannot be independently corroborated but the anecdotal evidence – of the pastor’s close links to the regime, and the political stance of the Pentecostal churches – is self-evident. While religious leaders from the traditional Catholic and Anglican churches often criticise the government when it errors, most Pentecostal churches are stridently apolitical, preferring to preach a gospel of economic prosperity rather than dabble in politics.
The Pentecostal Movement now finds itself in a public scandal that appears to go to the very core of its foundations. Pastor Robert Kayanja, arguably the richest, most-influential and most visible patriarch of the Pentecostal Movement stands accused of sodomy. His accusers include a handful of young men who have sworn affidavits to support their accusations and are backed by other senior Pentecostal pastors including Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Michael Kyazze.
The allegations and counter-allegations have played out like a third rate Mexican soap opera; some of the alleged victims have changed their statements faster than one can say ‘Hallelujah’ and publicly accused their backers of offering them money to frame their alleged defiler. Pastor Kayanja’s side has not acted entirely honestly in the matter either; police sources indicate that claims of one of their own being abducted appear to be false and an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
The police, too, are not beyond reproach. Senior officials have been frantically fighting off allegations that they bent over backwards – an admittedly poor pun in light of the current allegations – to dismiss the allegations against Pastor Kayanja. The corridors of the police headquarters at Parliamentary Avenue are awash with claims – vigorously denied – that money might have changed hands.
It is not clear what will come of the current allegations. A senior police officer told Sunday Monitor that investigations had been concluded and that it is now up to the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine whether Pastor Kayanja should defend himself in court or whether the accusers and their backers should be charged with giving false information to the police.
Whichever way it goes, the current scandal is only the latest in the Pentecostal Movement. Two other pastors, Grace Kitaka and Isaac Kiweweesi denied public allegations of sodomy while Pastor Jackson Senyonga, 41, of Christian Life Centre was questioned by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations over allegations, which he denied, that he had fondled a 13-year-old girl aboard a United Airlines flight on August 16th in 2008.
It is not just sex scandals, though. The Pentecostal churches have been awash with scandals involving lies, extortion, smuggling and all sorts of nefarious allegations. Pastor Kayanja has been here before, when it was discovered that his incomplete house on the shores of Lake Victoria was being used to smuggle alcohol into the country but he pointed out – and authorities accepted – that it was a scam run by the private security guards at the house of which he had nothing to do.
Other scandals have revolved around a core belief in the Pentecostal churches and one of their main attractions; the ability of pastors to perform miracles. In May 2008, Grace Kushemereire accused Pastor Imelda Namutebi of paying her to testify that her prayers had cured her of HIV, the virus that causes Aids and for which scientists say there is no cure.
The deal, Ms Kushemereire said, had been struck back in 1999 for which she was receiving a monthly stipend of Shs350,000 and protection for her false testimony. When the payments stopped and Ms Kushemereire threatened to spill the beans in 2005, goons turned up and beat up her daughter to try and gag her.
The most bizarre miracle scandal, however, involved a foreign pastor, technology and some shocking revelations. Pastor Kojo Obiri Yeboah, a Ghanaian ‘expatriate’ pastor based in Uganda was arrested at Entebbe International Airport on July 5, 2007, with a device that administered electric shocks which authorities said was probably used to hoodwink members of the congregation that they had been filled by the Holy Spirit. The deadly device, the pastor said, was a birthday present to his children.
Other churches, of course, are not without scandals but the Pentecostal churches appear to be the worst run. Apostle Alex Mitala, who heads the National Fellowship for Born Again Pentecostals in Uganda, an umbrella body of sorts, puts this down to differences in the way such scandals are handled.
“The only difference is that we on our part operate openly, allowing each person to report wherever they think they can get help, whether it is police and not the churches’ board charged with resolving such issues,” Mr Mitala told Sunday Monitor. He added that even when a case is handled by the board and the accused is found guilty, the offended is allowed the liberty to forgive or pursue the case with the courts of law.
“When it is a criminal case/allegation, the police have the right to get involved and since as Pentecostals we don’t have anything to hide, we let them.”
Father Nicholas Sendagala of the Catholic Christ the King Church says Christianity requires that such controversial issues are handled internally in order to aid the reformation of the accused rather than let it degenerate into a public spat.
It is a view shared by Reverend Emmanuel Mwesigye of the All Saints Cathedral who says that if he was suspected of wrongdoing, the hierarchy in the Anglican institution would require that his cases be solved by higher authorities within the Church and not be made public as if they were gloating over his errors. It is this lack of hierarchy in the Pentecostal churches, he says, that explains why most of the dirty linen is washed in public.
“Without hierarchy, accountability becomes shaky and I have heard even the Pentecostal pastors like [Deo] Sserwada admit that one of their biggest weaknesses is the lack of a hierarchy,” says Mwesigye.
The lack of hierarchy and the absence of any formal education or requirement mean that anyone with some knowledge of the bible, a booming voice, a good translator and the ability to move large crowds with words can start a church any day. While the traditional churches have oversight institutions and are governed by the Trustees Incorporation Act, many of the Pentecostal churches are a power unto themselves and only answerable to God and their pastors.
Amidst this shaky framework, the prosperity gospel, which celebrates the acquisition – and, if the behaviour of several pastor’s is anything to go by, the flaunting – of wealth, sparks off stiff competition for congregations and the offertory that they carry with them.
Almost all accused pastors dismiss the allegations as smear campaigns by their rivals and this, Rev. Mwesigye says, might be a symptom of a clash for cash. “You will notice that the more prominent the pastor involved at the time, the louder the scandals,” he says.
The youthful ‘victims’, Nicholas Sengoba, a social critic and newspaper columnist argues, are attracted to the Pentecostal churches by this glamour and celebration of wealth and prosperity.
“For the pervert sex, it could be because this whole thing is a struggle for power right from individual basis,” he says. “Reputable persons will need a manipulatable (sic) victim who can keep their misdeeds under wraps which could be why the younger congregation is falling victim more than say adults of the pastor’s age groups.”
The incessant scandals have sown some doubt among believers with some either changing churches or moving to smaller, less flashy ones although the evidence here is more anecdotal than scientific.
In many cases, though, the Pentecostal church and many of the accused pastors have remained resilient and, in a few cases, even using the allegations against them as evidence of the devil trying to derail their good deeds.
On Pastor Kayanja’s Rubaga Miracle Centre website, a believer posted the following note of encouragement: “Pastor whatever is happening to you in this today`s world... it is the Satan trying to shake this world... The devil doesn’t attack nobodies...the opposition is a indication for a new position God is taking you...Dogs never bark to parked cars but moving ones...yours as a driver is to put the next gear and sojourn by faith.”
The best example of this can be seen at Holy Fire Church in Namulanda on Entebbe Road.
After the church leader Pastor William Muwanguzi disappeared amidst fraud allegations – the Hummer-driving, high flying pastor said his Congolese wife had gone back to Congo with the cash in question – the congregation picked itself up, regrouped under the leadership of one of the church’s junior pastors and started all over again.
Others, however, remain doubtful like the proverbial lost lambs.
“Honestly I have tried to ignore these rumours but have now started to be confused,” says one believer from Kampala Pentecostal Church, one of the oldest in the country.
Another from Rubaga Miracle Centre who also refused to reveal her identity says she somehow had suspicions when these rumours about her pastor started and now she doesn’t know who to believe.
What next?
Although the scandals will leave several reputations in tatters, Apostle Mitala says the Pentecostal movement will remain strong.
“Such religious scandals have been on for years in every sect but they never stopped people from joining up,” he said. “Are there no people becoming Muslims because of scandals or Catholics after all the wars, rumours and allegations against them? No.”
While some members of the congregations might become disheartened, the Pentecostal churches will continue to bring in the numbers. “Pastors are only human and can error,” says a member of the Rubaga Miracle Centre, speaking anonymously so as not to offend other members of the Centre. “It is those people who go to the churches for the pastors and not God who are in trouble not me who comes for God and only consider pastors as His vessel.”
Another believer, who only gave her name as Eleanor, says she has shifted from the big, glamorous churches to a smaller one. Mostly, though, she has taken the matter of her faith into her hands, literally. “I don’t know who is right or wrong anymore so I buy as many books and recordings of the gospel as I can and try to do my Bible study at home,” Eleanor told Sunday Monitor. “But you have to fellowship sometimes so I go to one of the smaller churches. If I don’t trust their character, how can I trust their gospel?”
Robby Muhumuza, a born-again believer working with World Vision, East Africa, a Christian NGO, says although he agrees that the allegations may not cause too much damage to the Pentecostal Movement but are a source of great embarrassment to the individuals involved.
“I don’t believe that one person’s sins should be paid for by the whole church but they are embarrassing the Pentecostal church especially the intrigue of kidnaps, forced confessions and all that,” he says. Specific damage on these individuals and whether it would extend to the whole church however would depend on whether the allegations are found to be true or not. None of the pastors named in these allegations is yet to face court or conviction.
Sarah, who goes to KPC, says although she is glad her church is not involved, she would rethink her options if one of her church leaders was accused. “If he apologised, I would stay in the church. I would however move if he remained adamant and even worse tried to justify his actions,” she says.
Muhumuza says the consequences would go beyond whether people went to church or not to maybe a split in the Pentecostal Movement if there were pro- and anti-homosexual pastors like was the case with Church of England’s openly gay reverend, Gene Robinson.
For an institution that goes back more than 2,000 years, the church has had its fair share of trials and tribulations. The Anglicans broke away from the Catholic Church in protest against the dogmatic teachings while many Pentecostals broke away from the Anglican Church to preach a hopeful gospel of wealth and prosperity. Only time will tell whether the scandals that perennially besiege the Pentecostal Movement will lead to another breakaway.
The current fight in Uganda, which has pitted the most powerful pastors against one another, might provide some clues about which way the Movement will evolve.
It will also help reveal who of the accused and the accusers are telling the truth, the hypocrites who preach water and drink wine and the professionalism of the investigators themselves. In the meantime, the grass will continue to suffer and young boys are best advised not to share beds with their pastors. The Lord might work in mysterious ways, but the Devil often works at night.
erukundo@ug.nationmedia.com
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A general wave of discomfort had started to spread throughout the country by 2006 about allegations that Pentecostal pastors were amassing wealth by fleecing their impoverished congregations through tithes, offertory and payment for blessings and favours from God.
In April 2006, Pastor Solomon Male accused pastors Simeon Kayiiwa, John Kakande and Prophetess Imelda Namutebi of using witchcraft to perform miracles and keep people in their church in a bid to continue collecting tithe and have many people paying for blessings. The two male pastors apparently got powers from John Obua, a Nigerian Pastor who died in Uganda and is believed to be the founder of the Born Again Christian churches in Uganda.
That same month saw an HIV+ lady, Frances Adroa heading to the courts of law alleging that the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) had not delivered on their promise to miraculously heal her of the virus as promised for which she had offered her car in July 2005.
Around the same time, one Julius Lukyamuzi came up accusing Pastor Grace Kitaka of sodomising him and Pastor Imelda Namutebi of covering up the sex offences in the name of protecting the church. Somewhere in the midst of these sodomy allegations featured Pastor Leslie Handel of Abundant Life faith centre as one of the pastors accused of being gay, again by Pastor Male.
A Ghanaian Pastor, Kojo Obiri Yeboah’s July 5, 2007 apprehension at Entebbe airport for possessing an electric touch machine he was being suspected of shocking believers with, claiming it was the Holy Spirit, was as amusing as it was absurd.
And then in October 2006, Pastor David Kigganda made headlines when he publicly divorced his wife Hadijja Nassejje for allegedly cheating on him with a Chapati baker. He also revealed plans to take all their children for DNA testing.
Then in May 2008, 55-year-old Grace Kushemereire also came up with a shocking revelation of how Pastor Namutebi had apparently approached her in 1999 to partner with her in a deal where the former falsely testified that Namutebi’s prayers healed her of HIV in exchange for a monthly pay of Shs350,000 and protection. Namutebi had also been accused of ‘stealing’ the man she is currently married to, Tom Kula, from another woman who had allegedly come to her for counselling.
A few months later, 41-year-old Jackson Senyonga of Christian Life Centre was arrested for having allegedly fondled a 13 year-old girl aboard a United Airlines flight on August 16th in 2008.
ln May 2008, Pastor William Muwanguzi of Holy Fire Church along Namulanda was arrested over the disappearance of a reconditioned 4-wheel drive Toyota Land Cruiser which he later claimed had been taken by his wife to Congo.
Around September 2008, Pastor Isaac Kiweweesi of Kasanga Miracle Centre was also accused of using small boys sexually. One member of his church David Arinaitwe aged 28, claimed that the pastor had sodomised him for years.
Rubaga Miracle Centre’s Robert Kayanga currently battles sodomy allegations by two boys claiming they were sexually abused by the pastor. In 2006, the Uganda Revenue Authority was reported to have impounded smuggled wines at the same pastor’s House in Gaba. He denied owning the wine, saying the house was not inhabited and could have been used by smugglers to hide their merchandise.
– Compiled by Eunice Rukundo
In the spot
Mr Robert Kayanja of Miracle Centre
Cathedral
The first most Ugandans of earlier generations ever heard of the Pentecostals after T.L. Osborn was Robert Kayanja. The eye catching 10, 500 seat edifice that is miracle centre cathedral started as a papyrus reed structure with Mr Kayanja and a few other young ministers having a ‘congregation’ of just one.
Powerful, rich and charismatic, Mr Kayanja has managed to amass one of the largest congregations while maintaining a clean reputation, until there were allegations that there was smuggled wine hidden at his home in Kawuku, near Kampala.
Of the pastor’s biography, the Church’s website, http://kayanja.org, tells a unordinary story of a miracle baby that should have died in place of its mother at birth but survived to be called to ministry at 17. Mr Kayanja is said to have fully launched into ministry at 22 to head Miracle Centre Cathedral. He oversees a bible college, and children’s outreaches.
Mr Solomon Male of Arising for Christ
“I will not rest until the church is free of such decadence” is how Mr Male responded when he was accused by fellow pastors of washing their dirty linen in the public. An outspoken critic of corruption, deceit, false miracles, extortion and the prosperity gospel in born again churches, Mr Male was converted in October 1987, becoming one of the ministers of Mr Kakande’s Church (The Synagogue Church of All Nations) but denouncing it in 1992 as a cult.
Not attached to any particular Church for a while, Mr Male was at one time attacked and referred to as an imposter by fellow pastors who argued that he couldn’t be a pastor without a Church. To this, Mr Male had argued that he didn’t need a Church to comment on the ills being done against Christians in the born again churches. In 1999, he founded the Arising for Christ Ministries (ARCH), as an umbrella organisation of pastors and preachers and evangilists who want to restore “the sanctity of Christ and to rid the Church of fake and selfish people posing as pastors.’
The organisation said in January 2008 to have compiled a list of 300 believers who accuse born-again pastors of extortion, fraud, sex slavery among other crimes
Mr Martin Sempa of Makerere Community Church
Mr Martin Sempa is not new to scandal and usually surfaces in times of sex-related controversies like homosexuality and pornography. The youthful pastor, who concentrates his ministry amongst the youth is based at Makerere University.Mr Sempa’s core message, abstinence until marriage and faithfulness within marriage as the key solution to HIV prevention, is delivered with compassion and humour. The pastor endeavours to stoop to the youth’s levels making them comfortable and attracting more to him.
Mr Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre
The senior pastor at the Zana-based Church is known to his congregation as a man of integrity, intolerant to sin and down to earth. Having just moved into his own house in Kajjansi recently, his congregation defends him as an honest pastor not interested in amassing wealth. Omega Healing Centre, in existence since 2005 has close to 2,000 members now, about 80% youth, and still stands in a semi-permanent structure still under construction. Mr Kyazze is also in charge of doctrine and discipline at the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda and has not been implicated in any scandal before. He is most popular for intiating the mass wedding tradition.
Complied by Eunice Rukundo
Friday, 29 May 2009
HOW SATAN’S GAY DEVILS INFILTRATED THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.( Jeremiah 3:15)
In Uganda where I come from, the news papers are awash with homosexuality among Pentecostal pastors. Some naïve religious ‘Christians’ use this as an axcuse to remain in their religions. Some catholic clergy are using this opportunity to deceive people that ‘tova muddini yo’( do not leave your religion). These homosexual devils from the pit of hell have infiltrated all religious denominations. Recently in Ireland, the Ryan commission issued a report about the sex abuse scandals that the catholic church has been hiding for over 60 years. The catholic controlled media in Uganda is silent about this scandal.
Catholic Church in Ireland- 60 years Sexual abuse scandal
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/catholic-church-in-ireland-60-sexual.html
Sex abuse in Baptist Churches
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/pastors-of-the-lie
Gay Pastor Scandal
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/homosexual-church
Gay Church believe it or not!
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/gay-church-believe-it-or-not
Sex Abuse in Nigeria and Ghana
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/nigeria-pastor-in-police-net-for-sexual.html
How the homosexuals stealthily infiltrated the church
These gay daughters and sons of Lucifer are very ‘smart’; they have been planning for years. One of their major moves was to change the bible so that it becomes pro- homosexuality. Remember, the devil knows that once you take the WORD away from Christians you have got them.
Sodomite chairman on NIV committee
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/niv_sodomite.htm
Lesbian was a literary critic for the NIV
http://jesus-is-lord.com/nivhomo.htm
Why isn't the word "sodomite" in the NIV?
http://jesus-is-lord.com/sodomite.htm
BIBLE VERSES THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED
http://www.1611kingjamesbible.com/altered_verses.html/
Dr James White and his King James onlyism fallacy
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/dr-james-white-and-his-king-james.html
ARE THERE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
IN THE BIBLE VERSIONS?
http://www.safeguardyoursoul.com/html/bible_versions.html
Below I examine how the devil is trying to compromise God's stand on Homosexuality. Homosexuality has always been and will always be an abomination before God. See, how the translations are very different.
Look at these verses in King James version
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.(I Kings 14:24)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (I Kings 15:12)
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land(I Kings 22:46)
Look at the same verses in the Counterfeit New king James Version
And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.(I Kings 14:24)
And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.(I Kings 15:12)
And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land(I Kings 22:46)
Look at the same verses in the counterfeit NIV
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites .(I Kings 14:24)
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his fathers had made .(I Kings 15:12 )
He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa (I Kings 22:46 )
Look at the same verses in the counterfeit NASB
1 Kings 14:24 (New American Standard Bible)
24There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 (New American Standard Bible)
12(He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46 (New American Standard Bible)
46The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.
HOW RIDICULOUS!!!!!
1 Kings 14:24 , the KJV uses the Word Sodomites, the NIV uses male shrine prostitutes and the NASB uses male cult prostitutes. It is ridiculous to deduce that they are all good. How can they be equally good when they are giving different translations? Even a 12 year old child can see that these bibles are talking different things and can not equally be uncorrupted.
THINK I'M KIDDING: SEE HOW THIS GAY CHURCH DEFENDS HOMOSEXUALITY USING THE PERVERTED BIBLES
http://www.cathedralofhope.com/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=225&srcid=305
Paul's statement in Romans 1:18-32 has been taken as the strongest New Testament rejection of homosexuality. He is concerned about the influence of the pagan culture on the Roman Christians. After giving a detailed description of a world that “exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator,” he continues, “Therefore, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lusts for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty of their perversion.”
A complete reading of these passages, in their original context, clearly shows that what Paul was actually referring to was homosexual temple prostitution, which was performed by various cults (though far more cults used heterosexual prostitution). Again, Paul is not referring to same-sex love, and he clearly has no concept of persons for whom this lifestyle is “natural.”
Paul's other reference to homosexual acts in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is similar to 1 Timothy 1:8-11. These two passages contain lists of persons to be excluded from the Realm of God. The interpretation of these passages depends on two Greek words that have always presented a problem for translators. In the King James Version, they are translated “effeminate” and “abusers of themselves with mankind.” In the Revised Standard Version, they were combined and rendered as “homosexuals,” however, these are not the Greek words for homosexual, so these translations reflects the scholars' bias. The New International Version illustrates the difference in these two words by translating them “male prostitute” and “homosexual offenders.” The Jerusalem Bible uses the terms “catamites and “sodomites.” Catamites were youth kept especially for sexual purpose, who were usually paid large sums of money. Neither passage refers to persons of same-sex orientation but to people who used their sexuality for personal gain.
Do not be fooled buy the KJV onlyism , it is simply an error in reasoning. I urge you to start advocating for the translation of the received and masoretic text in your language. I play that we shall have a bible in Swahili and Luganda based on received and the masoretic text soon.
God bless you.
In Uganda where I come from, the news papers are awash with homosexuality among Pentecostal pastors. Some naïve religious ‘Christians’ use this as an axcuse to remain in their religions. Some catholic clergy are using this opportunity to deceive people that ‘tova muddini yo’( do not leave your religion). These homosexual devils from the pit of hell have infiltrated all religious denominations. Recently in Ireland, the Ryan commission issued a report about the sex abuse scandals that the catholic church has been hiding for over 60 years. The catholic controlled media in Uganda is silent about this scandal.
Catholic Church in Ireland- 60 years Sexual abuse scandal
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/catholic-church-in-ireland-60-sexual.html
Sex abuse in Baptist Churches
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/pastors-of-the-lie
Gay Pastor Scandal
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/homosexual-church
Gay Church believe it or not!
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123/gay-church-believe-it-or-not
Sex Abuse in Nigeria and Ghana
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/05/nigeria-pastor-in-police-net-for-sexual.html
How the homosexuals stealthily infiltrated the church
These gay daughters and sons of Lucifer are very ‘smart’; they have been planning for years. One of their major moves was to change the bible so that it becomes pro- homosexuality. Remember, the devil knows that once you take the WORD away from Christians you have got them.
Sodomite chairman on NIV committee
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/niv_sodomite.htm
Lesbian was a literary critic for the NIV
http://jesus-is-lord.com/nivhomo.htm
Why isn't the word "sodomite" in the NIV?
http://jesus-is-lord.com/sodomite.htm
BIBLE VERSES THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED
http://www.1611kingjamesbible.com/altered_verses.html/
Dr James White and his King James onlyism fallacy
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/dr-james-white-and-his-king-james.html
ARE THERE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
IN THE BIBLE VERSIONS?
http://www.safeguardyoursoul.com/html/bible_versions.html
Below I examine how the devil is trying to compromise God's stand on Homosexuality. Homosexuality has always been and will always be an abomination before God. See, how the translations are very different.
Look at these verses in King James version
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.(I Kings 14:24)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (I Kings 15:12)
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land(I Kings 22:46)
Look at the same verses in the Counterfeit New king James Version
And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.(I Kings 14:24)
And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.(I Kings 15:12)
And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land(I Kings 22:46)
Look at the same verses in the counterfeit NIV
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites .(I Kings 14:24)
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his fathers had made .(I Kings 15:12 )
He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa (I Kings 22:46 )
Look at the same verses in the counterfeit NASB
1 Kings 14:24 (New American Standard Bible)
24There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 (New American Standard Bible)
12(He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46 (New American Standard Bible)
46The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.
HOW RIDICULOUS!!!!!
1 Kings 14:24 , the KJV uses the Word Sodomites, the NIV uses male shrine prostitutes and the NASB uses male cult prostitutes. It is ridiculous to deduce that they are all good. How can they be equally good when they are giving different translations? Even a 12 year old child can see that these bibles are talking different things and can not equally be uncorrupted.
THINK I'M KIDDING: SEE HOW THIS GAY CHURCH DEFENDS HOMOSEXUALITY USING THE PERVERTED BIBLES
http://www.cathedralofhope.com/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=225&srcid=305
Paul's statement in Romans 1:18-32 has been taken as the strongest New Testament rejection of homosexuality. He is concerned about the influence of the pagan culture on the Roman Christians. After giving a detailed description of a world that “exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator,” he continues, “Therefore, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lusts for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty of their perversion.”
A complete reading of these passages, in their original context, clearly shows that what Paul was actually referring to was homosexual temple prostitution, which was performed by various cults (though far more cults used heterosexual prostitution). Again, Paul is not referring to same-sex love, and he clearly has no concept of persons for whom this lifestyle is “natural.”
Paul's other reference to homosexual acts in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is similar to 1 Timothy 1:8-11. These two passages contain lists of persons to be excluded from the Realm of God. The interpretation of these passages depends on two Greek words that have always presented a problem for translators. In the King James Version, they are translated “effeminate” and “abusers of themselves with mankind.” In the Revised Standard Version, they were combined and rendered as “homosexuals,” however, these are not the Greek words for homosexual, so these translations reflects the scholars' bias. The New International Version illustrates the difference in these two words by translating them “male prostitute” and “homosexual offenders.” The Jerusalem Bible uses the terms “catamites and “sodomites.” Catamites were youth kept especially for sexual purpose, who were usually paid large sums of money. Neither passage refers to persons of same-sex orientation but to people who used their sexuality for personal gain.
Do not be fooled buy the KJV onlyism , it is simply an error in reasoning. I urge you to start advocating for the translation of the received and masoretic text in your language. I play that we shall have a bible in Swahili and Luganda based on received and the masoretic text soon.
God bless you.
Nigeria: Pastor in Police Net for Sexual Abuse
Nigeria: Pastor in Police Net for Sexual AbuseBy Esther Eziashi
allAfrica
May 1, 2008
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805010300.html
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/05_06/2008_05_01_Eziashi_NigeriaPastor.htm
A pastor in Love and Faith Bible a Church in Lagos has been nabbed by the police for allegedly engaging in homosexual act with six teenage boys who live in the same neighbourhood with him.
The suspect, Ugo Chima, 44 ministered at Love and Faith Bible Church, Buba Marwa Street, Ijegun, Satellite Town.
It was gathered that he had engaged in homosexual acts with them on different occasions since July 2007.
Pastor Chima lured his victims into the act by promising them that he would purchase GSM handsets for them as long as they kept mute about the whole episode.
It was learnt that the boys, whose ages ranged from 13-19 have made statements incriminating him.
The pastor, who is said to be married with children, was said to have sucked his victims' manhood until they 'released', after which he used a tissue paper to clean up and hide the tissue paper securely.
Mr. Frank Mba, the public relations officer of Lagos State police command confirmed the story, but said that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal and Investigations Department (SCID) for further investigation as the suspect is already in police detention.
Pastor Remanded for Defiling 8 Teenagers
Myjoyonline [Ghana]
May 22, 2007
http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/news/200705/4881.asp
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/05_06/2007_05_22_myjoyonline_PastorRemanded.htm
An Accra Regional Tribunal has remanded a head pastor accused of defiling eight teenage girls within seven months.
The Pastor, James Nana Akwasi Agyemang who is also a herbalist, between May and December, 2006 at Dome in Accra, allegedly had sex with the girls between ages three and 12, in his bedroom and bathroom.
The accused pleaded not guilty to eight counts of defilement of a female under 16 years, contrary to Section 101(2) of Act 29/60, as amended by Section 11 of Act 554/98.
Prosecuting, Mrs Evelyn D Keelson, told the tribunal chaired by Mr Justice Frank Manu that Agyemang lives at Dome in Accra, while the two complainants are pastors in Agyemang's church.
Mrs Keelson said the Head Pastor had the church's Headquarters in Accra, with a branch in Cote d'Ivoire and that he used herbs to help him cure ailments. He had also established a school on the basis of a non-governmental organization (NGO), where he offered scholarships to brilliant but needy children.
She said as a result of the church's mission to assist members, residents in the community and his foreign branch, he managed to bring children from the Abidjan branch to Ghana in order for him to fulfill his objectives of offering scholarships to them.
According to the prosecutor, the complainants whose children were among those under the care of the Head Pastor, had their children falling victim of the accused person's wicked intentions to defile them.
Mrs Keelson said one of the church members from Abidjan visited her younger sister at the Headquarters. The sister disclosed to her that the accused had sex with her in his bathroom, adding that the mother came to Ghana to lodge a complaint to the police when she got the information.
Opposing a bail application by Agyemang's counsel, the prosecutor told the tribunal that defilement was one of the cases that bail should not be granted.
Putting up a brief defence, Agyemang's counsel stated that the two complainants concocted the story against his client.
Counsel described the situation as unfortunate. He said: "Some of the said victims came with their grandmothers to my office and told me that the story was framed up."
150 Priests Faced Sex Probe
News 24 (South Africa)
November 11, 2008
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2422934,00.html
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/11_12/2008_11_11_News24_150Priests.htm
Dublin - More than 150 Roman Catholic priests and members of religious orders have been probed over allegations of child sex abuse in the last 68 years in Ireland's biggest archdiocese, new figures showed on Friday.
The details were released in a statement from the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin as closed official hearings continue into how the church managed the abuse.
He reiterated an appeal for anyone with information about child sexual abuse by priests in Dublin to make contacts with the child protection service of the diocese, the police and the health authority.
"It is only by knowing the full truth of the past (that) we can improve the levels of safety for children today," Martin said.
The church in mainly Roman Catholic Ireland has been rocked by the scale of the sex abuse scandals.
So far eight priests from the diocese have been convicted in the criminal courts and three others are currently facing charges.
The statement said sex abuse allegations have been made against 140 clergy, with suspicions having been raised in 12 other cases.
"The diocese also possesses information regarding allegations of sexual abuse where, despite close liaison with the civil authorities, it has not been possible to identify the priest concerned," the statement said.
Some 400 people have been identified who have either complained or are known or suspected to have suffered child sexual abuse by priests in Dublin.
"It is most likely that this is not a final figure," the statement adds.
In 2005, a watershed judicial inquiry into another Irish diocese - Ferns in the south-east of the country - reported on about 100 complaints of child sex against at least 21 priests there.
It was the first time the Irish state had ever investigated any aspect of how the once-powerful church is run.
In 1999, former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern delivered an unprecedented apology to victims on behalf of the state.
allAfrica
May 1, 2008
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805010300.html
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/05_06/2008_05_01_Eziashi_NigeriaPastor.htm
A pastor in Love and Faith Bible a Church in Lagos has been nabbed by the police for allegedly engaging in homosexual act with six teenage boys who live in the same neighbourhood with him.
The suspect, Ugo Chima, 44 ministered at Love and Faith Bible Church, Buba Marwa Street, Ijegun, Satellite Town.
It was gathered that he had engaged in homosexual acts with them on different occasions since July 2007.
Pastor Chima lured his victims into the act by promising them that he would purchase GSM handsets for them as long as they kept mute about the whole episode.
It was learnt that the boys, whose ages ranged from 13-19 have made statements incriminating him.
The pastor, who is said to be married with children, was said to have sucked his victims' manhood until they 'released', after which he used a tissue paper to clean up and hide the tissue paper securely.
Mr. Frank Mba, the public relations officer of Lagos State police command confirmed the story, but said that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal and Investigations Department (SCID) for further investigation as the suspect is already in police detention.
Pastor Remanded for Defiling 8 Teenagers
Myjoyonline [Ghana]
May 22, 2007
http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/news/200705/4881.asp
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/05_06/2007_05_22_myjoyonline_PastorRemanded.htm
An Accra Regional Tribunal has remanded a head pastor accused of defiling eight teenage girls within seven months.
The Pastor, James Nana Akwasi Agyemang who is also a herbalist, between May and December, 2006 at Dome in Accra, allegedly had sex with the girls between ages three and 12, in his bedroom and bathroom.
The accused pleaded not guilty to eight counts of defilement of a female under 16 years, contrary to Section 101(2) of Act 29/60, as amended by Section 11 of Act 554/98.
Prosecuting, Mrs Evelyn D Keelson, told the tribunal chaired by Mr Justice Frank Manu that Agyemang lives at Dome in Accra, while the two complainants are pastors in Agyemang's church.
Mrs Keelson said the Head Pastor had the church's Headquarters in Accra, with a branch in Cote d'Ivoire and that he used herbs to help him cure ailments. He had also established a school on the basis of a non-governmental organization (NGO), where he offered scholarships to brilliant but needy children.
She said as a result of the church's mission to assist members, residents in the community and his foreign branch, he managed to bring children from the Abidjan branch to Ghana in order for him to fulfill his objectives of offering scholarships to them.
According to the prosecutor, the complainants whose children were among those under the care of the Head Pastor, had their children falling victim of the accused person's wicked intentions to defile them.
Mrs Keelson said one of the church members from Abidjan visited her younger sister at the Headquarters. The sister disclosed to her that the accused had sex with her in his bathroom, adding that the mother came to Ghana to lodge a complaint to the police when she got the information.
Opposing a bail application by Agyemang's counsel, the prosecutor told the tribunal that defilement was one of the cases that bail should not be granted.
Putting up a brief defence, Agyemang's counsel stated that the two complainants concocted the story against his client.
Counsel described the situation as unfortunate. He said: "Some of the said victims came with their grandmothers to my office and told me that the story was framed up."
150 Priests Faced Sex Probe
News 24 (South Africa)
November 11, 2008
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2422934,00.html
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/11_12/2008_11_11_News24_150Priests.htm
Dublin - More than 150 Roman Catholic priests and members of religious orders have been probed over allegations of child sex abuse in the last 68 years in Ireland's biggest archdiocese, new figures showed on Friday.
The details were released in a statement from the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin as closed official hearings continue into how the church managed the abuse.
He reiterated an appeal for anyone with information about child sexual abuse by priests in Dublin to make contacts with the child protection service of the diocese, the police and the health authority.
"It is only by knowing the full truth of the past (that) we can improve the levels of safety for children today," Martin said.
The church in mainly Roman Catholic Ireland has been rocked by the scale of the sex abuse scandals.
So far eight priests from the diocese have been convicted in the criminal courts and three others are currently facing charges.
The statement said sex abuse allegations have been made against 140 clergy, with suspicions having been raised in 12 other cases.
"The diocese also possesses information regarding allegations of sexual abuse where, despite close liaison with the civil authorities, it has not been possible to identify the priest concerned," the statement said.
Some 400 people have been identified who have either complained or are known or suspected to have suffered child sexual abuse by priests in Dublin.
"It is most likely that this is not a final figure," the statement adds.
In 2005, a watershed judicial inquiry into another Irish diocese - Ferns in the south-east of the country - reported on about 100 complaints of child sex against at least 21 priests there.
It was the first time the Irish state had ever investigated any aspect of how the once-powerful church is run.
In 1999, former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern delivered an unprecedented apology to victims on behalf of the state.
Born-Again in Christ and Proud to Be So
Born-Again in Christ and Proud to Be So
By Martin Etwop
Monitor
July 23, 2007
http://www.monitor.co.ug/oped/oped07233.php
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/07_08/2007_07_23_Etwop_BornAgain.htm
Uganda — After reading Fr Larry Kanyike's Opinion Article, "Is Jesus for sale" (SM, July 22).I thought I should respond. I am a born-again Ugandan Christian, working as a missionary in California. I feel so ashamed about what has been going on within the Balokole church in Uganda.
I have long admired Fr Kanyike since my Makerere University days because I respected him as a person who speaks out against political and social injustices. But I never knew that he was a very intolerant, religious segregationist.
True, some pastors of some of the Balokole churches have been crooked. They ought to be sent to Luzira prison for a minimum of 14 years. Jesus said, "many will come in my name saying we drove out demons, spoke in tongues, etc, but I will say unto them, I never knew you, away from me you workers of iniquity."
Back to Fr Kanyike, it is interesting reading how he talked of ecclesial communities, primacy of originality, etc. But he do not tell us that the Catholic church presided over some of the most murderous like regimes in world history.
The Vatican Secretary signed a concordance with Adolf Hitler July 20, 1933. It was only because the church did not gain as much as they thought they would that they fell out with Hitler in 1944. Five years after the start of the war.
Why does Fr Kanyike think Protestants broke off from the Catholic community in the 1440s, if it was not because people were being ripped off by the church, through corruption, blackmail and manipulation? The so-called indulgences.
People who studied European history know that the injustices by the Catholic church was one of the causes of the French Revolution. Sexual abuse cases by the Catholic priests a many.
Just a week ago, Cardinal Maloney of the Los Angeles Catholic Diocese(Los Angeles, California), the biggest and richest diocese in the United States, presided over the biggest payout compensation for people who had been sexually molested by priests. It was more than S600 million. But can that buy back the dignity of a little boy who has been raped.
I wonder whether Fr Kanyike read Pope Benedict XIV's apostolic constitution Sacramentum Poenitentiae of 1741. That is how far back the recorded issue of priests molesting altar boys goes.
Did you also know that it was reported that for a very long time, some of the Catholic clergy participated in homosexual molestation of young boys, this they considered a religious rite, a rite of passage for altar boys and young priests.
In May 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later elected Pope Benedict XVI on the death of his predecessor Pope John Paul II, sent a letter to all Catholic Bishops declaring that the Church's investigations into claims of child sex abuse were subject to the pontifical secret and were not to be reported to law enforcement until investigations were completed, on pain of excommunication.
Tell me what this is if it is not a means of covering up the church's sins
And will Fr Kanyike tell us why on March 25, 1992 Pope John Paul II wrote the apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobes, one of the longest papal documents in history?
And finally, the Kibwetere issue. The worst mass murder committed on a single day in the history of Uganda. Much worse than even the LRA rebels' atrocities. Hey, they were Catholics.
Being a member of the Uganda Joint Christian Council is not what makes you a Christian. And concerning being tax exempt, how about all the churches stop being tax exempt and we see who would be the greatest losers. If you want others to be tax exempt, let us play fair and we say we are all no longer tax exempt. Maybe then shall we realise how our existence is grounded.
So please, before you go about bragging of having primacy of originality in its fullness, take a look within and see if the "Original Primate" if that is what I should call your all powerful church is doing it right and think of why you are losing your congregation to these non-churches you talk about.
I hate what is going on in some of these Balokole churches and I pray that those people are arrested and treated with the ridicule that they deserve and if it were left to me, I would pronounce life imprisonment for these thugs-cum-pastors. But I will always be proud of my born-again heritage and I am proud of my pastors at all the pastors out there who are teaching people the truth of the gospel and impacting the community with love and self sacrifice, not greed and power struggle
I am proud to be a born again Christian, will always be.
The writer is a church minister in San Jose, California: metwop@gmail.com.
By Martin Etwop
Monitor
July 23, 2007
http://www.monitor.co.ug/oped/oped07233.php
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/07_08/2007_07_23_Etwop_BornAgain.htm
Uganda — After reading Fr Larry Kanyike's Opinion Article, "Is Jesus for sale" (SM, July 22).I thought I should respond. I am a born-again Ugandan Christian, working as a missionary in California. I feel so ashamed about what has been going on within the Balokole church in Uganda.
I have long admired Fr Kanyike since my Makerere University days because I respected him as a person who speaks out against political and social injustices. But I never knew that he was a very intolerant, religious segregationist.
True, some pastors of some of the Balokole churches have been crooked. They ought to be sent to Luzira prison for a minimum of 14 years. Jesus said, "many will come in my name saying we drove out demons, spoke in tongues, etc, but I will say unto them, I never knew you, away from me you workers of iniquity."
Back to Fr Kanyike, it is interesting reading how he talked of ecclesial communities, primacy of originality, etc. But he do not tell us that the Catholic church presided over some of the most murderous like regimes in world history.
The Vatican Secretary signed a concordance with Adolf Hitler July 20, 1933. It was only because the church did not gain as much as they thought they would that they fell out with Hitler in 1944. Five years after the start of the war.
Why does Fr Kanyike think Protestants broke off from the Catholic community in the 1440s, if it was not because people were being ripped off by the church, through corruption, blackmail and manipulation? The so-called indulgences.
People who studied European history know that the injustices by the Catholic church was one of the causes of the French Revolution. Sexual abuse cases by the Catholic priests a many.
Just a week ago, Cardinal Maloney of the Los Angeles Catholic Diocese(Los Angeles, California), the biggest and richest diocese in the United States, presided over the biggest payout compensation for people who had been sexually molested by priests. It was more than S600 million. But can that buy back the dignity of a little boy who has been raped.
I wonder whether Fr Kanyike read Pope Benedict XIV's apostolic constitution Sacramentum Poenitentiae of 1741. That is how far back the recorded issue of priests molesting altar boys goes.
Did you also know that it was reported that for a very long time, some of the Catholic clergy participated in homosexual molestation of young boys, this they considered a religious rite, a rite of passage for altar boys and young priests.
In May 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later elected Pope Benedict XVI on the death of his predecessor Pope John Paul II, sent a letter to all Catholic Bishops declaring that the Church's investigations into claims of child sex abuse were subject to the pontifical secret and were not to be reported to law enforcement until investigations were completed, on pain of excommunication.
Tell me what this is if it is not a means of covering up the church's sins
And will Fr Kanyike tell us why on March 25, 1992 Pope John Paul II wrote the apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobes, one of the longest papal documents in history?
And finally, the Kibwetere issue. The worst mass murder committed on a single day in the history of Uganda. Much worse than even the LRA rebels' atrocities. Hey, they were Catholics.
Being a member of the Uganda Joint Christian Council is not what makes you a Christian. And concerning being tax exempt, how about all the churches stop being tax exempt and we see who would be the greatest losers. If you want others to be tax exempt, let us play fair and we say we are all no longer tax exempt. Maybe then shall we realise how our existence is grounded.
So please, before you go about bragging of having primacy of originality in its fullness, take a look within and see if the "Original Primate" if that is what I should call your all powerful church is doing it right and think of why you are losing your congregation to these non-churches you talk about.
I hate what is going on in some of these Balokole churches and I pray that those people are arrested and treated with the ridicule that they deserve and if it were left to me, I would pronounce life imprisonment for these thugs-cum-pastors. But I will always be proud of my born-again heritage and I am proud of my pastors at all the pastors out there who are teaching people the truth of the gospel and impacting the community with love and self sacrifice, not greed and power struggle
I am proud to be a born again Christian, will always be.
The writer is a church minister in San Jose, California: metwop@gmail.com.
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Catholic Church in Ireland- 60 years Sexual abuse scandal
Bishop apology over 'evil' abuse
Bishop apology over 'evil' abuse: We are sorry but we shall never compesate the abuse victims
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions?? Is this Justice or catholic cover up and hypocrisy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8065797.stm
Irish abuse report is 'shocking'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058224.stm
www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker
BBC news
Dr Noel Treanor made the comments to a congregation in Carryduff
The Bishop of Down and Connor has apologised to all victims of child sex abuse by the Catholic church.
Dr Noel Treanor was speaking after a report last week said thousands had been abused over 60 years.
He said the report was "heartbreaking" and had recorded cruelty and abuses which were "criminal and sinful."
But Dr Treanor said the church was addressing the "evil", adding that the Down and Connor diocese now had robust child protection measures in place.
"I state my sorrow, shame and visceral pain in the face of these and all abuses inflicted on children and vulnerable adults, whenever they took place, wherever they are perpetrated," he told a congregation in Carryduff on Sunday.
"I apologise on behalf of the church to all who are victims of abuse on the part of those who professed to care for them, or minister to them, in the name of Christ.
"I apologise, too, for the failure of those in positions of leadership in the Church to deal with the abusers."
The victims of child abuse by religious orders were among 35,000 children who were placed in a network of reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses until the early 1990s.
Abuse at Catholic institutions was investigated
More than 2,000 people told the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse they suffered physical and sexual abuse as children in the institutions.
The commission found that sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions, and church leaders knew what was going on.
Dr Treanor said: "As we grasp the extent and dimensions of this evil that has been at work within the church, we have to recognise that as a church in particular, and as society, and as individuals, we stand in need of chastening our moral and personal radar.
"Anger, indifference, denial, washing one's hands of guilt, like Pilate, if partly comprehensible as reactions, will not suffice on the part of anyone."
The Irish deputy prime minister called the abuse of children in Catholic-run institutions as one of the "darkest chapters" in Irish history.
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said anyone responsible for the abuse should be held to account.
The report, nine years in the making and covering a period of six decades, also found government inspectors failed to stop beatings, rapes and humiliation.
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions.
How institutions can perish
IRELAND
The Irish Times
PUBLIC OUTRAGE over the picture of brutality, sadism, sexual abuse and repression in Ireland’s industrial schools and reformatories run by Catholic congregations is intensifying following last week’s remarkable report by the Ryan commission.
It is stoked by the flat refusal of the 18 orders involved to reopen the compensation and indemnity agreement they signed with the government in 2002. Their clumsy and self-serving efforts to protect their own interests are rapidly alienating whatever limited support they have. They have failed to see the central importance of saying sorry to the victims and taking the full consequences of their actions and responsibilities. This is how institutions perish.
The gross imbalance which leaves the State paying 90 per cent of the €1.3 billion settlements is indefensible. The deal should be renegotiated, as called for by Cardinal Seán Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. The Government’s initial defensive argument that this can only be done voluntarily is just as insensitive to public opinion and short-sighted as the orders. That position too is shifting, as was signalled from the special Cabinet meeting last evening. The cosy, secretive and deferential manner in which the agreement was concluded seven years ago ill becomes a modern republican democracy. Revisiting it in light of the Ryan report and the angry public reaction would be in the best interests of church, State and citizens alike. Political and moral pressure to do this should be intensified.
Church a 'disgrace', says anxious priest
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By CLAIRE O'KEEFFE
Sunday May 24 2009
A prominent priest and sociologist believes that the Irish church is a "disgrace" and has not expressed proper regret at last week's revelations in the Ryan Report.
"It's just a continuation of the head-down attitude that so many have adopted in the clergy," says Fr Gearoid O Donnchadha from Fenit, Co Kerry.
"It's no bigger than any of the other scandals that have happened before and I don't think the revelations of the Ryan Report have changed things so much. We're a disgrace," he says.
Church has paid billions to victims all around world
Irish Independent
By Grainne Cunningham
Tuesday May 26 2009
MOST other countries where the Roman Catholic Church was responsible for child abuse have already dealt with the issue of compensating the victims.
In the United States alone, dioceses have paid out more than $2bn (€1.42bn) to settle legal actions, forcing some dioceses to sell off their entire assets and declare bankruptcy.
An audit into America's 300 plus dioceses was conducted by the College of Criminal Justice at John Jay University in New York and published in 2004.
Bishop apology over 'evil' abuse: We are sorry but we shall never compesate the abuse victims
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions?? Is this Justice or catholic cover up and hypocrisy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8065797.stm
Irish abuse report is 'shocking'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058224.stm
www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker
BBC news
Dr Noel Treanor made the comments to a congregation in Carryduff
The Bishop of Down and Connor has apologised to all victims of child sex abuse by the Catholic church.
Dr Noel Treanor was speaking after a report last week said thousands had been abused over 60 years.
He said the report was "heartbreaking" and had recorded cruelty and abuses which were "criminal and sinful."
But Dr Treanor said the church was addressing the "evil", adding that the Down and Connor diocese now had robust child protection measures in place.
"I state my sorrow, shame and visceral pain in the face of these and all abuses inflicted on children and vulnerable adults, whenever they took place, wherever they are perpetrated," he told a congregation in Carryduff on Sunday.
"I apologise on behalf of the church to all who are victims of abuse on the part of those who professed to care for them, or minister to them, in the name of Christ.
"I apologise, too, for the failure of those in positions of leadership in the Church to deal with the abusers."
The victims of child abuse by religious orders were among 35,000 children who were placed in a network of reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses until the early 1990s.
Abuse at Catholic institutions was investigated
More than 2,000 people told the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse they suffered physical and sexual abuse as children in the institutions.
The commission found that sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions, and church leaders knew what was going on.
Dr Treanor said: "As we grasp the extent and dimensions of this evil that has been at work within the church, we have to recognise that as a church in particular, and as society, and as individuals, we stand in need of chastening our moral and personal radar.
"Anger, indifference, denial, washing one's hands of guilt, like Pilate, if partly comprehensible as reactions, will not suffice on the part of anyone."
The Irish deputy prime minister called the abuse of children in Catholic-run institutions as one of the "darkest chapters" in Irish history.
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said anyone responsible for the abuse should be held to account.
The report, nine years in the making and covering a period of six decades, also found government inspectors failed to stop beatings, rapes and humiliation.
The findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions.
How institutions can perish
IRELAND
The Irish Times
PUBLIC OUTRAGE over the picture of brutality, sadism, sexual abuse and repression in Ireland’s industrial schools and reformatories run by Catholic congregations is intensifying following last week’s remarkable report by the Ryan commission.
It is stoked by the flat refusal of the 18 orders involved to reopen the compensation and indemnity agreement they signed with the government in 2002. Their clumsy and self-serving efforts to protect their own interests are rapidly alienating whatever limited support they have. They have failed to see the central importance of saying sorry to the victims and taking the full consequences of their actions and responsibilities. This is how institutions perish.
The gross imbalance which leaves the State paying 90 per cent of the €1.3 billion settlements is indefensible. The deal should be renegotiated, as called for by Cardinal Seán Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. The Government’s initial defensive argument that this can only be done voluntarily is just as insensitive to public opinion and short-sighted as the orders. That position too is shifting, as was signalled from the special Cabinet meeting last evening. The cosy, secretive and deferential manner in which the agreement was concluded seven years ago ill becomes a modern republican democracy. Revisiting it in light of the Ryan report and the angry public reaction would be in the best interests of church, State and citizens alike. Political and moral pressure to do this should be intensified.
Church a 'disgrace', says anxious priest
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By CLAIRE O'KEEFFE
Sunday May 24 2009
A prominent priest and sociologist believes that the Irish church is a "disgrace" and has not expressed proper regret at last week's revelations in the Ryan Report.
"It's just a continuation of the head-down attitude that so many have adopted in the clergy," says Fr Gearoid O Donnchadha from Fenit, Co Kerry.
"It's no bigger than any of the other scandals that have happened before and I don't think the revelations of the Ryan Report have changed things so much. We're a disgrace," he says.
Church has paid billions to victims all around world
Irish Independent
By Grainne Cunningham
Tuesday May 26 2009
MOST other countries where the Roman Catholic Church was responsible for child abuse have already dealt with the issue of compensating the victims.
In the United States alone, dioceses have paid out more than $2bn (€1.42bn) to settle legal actions, forcing some dioceses to sell off their entire assets and declare bankruptcy.
An audit into America's 300 plus dioceses was conducted by the College of Criminal Justice at John Jay University in New York and published in 2004.
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The ‘gods’ must be crazy: Since when Did Redpepper fall in Love with Pastor Robert Kayanja$$$????
Let God be true and everyman a lair (Romans 3:4)
RED PEPPER WRITES CRITICAL STORIES ABOUT PASTOR ISAAC KIWEWESI- A MEMBER OF MIRACLE CENTRE CHURCHES UNDER PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA
Uganda’s notorious pornographic news tabloid, the Red pepper was very critical and sensationalistic about Pastor Isaac Kiwewesi’s sodomy allegations. In fact, despite threats by Pastor Isaac Kiwewesi to retract their stories, this tabloid stuck to its guns.
Pastor threatens to sue Ugandan tabloid for defamation, but the tabloid sticks to its guns
http://www.biz-community.com/Article/410/90/28973.html
http://www.ugandaonline.net/red_pepper/?y=2008&m=9
http://egoimagekenya.com/2008/10/randy-pastor-isaac-kyoobe-kiweweesi-%E2%80%98s-sodomy-victims
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Pastor cleared of sodomy charges $$$$$???
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20081013155107870
Police Clears Pastor Robert Kayanja of Sodomy; Did He 'Bribe' Police$$$$$???
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/332-police-clears-pastor-robert-kayanja-of-sodomy-did-he-bribe-police.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA WARNS HIS CHURCH MEMBERS ABOUT RED PEPPER
While explaining to his church members about Pastor Kiwewesi’s sodomy saga in an article titled, ‘’ A time of reflection and repentance’’on his website (see full article below), Pastor Robert Kayanja wrote :
‘’I pray that God by His supernatural power He will resolve these things and He'll get all the glory and all the praise. But meanwhile we are praying, and secondly I'll admonish you that don't just believe what the press writes. Remember, Red Paper stands as a pornographic paper, we used to demonstrate against it. And so when they write anything, don't just rash to it and read’’.
CONTRADICTION
He is telling his followers not to trust the red pepper, but in a surprising turn of events. He is using this tabloid to defend him self. In fact it was reported that he went to the Red pepper offices to defend him self. Is something cooking here$$$$$ (see red Pepper stories in defense of Pastor Kayanja below). Today the redpepper ran a story that Mukisa(the child who alleges that he was sodomised by Pastor Kayanja) is lying about his names. They have even featured a lady who has alleged that Mukisa’s parents did not pass way. This lady says that she is the biological mother of Mukisa. She has come to the defense of Pastor Kayanja whom she claims is being framed by pastor Kyazze.
Let God be true and everyman a lair (Romans 3:4)
See these articles
A time of reflection and repentance.
http://kayanja.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=0( downloaded on 29th April, 2009)
Dear partner, this is my communication to you concerning the issue we've been having at Kansaga Miracle Centre. First and foremost, we apologize for the incident and the way it happened. We always want to hear good news from our churches, ministries, especially those we support, so this was bad news that came but everything works together for good. God causes things (that the enemy intends to use to hurt us) to turn out for good.
Having said that, I seriously believe that Pastor Kiwewesi of Kasanga Miracle Centre and all of us from Miracle Centre Churches have learnt something. You know, in the past three months we've been engaged in back to back meetings. We were in Mbarara, Masindi, and on the way from Mbarara (a meeting which was very fantastic), we nearly lost 60 members in a bus accident that was unprecedented and we had to airlift some of them in order to save their lives. Thereafter we left for Burundi, some of our team members there(and more so Pastor Bukuru) had an accident but God brought us back safe and then we embarked on Fort portal and then to Malaysia.
I was in Malaysia with my wife when all this began to happen. We then went to Australia as well as the U.S and then back. I really believe Satan is not happy with what we are doing, but we also need to put in place certain things so that we can see danger coming ahead of us. The only way we can do it is by working out the Bible verse (2Chro 7:14 kjv)that says; (If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ).That is why we Miracle Centre churches are in repentance, we are churches seeking God. As you get this mail, we are praying constantly seeking the face of God. We believe that if we seek the Lord and humble ourselves, the Lord will help us.
Sometimes the Lord does not see things the way we see them. So He requires us to be humble, He requires us to seek His face and pray, that’s why we are praying because every time you launch out a big attack, you must have a big base so that you can come back and do that (attack).That's why for the next ten days it’s Rosh Hashanah (a Jewish word which means the day of repentance, reflection but also the day of atonement which means dedication). We are praying that God will have mercy on Miracle Centre. For we believe we're under a serious attack. There’s a conspiracy that has been going on for some time trying to blackmail; a smear campaign of totally aimed at destroying Miracle Centre churches, thinking that the members of the church will run away, thinking that the churches will go under, thinking that the church will lose the position God has given it in the land.
But whatever the enemy brings our way, we will deal with it as apostle Paul did when he went to the Island of Melita, and a viper had jumped onto his hand. He shook it off into the fire and the whole village was healed (Act 28:1). Whatever Satan has brought our way, we are going to use it to bring more righteousness and holiness, to preach the message of the cross and bring more people to the kingdom of God. Because then, everybody will like to see who these people are. We pray for Pastor Kiwewesi and the people of Kasanga Miracle Centre to be able to come through this thing victoriously but also pray for the young man-Arinaitwe that God will also minister to him and meet him at his point of need, because God loves all of us. He was a member of the church and so when somebody has been at your church (4yrs) that long, and he later falls out that way, that's not God's work, that's the devil's plan. God does not want us to break relationships, God does not want us to be in a place for some time and then leave as enemies. I pray that God by His supernatural power He will resolve these things and He'll get all the glory and all the praise. But meanwhile we are praying, and secondly I'll admonish you that don't just believe what the press writes. Remember, Red Paper stands as a pornographic paper, we used to demonstrate against it. And so when they write anything, don't just rash to it and read. Because listen to the story of Joseph, the woman had evidence in her hand, the garment of Joseph. Joseph was charged as a rapist, thrown in prison, but this is not the truth. You see it's not only what they say until you hear the other side. So I pray that God will give you an understanding and a spirit of discernment that when something comes, about somebody, about me or about you, all of us shall take a pause and listen to someone else before we draw our conclusion. Jesus is Lord and I pray the grace of God will protect you and guide you. Please pray for Miracle Centre Churches, we are under severe attack and the enemy has designed out a conspiracy, but we believe that God has already delivered us because the Pastors of all our Miracle Centre Churches are praying and fasting this week at Miracle Centre Cathedral; repenting, believing God that He'll stop the onslaught of the enemy and free God's people. Also do remember Ps Jackson Ssenyonga and pray for him as well, and many many other men and women of God around the world who are going through situations that you cannot and may not understand. But by God's grace, we are more than conquerors, thank you for being a partner and visiting our mail often, God bless.
Read these Scriptures
Psalm 46
Psalm 139 – 140 –143 (chapters)
Isaiah 41:10-20
REDPEPPER STORIES ON ROBERT KAYANJA SODOMY ALLEGATIONS
Four Pastors Face Arrest Over Sodomy
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1543&&CatId=1&PHPSESSID=66ba4d0a35047355c32883d789ff7760
Pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Moses Solomon Male and Bob Kayiira are today likely to become Luzira inmates over the infamous allegations made on the person of Rubaga Miracle Center’s Pastor Robert Kayanja.
The five are expected to report today at Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) headquarters in Kibuli. They are expected to be grilled by senior Detectives before being produced in Court over charges of conniving to give false information to the Police.
Speaking to journalists yesterday at Kibuli, the CID Director, Edward Ochom said the Kayanja accusers will have to answer charges of giving wrong information to Police thereby putting the force’s image at stake. Ochom’s unusually stern declaration came a day after the retraction of a statement by Samson Mukisa, the prime witness and main complainant in a case in which Kayanja is accused of sodomising young boys.
Mukisa, who had reportedly gone to Police on Friday to help in the sodomy allegations, turned around and instead told senior detectives that every thing in his complaint had been framed. Mukisa reportedly withdrew his earlier statement after the senior detectives, D/ACP Tumuhimbise and D/SP Amos Munyeneza informed him that they were set to visit all the places he mentioned in the statement.
These included his former residence at Rubaga Miracle Center Church, Kampiringisa juvenile remand home, Mulago hospital and his home in Kajjansi. “I am saying it and read my lips properly; any body involved in the statement is going to be sternly dealt with, people should know that giving wrong information to police is a serious case that we won’t take lying down,” he said. Ochom added that five other youths namely; Brian Ntwatwa, Ronnie Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Robson Matovu and Ivan Akansiima have also retracted their statement they had made against Kayanja at CPS.
kayanja Reveals His Homo Secrets
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1378&PHPSESSID=85289e6ff7b145af250a58941ca13cf7
“At one time, Pastor Male shamelessly said that I had sodomised a boy so badly and that when he went to the toilet, his intestines fell out! Can you imagine? But he fell short of explaining who treated the boy and how he came out of the toilet in that condition.” These are words of Pastor Robert Kayanja while giving an exclusive interview to the Red Pepper on Monday evening.
In what looks like a move to end the bum shafting speculations against him, Pastor Kayanja has finally opened the lid and condemned the vice, saying it is not only God forbidden and inhuman but also a sure way of contracting the deadly HIV/AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Kayanja has also threatened to drag to court his fellow pastors, led by Moses Solomon Male and Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega healing Center along Entebbe road, who he claims have for years through the media, described him as someone who not only supports but practices the rear cruise vice.
“I am a son of a Reverend and I was brought up in a strong Christian family.
There is no stage in my life that I faced anything that would lead me to engage in such ungodly acts. I am a priest and there is no way I can be one of them (homosexuals),” Kayanja said in a two hour long exclusive interview with this Reporter at Rubaga Miracle Centre, Monday evening.
Wondering why Red Pepper had taken long to write about his (homosexuality) rumor which has existed for over two years, Kayanja said; “The game is over and I have instructed my lawyers to take action.”
He said he had opted to take a low profile hoping that his enemies would eventually get tired but that he was ‘awakened’ by the recent incidents where his special Aide Chris Muwonge was kidnapped, and another where Kyazze’s Assistant, Bob Kayiira got arrested from his (Kayanja) territory.
“I felt they had taken their ‘game’ a bit far and fortunatelynately enough, my concerned legal assistants had all along recorded their defamatory statements on various radios.
This is some of the evidence we are going to use in taking them on,” Kayanja said, adding that even the hosting electronic media houses would be sued. Kayanja further revealed that some of his many boys at the church have been harassed and assaulted by strangers who kidnap them and promise them heaven on earth if only they can pin him in the dirty act. “I don’t know whether they (Males) are aware that some boys have confessed and deposited with police, the money they were given to pin me,” he said.
The Truth
Admitting that homosexuality is taking a toll on Ugandan young generation, Pastor Kayanja said he does not support it and that he is among the many religious leaders, who in the eighties campaigned against it along with HIV/Aids. “We used to have crusades preaching against homosexuality and HIV. He said homosexuality is a big force behind HIV spread. He doubted whether the practitioners use any protective means. “We have 52 Sundays in a year and here (Rubaga Miracle Center), we program them accordingly. There are Sundays when homosexuality, extramarital relationships and other social teachings are on our ‘menu’ and indeed one of such was last Sundays. But the problem is our critics do not visit the church and hence they depend on speculations,” Kayanja said sodomy and premarital sex always takes a center stage in the ministry’s youth seminars. Kayanja also said that his church was represented in the recently organized anti-gay/homosexuality match in the city center. He said one of the organizers, Pastor Steven Langa was invited at the church to mobilize the faithfuls for the do and they indeed responded in big numbers by penning their signatures to the petition. “So, I don’t know why I am these people’s soft target. Is it because I am a busy man who never responds to trivial issues? I think they have ridiculed me to the marrow, it’s time to take action and they will indeed have it in full,” Kayanja warned.
Kayanja The Man
Born on January 24, 1962 in a family of 13, Pastor Robert Kayanja got saved at the age of 17. A young brother of the current Anglican Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu, he started the Miracle Centre Ministry which has now spread to 66 nations. Today he is also overseer of the Miracle Bible College, The Never Again Children’s project and two orphanages in Kapeeka and Burundi. He features on a weekly Miracle Life Television programmes on Lighthouse and Daystar Television networks. The church has also founded over 1,000 Miracle Centre Churches across the country. He has traveled to over 50 other countries to preach the Christian gospel.
The soft spoken and arguably very humble man of God, Kayanja is happily married to Jessica, and they are blessed with three children.
One For The Road
Seeing this Reporter off, Pastor Kayanja called upon people to be patriotic. “Patriotism does not stop with loving your country but other people as well.
If we loved each other, you wouldn’t be here asking about the bad blood between me and people supposed to be my brothers.
RED PEPPER WRITES CRITICAL STORIES ABOUT PASTOR ISAAC KIWEWESI- A MEMBER OF MIRACLE CENTRE CHURCHES UNDER PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA
Uganda’s notorious pornographic news tabloid, the Red pepper was very critical and sensationalistic about Pastor Isaac Kiwewesi’s sodomy allegations. In fact, despite threats by Pastor Isaac Kiwewesi to retract their stories, this tabloid stuck to its guns.
Pastor threatens to sue Ugandan tabloid for defamation, but the tabloid sticks to its guns
http://www.biz-community.com/Article/410/90/28973.html
http://www.ugandaonline.net/red_pepper/?y=2008&m=9
http://egoimagekenya.com/2008/10/randy-pastor-isaac-kyoobe-kiweweesi-%E2%80%98s-sodomy-victims
Uganda’s Evangelicals Shaken By Pedophilia and Sodomy
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/239-ugandas-evangelicals-shaken-by-pedophilia-and-sodomy.html
Pastor cleared of sodomy charges $$$$$???
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20081013155107870
Police Clears Pastor Robert Kayanja of Sodomy; Did He 'Bribe' Police$$$$$???
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/332-police-clears-pastor-robert-kayanja-of-sodomy-did-he-bribe-police.html
PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA WARNS HIS CHURCH MEMBERS ABOUT RED PEPPER
While explaining to his church members about Pastor Kiwewesi’s sodomy saga in an article titled, ‘’ A time of reflection and repentance’’on his website (see full article below), Pastor Robert Kayanja wrote :
‘’I pray that God by His supernatural power He will resolve these things and He'll get all the glory and all the praise. But meanwhile we are praying, and secondly I'll admonish you that don't just believe what the press writes. Remember, Red Paper stands as a pornographic paper, we used to demonstrate against it. And so when they write anything, don't just rash to it and read’’.
CONTRADICTION
He is telling his followers not to trust the red pepper, but in a surprising turn of events. He is using this tabloid to defend him self. In fact it was reported that he went to the Red pepper offices to defend him self. Is something cooking here$$$$$ (see red Pepper stories in defense of Pastor Kayanja below). Today the redpepper ran a story that Mukisa(the child who alleges that he was sodomised by Pastor Kayanja) is lying about his names. They have even featured a lady who has alleged that Mukisa’s parents did not pass way. This lady says that she is the biological mother of Mukisa. She has come to the defense of Pastor Kayanja whom she claims is being framed by pastor Kyazze.
Let God be true and everyman a lair (Romans 3:4)
See these articles
A time of reflection and repentance.
http://kayanja.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=0( downloaded on 29th April, 2009)
Dear partner, this is my communication to you concerning the issue we've been having at Kansaga Miracle Centre. First and foremost, we apologize for the incident and the way it happened. We always want to hear good news from our churches, ministries, especially those we support, so this was bad news that came but everything works together for good. God causes things (that the enemy intends to use to hurt us) to turn out for good.
Having said that, I seriously believe that Pastor Kiwewesi of Kasanga Miracle Centre and all of us from Miracle Centre Churches have learnt something. You know, in the past three months we've been engaged in back to back meetings. We were in Mbarara, Masindi, and on the way from Mbarara (a meeting which was very fantastic), we nearly lost 60 members in a bus accident that was unprecedented and we had to airlift some of them in order to save their lives. Thereafter we left for Burundi, some of our team members there(and more so Pastor Bukuru) had an accident but God brought us back safe and then we embarked on Fort portal and then to Malaysia.
I was in Malaysia with my wife when all this began to happen. We then went to Australia as well as the U.S and then back. I really believe Satan is not happy with what we are doing, but we also need to put in place certain things so that we can see danger coming ahead of us. The only way we can do it is by working out the Bible verse (2Chro 7:14 kjv)that says; (If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ).That is why we Miracle Centre churches are in repentance, we are churches seeking God. As you get this mail, we are praying constantly seeking the face of God. We believe that if we seek the Lord and humble ourselves, the Lord will help us.
Sometimes the Lord does not see things the way we see them. So He requires us to be humble, He requires us to seek His face and pray, that’s why we are praying because every time you launch out a big attack, you must have a big base so that you can come back and do that (attack).That's why for the next ten days it’s Rosh Hashanah (a Jewish word which means the day of repentance, reflection but also the day of atonement which means dedication). We are praying that God will have mercy on Miracle Centre. For we believe we're under a serious attack. There’s a conspiracy that has been going on for some time trying to blackmail; a smear campaign of totally aimed at destroying Miracle Centre churches, thinking that the members of the church will run away, thinking that the churches will go under, thinking that the church will lose the position God has given it in the land.
But whatever the enemy brings our way, we will deal with it as apostle Paul did when he went to the Island of Melita, and a viper had jumped onto his hand. He shook it off into the fire and the whole village was healed (Act 28:1). Whatever Satan has brought our way, we are going to use it to bring more righteousness and holiness, to preach the message of the cross and bring more people to the kingdom of God. Because then, everybody will like to see who these people are. We pray for Pastor Kiwewesi and the people of Kasanga Miracle Centre to be able to come through this thing victoriously but also pray for the young man-Arinaitwe that God will also minister to him and meet him at his point of need, because God loves all of us. He was a member of the church and so when somebody has been at your church (4yrs) that long, and he later falls out that way, that's not God's work, that's the devil's plan. God does not want us to break relationships, God does not want us to be in a place for some time and then leave as enemies. I pray that God by His supernatural power He will resolve these things and He'll get all the glory and all the praise. But meanwhile we are praying, and secondly I'll admonish you that don't just believe what the press writes. Remember, Red Paper stands as a pornographic paper, we used to demonstrate against it. And so when they write anything, don't just rash to it and read. Because listen to the story of Joseph, the woman had evidence in her hand, the garment of Joseph. Joseph was charged as a rapist, thrown in prison, but this is not the truth. You see it's not only what they say until you hear the other side. So I pray that God will give you an understanding and a spirit of discernment that when something comes, about somebody, about me or about you, all of us shall take a pause and listen to someone else before we draw our conclusion. Jesus is Lord and I pray the grace of God will protect you and guide you. Please pray for Miracle Centre Churches, we are under severe attack and the enemy has designed out a conspiracy, but we believe that God has already delivered us because the Pastors of all our Miracle Centre Churches are praying and fasting this week at Miracle Centre Cathedral; repenting, believing God that He'll stop the onslaught of the enemy and free God's people. Also do remember Ps Jackson Ssenyonga and pray for him as well, and many many other men and women of God around the world who are going through situations that you cannot and may not understand. But by God's grace, we are more than conquerors, thank you for being a partner and visiting our mail often, God bless.
Read these Scriptures
Psalm 46
Psalm 139 – 140 –143 (chapters)
Isaiah 41:10-20
REDPEPPER STORIES ON ROBERT KAYANJA SODOMY ALLEGATIONS
Four Pastors Face Arrest Over Sodomy
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1543&&CatId=1&PHPSESSID=66ba4d0a35047355c32883d789ff7760
Pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Moses Solomon Male and Bob Kayiira are today likely to become Luzira inmates over the infamous allegations made on the person of Rubaga Miracle Center’s Pastor Robert Kayanja.
The five are expected to report today at Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) headquarters in Kibuli. They are expected to be grilled by senior Detectives before being produced in Court over charges of conniving to give false information to the Police.
Speaking to journalists yesterday at Kibuli, the CID Director, Edward Ochom said the Kayanja accusers will have to answer charges of giving wrong information to Police thereby putting the force’s image at stake. Ochom’s unusually stern declaration came a day after the retraction of a statement by Samson Mukisa, the prime witness and main complainant in a case in which Kayanja is accused of sodomising young boys.
Mukisa, who had reportedly gone to Police on Friday to help in the sodomy allegations, turned around and instead told senior detectives that every thing in his complaint had been framed. Mukisa reportedly withdrew his earlier statement after the senior detectives, D/ACP Tumuhimbise and D/SP Amos Munyeneza informed him that they were set to visit all the places he mentioned in the statement.
These included his former residence at Rubaga Miracle Center Church, Kampiringisa juvenile remand home, Mulago hospital and his home in Kajjansi. “I am saying it and read my lips properly; any body involved in the statement is going to be sternly dealt with, people should know that giving wrong information to police is a serious case that we won’t take lying down,” he said. Ochom added that five other youths namely; Brian Ntwatwa, Ronnie Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Robson Matovu and Ivan Akansiima have also retracted their statement they had made against Kayanja at CPS.
kayanja Reveals His Homo Secrets
http://www.redpepper.ug/details.php?item=1378&PHPSESSID=85289e6ff7b145af250a58941ca13cf7
“At one time, Pastor Male shamelessly said that I had sodomised a boy so badly and that when he went to the toilet, his intestines fell out! Can you imagine? But he fell short of explaining who treated the boy and how he came out of the toilet in that condition.” These are words of Pastor Robert Kayanja while giving an exclusive interview to the Red Pepper on Monday evening.
In what looks like a move to end the bum shafting speculations against him, Pastor Kayanja has finally opened the lid and condemned the vice, saying it is not only God forbidden and inhuman but also a sure way of contracting the deadly HIV/AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Kayanja has also threatened to drag to court his fellow pastors, led by Moses Solomon Male and Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega healing Center along Entebbe road, who he claims have for years through the media, described him as someone who not only supports but practices the rear cruise vice.
“I am a son of a Reverend and I was brought up in a strong Christian family.
There is no stage in my life that I faced anything that would lead me to engage in such ungodly acts. I am a priest and there is no way I can be one of them (homosexuals),” Kayanja said in a two hour long exclusive interview with this Reporter at Rubaga Miracle Centre, Monday evening.
Wondering why Red Pepper had taken long to write about his (homosexuality) rumor which has existed for over two years, Kayanja said; “The game is over and I have instructed my lawyers to take action.”
He said he had opted to take a low profile hoping that his enemies would eventually get tired but that he was ‘awakened’ by the recent incidents where his special Aide Chris Muwonge was kidnapped, and another where Kyazze’s Assistant, Bob Kayiira got arrested from his (Kayanja) territory.
“I felt they had taken their ‘game’ a bit far and fortunatelynately enough, my concerned legal assistants had all along recorded their defamatory statements on various radios.
This is some of the evidence we are going to use in taking them on,” Kayanja said, adding that even the hosting electronic media houses would be sued. Kayanja further revealed that some of his many boys at the church have been harassed and assaulted by strangers who kidnap them and promise them heaven on earth if only they can pin him in the dirty act. “I don’t know whether they (Males) are aware that some boys have confessed and deposited with police, the money they were given to pin me,” he said.
The Truth
Admitting that homosexuality is taking a toll on Ugandan young generation, Pastor Kayanja said he does not support it and that he is among the many religious leaders, who in the eighties campaigned against it along with HIV/Aids. “We used to have crusades preaching against homosexuality and HIV. He said homosexuality is a big force behind HIV spread. He doubted whether the practitioners use any protective means. “We have 52 Sundays in a year and here (Rubaga Miracle Center), we program them accordingly. There are Sundays when homosexuality, extramarital relationships and other social teachings are on our ‘menu’ and indeed one of such was last Sundays. But the problem is our critics do not visit the church and hence they depend on speculations,” Kayanja said sodomy and premarital sex always takes a center stage in the ministry’s youth seminars. Kayanja also said that his church was represented in the recently organized anti-gay/homosexuality match in the city center. He said one of the organizers, Pastor Steven Langa was invited at the church to mobilize the faithfuls for the do and they indeed responded in big numbers by penning their signatures to the petition. “So, I don’t know why I am these people’s soft target. Is it because I am a busy man who never responds to trivial issues? I think they have ridiculed me to the marrow, it’s time to take action and they will indeed have it in full,” Kayanja warned.
Kayanja The Man
Born on January 24, 1962 in a family of 13, Pastor Robert Kayanja got saved at the age of 17. A young brother of the current Anglican Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu, he started the Miracle Centre Ministry which has now spread to 66 nations. Today he is also overseer of the Miracle Bible College, The Never Again Children’s project and two orphanages in Kapeeka and Burundi. He features on a weekly Miracle Life Television programmes on Lighthouse and Daystar Television networks. The church has also founded over 1,000 Miracle Centre Churches across the country. He has traveled to over 50 other countries to preach the Christian gospel.
The soft spoken and arguably very humble man of God, Kayanja is happily married to Jessica, and they are blessed with three children.
One For The Road
Seeing this Reporter off, Pastor Kayanja called upon people to be patriotic. “Patriotism does not stop with loving your country but other people as well.
If we loved each other, you wouldn’t be here asking about the bad blood between me and people supposed to be my brothers.
Police questions Kayanja accusers
Police questions Kayanja accusers
Monday, 18th May, 2009
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/681724
PASTORS Simon Male and Martin Ssempa were yesterday interrogated by the Police for allegedly falsifying information and swearing false affidavits purporting that Pastor Robert Kayanja committed sodomy.
Kayanja is the pastor of Miracle Centre Church in Rubaga, Kampala. Male arrived at the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in Kibuli, a Kampala suburb, at about 10:30am. CID deputy director Moses Sakira and general crimes boss Venice Tumuhibise interrogated him from 12:30pm to 5:00pm. His lawyer Paul Rutisya was present.
Ssempa arrived at 11:35am accompanied by two aides and lawyer Philip Karugaba. The Police questioned him from 4:47pm to 7:35pm.
Male’s lawyer said his client belongs to Arise and Shine Ministries based on Portal Avenue in Kampala. Ssempa pastors Makerere Community Church.
Addressing journalists before the interrogation, the men said they were not scared.
The clergymen allegedly said Kayanja sodomised boys, who confessed to them about their ordeal. Both pastors recorded statements and they are expected back in Kibuli today for further interrogation.
Male said he told the Police the truth. He said he had given refuge to a Samson Mukisa, one of Kayanja’s accusers.
Male said he was not a liar but a Good Samaritan. “I am a human rights defender.”
Ssempa said for years he had assisted victims of homosexuality, a job he described as tough. “I pray that the country will not forget the boys. There should be justice for boys who have been abused sexually just like for girls,” he stated.
“I have no problem with Kayanja. He has never sodomised me,” Ssempa said. “It is the children who came to us and confessed. It is those who are seeking justice.”
Ssempa said he was concerned that some people in Kayanja’s church were highly-placed in the Police force. “But we have faith in democracy and justice,” he added.
Ssempa said he first heard the sodomy allegations against Kayanja in 1996. He cited David Mulakazi, Robson Matovu and Mukisa as some of the accusers. He called for a commission of inquiry into the activities of pastors cited in homosexual activities.
After the interrogation, Ssempa told journalists that the process and the cause of justice had just started.
Both Ssempa and Male dismissed claims that Kayanja’s accusers had withdrawn the allegations. CID boss Edward Ochom on Sunday told a press conference in Kampala that Kayanja had no case to answer because his accusers had lied about him.
Kayanja would not comment on the matter yesterday, but his spokesperson Arthur Nsamba promised to issue a statement today.
The Police yesterday paraded a woman whom they described as Mukisa’s mother. Olivia Nansubuga, 30, said Mukisa had never been at Rubaga Miracle Centre. Mukisa in an affidavit said he was 19 years old and that both his parents were dead.
But Nansubuga said he was 17, although she could not tell when she gave birth to Mukisa whom she said was her only child. The Police did not say if they would carry out a DNA test on Nansubuga and Mukisa to clear the matter.
Nansubuga, a resident of Kyengera, was invited by the Police to clarify the allegations against Kayanja which Mukisa made in his affidavit.
She said his father, Richard Muyingo, who lives at Kajjansi, abandoned her after making her pregnant in S1 at Kitende Senior Secondary School.
Tightly guarded by two Police escorts, Nansubuga said although she belonged to Kyengera Pentecostal Church, she was perturbed by what she saw on television and heard on radio and wanted to clear the allegations her “own son” made.
“I have never gone to Kayanja’s church, but as a born-again Christian, I can’t sit down and see people malign a senior pastor of Kayanja’s calibre.”
She displayed three photos of Mukisa whom she said had changed his name to Robert Musaarize, Musasiizi and Mukisa.
“My son has had mental problems since childhood,” she said. “He escaped from home twice when he was still young in 2006. I never saw him again until this year on Easter when he told me he was working at Pastor Michael Kyazze’s church.”
Pastor Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre is also implicated in the allegations against Kayanja.
Additional reporting by Robert Mutebi
Pastors Ssempa, Male defiant after CID visit
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Kampala
The interrogation took five hours. But when Pastor Solomon Male came out of the Kibuli-based Criminal Investigations Directorate offices at exactly 5pm last evening, he remained defiant refusing to retract claims that Pastor Robert Kayanja has been named in sodomy claims.
Mr Moses Sakira, the deputy CID director in charge of investigation, led the interrogation of the two pastors; with Male emerging unmoved by the Police action.
He said: “It’s simple to cast a demon than to stand for the truth; but we shall win for the truth.”
CID Director Edward Ochom on Sunday summoned five pastors after detectives investigated claims by seven men that they were sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they served at his Rubaga church. The seven include Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu.
Mr Ochom said the cases were found to be false and the Police had summoned the pastors on allegations of giving false information contrary to Section 115 of the Penal Code.
Reported by Zurah Nakabugo, Evelyn Lirri, Andrew Bagala, & Risdel Kasasira
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Gwe Male kiki kyononya ku Bantu Mukama be yayiwak'amafuta?(You Male! why do you hunt the anointed ones of God) You have really fought so hard but it is a losing battle, one day you guys who ganging up against other pastors you will also fight each other. If someone is gay, does it mean posting me over the media is going to help him stop? you as a pastor what does the Bible tell you to do, pray for them and then ask God to direct you as our bringing them back. Of all people in Uganda, how come that your the only one who gets false information about other pastors? Male STOP STOP STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING TO THE CHURCH OF GOD.
Poliisi ekunyizza Male ne Sempa
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Written by ahmed mukiibi
Monday, 18 May 2009 19:43
ABASUMBA Solomon Male ne Martin Sempa baavudde ku kitebe kya bambega ba Poliisi nga bawera nti Omusumba Robert Kayanja abeetaanuulidde, bagenda kuggyayo ne bwiino gwe babadde basirikidde.
“Kayanja atwetaanulidde, tulina abalenzi abalala basatu be yalya ebisiyaga, era tubaleeta”, Omusumba Sempa owa Makerere Community Church bwe yagambye
Sempa n’omusumba Male owa Kkanisa ya Arise for Christ baasiibye Kibuli ku kitebe kya bambega nga babuuzibwa akana n’akataano ku bye baalumiriza Kayanja nti mmo mu kulya ebisiyiga.
Baakunyiziddwa ekibinja kya bambega abaakuliddwa Moses Sakira nga baasoose Male gwe baatandise okubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya ne bamuvaako ku ssaawa 11:00 ez’olweggulo.
Male eyabadde ne munnamateeka Paul Rutisya owa Kasirye, Byaruhanga & Co Advocates yalagiddwa okuddamu okweyanjula olwaleero ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya batandikire we baakomye.
Sempa baatandise okumubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa 11:00 olw’eggulo oluvannyuma lw’okumutuuza okumala essaawa mukaaga mu kasenge nga bw’alinda bamalirize Male.
Male yagambye nti talina kyatidde kubanga ali ku mazima era akimanya nti amazima gajja kuwangula kubanga Katonda ali ku ludda lw’abazima so ludda lwa kivve.
“Abemitima eminafu be batidde kubanga bakimanyi nti kyangu nnyo okugoba emizimu okusinga okulwanyisa amazima,” bwe yagambye n’agattako nti luno olutalo lwe baliko lwa Katonda era bateekwa okuluwangula.
Wadde nga baabadde tebatidde Male yagambye nti waliwo basumba banne abaagenze ewa Minisita w’Ensonga Ezomunda, Ali Kirunda Kivejinja ne bamutegeeza nti tebeesiga nti Poliisi bannaabwe eneebakwata na mazima
Gye buvuddeko Omusumba Kayanja yakwasizza akulira Poliisi, Maj. Gen Kale Kaihura ekizimbe omusula abapoliisi y’e Kampalamukadde kye yabadde yakaddaabiriza. Ababaka ba Palamenti baawakanyizza nnyo ekikolwa kino ne bagamba nti kijja kuleetera Poliisi okwekubiira mu misango egirimu Kayanja.
Sempa yagambye nti olutalo lwe baliko bamanyi obunene bwalwo era beetegefu okulutwala mu maaso okutuusa nga bawangudde sitaani.
“Nze sirina buzibu na Kayanja kubanga tandyangako bisiyaga wabula nnina obukakafu nti yakulusaanya obwana ng’abukolako ebivve bya Sodoma,” bwe yagambye n’annyonnyola nti amaze emyaka 20 ng’ayamba abaana abatulugunyizibwa ku ngeri ng’ezo era bano abalumiriza Kayanja si be basoose.
We zaaweredde essaawa emu ey’akawungeezi eggulo nga Poliisi ekyakunya Ssempa.
Monday, 18th May, 2009
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/681724
PASTORS Simon Male and Martin Ssempa were yesterday interrogated by the Police for allegedly falsifying information and swearing false affidavits purporting that Pastor Robert Kayanja committed sodomy.
Kayanja is the pastor of Miracle Centre Church in Rubaga, Kampala. Male arrived at the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in Kibuli, a Kampala suburb, at about 10:30am. CID deputy director Moses Sakira and general crimes boss Venice Tumuhibise interrogated him from 12:30pm to 5:00pm. His lawyer Paul Rutisya was present.
Ssempa arrived at 11:35am accompanied by two aides and lawyer Philip Karugaba. The Police questioned him from 4:47pm to 7:35pm.
Male’s lawyer said his client belongs to Arise and Shine Ministries based on Portal Avenue in Kampala. Ssempa pastors Makerere Community Church.
Addressing journalists before the interrogation, the men said they were not scared.
The clergymen allegedly said Kayanja sodomised boys, who confessed to them about their ordeal. Both pastors recorded statements and they are expected back in Kibuli today for further interrogation.
Male said he told the Police the truth. He said he had given refuge to a Samson Mukisa, one of Kayanja’s accusers.
Male said he was not a liar but a Good Samaritan. “I am a human rights defender.”
Ssempa said for years he had assisted victims of homosexuality, a job he described as tough. “I pray that the country will not forget the boys. There should be justice for boys who have been abused sexually just like for girls,” he stated.
“I have no problem with Kayanja. He has never sodomised me,” Ssempa said. “It is the children who came to us and confessed. It is those who are seeking justice.”
Ssempa said he was concerned that some people in Kayanja’s church were highly-placed in the Police force. “But we have faith in democracy and justice,” he added.
Ssempa said he first heard the sodomy allegations against Kayanja in 1996. He cited David Mulakazi, Robson Matovu and Mukisa as some of the accusers. He called for a commission of inquiry into the activities of pastors cited in homosexual activities.
After the interrogation, Ssempa told journalists that the process and the cause of justice had just started.
Both Ssempa and Male dismissed claims that Kayanja’s accusers had withdrawn the allegations. CID boss Edward Ochom on Sunday told a press conference in Kampala that Kayanja had no case to answer because his accusers had lied about him.
Kayanja would not comment on the matter yesterday, but his spokesperson Arthur Nsamba promised to issue a statement today.
The Police yesterday paraded a woman whom they described as Mukisa’s mother. Olivia Nansubuga, 30, said Mukisa had never been at Rubaga Miracle Centre. Mukisa in an affidavit said he was 19 years old and that both his parents were dead.
But Nansubuga said he was 17, although she could not tell when she gave birth to Mukisa whom she said was her only child. The Police did not say if they would carry out a DNA test on Nansubuga and Mukisa to clear the matter.
Nansubuga, a resident of Kyengera, was invited by the Police to clarify the allegations against Kayanja which Mukisa made in his affidavit.
She said his father, Richard Muyingo, who lives at Kajjansi, abandoned her after making her pregnant in S1 at Kitende Senior Secondary School.
Tightly guarded by two Police escorts, Nansubuga said although she belonged to Kyengera Pentecostal Church, she was perturbed by what she saw on television and heard on radio and wanted to clear the allegations her “own son” made.
“I have never gone to Kayanja’s church, but as a born-again Christian, I can’t sit down and see people malign a senior pastor of Kayanja’s calibre.”
She displayed three photos of Mukisa whom she said had changed his name to Robert Musaarize, Musasiizi and Mukisa.
“My son has had mental problems since childhood,” she said. “He escaped from home twice when he was still young in 2006. I never saw him again until this year on Easter when he told me he was working at Pastor Michael Kyazze’s church.”
Pastor Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre is also implicated in the allegations against Kayanja.
Additional reporting by Robert Mutebi
Pastors Ssempa, Male defiant after CID visit
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Kampala
The interrogation took five hours. But when Pastor Solomon Male came out of the Kibuli-based Criminal Investigations Directorate offices at exactly 5pm last evening, he remained defiant refusing to retract claims that Pastor Robert Kayanja has been named in sodomy claims.
Mr Moses Sakira, the deputy CID director in charge of investigation, led the interrogation of the two pastors; with Male emerging unmoved by the Police action.
He said: “It’s simple to cast a demon than to stand for the truth; but we shall win for the truth.”
CID Director Edward Ochom on Sunday summoned five pastors after detectives investigated claims by seven men that they were sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they served at his Rubaga church. The seven include Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu.
Mr Ochom said the cases were found to be false and the Police had summoned the pastors on allegations of giving false information contrary to Section 115 of the Penal Code.
Reported by Zurah Nakabugo, Evelyn Lirri, Andrew Bagala, & Risdel Kasasira
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Gwe Male kiki kyononya ku Bantu Mukama be yayiwak'amafuta?(You Male! why do you hunt the anointed ones of God) You have really fought so hard but it is a losing battle, one day you guys who ganging up against other pastors you will also fight each other. If someone is gay, does it mean posting me over the media is going to help him stop? you as a pastor what does the Bible tell you to do, pray for them and then ask God to direct you as our bringing them back. Of all people in Uganda, how come that your the only one who gets false information about other pastors? Male STOP STOP STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING TO THE CHURCH OF GOD.
Poliisi ekunyizza Male ne Sempa
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Written by ahmed mukiibi
Monday, 18 May 2009 19:43
ABASUMBA Solomon Male ne Martin Sempa baavudde ku kitebe kya bambega ba Poliisi nga bawera nti Omusumba Robert Kayanja abeetaanuulidde, bagenda kuggyayo ne bwiino gwe babadde basirikidde.
“Kayanja atwetaanulidde, tulina abalenzi abalala basatu be yalya ebisiyaga, era tubaleeta”, Omusumba Sempa owa Makerere Community Church bwe yagambye
Sempa n’omusumba Male owa Kkanisa ya Arise for Christ baasiibye Kibuli ku kitebe kya bambega nga babuuzibwa akana n’akataano ku bye baalumiriza Kayanja nti mmo mu kulya ebisiyiga.
Baakunyiziddwa ekibinja kya bambega abaakuliddwa Moses Sakira nga baasoose Male gwe baatandise okubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya ne bamuvaako ku ssaawa 11:00 ez’olweggulo.
Male eyabadde ne munnamateeka Paul Rutisya owa Kasirye, Byaruhanga & Co Advocates yalagiddwa okuddamu okweyanjula olwaleero ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya batandikire we baakomye.
Sempa baatandise okumubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa 11:00 olw’eggulo oluvannyuma lw’okumutuuza okumala essaawa mukaaga mu kasenge nga bw’alinda bamalirize Male.
Male yagambye nti talina kyatidde kubanga ali ku mazima era akimanya nti amazima gajja kuwangula kubanga Katonda ali ku ludda lw’abazima so ludda lwa kivve.
“Abemitima eminafu be batidde kubanga bakimanyi nti kyangu nnyo okugoba emizimu okusinga okulwanyisa amazima,” bwe yagambye n’agattako nti luno olutalo lwe baliko lwa Katonda era bateekwa okuluwangula.
Wadde nga baabadde tebatidde Male yagambye nti waliwo basumba banne abaagenze ewa Minisita w’Ensonga Ezomunda, Ali Kirunda Kivejinja ne bamutegeeza nti tebeesiga nti Poliisi bannaabwe eneebakwata na mazima
Gye buvuddeko Omusumba Kayanja yakwasizza akulira Poliisi, Maj. Gen Kale Kaihura ekizimbe omusula abapoliisi y’e Kampalamukadde kye yabadde yakaddaabiriza. Ababaka ba Palamenti baawakanyizza nnyo ekikolwa kino ne bagamba nti kijja kuleetera Poliisi okwekubiira mu misango egirimu Kayanja.
Sempa yagambye nti olutalo lwe baliko bamanyi obunene bwalwo era beetegefu okulutwala mu maaso okutuusa nga bawangudde sitaani.
“Nze sirina buzibu na Kayanja kubanga tandyangako bisiyaga wabula nnina obukakafu nti yakulusaanya obwana ng’abukolako ebivve bya Sodoma,” bwe yagambye n’annyonnyola nti amaze emyaka 20 ng’ayamba abaana abatulugunyizibwa ku ngeri ng’ezo era bano abalumiriza Kayanja si be basoose.
We zaaweredde essaawa emu ey’akawungeezi eggulo nga Poliisi ekyakunya Ssempa.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Police Clears Pastor Robert Kayanja of Sodomy; Did He 'Bribe' Police?
Kato Mivule |May 18, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/332-police-clears-pastor-robert-kayanja-of-sodomy-did-he-bribe-police.html
In a mysterious and 'movie-like’ turn of events, Uganda's Prosperity Gospel Pastor, Robert Kayanja was "cleared" of all Sodomy charges by Police and instead his accusers were summoned for to Police Headquarters.
This comes after Pastor Robert Kayanja offered to "Renovate" Ugandan Police Headquarters, a move that was highly criticized by The Parliament - Uganda's Legislative Body, The Media, and the Public.
It was seen that Pastor Robert Kayanja would never be thoroughly investigated but the Ugandan Police would do him 'favors' because of the money he "donated" to renovate Ugandan Police Staff Quarters which are in a deplorable state.
However, it is known and common in Uganda that The Police never acts in the interest of the public but the powerful like Kayanja who have "connections" with President Museveni... It is a sad day for all those young boys who have been abused and sodomized as they will never get justice in Uganda’s corrupt legal system. This is a true case of Obstruction of Justice by Uganda’s Elites...Ugandan Press seems to Report a far different story from 'The Police and Kayanja' Antics...
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SODOMY ROW: CID SUMMONS PASTORS: Daily Monitor May 18, 2009
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News | May 18, 2009
Pastor Kayanja
Sodomy row: CID summons pastors
Andrew Bagala
Kampala
The Police Criminal Investigations Directorate yesterday summoned five pastors on allegations that they set up Pastor Robert Kayanja in a sodomy scandal.
CID Director Edward Ochom said at a press conference that Pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere Community Church, Solomon Male of Arise for Christ, Michael Kyazze, Annet Kyomuhendo and Bob Kayiiira of Omega Healing Centre are expected at CID headquarters in Kibuli today, where they will be interrogated by detectives.
The summons come after CID investigated cases in which seven people including; Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu alleged to have been sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they were serving in his church at Rubaga Miracle Cathedral.
Mr Ochom said the cases were found to be false and the Police had summoned the pastors on allegations of giving false information contrary to section 115 of the Penal Code and false swearing contrary to section 100 of the Penal Code.
“We are going to take tough measures against people who tell lies to the Police because they put the Police credibility to question,” Mr Ochom said.
The development is likely to turn tables with Pastor Kayanja, who recently made a big donation to the police force – renovating Old Kampala Station, moving from defendant to complainant and the Pastors who have been accusing him of sodomy becoming the defendants.
The CID boss’ position on the matter, stems from a Police statement by Mr Mukisa on February 7, alleging that he was an orphan who sought refuge at Pastor Kayanja’s church but was sodomised. He also swore an affidavit to that effect.
Police carried out medical examinations, which indicated the man was not sodomised but a separate independent examination by a doctor at Mulago Hospital did not rule out sodomy. “We have found out that his (Mukisa’s) mother is alive contrary to the first statement he made and his father isn’t Richard Bulega as he alleged but is Richard Muyingo,” Mr Ochom said yesterday.
CID officials said Mr Mukisa has never been part of Kayanja’s church.
But Mukisa yesterday said the CID boss had told lies about him. He also alleged to have been forced by the Police to sign a statement at gun point. “Both of my parents are dead. I am ready to prove all I have said,” Mr Mukisa said in an interview with Daily Monitor.
Both Pastors Male and Ssempa yesterday confirmed receiving the summons. Pastor Ssempa described the development as a “sad one for those helping victims of sodomy”. Daily Monitor couldn’t reach the other pastors.
But the Pastors summoned by CID and particularly Pastor Male have accused the Police of acting suspiciously in the investigation. “Mukisa reported his case to the Police in February. Later, we read that Kayanja had offered to renovate Old Kampala Police Station … If your conscience is really clear, why do you send dummies to people investigating you? Why not allow them to investigate and find you innocent?” Pastor Male said in an interview with the Sunday Vision.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Sodomy_row_CID_summons_pastors_85027.shtml
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POLICE CLEARS PASTOR KAYANJA OF SODOMY: NEW VISION MAY 18, 2009
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Police clear Pastor Kayanja of sodomy
Sunday, 17th May, 2009
By Patrick Jaramogi
THE POLICE yesterday described allegations of sodomy against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre as “baseless”, “fabricated” and “full of lies”.
“We have been carrying out investigations following allegations of sodomy by Pastor Robert Kayanja. The allegations were grave because they involved the church, but the revelations were unbelievable,” said Edward Ochom, the Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), at a press conference at his headquarters in Kibuli.
“Pastor Kayanja has no case because all six complainants who reported to the Police have retracted their complaints, saying they were set up by some pastors. We shall proceed with the case when any other person comes up with a complaint.”
The Police listed Samson Mukisa, David Mukalazi, Brian Ntwata, Robson Matovu, Ronnie Mutebi and Brian Ankansima as people who have since retracted their statements.
Ochom warned of stern measures against people who tell lies to the Police.
“These people have been summoned to explain.”
He listed those summoned as pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere University Community Church; Michael Kyazze, Robert Kayiira and Lendo Anita Kyomuhendo of Omega Healing Centre; and Solomon Male.
“We want them at the CID headquarters today. If they don’t respond, we shall arrest them,” Ochom warned.
According to Ochom, Mukisa, the 19-year-old boy who alleged he was sodomised by Kayanja in a hotel, confessed that he had been used.
“When our senior detectives called Mukisa for interrogation, he confessed that what he swore in the affidavit were lies. Mukisa said that he was paid sh50,000 per month to damage Pastor Kayanja,” said Ochom.
However, Mukisa at a press conference convened by Male on Saturday said he had been forced by CID officers to retract his earlier statements at gun point.
“I was put at gunpoint and forced to retract and sign a new statement. I feared for my life,” he told journalists. Mukisa is being accommodated by Omega Healing Centre in Namasuba.
In his affidavit, presented by Kaggwa and Company Advocates, Mukisa alleged that he was heading a music group at Kayanja’s ministry for street children which won a music competition and that after the party, Kayanja drove him to an unknown hotel and sodomised him.
“Mukisa alleged that his anus was shattered and that Kayanja brought a female doctor who stitched it. When we took him for medical examination, the Police surgeon found that his anus was intact and had never been stitched,” said Ochom.
He said investigations found out that Mukisa had never been taken to the children’s home.
“In his affidavit he said that his father was the late Richard Bulega of Kitende in Kajjansi and that his mother, Oliver Nansubuga, died in 2008. But when we interrogated him, he said his father was Richard Muyingo and his mother is still alive.”
“Mukisa later told us that he was being used by some pastors.”
Ochom vowed that the Police would not tolerate lies by church leaders.
“We are not going to allow people who are not credible to lead institutions like the church. The church is an institution of high morals.”
The conflict between rival Pentecostal churches, which compete for members, ‘sowing’ money and funds from US churches, has deepened in recent weeks, with pastors accusing each other of homosexuality, kidnap and bribing people to frame them.
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/681656
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POLICE WELFARE IS GOVT RESPONSIBILITY: DAILY MONITOR MAY 16 2009
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Opinions | May 16, 2009
Police welfare is govt responsibility
Government is abdicating the responsibility of ensuring Police welfare, exposing the nation’s law enforcers to manipulation. While Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura’s need to improve his officers’ appalling living conditions in understandable, the practice of accepting hand outs from the public could jeopardise law enforcement.
Last week Third Deputy Prime Minister Kirunda Kivejinja, who is also Minister of Internal Affairs and Maj. Gen. Kayihura defended the practice of accepting offers from the public during a Parliamentary committee on Defense and Internal Affairs. MPs on the committee had raised the red flag over Police’s decision to accept Pastor Robert Kayanja’s renovation of Old Kampala Police Station at a time when he is defending himself against several allegations of inappropriate conduct.
Kayihura says the Constitution allows the Police to cooperate with civil authority and the general population in the execution of its functions. This is vague and leaves the Police vulnerable to manipulation by rich individuals. Though Gen. Kayihura clarified that Kayanja would face the law if he committed a crime, his explanation was not convincing.
Curiously, when Lt. General Katumba Wamala was police chief and he tried to fundraise for double-cabin pick ups, President Museveni ordered him to stop the practice. So what has changed? There is no other country in the world in which government can under-fund a key sector to the point of exposing it to such ridicule. United States of America, for example has the highest concentration of rich individuals in the world, but it is unheard of for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI) to accept any help from them.
Government must, as a matter of urgency, re-arrange it’s priorities and free resources to cater for the welfare of the men and women serving in our armed forces. As a starting point, all Police barracks must be renovated to be fit for human habitation. Improvement of salaries can follow later.
However well intentioned, the practice of leaving the welfare of the Police force to the goodwill of the public is unsustainable and could easily boomerang. State institutions should serve the public good and not the interests of a few individuals, however wealthy.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Police_welfare_is_govt_responsibility_84900.shtml
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PASTOR KAYANJA TO RENOVATE POLICE BARRACKS: All Africa, March 12, 2009
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Uganda: Pastor Kayanja to Renovate Old Kampala Police Barracks |All Africa March 12, 2009
Anthony Bugembe
12 March 2009
Kampala — PASTOR Robert Kayanja of Kampala Miracle Centre has offered to give Old Kampala Police barracks a face lift.
This will involve repairing the dilapidated structures, replacing the asbestos with iron sheets, planting grass on the compound and setting up a video hall.
"My team is coming here on Tuesday. We will start with one block and see how things progress," Kayanja said.
The pastor said the houses would be roofed, painted and that electrical installations and plumbing would be done.
"We have the experts to do the job. We urge you to join us because this is a communal effort," Kayanja said at the barracks on Tuesday.
"The Police are part of us. We run to them for protection, especially when we have big events like the New Year prayers," said Kayanja.
"We shall do everything in our means to help them. By the end of this year, this will be the best looking barracks in Kampala."
Last week, Police chief Kale Kayihura initiated the renovation of the barracks to improve the living conditions of the officers. He said the Police would rely on its meagre resources and the private sector to implement the programme.
Relevant Links
Augustine Kasangaki, the officer-in-charge of the station, said each block was designed to house only four families.
"The barracks is now home to 123 Police families. That means each block now houses between four to eight families," he said.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said: "We are grateful to people who appreciate our challenges and go out of their way to offer a hand."
Kayanja's team also offered groceries to the officers. The barracks was built in 1955.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903130015.html
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PASTOR KAYANJA CREATES A TRICKY POLICE SITUATION: Daily Monitor, March 29, 2009
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Pastor Kayanja creates a tricky police situation | Daily Monitor March 29, 2009
"There is a difference in opinion among senior police officers over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s recent offerings to the Force. Recently, Pastor Kayanja offered material assistance to the families of police officers of Old Kamapala Police Station. He then promised to ensure that the dilapidated police quarters are rehabilitated. Although Police Chief Kale Kayihura accepted the offer, other officers have had second thoughts about it. The police say that it leaves them in a compromising position since the man was once the subject of an inquiry into suspected wine smuggling. A parallel Uganda Revenue Authority investigation faded quietly into the distance. It is because of this past that the Old Kampala offer has attracted attention."
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/political_grapevine/What_next_for_IGG_Mwondha_printer.shtml
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POLICE CRITICIZED OVER PASTOR KAYANJA'S OFFER: New Vision, April 16, 2009
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Police criticised over Kayanja offer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678328
Thursday, 16th April, 2009
By Mary Karugaba
Members of Parliament have questioned the Police Force for accepting Pastor Robert Kayanja and other individuals’ offer to renovate Police barracks.
The MPs on the public accounts committee yesterday asked officials headed by the undersecretary, Winnie Kabogoza, to explain why they accepted the offer.
They said such offers would compromise the Police’s impartiality.
“Allowing people to do work for you is putting you in a fix. How then are you going to treat them when they commit a crime?” the committee chairman, Nandala Mafabi, asked.
MP Tom Kazibwe asked why the force solicited for public offers yet the Government stopped former Police boss Lt.Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala from getting funds to buy patrol vehicles.
“At this rate, you will find hardcore criminals offering to renovate some of your barracks,” Kazibwe said.
Kabogoza said they sought public support because they were disparate.
She said the force received only sh800m annually for maintenance.
“This is part of the private-public partnership. Jomayi property has also come in,” she said.
The Police commissioner in charge of legal services, Samuel Kyomukama, said: “We understand your fears. You can’t feed from someone’s hand and then treat him badly. It’s not good because it compromises the impartiality.”
Asked about allegations of bosses sexually harassing female officers, Kyomukama said: “Police officers are also individuals. They are a mirror of society.”
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http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/332-police-clears-pastor-robert-kayanja-of-sodomy-did-he-bribe-police.html
In a mysterious and 'movie-like’ turn of events, Uganda's Prosperity Gospel Pastor, Robert Kayanja was "cleared" of all Sodomy charges by Police and instead his accusers were summoned for to Police Headquarters.
This comes after Pastor Robert Kayanja offered to "Renovate" Ugandan Police Headquarters, a move that was highly criticized by The Parliament - Uganda's Legislative Body, The Media, and the Public.
It was seen that Pastor Robert Kayanja would never be thoroughly investigated but the Ugandan Police would do him 'favors' because of the money he "donated" to renovate Ugandan Police Staff Quarters which are in a deplorable state.
However, it is known and common in Uganda that The Police never acts in the interest of the public but the powerful like Kayanja who have "connections" with President Museveni... It is a sad day for all those young boys who have been abused and sodomized as they will never get justice in Uganda’s corrupt legal system. This is a true case of Obstruction of Justice by Uganda’s Elites...Ugandan Press seems to Report a far different story from 'The Police and Kayanja' Antics...
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SODOMY ROW: CID SUMMONS PASTORS: Daily Monitor May 18, 2009
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News | May 18, 2009
Pastor Kayanja
Sodomy row: CID summons pastors
Andrew Bagala
Kampala
The Police Criminal Investigations Directorate yesterday summoned five pastors on allegations that they set up Pastor Robert Kayanja in a sodomy scandal.
CID Director Edward Ochom said at a press conference that Pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere Community Church, Solomon Male of Arise for Christ, Michael Kyazze, Annet Kyomuhendo and Bob Kayiiira of Omega Healing Centre are expected at CID headquarters in Kibuli today, where they will be interrogated by detectives.
The summons come after CID investigated cases in which seven people including; Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu alleged to have been sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they were serving in his church at Rubaga Miracle Cathedral.
Mr Ochom said the cases were found to be false and the Police had summoned the pastors on allegations of giving false information contrary to section 115 of the Penal Code and false swearing contrary to section 100 of the Penal Code.
“We are going to take tough measures against people who tell lies to the Police because they put the Police credibility to question,” Mr Ochom said.
The development is likely to turn tables with Pastor Kayanja, who recently made a big donation to the police force – renovating Old Kampala Station, moving from defendant to complainant and the Pastors who have been accusing him of sodomy becoming the defendants.
The CID boss’ position on the matter, stems from a Police statement by Mr Mukisa on February 7, alleging that he was an orphan who sought refuge at Pastor Kayanja’s church but was sodomised. He also swore an affidavit to that effect.
Police carried out medical examinations, which indicated the man was not sodomised but a separate independent examination by a doctor at Mulago Hospital did not rule out sodomy. “We have found out that his (Mukisa’s) mother is alive contrary to the first statement he made and his father isn’t Richard Bulega as he alleged but is Richard Muyingo,” Mr Ochom said yesterday.
CID officials said Mr Mukisa has never been part of Kayanja’s church.
But Mukisa yesterday said the CID boss had told lies about him. He also alleged to have been forced by the Police to sign a statement at gun point. “Both of my parents are dead. I am ready to prove all I have said,” Mr Mukisa said in an interview with Daily Monitor.
Both Pastors Male and Ssempa yesterday confirmed receiving the summons. Pastor Ssempa described the development as a “sad one for those helping victims of sodomy”. Daily Monitor couldn’t reach the other pastors.
But the Pastors summoned by CID and particularly Pastor Male have accused the Police of acting suspiciously in the investigation. “Mukisa reported his case to the Police in February. Later, we read that Kayanja had offered to renovate Old Kampala Police Station … If your conscience is really clear, why do you send dummies to people investigating you? Why not allow them to investigate and find you innocent?” Pastor Male said in an interview with the Sunday Vision.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Sodomy_row_CID_summons_pastors_85027.shtml
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POLICE CLEARS PASTOR KAYANJA OF SODOMY: NEW VISION MAY 18, 2009
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Police clear Pastor Kayanja of sodomy
Sunday, 17th May, 2009
By Patrick Jaramogi
THE POLICE yesterday described allegations of sodomy against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre as “baseless”, “fabricated” and “full of lies”.
“We have been carrying out investigations following allegations of sodomy by Pastor Robert Kayanja. The allegations were grave because they involved the church, but the revelations were unbelievable,” said Edward Ochom, the Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), at a press conference at his headquarters in Kibuli.
“Pastor Kayanja has no case because all six complainants who reported to the Police have retracted their complaints, saying they were set up by some pastors. We shall proceed with the case when any other person comes up with a complaint.”
The Police listed Samson Mukisa, David Mukalazi, Brian Ntwata, Robson Matovu, Ronnie Mutebi and Brian Ankansima as people who have since retracted their statements.
Ochom warned of stern measures against people who tell lies to the Police.
“These people have been summoned to explain.”
He listed those summoned as pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere University Community Church; Michael Kyazze, Robert Kayiira and Lendo Anita Kyomuhendo of Omega Healing Centre; and Solomon Male.
“We want them at the CID headquarters today. If they don’t respond, we shall arrest them,” Ochom warned.
According to Ochom, Mukisa, the 19-year-old boy who alleged he was sodomised by Kayanja in a hotel, confessed that he had been used.
“When our senior detectives called Mukisa for interrogation, he confessed that what he swore in the affidavit were lies. Mukisa said that he was paid sh50,000 per month to damage Pastor Kayanja,” said Ochom.
However, Mukisa at a press conference convened by Male on Saturday said he had been forced by CID officers to retract his earlier statements at gun point.
“I was put at gunpoint and forced to retract and sign a new statement. I feared for my life,” he told journalists. Mukisa is being accommodated by Omega Healing Centre in Namasuba.
In his affidavit, presented by Kaggwa and Company Advocates, Mukisa alleged that he was heading a music group at Kayanja’s ministry for street children which won a music competition and that after the party, Kayanja drove him to an unknown hotel and sodomised him.
“Mukisa alleged that his anus was shattered and that Kayanja brought a female doctor who stitched it. When we took him for medical examination, the Police surgeon found that his anus was intact and had never been stitched,” said Ochom.
He said investigations found out that Mukisa had never been taken to the children’s home.
“In his affidavit he said that his father was the late Richard Bulega of Kitende in Kajjansi and that his mother, Oliver Nansubuga, died in 2008. But when we interrogated him, he said his father was Richard Muyingo and his mother is still alive.”
“Mukisa later told us that he was being used by some pastors.”
Ochom vowed that the Police would not tolerate lies by church leaders.
“We are not going to allow people who are not credible to lead institutions like the church. The church is an institution of high morals.”
The conflict between rival Pentecostal churches, which compete for members, ‘sowing’ money and funds from US churches, has deepened in recent weeks, with pastors accusing each other of homosexuality, kidnap and bribing people to frame them.
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/681656
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POLICE WELFARE IS GOVT RESPONSIBILITY: DAILY MONITOR MAY 16 2009
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Opinions | May 16, 2009
Police welfare is govt responsibility
Government is abdicating the responsibility of ensuring Police welfare, exposing the nation’s law enforcers to manipulation. While Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura’s need to improve his officers’ appalling living conditions in understandable, the practice of accepting hand outs from the public could jeopardise law enforcement.
Last week Third Deputy Prime Minister Kirunda Kivejinja, who is also Minister of Internal Affairs and Maj. Gen. Kayihura defended the practice of accepting offers from the public during a Parliamentary committee on Defense and Internal Affairs. MPs on the committee had raised the red flag over Police’s decision to accept Pastor Robert Kayanja’s renovation of Old Kampala Police Station at a time when he is defending himself against several allegations of inappropriate conduct.
Kayihura says the Constitution allows the Police to cooperate with civil authority and the general population in the execution of its functions. This is vague and leaves the Police vulnerable to manipulation by rich individuals. Though Gen. Kayihura clarified that Kayanja would face the law if he committed a crime, his explanation was not convincing.
Curiously, when Lt. General Katumba Wamala was police chief and he tried to fundraise for double-cabin pick ups, President Museveni ordered him to stop the practice. So what has changed? There is no other country in the world in which government can under-fund a key sector to the point of exposing it to such ridicule. United States of America, for example has the highest concentration of rich individuals in the world, but it is unheard of for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI) to accept any help from them.
Government must, as a matter of urgency, re-arrange it’s priorities and free resources to cater for the welfare of the men and women serving in our armed forces. As a starting point, all Police barracks must be renovated to be fit for human habitation. Improvement of salaries can follow later.
However well intentioned, the practice of leaving the welfare of the Police force to the goodwill of the public is unsustainable and could easily boomerang. State institutions should serve the public good and not the interests of a few individuals, however wealthy.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Police_welfare_is_govt_responsibility_84900.shtml
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PASTOR KAYANJA TO RENOVATE POLICE BARRACKS: All Africa, March 12, 2009
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Uganda: Pastor Kayanja to Renovate Old Kampala Police Barracks |All Africa March 12, 2009
Anthony Bugembe
12 March 2009
Kampala — PASTOR Robert Kayanja of Kampala Miracle Centre has offered to give Old Kampala Police barracks a face lift.
This will involve repairing the dilapidated structures, replacing the asbestos with iron sheets, planting grass on the compound and setting up a video hall.
"My team is coming here on Tuesday. We will start with one block and see how things progress," Kayanja said.
The pastor said the houses would be roofed, painted and that electrical installations and plumbing would be done.
"We have the experts to do the job. We urge you to join us because this is a communal effort," Kayanja said at the barracks on Tuesday.
"The Police are part of us. We run to them for protection, especially when we have big events like the New Year prayers," said Kayanja.
"We shall do everything in our means to help them. By the end of this year, this will be the best looking barracks in Kampala."
Last week, Police chief Kale Kayihura initiated the renovation of the barracks to improve the living conditions of the officers. He said the Police would rely on its meagre resources and the private sector to implement the programme.
Relevant Links
Augustine Kasangaki, the officer-in-charge of the station, said each block was designed to house only four families.
"The barracks is now home to 123 Police families. That means each block now houses between four to eight families," he said.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said: "We are grateful to people who appreciate our challenges and go out of their way to offer a hand."
Kayanja's team also offered groceries to the officers. The barracks was built in 1955.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903130015.html
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PASTOR KAYANJA CREATES A TRICKY POLICE SITUATION: Daily Monitor, March 29, 2009
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Pastor Kayanja creates a tricky police situation | Daily Monitor March 29, 2009
"There is a difference in opinion among senior police officers over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s recent offerings to the Force. Recently, Pastor Kayanja offered material assistance to the families of police officers of Old Kamapala Police Station. He then promised to ensure that the dilapidated police quarters are rehabilitated. Although Police Chief Kale Kayihura accepted the offer, other officers have had second thoughts about it. The police say that it leaves them in a compromising position since the man was once the subject of an inquiry into suspected wine smuggling. A parallel Uganda Revenue Authority investigation faded quietly into the distance. It is because of this past that the Old Kampala offer has attracted attention."
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/political_grapevine/What_next_for_IGG_Mwondha_printer.shtml
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POLICE CRITICIZED OVER PASTOR KAYANJA'S OFFER: New Vision, April 16, 2009
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Police criticised over Kayanja offer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678328
Thursday, 16th April, 2009
By Mary Karugaba
Members of Parliament have questioned the Police Force for accepting Pastor Robert Kayanja and other individuals’ offer to renovate Police barracks.
The MPs on the public accounts committee yesterday asked officials headed by the undersecretary, Winnie Kabogoza, to explain why they accepted the offer.
They said such offers would compromise the Police’s impartiality.
“Allowing people to do work for you is putting you in a fix. How then are you going to treat them when they commit a crime?” the committee chairman, Nandala Mafabi, asked.
MP Tom Kazibwe asked why the force solicited for public offers yet the Government stopped former Police boss Lt.Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala from getting funds to buy patrol vehicles.
“At this rate, you will find hardcore criminals offering to renovate some of your barracks,” Kazibwe said.
Kabogoza said they sought public support because they were disparate.
She said the force received only sh800m annually for maintenance.
“This is part of the private-public partnership. Jomayi property has also come in,” she said.
The Police commissioner in charge of legal services, Samuel Kyomukama, said: “We understand your fears. You can’t feed from someone’s hand and then treat him badly. It’s not good because it compromises the impartiality.”
Asked about allegations of bosses sexually harassing female officers, Kyomukama said: “Police officers are also individuals. They are a mirror of society.”
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Interview: Pastor Robert Kayanja should be investigated over sodomy
Kayanja should be investigated over sodomy | Sunday Vision, May 17, 2009 | Pastor Robert Kayanja's Response Below
ACCUSATIONS, counter accusation and allegations are rife in the born again churches with the crux being sodomy. Pastor Male is at the front of the anti-sodomy campaign and here he answers questions from Sunday Vision.
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/329-interview-pastor-robert-kayanja-should-be-investigated-over-sodomy.html
By Esther Namugoji
You have been accused of tarnishing Pastor Robert Kayanja’s name. Why?
We are not defaming him. What we are doing is helping victims of sodomy. It is not us saying that Kayanja sodomised. The person who filed a case at with the Police is Samson Mukisa, not Male or Ssempa. What he is claiming is just diversionary. Why do boys come up to say he has sodomised them? Some of his fellow pastors know it but they fear his connections.
There are disparities in Mukisa’s testimony.
The boy said they had a competition among the children in the street kids’ ministry. They divided into groups just for the occasion. ‘Group A’ cannot really be a name of a choir. The dates that Kayanja is quoting are not in the boy’s affidavit. If it is in a Police statement, I cannot say because the boy was alone with the Police when he made it. When we asked him he said he could not remember the exact dates.
So who knows where these dates came from? Besides, at first on UBC TV Kayanja’s assistant was quoting the affidavit. It was only after I appeared on WBS TV and said there were no dates in the affidavit that he started saying he got the dates from the Police.
You are said to be behind the kidnap, harassment and attempted murder of two people from Kayanja’s church.
We have victims who are ready to testify without being forced. Wouldn’t it be foolish to kidnap somebody and promise him money to force him to confess that Kayanja sodomised him, when there are others willing to say the same thing? We are not that desperate. That is why we called for a public inquiry into all this.
Kayanja says we hate him, we framed him and kidnapped his people. I have read the latest kidnap story and I have to call it ‘Miraclewood’. Like we have Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood, this one is drama made in Miracle Centre. I, Male have no money. Why would I spend sh240m to frame Kayanja? Kyazze is not rich. Ssempa even lives in a rented house. Where do we stand to benefit?
It’s a tactical move to make people not to trust anyone who comes up to say Kayanja sodomised them. It is also aimed at scaring other boys from coming out.
Kayanja says Herbert Tumukunde was promised money in exchange for the information.
I don’t know whether money was promised. I’ve come to think that Kayanja is the one who sent the boy to us in the first place to try to trap us, thinking we’re fools. So he sends someone who he knows will later deny.
Mukisa reported his case to the Police in February. Later we read that Kayanja had offered to renovate Old Kampala Police Station. Before long, Tumukunde came to Pastor Kyazze, saying Kayanja sodomised him and that there was video evidence. Pastor Kyazze who was travelling left Kayiira in charge of helping Tumukunde sign an affidavit and go for a medical test. Tumukunde asked Kayiira to meet him at Garden City rather than Omega Healing Centre because he feared he was being followed.
The boy told Kayiira to bring a laptop to download the material at Miracle Centre. But Kayiira opted to wait at Nabunya Road. On that Friday, after waiting for a long time for the boy, he walked away.
Later he returned after being called by Tumukunde’s friend and armed men in plainclothes emerged from the bush. One of them shot in the air, forcing Kayiira to drop to the ground and he was frog-marched towards the church. As they neared the place, they made him stand up and walk. The Police was then called in to arrest him.
My question is, who arrested Kayiira? Besides, Kayiira was simply helping the boy who had reported something to him. And if your conscience is really clear, why do you send dummies to people investigating you? Why not allow them to investigate and find you innocent?
Q: Why didn’t you go to the police instead of doing the investigations yourself?
There is no law that prohibits an individual like Male or Kayiira from investigating a crime.
Two boys had come to us before after years of waiting for police to act on their report that Pastor Kitaka sodomised them. They had instead been harassed and were now nursing ideas of going to bomb Liberty Worship Centre. We counselled them to drop the idea and tried to help them go to police. Up to now those boys have never got justice.
Remember in pastor Kiwewesi’s case, the accuser Arinaitwe became the accused. Kiwewesi threatened to sue me but after the boy was arrested, that was the end of the case.
Q: He could have chosen to forgive you.
I don’t think that Kiwewesi, who did not have mercy on Arinaitwe, could have mercy on Male.
Q: Aren’t you just out to disorganise the Pentecostal churches unfairly?
The person who is disorganising the church is Kayanja. All he as to do is to resign and let one of his assistants take over while he is investigated. If church leaders had dealt with the issue instead of covering it up, this problem would not arise.
Published on: Saturday, 16th May, 2009
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=130&newsId=681562
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PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA'S RESPONSE
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They just want to tarnish my name | Sunday Vision May 17, 2009
Kayanja cries foul
MIRACLE Centre Churches founder Pastor Robert Kayanja has accused pastors Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Michael Kyazze of defamation, kidnap and other criminal acts relating to the allegations that he sexually abused a boy. Male says the kidnaps were cooked up by Kayanja to frame them and divert attention from the real issue. Esther Namugoji asked Kayanja about the deepening saga.
You have been accused of sexually abusing a young boy called Samuel Mukisa. Is this true?
It’s absolutely false and it saddens me to see that people will go to great depths to destroy someone’s name. I don’t know the boy, Samson Mukisa. We have looked in our records of the boys in our project and his name is not there.
Secondly, the dates he says that these things happened, that is June 25 and 26, I was not in the country. My records, itinerary and passport do not put me in Uganda from June 11 to July 2, 2008. It is very sad that someone would do something like this and you ask yourself : ‘why?’
In his affidavit, the boy mentions a choir competition at the church in which group A, which he was leading won. He says I took him to a hotel where I sodomised him. That is all false because there is no choir by that name in our church. The funny thing is that he can remember everything that happened to him but he cannot remember the hotel that I supposedly took him to. He says that a doctor wrote on his medical report that he is musilu, meaning he is mad, so that he could be taken to Kampiringisa Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre.
I have never seen a doctor writing in Luganda. Besides, Kampiringisa is not for mad people but it is for rehabilitation. That is another inconsistency. He says we bribed these people to take him there. They forget that in 2002 Parliament decided that before anyone is taken to Kampiringisa a court order has to be issued. These people are not only accusing Kayanja but they are accusing the medical fraternity, the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development and the administration of Kampiringisa of violating the law.
They are even accusing the Police surgeon of breaking the law. The Police surgeon examined the boy and said there was no sign of sodomy. Not satisfied, they went to a doctor in Mulago who made the same observations, just that he added that ‘however’ (sodomy) could not be ruled out.
You should get these doctors to face the press and tell us exactly what they meant by ‘however’ so that the country and the world knows on which basis ‘however’ was stated.
You accuse these pastors of tarnishing your name. Why would they do that?
I am not accusing them because I am not the accuser of the brethren. I am stating that they have tarnished my name and indeed they have, and I have proof.
What proof do you have?
The first proof is the media where they have been making their statements and there is much more. I can’t tell you but I have concrete evidence that I will present in court.
There are questions about how Pastor Robert Kayira was arrested at your church for criminal trespass.
He was arrested within our campus. Our campus stretches over 20 acres. This is private property; even though church is a public place, it has perimeters. There is security in this place, we have guards and surveillance. We had an incident in 2004 when thieves broke into our church and stole computers when we had gone for a crusade in Nairobi, Kenya. I don’t know what they were looking for — maybe we can connect it to this case. But since then we have been vigilant.
(Solomon) Male said Kayira was arrested at Nabunya Road and brought here on his knees. But there were no marks on his knees. The Police is better these days. They came here, took pictures and measured the distance of the place and they are finding him to be a liar. Besides, how could a 16-year-old convince a 30 or 40-year-old man to go to another church, past midnight? Government is asking Parliament for permission to tap private phone calls, so why would someone come to get private information without consent?
Why mislead a minor, to commit a crime with you? According to the law, the adult assumes full responsibility for the crime. They targeted him and many others — you will hear other stories — because he was vulnerable. How did he get Kyazze’s phone contact to approach him for help? Kayira does not even deny that even that night he had brought sh200,000 for the boy. He had even been promised sh600,000 and more millions later. How do you promise a young boy such huge amounts of money?
They say the kidnap of your assistant, Chris Muwonge was faked by your agents. What is the truth?
The amazing thing is that if you are a crook and a liar you presume that everyone else is a crook and a liar. Why would Male want us to believe that someone was sodomised, but not believe that someone was kidnapped? A key witness of the Kayira case was abducted and almost burnt alive by those same people.
You are talking about Herbert Tumukunde?
Yes. When I was speaking on KFM, everyone at church was glued to the radios to hear the interview. While their attention was on the radio, Tumukunde got a phone call to go and meet somebody outside. He was grabbed and beaten. They poured paraffin on him and would have burnt him if they had not heard some people walking nearby.
I have been preaching for over 25 years. My name has been associated with good things, why would I start now to punish my own children (the rehabilitated street children) like this?
Why would I bribe a young man? Nobody would want to see Tumukunde tortured like that. They have been following him, tracking and calling him, telling him to come and talk. They are now using intimidation because he has refused to respond to their plans.
He is a key witness and they think that if they eliminate him they will win the case. We have evidence of Kayira sitting with a 16-year-old boy at Garden City telling him what to say.
How did you know what they were doing?
This is a minor and he is a pastor of another church; he is not his relative. They were not talking about the next sermon. What were they doing?
How did you get the evidence? Someone could argue that everything was pre-arranged so that you could get your evidence.
If you go where there is CCTV your image is captured. I will not discuss how we got it but it is there and it will be used in court.
Pastor Solomon Male says Tumukunde first approached Pastor Kyazze saying he was sodomised by you and then told them to come for the evidence.
Because he is a liar! If he can say that, and thank God he said it because it is going to be used against him. If you have found someone doing something wrong, you go to the Police. This is not a country of mob justice, this is a country with laws.
A decent person will take him to the Police, tell the Police ‘this boy came to me with this problem, the evidence is with Pastor Kayanja’. Then the Police will come by themselves and search for the evidence. But instead they choose to be judge, prosecutor, witness and jury.
What would you do if it were you that a boy reported to for help that he has been sodomised?
You do what everybody else does. You tell him to go to the Police.
Have any come to you?
Many of our children have been picked on over different things but did we go and get guns? No.
Do you seriously believe the pastors you have named are behind the kidnaps and attempted murder?
I am not saying it is them, but there is a thread that weaves across all these cases. The questions are the same. Mukisa’s story was not about kidnap but sodomy. When they kidnapped these boys they wanted them to say the same thing. When I went to the Police, the first thing they asked me was whether I have a special room for sodomising boys. Why would they do that unless someone told them?
What do you think is behind all this?
The heart of man is wicked, that’s what the Bible says. I am dismayed that Pastor Kyazze came down to this level. From the little I know about him, he is a noble person. From the little that I know about Pastor Ssempa he is a noble man. Male, I did not know. I just saw him speaking on TV.
So what are they looking for? They had the child, the medical report and the law, isn’t that enough? Why get involved in all these things?
Whatever they say, they should have gone to the Police. Even if they wanted, there is citizen’s arrest where you tell people, “let’s take this person to the Police. We have heard this”.
But Male says you have strong connections and previous attempts to report such cases have ended up in frustration or the victims arrested.
(Laughs) But people like Jim Muhwezi and Mike Mukula definitely have very strong connections. If Muhwezi can be arrested by the Police, then who is Kayanja (not to be arrested)?
There’s talk about a former personal guard of yours who is linked to homosexuality.
I don’t know who you’re talking about. There have been so many. People come and go, they move on with their lives. There are many pastors like Pastor Karoli, Pastor Godfrey Mukasa and others who were here and have left.
Why did they leave your church?
Why do you leave your father’s house when you are getting married? Do you leave because the beds are short or you don’t like the food? They all moved on to start branches of our church. They even use the name Miracle Centre for their churches. They were even here last month for our 25th anniversary homecoming celebrations.
There are concerns that some male choir members plait their hair, wear earrings and other mannerisms that some people associate with gay people.
This is very sad. I have travelled to different places and I have seen people with plaited hair. (footballer Samuel) Eto’o has plaited hair, but he is a Christian with a wife and children. When Limit X was starting out they had what was known as ‘French cut’ hairstyles and wore rings. People said, ‘how can they do that?’ People want a form of godliness but deny the power therein. I don’t know why young people wear earrings or plait their hair. But we reach out to many youths and they come dressed in unimaginable things but after sometime they change. In the days of Tukutendereza, women would cut off their hair, but today they don’t. That does not define a person. God judges the heart.
Published on: Saturday, 16th May, 2009
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=130&newsId=681561
ACCUSATIONS, counter accusation and allegations are rife in the born again churches with the crux being sodomy. Pastor Male is at the front of the anti-sodomy campaign and here he answers questions from Sunday Vision.
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/329-interview-pastor-robert-kayanja-should-be-investigated-over-sodomy.html
By Esther Namugoji
You have been accused of tarnishing Pastor Robert Kayanja’s name. Why?
We are not defaming him. What we are doing is helping victims of sodomy. It is not us saying that Kayanja sodomised. The person who filed a case at with the Police is Samson Mukisa, not Male or Ssempa. What he is claiming is just diversionary. Why do boys come up to say he has sodomised them? Some of his fellow pastors know it but they fear his connections.
There are disparities in Mukisa’s testimony.
The boy said they had a competition among the children in the street kids’ ministry. They divided into groups just for the occasion. ‘Group A’ cannot really be a name of a choir. The dates that Kayanja is quoting are not in the boy’s affidavit. If it is in a Police statement, I cannot say because the boy was alone with the Police when he made it. When we asked him he said he could not remember the exact dates.
So who knows where these dates came from? Besides, at first on UBC TV Kayanja’s assistant was quoting the affidavit. It was only after I appeared on WBS TV and said there were no dates in the affidavit that he started saying he got the dates from the Police.
You are said to be behind the kidnap, harassment and attempted murder of two people from Kayanja’s church.
We have victims who are ready to testify without being forced. Wouldn’t it be foolish to kidnap somebody and promise him money to force him to confess that Kayanja sodomised him, when there are others willing to say the same thing? We are not that desperate. That is why we called for a public inquiry into all this.
Kayanja says we hate him, we framed him and kidnapped his people. I have read the latest kidnap story and I have to call it ‘Miraclewood’. Like we have Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood, this one is drama made in Miracle Centre. I, Male have no money. Why would I spend sh240m to frame Kayanja? Kyazze is not rich. Ssempa even lives in a rented house. Where do we stand to benefit?
It’s a tactical move to make people not to trust anyone who comes up to say Kayanja sodomised them. It is also aimed at scaring other boys from coming out.
Kayanja says Herbert Tumukunde was promised money in exchange for the information.
I don’t know whether money was promised. I’ve come to think that Kayanja is the one who sent the boy to us in the first place to try to trap us, thinking we’re fools. So he sends someone who he knows will later deny.
Mukisa reported his case to the Police in February. Later we read that Kayanja had offered to renovate Old Kampala Police Station. Before long, Tumukunde came to Pastor Kyazze, saying Kayanja sodomised him and that there was video evidence. Pastor Kyazze who was travelling left Kayiira in charge of helping Tumukunde sign an affidavit and go for a medical test. Tumukunde asked Kayiira to meet him at Garden City rather than Omega Healing Centre because he feared he was being followed.
The boy told Kayiira to bring a laptop to download the material at Miracle Centre. But Kayiira opted to wait at Nabunya Road. On that Friday, after waiting for a long time for the boy, he walked away.
Later he returned after being called by Tumukunde’s friend and armed men in plainclothes emerged from the bush. One of them shot in the air, forcing Kayiira to drop to the ground and he was frog-marched towards the church. As they neared the place, they made him stand up and walk. The Police was then called in to arrest him.
My question is, who arrested Kayiira? Besides, Kayiira was simply helping the boy who had reported something to him. And if your conscience is really clear, why do you send dummies to people investigating you? Why not allow them to investigate and find you innocent?
Q: Why didn’t you go to the police instead of doing the investigations yourself?
There is no law that prohibits an individual like Male or Kayiira from investigating a crime.
Two boys had come to us before after years of waiting for police to act on their report that Pastor Kitaka sodomised them. They had instead been harassed and were now nursing ideas of going to bomb Liberty Worship Centre. We counselled them to drop the idea and tried to help them go to police. Up to now those boys have never got justice.
Remember in pastor Kiwewesi’s case, the accuser Arinaitwe became the accused. Kiwewesi threatened to sue me but after the boy was arrested, that was the end of the case.
Q: He could have chosen to forgive you.
I don’t think that Kiwewesi, who did not have mercy on Arinaitwe, could have mercy on Male.
Q: Aren’t you just out to disorganise the Pentecostal churches unfairly?
The person who is disorganising the church is Kayanja. All he as to do is to resign and let one of his assistants take over while he is investigated. If church leaders had dealt with the issue instead of covering it up, this problem would not arise.
Published on: Saturday, 16th May, 2009
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=130&newsId=681562
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PASTOR ROBERT KAYANJA'S RESPONSE
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They just want to tarnish my name | Sunday Vision May 17, 2009
Kayanja cries foul
MIRACLE Centre Churches founder Pastor Robert Kayanja has accused pastors Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa and Michael Kyazze of defamation, kidnap and other criminal acts relating to the allegations that he sexually abused a boy. Male says the kidnaps were cooked up by Kayanja to frame them and divert attention from the real issue. Esther Namugoji asked Kayanja about the deepening saga.
You have been accused of sexually abusing a young boy called Samuel Mukisa. Is this true?
It’s absolutely false and it saddens me to see that people will go to great depths to destroy someone’s name. I don’t know the boy, Samson Mukisa. We have looked in our records of the boys in our project and his name is not there.
Secondly, the dates he says that these things happened, that is June 25 and 26, I was not in the country. My records, itinerary and passport do not put me in Uganda from June 11 to July 2, 2008. It is very sad that someone would do something like this and you ask yourself : ‘why?’
In his affidavit, the boy mentions a choir competition at the church in which group A, which he was leading won. He says I took him to a hotel where I sodomised him. That is all false because there is no choir by that name in our church. The funny thing is that he can remember everything that happened to him but he cannot remember the hotel that I supposedly took him to. He says that a doctor wrote on his medical report that he is musilu, meaning he is mad, so that he could be taken to Kampiringisa Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre.
I have never seen a doctor writing in Luganda. Besides, Kampiringisa is not for mad people but it is for rehabilitation. That is another inconsistency. He says we bribed these people to take him there. They forget that in 2002 Parliament decided that before anyone is taken to Kampiringisa a court order has to be issued. These people are not only accusing Kayanja but they are accusing the medical fraternity, the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development and the administration of Kampiringisa of violating the law.
They are even accusing the Police surgeon of breaking the law. The Police surgeon examined the boy and said there was no sign of sodomy. Not satisfied, they went to a doctor in Mulago who made the same observations, just that he added that ‘however’ (sodomy) could not be ruled out.
You should get these doctors to face the press and tell us exactly what they meant by ‘however’ so that the country and the world knows on which basis ‘however’ was stated.
You accuse these pastors of tarnishing your name. Why would they do that?
I am not accusing them because I am not the accuser of the brethren. I am stating that they have tarnished my name and indeed they have, and I have proof.
What proof do you have?
The first proof is the media where they have been making their statements and there is much more. I can’t tell you but I have concrete evidence that I will present in court.
There are questions about how Pastor Robert Kayira was arrested at your church for criminal trespass.
He was arrested within our campus. Our campus stretches over 20 acres. This is private property; even though church is a public place, it has perimeters. There is security in this place, we have guards and surveillance. We had an incident in 2004 when thieves broke into our church and stole computers when we had gone for a crusade in Nairobi, Kenya. I don’t know what they were looking for — maybe we can connect it to this case. But since then we have been vigilant.
(Solomon) Male said Kayira was arrested at Nabunya Road and brought here on his knees. But there were no marks on his knees. The Police is better these days. They came here, took pictures and measured the distance of the place and they are finding him to be a liar. Besides, how could a 16-year-old convince a 30 or 40-year-old man to go to another church, past midnight? Government is asking Parliament for permission to tap private phone calls, so why would someone come to get private information without consent?
Why mislead a minor, to commit a crime with you? According to the law, the adult assumes full responsibility for the crime. They targeted him and many others — you will hear other stories — because he was vulnerable. How did he get Kyazze’s phone contact to approach him for help? Kayira does not even deny that even that night he had brought sh200,000 for the boy. He had even been promised sh600,000 and more millions later. How do you promise a young boy such huge amounts of money?
They say the kidnap of your assistant, Chris Muwonge was faked by your agents. What is the truth?
The amazing thing is that if you are a crook and a liar you presume that everyone else is a crook and a liar. Why would Male want us to believe that someone was sodomised, but not believe that someone was kidnapped? A key witness of the Kayira case was abducted and almost burnt alive by those same people.
You are talking about Herbert Tumukunde?
Yes. When I was speaking on KFM, everyone at church was glued to the radios to hear the interview. While their attention was on the radio, Tumukunde got a phone call to go and meet somebody outside. He was grabbed and beaten. They poured paraffin on him and would have burnt him if they had not heard some people walking nearby.
I have been preaching for over 25 years. My name has been associated with good things, why would I start now to punish my own children (the rehabilitated street children) like this?
Why would I bribe a young man? Nobody would want to see Tumukunde tortured like that. They have been following him, tracking and calling him, telling him to come and talk. They are now using intimidation because he has refused to respond to their plans.
He is a key witness and they think that if they eliminate him they will win the case. We have evidence of Kayira sitting with a 16-year-old boy at Garden City telling him what to say.
How did you know what they were doing?
This is a minor and he is a pastor of another church; he is not his relative. They were not talking about the next sermon. What were they doing?
How did you get the evidence? Someone could argue that everything was pre-arranged so that you could get your evidence.
If you go where there is CCTV your image is captured. I will not discuss how we got it but it is there and it will be used in court.
Pastor Solomon Male says Tumukunde first approached Pastor Kyazze saying he was sodomised by you and then told them to come for the evidence.
Because he is a liar! If he can say that, and thank God he said it because it is going to be used against him. If you have found someone doing something wrong, you go to the Police. This is not a country of mob justice, this is a country with laws.
A decent person will take him to the Police, tell the Police ‘this boy came to me with this problem, the evidence is with Pastor Kayanja’. Then the Police will come by themselves and search for the evidence. But instead they choose to be judge, prosecutor, witness and jury.
What would you do if it were you that a boy reported to for help that he has been sodomised?
You do what everybody else does. You tell him to go to the Police.
Have any come to you?
Many of our children have been picked on over different things but did we go and get guns? No.
Do you seriously believe the pastors you have named are behind the kidnaps and attempted murder?
I am not saying it is them, but there is a thread that weaves across all these cases. The questions are the same. Mukisa’s story was not about kidnap but sodomy. When they kidnapped these boys they wanted them to say the same thing. When I went to the Police, the first thing they asked me was whether I have a special room for sodomising boys. Why would they do that unless someone told them?
What do you think is behind all this?
The heart of man is wicked, that’s what the Bible says. I am dismayed that Pastor Kyazze came down to this level. From the little I know about him, he is a noble person. From the little that I know about Pastor Ssempa he is a noble man. Male, I did not know. I just saw him speaking on TV.
So what are they looking for? They had the child, the medical report and the law, isn’t that enough? Why get involved in all these things?
Whatever they say, they should have gone to the Police. Even if they wanted, there is citizen’s arrest where you tell people, “let’s take this person to the Police. We have heard this”.
But Male says you have strong connections and previous attempts to report such cases have ended up in frustration or the victims arrested.
(Laughs) But people like Jim Muhwezi and Mike Mukula definitely have very strong connections. If Muhwezi can be arrested by the Police, then who is Kayanja (not to be arrested)?
There’s talk about a former personal guard of yours who is linked to homosexuality.
I don’t know who you’re talking about. There have been so many. People come and go, they move on with their lives. There are many pastors like Pastor Karoli, Pastor Godfrey Mukasa and others who were here and have left.
Why did they leave your church?
Why do you leave your father’s house when you are getting married? Do you leave because the beds are short or you don’t like the food? They all moved on to start branches of our church. They even use the name Miracle Centre for their churches. They were even here last month for our 25th anniversary homecoming celebrations.
There are concerns that some male choir members plait their hair, wear earrings and other mannerisms that some people associate with gay people.
This is very sad. I have travelled to different places and I have seen people with plaited hair. (footballer Samuel) Eto’o has plaited hair, but he is a Christian with a wife and children. When Limit X was starting out they had what was known as ‘French cut’ hairstyles and wore rings. People said, ‘how can they do that?’ People want a form of godliness but deny the power therein. I don’t know why young people wear earrings or plait their hair. But we reach out to many youths and they come dressed in unimaginable things but after sometime they change. In the days of Tukutendereza, women would cut off their hair, but today they don’t. That does not define a person. God judges the heart.
Published on: Saturday, 16th May, 2009
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=130&newsId=681561
WONDERING WHY PASTOR SOLOMON MALE WAS DISOWNED BY PASTOR JOSEPH SSERWADDA AND HIS BORN AGAIN FAITH FEDERATION PHARISEES
23 Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?” 24 But Jesus answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things: 25 The baptism of John—where was it from? From heaven or from men?” And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all count John as a prophet.” 27 So they answered Jesus and said, “We do not know.” And He said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. (Matthew 21:23-27 )
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/328-why-pastor-solomon-male-was-disowned-by-pastor-joseph-sserwada-and-pharisees-inc.html
I could not help laughing when pastors under the so called born again faith federation went to the press to openly disown Pastor Solomon Male of Arising for Christ ministries. They called Pastor Solomon Male a liar and an accuser of the brethren. They argued that Pastor Male has no moral authority to speak for born again Christians because he does not own a church. Pastor Solomon Male has been called all kinds of names. One naïve prosperity pastor called him a demon. By calling him an accuser of the Brethren Pastor Simeon Kayiwa is equating Pastor Male to Satan (Rev.1210).
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. John 3:20
WHEN YOU THROW A BIG STONE IN A DEEP HOLE AND HEAR SOMETHING WAILING, YOU DEFINITELY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HIT SOMETHING BIG. SURELY PASTOR MALE HAS HIT A MONSTER
We have been watching and examining Pastor Solomon Male’s claims for years now. This Man of God has substance. He is not like Pastor Joseph Sserwada who is a hypocrite and coverer of evil and darkness. When sodomy allegations came up against Pastor Kitaka, Pastor Sserwada often featured on his Impact FM ridiculing the victims of sodomy. Within a short time Pastor Kitaka resigned (What a shame for Pastor Sserwada).
Dear Pastor Sserwada it is written that God is light and in him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5) so by covering works of darkness, don’t you think you are working for the devil. It is written that every one that doeth evil hateth the light (John 2:20). The Lord Jesus Christ said that there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed (Luke 12:2, Luke 8:17, Matt.10:26). So, hiding evil and sin is wastage of time because the word of the Lord must prevail. A person like Pastor Solomon Male who loves to expose evil to light can not be a demon. He can not be Satan.
Pentecostal pastors denounce Male
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/680401
I am not an imposter- says Pastor Male
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/news.asp?about=I+am+not+an+imposter-+says+Pastor+Male+&ID=10074
Ugandan Prosperity Gospel Kingpins Denounce Pastor Male
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/322-ugandan-prosperity-gospel-kingpins-denounce-pastor-male.html
I THOUGHT MOST OF THEM ARE PhDs: A SOUND PhD SHOULD HAVE A MODICUM OF LOGIC
What is amazing is the fact that most of these pastors such as Dr. Joseph Sserwada, Dr. Godfrey Kamese, and Prof. Simeon Kayiwa are ‘Doctors of Philosophy’?? Pastor Male has never claimed to speak for born again Christians in Uganda. He is simply exercising his Christian right and duty to expose evil. He does not need the authority of a cocoon like Born Again Faith Federation.
Where did the Lord Jesus Christ get the authority to expose the Pharisees(Matthew 23)? Where was the baptism of John from??? Where did the Prophets in the Old Testament get authority to expose sin? From man made faith federations!!!-how laughable. Pastor Joseph Sserwada argued that Male is not a Pastor because, he does not own a church. He thinks a church is a building, yet scripture says categorically that God does not dwell in temples made with human hands.
Dr. Pastor Aaron with Hon. Minister Nsaba Butuuro.
http://www.miraclepeople.com/gallery.html
Response To Dr. Aaron Mutebi of Entebbe Miracle Center
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/323-response-to-dr-aaron-mutebi-of-entebbe-miracle-center.html
Pastor Kayiwa's Second PhD
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708260049.html
The University which awarded Dr. Simen Kayiwa a PhD: Curriculum not clear??? How comes this Christian University so much wants to associate itself with politicians like the pastors in Uganda who are their products??
http://lutinternational.com
Dr. Joseph Sserwada is academic counsel???
http://lutinternational.com/content/view/24/39/
President is awarded honorary doctorate degree
http://www.statehouse.go.ug/news.detail.php?category=News&newsId=1028
PASTOR SOLOMON MALE’S ‘GREATEST SIN’ IS EXPOSING THE GREED, SERPENT HISSES AND THE JOHN OBIRI YEBOAH CONNECTIONS OF THE UGANDAN PROSPERITY PASTORS
Pastor Solomon Male rebuked a conman Pastor called Godfrey Lule on a popular FM station
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/66/653059/Maama%20Fiina
One of the fundamental issues that Pastor Solomon Male has exposed is the infestation of the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement by John Obiri Yeboah Spirits (devils). Pastor Male has written a piece titled, ‘’The Desecration of my Kingdom’’. In this piece he exposes the satanic connections of Pentecostal Pastors in Uganda with the John Obiri Yeboah powers. All pastors with John Obiri Yeboah roots hate Pastor Male so much because he was highly close to the system and knew the Satanism in it.
One of the Disciples of John Obiri Yeboah is Prophet Samuel Kakande of Synagogue church of all Nations. Prophet Kakande worked closely with Pastor Solomon Male. Prophet Kakande separated from his former wife Nana Lois also a former discipline of John Obiri Yeboah and the brain behind the John Obiri Yeboah foundation in Uganda.
Prophet Kakande has been disowned by the Pentecostal movement in Uganda but before this happened many pastors in the born again fraternity tried to cover him knowing very well that the moment Prophet Kakande is exposed, they would follow soot. It is said that John Obiri Yeboah was buried in the traditional regalia of an African witch doctor.
The Desecration of my Kingdom
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/126/134692
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/pastor-solomon-males-testmony-on.html
The Confusion of Ugandan Pastors with John Obiri Yeboah connections
All Ugandan Pastors who were close to John Obiri Yeboah or who were initiated by Pastors close to John Obiri Yeboah preach a very confused gospel of healing and material prosperity and political Christianity. These are the guys behind the confusion in the born again fraternity in Uganda.
A good number of pastors who joined to disown Pastor Solomon Male have connections to John Obiri Yeboah and are afraid of being exposed. They are aware that most of their young converts lack this history about them and hence might loose big money if exposed.
Pastor Solomon Male should write a book
I urge Pastor Solomon Male to write a book about the John Obiri Yeboah spirit and the Pentecostal movement in Uganda. I urge all born again Christians in Uganda to familiarize themselves with the history of the born again faith in Uganda
JOHN OBIRI YEBOAH AND SOME OF HIS DISCIPLINES
Prophet Rev. John Obiri Yeboah
http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com
Prophetess Lois Nana, fomer wife of Prophet Samuel Kakande
http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com/whats_new.html
"...Prophetess Lois Nana is a servant of God who has led many people into salvation and deliverance. She was ordained by the late Rev. Prophet John Obiri Yeboah in 1986. Prophetess Lois Nana was born in Mbale District located in Eastern Uganda. She grew into an accountant and worked for the Bank of Uganda and later Nile Breweries where Jesus Christ met her and called her into His service as a Prophetess. She started her duties as a Prophetess in 1986 till the present. hen I look at Prophetess Lois, I see the real picture and character of Jesus Christ. She is humble, meek, Lowly, friendly and treats all people equally no matter where you come from or what denomination. Prophetess Lois Nana has prayed for many people all around the world. I, Pastor Lincoln with my physical eyes, I've seen the sick healed, the demon possessed freed from bondage, the cruel getting back to their senses, jobless getting jobs. All in all she always encourage people to fight for the kingdom of God and put it first in their journey through the world. She always quotes; Matthew 6:33, seek the Kingdom of God first and the rest will come. Today Prophetess Lois has got three Pastors assisting her namely; Pastor Samuel Nsubuga, Pastor Betty and Pastor Lincoln Joel Nsubuga. Not only the three the church has got other standby Pastors including; Pastor Betty Mugerwa, Pastor Masaba, Pastor Moses, Pastor Gimei, Pastor Otim, Pastor Kiyaga and Pastor Sarah acting as the church secretary. The church has a committee of elders including; elder Kezia, elder, Ida, elder Kiyaga, elder Mugerwa, elder Mary etc. Today we have about 500 members in the church and the church grows everyday. Visit our church today for prayers and counselling. For any question don't hesitate to contact the Pastors...." http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com/whats_new.htmll
T.B Joshua a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah
Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua Before Makeover and After Makeover - A Marketable Prophet TB Joshua
http://www.truthwatch.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=103
http://www.truthwatch.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=Search&file=index&action=search&active_stories=1&stories_topics[0]=7
Pastor Samuel Kakande a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah
Pastor/Prophet Kakande in small insert, while President Museveni (with safari hat) of Uganda washes his feet in the "Holy Waters" at Kakande's Church
Pastors disown Kakande
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/498699/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
Disowned pastors hit back
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/219/503339/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
PROSPERITY PASTORS AND POLITICAL CHRISTIANITY IN UGANDA: THE CASE OF PASTOR GODFREY LULE’S SERPENT ANTICS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/04/prosperity-pastors-and-political.html
PASTOR MUWANGUZI’S KIWEDDE
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/60/586296/Omusumba%20william%20Muwanguzi
Pastor Joseph Serwadda was also a close associate of Late Pastor Balabyeekubbo a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah. Pastor Joseph Serwadda is one of the greatest critics of Pastor Male
http://www.victoryuganda.org/index.htm
PASTOR JOSEPH SERWADDA’S KIWEDDE
Monday, 04 May 2009 17:16
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php/amawulire/kasalabecca/5577-omusumba-sserwadda-atuusizza-kiwedde.html
Pastor Kayiwa (with graduation hat) with some of the members of the Latin University he's working with. He was a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah and has called Pastor Solomon Male “Satan”.
"Pastor Accused of Witchcraft, Fraud"
http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=10792&sec=13&con=58
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/pastor-solomon-males-testmony-on.html
Gob bless you
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/328-why-pastor-solomon-male-was-disowned-by-pastor-joseph-sserwada-and-pharisees-inc.html
I could not help laughing when pastors under the so called born again faith federation went to the press to openly disown Pastor Solomon Male of Arising for Christ ministries. They called Pastor Solomon Male a liar and an accuser of the brethren. They argued that Pastor Male has no moral authority to speak for born again Christians because he does not own a church. Pastor Solomon Male has been called all kinds of names. One naïve prosperity pastor called him a demon. By calling him an accuser of the Brethren Pastor Simeon Kayiwa is equating Pastor Male to Satan (Rev.1210).
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. John 3:20
WHEN YOU THROW A BIG STONE IN A DEEP HOLE AND HEAR SOMETHING WAILING, YOU DEFINITELY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HIT SOMETHING BIG. SURELY PASTOR MALE HAS HIT A MONSTER
We have been watching and examining Pastor Solomon Male’s claims for years now. This Man of God has substance. He is not like Pastor Joseph Sserwada who is a hypocrite and coverer of evil and darkness. When sodomy allegations came up against Pastor Kitaka, Pastor Sserwada often featured on his Impact FM ridiculing the victims of sodomy. Within a short time Pastor Kitaka resigned (What a shame for Pastor Sserwada).
Dear Pastor Sserwada it is written that God is light and in him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5) so by covering works of darkness, don’t you think you are working for the devil. It is written that every one that doeth evil hateth the light (John 2:20). The Lord Jesus Christ said that there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed (Luke 12:2, Luke 8:17, Matt.10:26). So, hiding evil and sin is wastage of time because the word of the Lord must prevail. A person like Pastor Solomon Male who loves to expose evil to light can not be a demon. He can not be Satan.
Pentecostal pastors denounce Male
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/680401
I am not an imposter- says Pastor Male
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/news.asp?about=I+am+not+an+imposter-+says+Pastor+Male+&ID=10074
Ugandan Prosperity Gospel Kingpins Denounce Pastor Male
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/322-ugandan-prosperity-gospel-kingpins-denounce-pastor-male.html
I THOUGHT MOST OF THEM ARE PhDs: A SOUND PhD SHOULD HAVE A MODICUM OF LOGIC
What is amazing is the fact that most of these pastors such as Dr. Joseph Sserwada, Dr. Godfrey Kamese, and Prof. Simeon Kayiwa are ‘Doctors of Philosophy’?? Pastor Male has never claimed to speak for born again Christians in Uganda. He is simply exercising his Christian right and duty to expose evil. He does not need the authority of a cocoon like Born Again Faith Federation.
Where did the Lord Jesus Christ get the authority to expose the Pharisees(Matthew 23)? Where was the baptism of John from??? Where did the Prophets in the Old Testament get authority to expose sin? From man made faith federations!!!-how laughable. Pastor Joseph Sserwada argued that Male is not a Pastor because, he does not own a church. He thinks a church is a building, yet scripture says categorically that God does not dwell in temples made with human hands.
Dr. Pastor Aaron with Hon. Minister Nsaba Butuuro.
http://www.miraclepeople.com/gallery.html
Response To Dr. Aaron Mutebi of Entebbe Miracle Center
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/323-response-to-dr-aaron-mutebi-of-entebbe-miracle-center.html
Pastor Kayiwa's Second PhD
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708260049.html
The University which awarded Dr. Simen Kayiwa a PhD: Curriculum not clear??? How comes this Christian University so much wants to associate itself with politicians like the pastors in Uganda who are their products??
http://lutinternational.com
Dr. Joseph Sserwada is academic counsel???
http://lutinternational.com/content/view/24/39/
President is awarded honorary doctorate degree
http://www.statehouse.go.ug/news.detail.php?category=News&newsId=1028
PASTOR SOLOMON MALE’S ‘GREATEST SIN’ IS EXPOSING THE GREED, SERPENT HISSES AND THE JOHN OBIRI YEBOAH CONNECTIONS OF THE UGANDAN PROSPERITY PASTORS
Pastor Solomon Male rebuked a conman Pastor called Godfrey Lule on a popular FM station
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/66/653059/Maama%20Fiina
One of the fundamental issues that Pastor Solomon Male has exposed is the infestation of the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement by John Obiri Yeboah Spirits (devils). Pastor Male has written a piece titled, ‘’The Desecration of my Kingdom’’. In this piece he exposes the satanic connections of Pentecostal Pastors in Uganda with the John Obiri Yeboah powers. All pastors with John Obiri Yeboah roots hate Pastor Male so much because he was highly close to the system and knew the Satanism in it.
One of the Disciples of John Obiri Yeboah is Prophet Samuel Kakande of Synagogue church of all Nations. Prophet Kakande worked closely with Pastor Solomon Male. Prophet Kakande separated from his former wife Nana Lois also a former discipline of John Obiri Yeboah and the brain behind the John Obiri Yeboah foundation in Uganda.
Prophet Kakande has been disowned by the Pentecostal movement in Uganda but before this happened many pastors in the born again fraternity tried to cover him knowing very well that the moment Prophet Kakande is exposed, they would follow soot. It is said that John Obiri Yeboah was buried in the traditional regalia of an African witch doctor.
The Desecration of my Kingdom
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/126/134692
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/pastor-solomon-males-testmony-on.html
The Confusion of Ugandan Pastors with John Obiri Yeboah connections
All Ugandan Pastors who were close to John Obiri Yeboah or who were initiated by Pastors close to John Obiri Yeboah preach a very confused gospel of healing and material prosperity and political Christianity. These are the guys behind the confusion in the born again fraternity in Uganda.
A good number of pastors who joined to disown Pastor Solomon Male have connections to John Obiri Yeboah and are afraid of being exposed. They are aware that most of their young converts lack this history about them and hence might loose big money if exposed.
Pastor Solomon Male should write a book
I urge Pastor Solomon Male to write a book about the John Obiri Yeboah spirit and the Pentecostal movement in Uganda. I urge all born again Christians in Uganda to familiarize themselves with the history of the born again faith in Uganda
JOHN OBIRI YEBOAH AND SOME OF HIS DISCIPLINES
Prophet Rev. John Obiri Yeboah
http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com
Prophetess Lois Nana, fomer wife of Prophet Samuel Kakande
http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com/whats_new.html
"...Prophetess Lois Nana is a servant of God who has led many people into salvation and deliverance. She was ordained by the late Rev. Prophet John Obiri Yeboah in 1986. Prophetess Lois Nana was born in Mbale District located in Eastern Uganda. She grew into an accountant and worked for the Bank of Uganda and later Nile Breweries where Jesus Christ met her and called her into His service as a Prophetess. She started her duties as a Prophetess in 1986 till the present. hen I look at Prophetess Lois, I see the real picture and character of Jesus Christ. She is humble, meek, Lowly, friendly and treats all people equally no matter where you come from or what denomination. Prophetess Lois Nana has prayed for many people all around the world. I, Pastor Lincoln with my physical eyes, I've seen the sick healed, the demon possessed freed from bondage, the cruel getting back to their senses, jobless getting jobs. All in all she always encourage people to fight for the kingdom of God and put it first in their journey through the world. She always quotes; Matthew 6:33, seek the Kingdom of God first and the rest will come. Today Prophetess Lois has got three Pastors assisting her namely; Pastor Samuel Nsubuga, Pastor Betty and Pastor Lincoln Joel Nsubuga. Not only the three the church has got other standby Pastors including; Pastor Betty Mugerwa, Pastor Masaba, Pastor Moses, Pastor Gimei, Pastor Otim, Pastor Kiyaga and Pastor Sarah acting as the church secretary. The church has a committee of elders including; elder Kezia, elder, Ida, elder Kiyaga, elder Mugerwa, elder Mary etc. Today we have about 500 members in the church and the church grows everyday. Visit our church today for prayers and counselling. For any question don't hesitate to contact the Pastors...." http://www.prophetjohnfoundationchurch.4t.com/whats_new.htmll
T.B Joshua a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah
Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua Before Makeover and After Makeover - A Marketable Prophet TB Joshua
http://www.truthwatch.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=103
http://www.truthwatch.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=Search&file=index&action=search&active_stories=1&stories_topics[0]=7
Pastor Samuel Kakande a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah
Pastor/Prophet Kakande in small insert, while President Museveni (with safari hat) of Uganda washes his feet in the "Holy Waters" at Kakande's Church
Pastors disown Kakande
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/498699/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
Disowned pastors hit back
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/219/503339/Pastor%20Solomon%20Male
PROSPERITY PASTORS AND POLITICAL CHRISTIANITY IN UGANDA: THE CASE OF PASTOR GODFREY LULE’S SERPENT ANTICS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/04/prosperity-pastors-and-political.html
PASTOR MUWANGUZI’S KIWEDDE
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/60/586296/Omusumba%20william%20Muwanguzi
Pastor Joseph Serwadda was also a close associate of Late Pastor Balabyeekubbo a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah. Pastor Joseph Serwadda is one of the greatest critics of Pastor Male
http://www.victoryuganda.org/index.htm
PASTOR JOSEPH SERWADDA’S KIWEDDE
Monday, 04 May 2009 17:16
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php/amawulire/kasalabecca/5577-omusumba-sserwadda-atuusizza-kiwedde.html
Pastor Kayiwa (with graduation hat) with some of the members of the Latin University he's working with. He was a disciple of John Obiri Yeboah and has called Pastor Solomon Male “Satan”.
"Pastor Accused of Witchcraft, Fraud"
http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=10792&sec=13&con=58
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/04/pastor-solomon-males-testmony-on.html
Gob bless you
Is Nigerian Bishop David Oyedepo Bullying Ugandan Pastors?
By Kato Mivule | May 17, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/330-is-nigerian-bishop-david-oyedepo-bullying-ugandan-pastors.html
Ugandans got ‘invaded’ by a Nigerian Prosperity Gospel and Curse-Deliverance Czar, Bishop David Oyedepo, of course at the invitation of his branch Church in Kampala, The Winners Chapel. Bishop Oyedepo flew to Uganda aboard his own private Gulf Stream Jet and welcomed by throngs of his followers in Uganda.
Nigeria's Bishop David Oyedepo
Bishop Oyedepo however, found Uganda reeling back and forth at the news that Pastor Robert Kayanja, Uganda’s Prosperity Gospel guru had been accused of Sodomy and molesting a young boy, with a police case filed against Kayanja. Uganda’s Evangelical Church is undergoing a shaking and a divide between the Prosperity Gospel preachers and those who are calling for Sound Doctrine and Leadership Accountability.
It must be remembered that back in the 1990s Bishop Oyedepo caused controversy in Uganda when he opened up his Winners Chapel Church and had people line up and drink Olive Oil so as to receive the prosperity anointing and prosper in riches. Among the Oil Drinkers was Pastor Joseph Sserwada of Victory Christian Center in Kampala who led his church and followers to the Bishop Oyedepo’s conference and the Prosperity Olive Oil Drinking binge begun.
Pastor Joseph Sserwada
It was at that time, that Pastor Martin Ssempa of Makerere Community Church stood up and openly on National Radio Rebuked Pastor Sserwada and told him to stop drinking Olive Oil in search for material prosperity and wealth, as it was unbiblical and a heresy.
Uganda’s Evangelical Churches were shocked as no one in Uganda had heard any Pastor openly rebuke a “Powerful Anointed Man of God” like Pastor Joseph Sserwada. We thought that Pastor Martin Ssempa was going to drop dead and be cursed the rest of his life because our Pastors taught us then “never to touch the Anointed Men of God”.
Pastor Martin Ssempa
However, Pastor Martin Ssempa still lives to this day and is well and alive. My life never stayed the same ever since, I grabbed by critical thinking, reason, and intellect which I had cast aside in fear of “touching the anointed men of God” and decided I would never take the so-called Men of God at face value… The Ayedepo Prosperity Olive Oil drinking movement faded away.
Yet still Bishop Oyedepo flies to Uganda aboard in his private Gulf Stream Jet and is received with all pomp by his Ugandan Followers, after which he lashes out at genuine Ugandan Pastors who are calling for accountability, purity, and Sound Doctrine among Uganda’s Evangelical Church Leaders.
Is Bishop Oyedepo defending Pastor Kayanja????
In his conference in Kampala, Bishop Oyedepo castigated those who ‘speak against the servants of God’ and claimed that the Church in Africa had lost a decade because of infighting between Pastors…
“…He said that Christianity would disintegrate if religious leaders did not stop bickering. “The Church has lost her sense of stewardship and the role of transforming society. It has started disintegrating,” Oyedepo said, urging pastors to get back to the Bible truth instead of fighting one another. Quoting the Bible which says that Christians are the light of the world, Oyedepo said: “Anytime the Church stops shining, darkness will cover the earth.” For a decade, disputes have engulfed Born-again Christian churches, with pastors accusing one another of dishonesty and ungodliness. Today, prominent international evangelist Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral is struggling to uphold his reputation as fellow pastors, led by Solomon Male, accuse him of misconduct. Amid applause from thousands of believers who thronged the conference on Thursday evening, Oyedepo said it was not biblical to defame a servant of God…”
Sunday Vision, May 17, 2009: Church has lost sense of Focus
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=125&newsId=681570
Bishop Oyedepo seemed to totally be out of touch with New Testament Scriptures and instead took on a ride with his populist comments among undiscerning Ugandan Evangelicals. Rather than call Ugandan Pastors to Sound Doctrine and Accountability, Bishop Oyedepo lowered himself to levels of simply playing Church Politics in order to throw support for his Prosperity Gospel comrade Robert Kayanja.
1 Timothy 3:1-3
(1) This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(2) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
(3) Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Titus 1:7-11
(7) For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
(8) But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
(9) Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
(10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:
(11) Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Bishop Oyedepo seemed to conjecture that Africa’s dying and decaying Evangelicalism is a result of bickering among Pastors. Such thinking is not only simplistic but a form of escapism and deliberate ignoring of the duties of the office of a Bishop according to the New Testament, which calls for making sure the saints keep to Sound Biblical Doctrine.
Bishop Oyedepo forgets that he is supposed to contend earnestly for the faith that was delivered to the saints because false teachers and false prophets have with stealth entered the Church. Instead Bishop Oyedepo flirts around with the need of Pastors to return to Bible Truth after which he engages his audience in ‘Escapism Talk’, avoiding the Real issues affecting Uganda’s Evangelical Church and then he engages in ‘Positive Possibility Talk’ by casting his apocalyptic futuristic vision for the Church, a.k.a. his opinion about the future of Africa’s Evangelical Church.
Bishop Oyedepo should be ashamed of himself, why did he waste all his money and jet fuel to fly all the way from Nigeria to Uganda to simply engage in the “Don’t Touch the Anointed Men of God” Mantra? He should have simply sent handouts to Uganda to feed the poor with labels “Don’t Touch the Anointed Men of God” and his message would have been widely received.
Bishop Oyedepo did not even consider that the people he is trying to throw support for might actually be involved in Crimes of Child Abuse which could cause further embarrassment to his “global ministry”.
It is a shame that Bishop Oyedepo failed in his ‘Overseer’ Office to call for repentance, accountability, and sound doctrine among Ugandan Pastors.
Bishop Oyedepo should have been appreciating the efforts of the “small and little” unknown financially poor Ugandan Pastors who have been faithful to The Lord and His Word and have gone all the way to expose criminals in the Church and call for accountability among Ugandan Pastors and the need to return to Sound Bible Doctrine.
"...THE Bishop of the Nigerian-based Living Faith Ministries, commonly called the Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, arrived in Uganda yesterday for a three-day gospel conference. Oyedepo, who arrived at Entebbe Airport aboard a personal jet, was received by a group of pastors and believers. He was driven in a 20-car convoy to Kampala..."Source: New Vision May 14, 2009: Bishop Oyedepo to preach at Africana
Those “small” Pastors might not even afford an economy class airline ticket to Nigeria but at least they have not sold their integrity and faithfulness to Jesus Christ and His Church. Those “small” Pastors deserved to be encouraged rather than ridiculed by a Nigerian Prosperity Gospel Kingpin flying with all pomp to bully poor Ugandan Pastors.
Besides his prosperity gospel and pomp, Bishop Oyedepo has built schools, clinics, and a University in Nigeria and many have benefited from his generosity by gaining a free education. However, Bishop Oyedepo should remember that you cannot separate the Cross from Charity and the Gospel from Giving. It would do Ugandans well to tell us that first we are sinners who need to repent rather than give out handouts and take the true Gospel away from us.
Yet Ugandans crave for accountability and are tired of corruption of both Politicians and Pastors – for the Priest, Prophet, and King are corrupt in Uganda and Bishop Oyedepo seems to wink at them...
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/330-is-nigerian-bishop-david-oyedepo-bullying-ugandan-pastors.html
Ugandans got ‘invaded’ by a Nigerian Prosperity Gospel and Curse-Deliverance Czar, Bishop David Oyedepo, of course at the invitation of his branch Church in Kampala, The Winners Chapel. Bishop Oyedepo flew to Uganda aboard his own private Gulf Stream Jet and welcomed by throngs of his followers in Uganda.
Nigeria's Bishop David Oyedepo
Bishop Oyedepo however, found Uganda reeling back and forth at the news that Pastor Robert Kayanja, Uganda’s Prosperity Gospel guru had been accused of Sodomy and molesting a young boy, with a police case filed against Kayanja. Uganda’s Evangelical Church is undergoing a shaking and a divide between the Prosperity Gospel preachers and those who are calling for Sound Doctrine and Leadership Accountability.
It must be remembered that back in the 1990s Bishop Oyedepo caused controversy in Uganda when he opened up his Winners Chapel Church and had people line up and drink Olive Oil so as to receive the prosperity anointing and prosper in riches. Among the Oil Drinkers was Pastor Joseph Sserwada of Victory Christian Center in Kampala who led his church and followers to the Bishop Oyedepo’s conference and the Prosperity Olive Oil Drinking binge begun.
Pastor Joseph Sserwada
It was at that time, that Pastor Martin Ssempa of Makerere Community Church stood up and openly on National Radio Rebuked Pastor Sserwada and told him to stop drinking Olive Oil in search for material prosperity and wealth, as it was unbiblical and a heresy.
Uganda’s Evangelical Churches were shocked as no one in Uganda had heard any Pastor openly rebuke a “Powerful Anointed Man of God” like Pastor Joseph Sserwada. We thought that Pastor Martin Ssempa was going to drop dead and be cursed the rest of his life because our Pastors taught us then “never to touch the Anointed Men of God”.
Pastor Martin Ssempa
However, Pastor Martin Ssempa still lives to this day and is well and alive. My life never stayed the same ever since, I grabbed by critical thinking, reason, and intellect which I had cast aside in fear of “touching the anointed men of God” and decided I would never take the so-called Men of God at face value… The Ayedepo Prosperity Olive Oil drinking movement faded away.
Yet still Bishop Oyedepo flies to Uganda aboard in his private Gulf Stream Jet and is received with all pomp by his Ugandan Followers, after which he lashes out at genuine Ugandan Pastors who are calling for accountability, purity, and Sound Doctrine among Uganda’s Evangelical Church Leaders.
Is Bishop Oyedepo defending Pastor Kayanja????
In his conference in Kampala, Bishop Oyedepo castigated those who ‘speak against the servants of God’ and claimed that the Church in Africa had lost a decade because of infighting between Pastors…
“…He said that Christianity would disintegrate if religious leaders did not stop bickering. “The Church has lost her sense of stewardship and the role of transforming society. It has started disintegrating,” Oyedepo said, urging pastors to get back to the Bible truth instead of fighting one another. Quoting the Bible which says that Christians are the light of the world, Oyedepo said: “Anytime the Church stops shining, darkness will cover the earth.” For a decade, disputes have engulfed Born-again Christian churches, with pastors accusing one another of dishonesty and ungodliness. Today, prominent international evangelist Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral is struggling to uphold his reputation as fellow pastors, led by Solomon Male, accuse him of misconduct. Amid applause from thousands of believers who thronged the conference on Thursday evening, Oyedepo said it was not biblical to defame a servant of God…”
Sunday Vision, May 17, 2009: Church has lost sense of Focus
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=125&newsId=681570
Bishop Oyedepo seemed to totally be out of touch with New Testament Scriptures and instead took on a ride with his populist comments among undiscerning Ugandan Evangelicals. Rather than call Ugandan Pastors to Sound Doctrine and Accountability, Bishop Oyedepo lowered himself to levels of simply playing Church Politics in order to throw support for his Prosperity Gospel comrade Robert Kayanja.
1 Timothy 3:1-3
(1) This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(2) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
(3) Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Titus 1:7-11
(7) For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
(8) But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
(9) Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
(10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:
(11) Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Bishop Oyedepo seemed to conjecture that Africa’s dying and decaying Evangelicalism is a result of bickering among Pastors. Such thinking is not only simplistic but a form of escapism and deliberate ignoring of the duties of the office of a Bishop according to the New Testament, which calls for making sure the saints keep to Sound Biblical Doctrine.
Bishop Oyedepo forgets that he is supposed to contend earnestly for the faith that was delivered to the saints because false teachers and false prophets have with stealth entered the Church. Instead Bishop Oyedepo flirts around with the need of Pastors to return to Bible Truth after which he engages his audience in ‘Escapism Talk’, avoiding the Real issues affecting Uganda’s Evangelical Church and then he engages in ‘Positive Possibility Talk’ by casting his apocalyptic futuristic vision for the Church, a.k.a. his opinion about the future of Africa’s Evangelical Church.
Bishop Oyedepo should be ashamed of himself, why did he waste all his money and jet fuel to fly all the way from Nigeria to Uganda to simply engage in the “Don’t Touch the Anointed Men of God” Mantra? He should have simply sent handouts to Uganda to feed the poor with labels “Don’t Touch the Anointed Men of God” and his message would have been widely received.
Bishop Oyedepo did not even consider that the people he is trying to throw support for might actually be involved in Crimes of Child Abuse which could cause further embarrassment to his “global ministry”.
It is a shame that Bishop Oyedepo failed in his ‘Overseer’ Office to call for repentance, accountability, and sound doctrine among Ugandan Pastors.
Bishop Oyedepo should have been appreciating the efforts of the “small and little” unknown financially poor Ugandan Pastors who have been faithful to The Lord and His Word and have gone all the way to expose criminals in the Church and call for accountability among Ugandan Pastors and the need to return to Sound Bible Doctrine.
"...THE Bishop of the Nigerian-based Living Faith Ministries, commonly called the Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, arrived in Uganda yesterday for a three-day gospel conference. Oyedepo, who arrived at Entebbe Airport aboard a personal jet, was received by a group of pastors and believers. He was driven in a 20-car convoy to Kampala..."Source: New Vision May 14, 2009: Bishop Oyedepo to preach at Africana
Those “small” Pastors might not even afford an economy class airline ticket to Nigeria but at least they have not sold their integrity and faithfulness to Jesus Christ and His Church. Those “small” Pastors deserved to be encouraged rather than ridiculed by a Nigerian Prosperity Gospel Kingpin flying with all pomp to bully poor Ugandan Pastors.
Besides his prosperity gospel and pomp, Bishop Oyedepo has built schools, clinics, and a University in Nigeria and many have benefited from his generosity by gaining a free education. However, Bishop Oyedepo should remember that you cannot separate the Cross from Charity and the Gospel from Giving. It would do Ugandans well to tell us that first we are sinners who need to repent rather than give out handouts and take the true Gospel away from us.
Yet Ugandans crave for accountability and are tired of corruption of both Politicians and Pastors – for the Priest, Prophet, and King are corrupt in Uganda and Bishop Oyedepo seems to wink at them...
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Ugandan Prosperity Gospel Kingpins Denounce Pastor Male
Ugandan Prosperity Gospel Kingpins Denounce Pastor Male
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/322-ugandan-prosperity-gospel-kingpins-denounce-pastor-male.html
Kato Mivule | May 7, 2009
In a move filled with frustration, a group of Ugandan Pastors have publicly denounced Pastor Solomon Male of Arising For Christ Ministries accusing him of being an “accuser of the brethren” because of the efforts in which Pastor Male has been exposing Pastors who sexually abuse their congregants not to mention other heresies and vices.
"FIVE Pentecostal churches yesterday denounced Pastor Solomon Male, arguing that he lacks authority and does not own a church. The churches, under four Pentecostal groups, said the allegations made by Male against fellow pastors were lies meant to destroy rival churches. Male is leading a campaign against homosexuality in religious institutions. He has accused Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Miracle Centre of sodomy and has gone out of his way to try and prove the allegations. “We denounce Solomon Male of Arise for Christian Ministry; he is not a pastor, nor a disciple or believer of any known congregation,” said Joseph Serwadda, the chairman of the umbrella group, in a press briefing in Kampala. he statement, signed by pastors Julius Peter Oyet, Godfrey Luwagga, Ambrose Gidudu, Osborn Mayanja, David Mukoko and Aloysius Bugingo, called Male “an impostor, destroyer, liar and accuser of brethren who speaks without authority”. yet argued that Male runs an NGO and not a church. When contacted, Male said he does not need to own a church to comment on the victims who suffer in the hands of church leaders."
New Vision, May 6, 2009: Pentecostal pastors denounce Male
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/680401
The Pastors claim that Pastor Solomon Male does not “own a church” and therefore not qualified to address any issues of morality and doctrine inside the Ugandan Church. However, the Pastors failed to mention any plans they had to deal with the rampant sexual abuse, pedophilia, and homosexuality in Uganda’s Evangelical Church. The Pastor failed to mention what they plan to do to combat money laundering, extortion, wife snatching, heresies, and false teachings in the church.
The move by the Pastors was one filled with a lack of decorum in that they had no consideration for the victims of sexual abuse in their churches and are instead engaged in a continual cover up of criminal activities inside the Ugandan Evangelical Church and how to save the public images of their ministries.
If there was anything that the “Denouncing of Pastor Solomon Male” accomplished, it was a continual cover up of crime and obstruction of Justice inside Uganda’s Evangelical Church.
Yet still interesting is the fact that some of the Pastors who gathered to “denounce” Pastor Solomon Male are kingpins of Uganda’s Prosperity Gospel and unapologetic about it.
Among them is Pastor Joseph Sserwada who goes by Dr. Joseph Sserwada, a proprietor of IMPACT FM, one of Uganda’s top ‘Christian Commercial’ Radio Stations. Pastor Sserwada is also a champion of Political Christianity in Uganda and helped President Museveni secure the ‘Evangelical Vote’ in the 2006 Presidential elections. He was later accused by fellow Pastors of taking bribes from the President for the election, an allegation he denied.
"The leader of the National Prayer and Reconciliation Team, pastor Joseph Serwadda requested the President to set up a trust and reconciliation commission to spearhead reconciliation and forgiveness in Uganda for harmonious existence of all Ugandans. He went further and requested that February 14, 2006 be made a National Day of Prayer because even the world over it is cerebrated as the day of love (valentine). However, when the President stood to pray for the nation, he instead promised to change the law, which requires born-again churches to register and renew annually with the ministry of internal affairs and promised to direct the ministry to acknowledge them just like other religious groups. The news was received with ululations and cheers from the mammoth crowd. Pastor Serwadda expressed happiness towards the president for accepting this sensitive repentance prayer and reconciliation event to take place and for attending it in person. Of the 5 presidential candidates in the February 23rd election, only President Museveni attended this national prayer day. "
UG Pulse, Febuary, 16 2006: Uganda Elections 2006: Seeking Divine Intervention
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/Government.asp?about=Uganda+Elections+2006%3A+Seeking+Divine+Intervention&ID=312
Another mystical prosperity preacher is Apostle/Bishop Julius Peter Oyet who claims that he visited Heaven and that his life has never been the same… Apostle/Bishop Julius Peter Oyet is the kingpin of the “Curse – Deliverance” Gospel in Uganda. Christians line up in hundreds to receive deliverance from curses that are said to haunt their lives. The Christians receiving deliverance from the Curses have to pay money as a “point of contact” for the deliverance.
“On July 4,1995 Julius had a Heavenly encounter during an operation in Mulago Hospital in Uganda! The Lord took his spirit to Heaven for three earthly hours! This encounter has changed Julius’ life and Ministry forever. He has written a life transforming book entitled “I Visited Heaven.” After “I Visited Heaven”, Julius has authored several best selling publications including “Hope For The Barren”; “Recognizing The Voice Of God”; “Sacrificing Your Life For The Pleasure Of The Present”; “Breaking Family Curses;” “War On Curses”; “Get Connected”; “Rise and Be Healed”; and many others…”
About Julius Peter Oyet: http://www.lifelineministries.or.ug/pages.asp?pageid=37377
www.lifelineministries.or.ug
But another prosperity gospel kingpin who did not miss the “denouncing” was Pastor Godfrey Luwagga who constructed a Mega Church that killed Christians when the Church collapsed. Pastor Godfrey Luwagga refused to abide by City Engineering Laws and went ahead to build his Church by ‘Faith’. He was later charged in Uganda’s Courts of Law.
"The Proprietor of the City of the Lord Church, which collapsed a fortnight ago killing 29 people was yesterday charged in the KCC court with erecting the building illegally. Pastor Godfrey Luwagga was charged by the Grade I Magistrate, Ms Esta Nambayo. He, however, denied the offence. Luwagga was released on bail of Shs200, 000 cash and each of his ties bonded at Shs2 million (not cash). Prosecution alleges that Mr.Luwagga and others still at large between August 12, 2004 and July 2005 - at Nsooba Lufula Kalerwe- Mulago III parish in Kawempe erected the church building without KCC permission. Prosecution further says that erecting a building without permission contravenes regulations 2 (1) and (4) of the town planning regulations and statutory instrument. According to court records, the victims of the collapsed church were attending a believers' prayer conference organised by several pastors in Kawempe Division.Pastor Luwagga was reportedly not at the church at the time of the incident."
Christian Today: March 31, 2006: Uganda: Luwagga Charged Over Illegal Building
http://ke.christiantoday.com/article/uganda-luwagga-charged-over-illegal-building/5589.htm
The “denouncing” of Pastor Male is nothing but a cover up of crime inside the church and an obstruction to Justice. Some of Uganda’s Evangelical Pastors still do not see it in their interest to voice justice for the victims of sexual abuse inside Uganda’s Evangelical Churches.
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/322-ugandan-prosperity-gospel-kingpins-denounce-pastor-male.html
Kato Mivule | May 7, 2009
In a move filled with frustration, a group of Ugandan Pastors have publicly denounced Pastor Solomon Male of Arising For Christ Ministries accusing him of being an “accuser of the brethren” because of the efforts in which Pastor Male has been exposing Pastors who sexually abuse their congregants not to mention other heresies and vices.
"FIVE Pentecostal churches yesterday denounced Pastor Solomon Male, arguing that he lacks authority and does not own a church. The churches, under four Pentecostal groups, said the allegations made by Male against fellow pastors were lies meant to destroy rival churches. Male is leading a campaign against homosexuality in religious institutions. He has accused Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Miracle Centre of sodomy and has gone out of his way to try and prove the allegations. “We denounce Solomon Male of Arise for Christian Ministry; he is not a pastor, nor a disciple or believer of any known congregation,” said Joseph Serwadda, the chairman of the umbrella group, in a press briefing in Kampala. he statement, signed by pastors Julius Peter Oyet, Godfrey Luwagga, Ambrose Gidudu, Osborn Mayanja, David Mukoko and Aloysius Bugingo, called Male “an impostor, destroyer, liar and accuser of brethren who speaks without authority”. yet argued that Male runs an NGO and not a church. When contacted, Male said he does not need to own a church to comment on the victims who suffer in the hands of church leaders."
New Vision, May 6, 2009: Pentecostal pastors denounce Male
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/680401
The Pastors claim that Pastor Solomon Male does not “own a church” and therefore not qualified to address any issues of morality and doctrine inside the Ugandan Church. However, the Pastors failed to mention any plans they had to deal with the rampant sexual abuse, pedophilia, and homosexuality in Uganda’s Evangelical Church. The Pastor failed to mention what they plan to do to combat money laundering, extortion, wife snatching, heresies, and false teachings in the church.
The move by the Pastors was one filled with a lack of decorum in that they had no consideration for the victims of sexual abuse in their churches and are instead engaged in a continual cover up of criminal activities inside the Ugandan Evangelical Church and how to save the public images of their ministries.
If there was anything that the “Denouncing of Pastor Solomon Male” accomplished, it was a continual cover up of crime and obstruction of Justice inside Uganda’s Evangelical Church.
Yet still interesting is the fact that some of the Pastors who gathered to “denounce” Pastor Solomon Male are kingpins of Uganda’s Prosperity Gospel and unapologetic about it.
Among them is Pastor Joseph Sserwada who goes by Dr. Joseph Sserwada, a proprietor of IMPACT FM, one of Uganda’s top ‘Christian Commercial’ Radio Stations. Pastor Sserwada is also a champion of Political Christianity in Uganda and helped President Museveni secure the ‘Evangelical Vote’ in the 2006 Presidential elections. He was later accused by fellow Pastors of taking bribes from the President for the election, an allegation he denied.
"The leader of the National Prayer and Reconciliation Team, pastor Joseph Serwadda requested the President to set up a trust and reconciliation commission to spearhead reconciliation and forgiveness in Uganda for harmonious existence of all Ugandans. He went further and requested that February 14, 2006 be made a National Day of Prayer because even the world over it is cerebrated as the day of love (valentine). However, when the President stood to pray for the nation, he instead promised to change the law, which requires born-again churches to register and renew annually with the ministry of internal affairs and promised to direct the ministry to acknowledge them just like other religious groups. The news was received with ululations and cheers from the mammoth crowd. Pastor Serwadda expressed happiness towards the president for accepting this sensitive repentance prayer and reconciliation event to take place and for attending it in person. Of the 5 presidential candidates in the February 23rd election, only President Museveni attended this national prayer day. "
UG Pulse, Febuary, 16 2006: Uganda Elections 2006: Seeking Divine Intervention
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/Government.asp?about=Uganda+Elections+2006%3A+Seeking+Divine+Intervention&ID=312
Another mystical prosperity preacher is Apostle/Bishop Julius Peter Oyet who claims that he visited Heaven and that his life has never been the same… Apostle/Bishop Julius Peter Oyet is the kingpin of the “Curse – Deliverance” Gospel in Uganda. Christians line up in hundreds to receive deliverance from curses that are said to haunt their lives. The Christians receiving deliverance from the Curses have to pay money as a “point of contact” for the deliverance.
“On July 4,1995 Julius had a Heavenly encounter during an operation in Mulago Hospital in Uganda! The Lord took his spirit to Heaven for three earthly hours! This encounter has changed Julius’ life and Ministry forever. He has written a life transforming book entitled “I Visited Heaven.” After “I Visited Heaven”, Julius has authored several best selling publications including “Hope For The Barren”; “Recognizing The Voice Of God”; “Sacrificing Your Life For The Pleasure Of The Present”; “Breaking Family Curses;” “War On Curses”; “Get Connected”; “Rise and Be Healed”; and many others…”
About Julius Peter Oyet: http://www.lifelineministries.or.ug/pages.asp?pageid=37377
www.lifelineministries.or.ug
But another prosperity gospel kingpin who did not miss the “denouncing” was Pastor Godfrey Luwagga who constructed a Mega Church that killed Christians when the Church collapsed. Pastor Godfrey Luwagga refused to abide by City Engineering Laws and went ahead to build his Church by ‘Faith’. He was later charged in Uganda’s Courts of Law.
"The Proprietor of the City of the Lord Church, which collapsed a fortnight ago killing 29 people was yesterday charged in the KCC court with erecting the building illegally. Pastor Godfrey Luwagga was charged by the Grade I Magistrate, Ms Esta Nambayo. He, however, denied the offence. Luwagga was released on bail of Shs200, 000 cash and each of his ties bonded at Shs2 million (not cash). Prosecution alleges that Mr.Luwagga and others still at large between August 12, 2004 and July 2005 - at Nsooba Lufula Kalerwe- Mulago III parish in Kawempe erected the church building without KCC permission. Prosecution further says that erecting a building without permission contravenes regulations 2 (1) and (4) of the town planning regulations and statutory instrument. According to court records, the victims of the collapsed church were attending a believers' prayer conference organised by several pastors in Kawempe Division.Pastor Luwagga was reportedly not at the church at the time of the incident."
Christian Today: March 31, 2006: Uganda: Luwagga Charged Over Illegal Building
http://ke.christiantoday.com/article/uganda-luwagga-charged-over-illegal-building/5589.htm
The “denouncing” of Pastor Male is nothing but a cover up of crime inside the church and an obstruction to Justice. Some of Uganda’s Evangelical Pastors still do not see it in their interest to voice justice for the victims of sexual abuse inside Uganda’s Evangelical Churches.
Monday, 27 April 2009
We are in the last days and are under the Strong Delusion right now!
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.( Jeremiah 3:15)
The entire tree is rotten
http://www.standingthegap.org
How the lie works
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123
The entire tree is rotten
http://www.standingthegap.org
How the lie works
http://sites.google.com/site/christiansoldier123
Sodomy and Kidnap Debacle: Has Pastor Kayanja reached the beginning of his end.
Pastor Kayanja in Sodomy and Kidnap Debacle
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/316-pastor-kayanja-in-sodomy-and-kidnap-debacle.html
In a twist of events, Sodomy charges had been opened against Pastor Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Center, Uganda's largest Prosperity Gospel Church but instead in a 'Maffia' type of move, Pastor Kayanja's Aide got kidnapped... However, for those who have followed the story, A group of Pastors in Kampala brought Sodomy charges against Pastor Kayanja and later Pastor Kayanja was seen "offering" a gift to the Police by refurbishing the Police Quarters, a move that was rebuffed by Uganda's Legislative Body - The Parliament...
However, the move by Pastor Kayanja to obstruct Justice spells out his demise and unless he repents and gets a real 'Saul - Damascus' change, he is propping himself up for a very big fall and proclaiming the end of Uganda's Prosperity Gospel Movement...
Many in Uganda know that such tactics of framing one's opponents and detractors is common as was the case in which President Museveni who happens to be a very good friend of Pastor Kayanja did when he doctored up charges against Uganda's opposition party leaders. The Judge later threw out the charges and rebuked the President. One can see that Pastor Kayanja might have borrowed a leaf from his buddy President Museveni... However, time is not on Kayanja's side...Justice will prevail...KM
Kayanja’s aide kidnapped, released after a week
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_s_aide_kidnapped_released_after_a_week_83889.shtml
CID probes kidnap of Kayanja’s aide | Sunday, 26th April, 2009
Row deepens among city’s top Pentecostal pastors
By Anthony Bugembe and Dorah Naamala
The Police are investigating the alleged kidnap and torture of Chris Muwonge, the personal aide of Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre, in what seems a deepening row between rival Pentecostal (Born Again) churches.
Muwonge testified before the press yesterday that he had been abducted by armed men on the morning of April 18, while returning from overnight prayers, and held for five days.
“As I was picking a boda boda to go home, someone called me by name and said I had dropped my money. When I looked back, the man told me to enter a parked car. If I did not, he warned, the man in the car would shoot me,” the 27-year-old told journalists at the Miracle Centre church.
He said a gun was pointed at him as he entered the car; he was blindfolded and driven away. When the blindfold was removed, Muwonge noted, he was in a bathroom with a TV camera before him.
“My captors beat me while ordering me to look into the camera and testify that Pastor Kayanja had been sodomising boys. I refused. They promised me $100,000 (sh200m) and pocket money amounting to $20,000 (sh40m). They said they could fly me to any country of my choice.”
Muwonge said he was eventually dumped outside Kayanja’s residence in Kawuku-Gaba on Thursday. His head was covered in a plastic bag and his hands were trussed behind his back.
He was discovered by area residents who at first thought he was dead. They alerted Pastor Kayanja’s housekeeper, who notified
her boss. Kayanja called the Police who rushed him to International Hospital Kampala for treatment.
The Police spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, said they were investigating the incident. “We are taking this very seriously given that it may have security implications. We need to get to the bottom of the matter,” she told The New Vision.
Pastor Kayanja has accused his rival, Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre, of being behind a ploy to discredit him and ruin his reputation.
Both pastors belonged to the Miracle Centre before Kyazze split away and formed his own church.
The alleged kidnap follows another incident in which Kyazze’s assistant, Pastor Robert Kayiira, was arrested by the Police for allegedly trespassing on Kayanja’s property.
Kayanja at the press conference yesterday explained that Kayiira was arrested by his security officials when he was trying to sneak a laptop into the Miracle Centre. He was later handed over to the Police and charged with criminal trespass and possession of defamatory information.
“After being interrogated by the Police for over six hours, it was revealed that he had been sent by his boss to get information about a room in my church where they allege I sexually harass young boys,” Kayanja said.
Kyazze could not be reached for comment since he was out of the country. But one of his close associates, Pastor Solomon Male, said Kayiira was not arrested.
“He was kidnapped on Nabunya Road and dragged to Rubaga Miracle centre before the Police was called in,” he said.
According to Male, a man called Herbert Tumukunde had approached Pastor Kyazze making serious allegations against Kayanja.
Tumukunde allegedly claimed he had video evidence and needed a laptop to download the material.
“Kyazze asked him to pass on the video evidence. But since he had to fly out on Easter Monday, he asked Kayiira to handle the matter,” Mbale said, adding that he wants a parliamentary inquiry into the matter.
“It has nothing to do with rivalry. It is a matter of fighting the rot in our religious entities,” he stressed.
Dozens of churches have sprung up in Kampala and around the country in recent years.
Some pastors have been accused of enriching themselves by asking their followers to sow (donate money) in order to reap (have miracles performed).
Pentecostal pastors in particular have been embroiled in a bitter fight over followers, with some accusing others of witchcraft.
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/679357
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Uganda: Pastor Kayanja to Renovate Old Kampala Police Barracks |All Africa March 12, 2009
Anthony Bugembe
12 March 2009
Kampala — PASTOR Robert Kayanja of Kampala Miracle Centre has offered to give Old Kampala Police barracks a face lift.
This will involve repairing the dilapidated structures, replacing the asbestos with iron sheets, planting grass on the compound and setting up a video hall.
"My team is coming here on Tuesday. We will start with one block and see how things progress," Kayanja said.
The pastor said the houses would be roofed, painted and that electrical installations and plumbing would be done.
"We have the experts to do the job. We urge you to join us because this is a communal effort," Kayanja said at the barracks on Tuesday.
"The Police are part of us. We run to them for protection, especially when we have big events like the New Year prayers," said Kayanja.
"We shall do everything in our means to help them. By the end of this year, this will be the best looking barracks in Kampala."
Last week, Police chief Kale Kayihura initiated the renovation of the barracks to improve the living conditions of the officers. He said the Police would rely on its meagre resources and the private sector to implement the programme.
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Augustine Kasangaki, the officer-in-charge of the station, said each block was designed to house only four families.
"The barracks is now home to 123 Police families. That means each block now houses between four to eight families," he said.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said: "We are grateful to people who appreciate our challenges and go out of their way to offer a hand."
Kayanja's team also offered groceries to the officers. The barracks was built in 1955.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903130015.html
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Pastor Kayanja creates a tricky police situation | Daily Monitor March 29, 2009
"There is a difference in opinion among senior police officers over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s recent offerings to the Force. Recently, Pastor Kayanja offered material assistance to the families of police officers of Old Kamapala Police Station. He then promised to ensure that the dilapidated police quarters are rehabilitated. Although Police Chief Kale Kayihura accepted the offer, other officers have had second thoughts about it. The police say that it leaves them in a compromising position since the man was once the subject of an inquiry into suspected wine smuggling. A parallel Uganda Revenue Authority investigation faded quietly into the distance. It is because of this past that the Old Kampala offer has attracted attention."
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/political_grapevine/What_next_for_IGG_Mwondha_printer.shtml
Police criticised over Kayanja offer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678328
Thursday, 16th April, 2009
By Mary Karugaba
Members of Parliament have questioned the Police Force for accepting Pastor Robert Kayanja and other individuals’ offer to renovate Police barracks.
The MPs on the public accounts committee yesterday asked officials headed by the undersecretary, Winnie Kabogoza, to explain why they accepted the offer.
They said such offers would compromise the Police’s impartiality.
“Allowing people to do work for you is putting you in a fix. How then are you going to treat them when they commit a crime?” the committee chairman, Nandala Mafabi, asked.
MP Tom Kazibwe asked why the force solicited for public offers yet the Government stopped former Police boss Lt.Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala from getting funds to buy patrol vehicles.
“At this rate, you will find hardcore criminals offering to renovate some of your barracks,” Kazibwe said.
Kabogoza said they sought public support because they were disparate.
She said the force received only sh800m annually for maintenance.
“This is part of the private-public partnership. Jomayi property has also come in,” she said.
The Police commissioner in charge of legal services, Samuel Kyomukama, said: “We understand your fears. You can’t feed from someone’s hand and then treat him badly. It’s not good because it compromises the impartiality.”
Asked about allegations of bosses sexually harassing female officers, Kyomukama said: “Police officers are also individuals. They are a mirror of society.”
Kayanja akwasizza abapoliisi ennyumba
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php/amawulire/amawulire/4622-kayanja-akwasiz%20za-abapoliisi-ennyumba.html
Written by BYA HANNINGTON NKALUBO
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:13
ABASERIKALE ba poliisi abasula mu nkambi y’eKampala-mukadde bajaganya olw’ezimu ku nnyumba ziganye-genya mwe babadde basula okuddaabirizibwa ne zidda bupya.
Emu ku nnyumba eyasoose okumalirizibwa yakwasiddwa aduumira Poliisi mu ggwanga Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura. Ennyumba yawedde yaddabiiriziddwa abalokole b’ekkanisa ya Lubaga Miracle Centre ekulirwa Omusumba Robert Kayanja ng’atuukiriza kye yasuubiza okuyamba ku poliisiokulongoosa embeera z’amayumba g’abaserikale basule bulungi.
Kayihura yasiimye Kayanja okulumirirwa eggwanga ng’ayamba Poliisi.
Yagambye nti embeera y’amayumba mu nkambi eno ebadde mbi nnyo ng’ezisinga tezikyalimu mazzi, emiddumu gya kazambi gyazibikira n’obusolya nga butonnya.
Ennyumba eyaddaabiririziddwa yassiddwamu emiddumu gy’amazzi mipya, egya kazambi , amasannyalaze ne gaddabirizibwa, okusiiga laangi n’ebirala bingi.
Kayanja yagambye nti bagenda kwongera okuddaabiriza amayumba g’ekitongole kino era baddaabirizza n’oluguudo oluyingira mu nkambi eno.
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/316-pastor-kayanja-in-sodomy-and-kidnap-debacle.html
In a twist of events, Sodomy charges had been opened against Pastor Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Center, Uganda's largest Prosperity Gospel Church but instead in a 'Maffia' type of move, Pastor Kayanja's Aide got kidnapped... However, for those who have followed the story, A group of Pastors in Kampala brought Sodomy charges against Pastor Kayanja and later Pastor Kayanja was seen "offering" a gift to the Police by refurbishing the Police Quarters, a move that was rebuffed by Uganda's Legislative Body - The Parliament...
However, the move by Pastor Kayanja to obstruct Justice spells out his demise and unless he repents and gets a real 'Saul - Damascus' change, he is propping himself up for a very big fall and proclaiming the end of Uganda's Prosperity Gospel Movement...
Many in Uganda know that such tactics of framing one's opponents and detractors is common as was the case in which President Museveni who happens to be a very good friend of Pastor Kayanja did when he doctored up charges against Uganda's opposition party leaders. The Judge later threw out the charges and rebuked the President. One can see that Pastor Kayanja might have borrowed a leaf from his buddy President Museveni... However, time is not on Kayanja's side...Justice will prevail...KM
Kayanja’s aide kidnapped, released after a week
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Kayanja_s_aide_kidnapped_released_after_a_week_83889.shtml
CID probes kidnap of Kayanja’s aide | Sunday, 26th April, 2009
Row deepens among city’s top Pentecostal pastors
By Anthony Bugembe and Dorah Naamala
The Police are investigating the alleged kidnap and torture of Chris Muwonge, the personal aide of Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre, in what seems a deepening row between rival Pentecostal (Born Again) churches.
Muwonge testified before the press yesterday that he had been abducted by armed men on the morning of April 18, while returning from overnight prayers, and held for five days.
“As I was picking a boda boda to go home, someone called me by name and said I had dropped my money. When I looked back, the man told me to enter a parked car. If I did not, he warned, the man in the car would shoot me,” the 27-year-old told journalists at the Miracle Centre church.
He said a gun was pointed at him as he entered the car; he was blindfolded and driven away. When the blindfold was removed, Muwonge noted, he was in a bathroom with a TV camera before him.
“My captors beat me while ordering me to look into the camera and testify that Pastor Kayanja had been sodomising boys. I refused. They promised me $100,000 (sh200m) and pocket money amounting to $20,000 (sh40m). They said they could fly me to any country of my choice.”
Muwonge said he was eventually dumped outside Kayanja’s residence in Kawuku-Gaba on Thursday. His head was covered in a plastic bag and his hands were trussed behind his back.
He was discovered by area residents who at first thought he was dead. They alerted Pastor Kayanja’s housekeeper, who notified
her boss. Kayanja called the Police who rushed him to International Hospital Kampala for treatment.
The Police spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, said they were investigating the incident. “We are taking this very seriously given that it may have security implications. We need to get to the bottom of the matter,” she told The New Vision.
Pastor Kayanja has accused his rival, Pastor Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre, of being behind a ploy to discredit him and ruin his reputation.
Both pastors belonged to the Miracle Centre before Kyazze split away and formed his own church.
The alleged kidnap follows another incident in which Kyazze’s assistant, Pastor Robert Kayiira, was arrested by the Police for allegedly trespassing on Kayanja’s property.
Kayanja at the press conference yesterday explained that Kayiira was arrested by his security officials when he was trying to sneak a laptop into the Miracle Centre. He was later handed over to the Police and charged with criminal trespass and possession of defamatory information.
“After being interrogated by the Police for over six hours, it was revealed that he had been sent by his boss to get information about a room in my church where they allege I sexually harass young boys,” Kayanja said.
Kyazze could not be reached for comment since he was out of the country. But one of his close associates, Pastor Solomon Male, said Kayiira was not arrested.
“He was kidnapped on Nabunya Road and dragged to Rubaga Miracle centre before the Police was called in,” he said.
According to Male, a man called Herbert Tumukunde had approached Pastor Kyazze making serious allegations against Kayanja.
Tumukunde allegedly claimed he had video evidence and needed a laptop to download the material.
“Kyazze asked him to pass on the video evidence. But since he had to fly out on Easter Monday, he asked Kayiira to handle the matter,” Mbale said, adding that he wants a parliamentary inquiry into the matter.
“It has nothing to do with rivalry. It is a matter of fighting the rot in our religious entities,” he stressed.
Dozens of churches have sprung up in Kampala and around the country in recent years.
Some pastors have been accused of enriching themselves by asking their followers to sow (donate money) in order to reap (have miracles performed).
Pentecostal pastors in particular have been embroiled in a bitter fight over followers, with some accusing others of witchcraft.
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/679357
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Uganda: Pastor Kayanja to Renovate Old Kampala Police Barracks |All Africa March 12, 2009
Anthony Bugembe
12 March 2009
Kampala — PASTOR Robert Kayanja of Kampala Miracle Centre has offered to give Old Kampala Police barracks a face lift.
This will involve repairing the dilapidated structures, replacing the asbestos with iron sheets, planting grass on the compound and setting up a video hall.
"My team is coming here on Tuesday. We will start with one block and see how things progress," Kayanja said.
The pastor said the houses would be roofed, painted and that electrical installations and plumbing would be done.
"We have the experts to do the job. We urge you to join us because this is a communal effort," Kayanja said at the barracks on Tuesday.
"The Police are part of us. We run to them for protection, especially when we have big events like the New Year prayers," said Kayanja.
"We shall do everything in our means to help them. By the end of this year, this will be the best looking barracks in Kampala."
Last week, Police chief Kale Kayihura initiated the renovation of the barracks to improve the living conditions of the officers. He said the Police would rely on its meagre resources and the private sector to implement the programme.
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Augustine Kasangaki, the officer-in-charge of the station, said each block was designed to house only four families.
"The barracks is now home to 123 Police families. That means each block now houses between four to eight families," he said.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said: "We are grateful to people who appreciate our challenges and go out of their way to offer a hand."
Kayanja's team also offered groceries to the officers. The barracks was built in 1955.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903130015.html
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Pastor Kayanja creates a tricky police situation | Daily Monitor March 29, 2009
"There is a difference in opinion among senior police officers over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s recent offerings to the Force. Recently, Pastor Kayanja offered material assistance to the families of police officers of Old Kamapala Police Station. He then promised to ensure that the dilapidated police quarters are rehabilitated. Although Police Chief Kale Kayihura accepted the offer, other officers have had second thoughts about it. The police say that it leaves them in a compromising position since the man was once the subject of an inquiry into suspected wine smuggling. A parallel Uganda Revenue Authority investigation faded quietly into the distance. It is because of this past that the Old Kampala offer has attracted attention."
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/political_grapevine/What_next_for_IGG_Mwondha_printer.shtml
Police criticised over Kayanja offer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678328
Thursday, 16th April, 2009
By Mary Karugaba
Members of Parliament have questioned the Police Force for accepting Pastor Robert Kayanja and other individuals’ offer to renovate Police barracks.
The MPs on the public accounts committee yesterday asked officials headed by the undersecretary, Winnie Kabogoza, to explain why they accepted the offer.
They said such offers would compromise the Police’s impartiality.
“Allowing people to do work for you is putting you in a fix. How then are you going to treat them when they commit a crime?” the committee chairman, Nandala Mafabi, asked.
MP Tom Kazibwe asked why the force solicited for public offers yet the Government stopped former Police boss Lt.Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala from getting funds to buy patrol vehicles.
“At this rate, you will find hardcore criminals offering to renovate some of your barracks,” Kazibwe said.
Kabogoza said they sought public support because they were disparate.
She said the force received only sh800m annually for maintenance.
“This is part of the private-public partnership. Jomayi property has also come in,” she said.
The Police commissioner in charge of legal services, Samuel Kyomukama, said: “We understand your fears. You can’t feed from someone’s hand and then treat him badly. It’s not good because it compromises the impartiality.”
Asked about allegations of bosses sexually harassing female officers, Kyomukama said: “Police officers are also individuals. They are a mirror of society.”
Kayanja akwasizza abapoliisi ennyumba
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php/amawulire/amawulire/4622-kayanja-akwasiz%20za-abapoliisi-ennyumba.html
Written by BYA HANNINGTON NKALUBO
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:13
ABASERIKALE ba poliisi abasula mu nkambi y’eKampala-mukadde bajaganya olw’ezimu ku nnyumba ziganye-genya mwe babadde basula okuddaabirizibwa ne zidda bupya.
Emu ku nnyumba eyasoose okumalirizibwa yakwasiddwa aduumira Poliisi mu ggwanga Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura. Ennyumba yawedde yaddabiiriziddwa abalokole b’ekkanisa ya Lubaga Miracle Centre ekulirwa Omusumba Robert Kayanja ng’atuukiriza kye yasuubiza okuyamba ku poliisiokulongoosa embeera z’amayumba g’abaserikale basule bulungi.
Kayihura yasiimye Kayanja okulumirirwa eggwanga ng’ayamba Poliisi.
Yagambye nti embeera y’amayumba mu nkambi eno ebadde mbi nnyo ng’ezisinga tezikyalimu mazzi, emiddumu gya kazambi gyazibikira n’obusolya nga butonnya.
Ennyumba eyaddaabiririziddwa yassiddwamu emiddumu gy’amazzi mipya, egya kazambi , amasannyalaze ne gaddabirizibwa, okusiiga laangi n’ebirala bingi.
Kayanja yagambye nti bagenda kwongera okuddaabiriza amayumba g’ekitongole kino era baddaabirizza n’oluguudo oluyingira mu nkambi eno.
Very Dangerous Move By Homosexuals in Uganda
Very Dangerous Move By Homosexuals in Uganda
Pastor Solomon Male | Posted April 27, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/317-very-dangerous-move-by-homosexuals-in-uganda.html
Very warm greetings to you in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus and thanks for your continued contribution and commitment to the ongoing struggle against cults, the occult and false teachings responsible for many people’s hurts and ruin.
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ARISING FOR CHRIST
P O Box 11902, Kampala, Uganda. Tel 256-772-479386 msmale@arisingforchrist.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.arisingforchrist.org
‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations’ (Mat 28.19)
24th April 2009
Dear partners, friends and fellow Ugandans,
Ref: VERY DANGEROUS MOVE BY HOMOSEXUALS IN UGANDA
Very warm greetings to you in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus and thanks for your continued contribution and commitment to the ongoing struggle against cults, the occult and false teachings responsible for many people’s hurts and ruin.
As the forefront ministry in the campaign to rid this nation of homosexualism and save our children from being ruined, we are deeply troubled by the trend of events. Briefly, below is the chronology of events:
March 13th 2006, with partners in the National Committee on False Teaching Awareness, we launched our national campaign against cults, the occult and false teaching which the media has fostered so much.
On April 5th 2006, Mr Turyagumanawe Grace, then RPC Kampala Extra summoned me to his CPS office seeking to stop my media appearances. But when I told him my real life testimony in cults, he told me none could stop me to exercise my conscience, and let me go free, offering protection if needed.
April 15th Mr Turyagumanwe called me again to persuade Miss Sumini Nabagesera who had sought to use him to stop me from exposing evils in church.
April 20th 2006, at our office I met Julius Kitaka who narrated how Pr Grace Kitaka of Liberty Worship Centre had not only sodomized him, but had framed him and caused his arrest, prosecution and imprisonment in Luzira and Rwimi Farm Prison.
April 22nd 2006, Miss Nabagesera came to reconcile with me, having tried to investigate my accusations against pastors and found them to be true.
April 27th 2006, after a program on Beat FM, Emma Magala called and told me how Pr Grace Kitaka, Liberty Worship Centre had sedated and sodomized him, leading to an anal operation at Mengo Hospital. I called him to my office and met him to hear his story.
I then introduced Emma and Julius to Mr Turyagumanawe for help in pursuing justice.
May 7th 2006, on Super FM, I featured with Mugisha Mondo who came to the studio with two armed military men to defend wicked pastors. It proved so hot for Bwanika Sensuwa to manage alone that Mulindwa Muwonge also came and when both failed to help Mugisha Mondo to pin me, even Pr Peter Sematimba came into the studio to help them. Homosexualism by pastors embittered them and though they had initially refused me to name names, they ordered me to name sodomy pastors. At the height of it, Pr David Mwesigwa with whom I had gone fled the studio, having tried to persuade me to flee too in vain. We re-united later in Sematimba’s office.
May 14th 2006, Pr Sserwadda featured on Impact FM, rubbished our campaign and claimed that except for Born Again Churches, all others were shrines; that reformation in Uganda was nowhere, and that there must be secrecy in Born Again Churches.
May 19th 2006, Pr Josep
Pastor Solomon Male | Posted April 27, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/317-very-dangerous-move-by-homosexuals-in-uganda.html
Very warm greetings to you in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus and thanks for your continued contribution and commitment to the ongoing struggle against cults, the occult and false teachings responsible for many people’s hurts and ruin.
=================================================
ARISING FOR CHRIST
P O Box 11902, Kampala, Uganda. Tel 256-772-479386 msmale@arisingforchrist.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.arisingforchrist.org
‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations’ (Mat 28.19)
24th April 2009
Dear partners, friends and fellow Ugandans,
Ref: VERY DANGEROUS MOVE BY HOMOSEXUALS IN UGANDA
Very warm greetings to you in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus and thanks for your continued contribution and commitment to the ongoing struggle against cults, the occult and false teachings responsible for many people’s hurts and ruin.
As the forefront ministry in the campaign to rid this nation of homosexualism and save our children from being ruined, we are deeply troubled by the trend of events. Briefly, below is the chronology of events:
March 13th 2006, with partners in the National Committee on False Teaching Awareness, we launched our national campaign against cults, the occult and false teaching which the media has fostered so much.
On April 5th 2006, Mr Turyagumanawe Grace, then RPC Kampala Extra summoned me to his CPS office seeking to stop my media appearances. But when I told him my real life testimony in cults, he told me none could stop me to exercise my conscience, and let me go free, offering protection if needed.
April 15th Mr Turyagumanwe called me again to persuade Miss Sumini Nabagesera who had sought to use him to stop me from exposing evils in church.
April 20th 2006, at our office I met Julius Kitaka who narrated how Pr Grace Kitaka of Liberty Worship Centre had not only sodomized him, but had framed him and caused his arrest, prosecution and imprisonment in Luzira and Rwimi Farm Prison.
April 22nd 2006, Miss Nabagesera came to reconcile with me, having tried to investigate my accusations against pastors and found them to be true.
April 27th 2006, after a program on Beat FM, Emma Magala called and told me how Pr Grace Kitaka, Liberty Worship Centre had sedated and sodomized him, leading to an anal operation at Mengo Hospital. I called him to my office and met him to hear his story.
I then introduced Emma and Julius to Mr Turyagumanawe for help in pursuing justice.
May 7th 2006, on Super FM, I featured with Mugisha Mondo who came to the studio with two armed military men to defend wicked pastors. It proved so hot for Bwanika Sensuwa to manage alone that Mulindwa Muwonge also came and when both failed to help Mugisha Mondo to pin me, even Pr Peter Sematimba came into the studio to help them. Homosexualism by pastors embittered them and though they had initially refused me to name names, they ordered me to name sodomy pastors. At the height of it, Pr David Mwesigwa with whom I had gone fled the studio, having tried to persuade me to flee too in vain. We re-united later in Sematimba’s office.
May 14th 2006, Pr Sserwadda featured on Impact FM, rubbished our campaign and claimed that except for Born Again Churches, all others were shrines; that reformation in Uganda was nowhere, and that there must be secrecy in Born Again Churches.
May 19th 2006, Pr Josep