First read:
Pastor Yiga Sued for sexually using a young girl and later dumping her.
PASTOR AUGUSTINE YIGA : LUCIFERIAN OR BORN AGAIN
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008/03/pastor-augustine-yiga-luciferian-or.html
Pastor Yiga’s so called
healing sessions
‘Paasita Yiga yansiiga siriimu n’andekawo’
Nalubega ne Paasita Yiga
Bya ALICE NAMUTEBI
Brenda Nalubega, landiroodi gwe yagobye mu nnyumba, yasangiddwa ku kkooti e Nabweru, yategeezezza nti Yiga yakoma okumuwa obuyambi mu October w’omwaka oguwedde era kati asula mu kkanisa e Mpererwe emanyiddwa nga Christ the King, gy’asabiriza obuyambi.
“Bukyanga omwaka guno gutandika, nsiiba ku kitanda olw’obulwadde bwa siriimu Yiga bwe yansiiga obuntawaanya. Kyokka Yiga tafuddeeyo kunnyamba nfune obujjanjabi” Nalubega bwe yategeezezza.
Nalubega yayingidde mu ofiisi y’omulamuzi Sarah Namusobya e Nabweru ng’eno mwannyina Yiga (eyategeerekeseeko erya Nassozi) gye yamusanze ne batuula mu kafubo akaamaze kumpi eddakiika 30. Nalubega yafulumye akaaba nga Nassozi agambye nti tebagenda kusasula ssente za landiroodi eyawamba ebintu bye n’okusasula ez’eddwaliro okugenda mu sikaani.
Nalubega yategeezezza nti Nassozi yagambye omulamuzi nti Yiga agenda kusasulanga emitwalo 8 ez’enju ssaako emitwalo 15 ez’obuyambi buli mwezi nga ssente zino Nalubega wa kuziggya ku kkooti e Nabweru.
Ate ebisale by’essomero eby’omwana, Yiga waakubitwala butereevu ku ssomero. Wabula Nalubega atya nti guno si gwe gusoose nga Yiga asuubiza ebintu bino naye nga tatuukiriza.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:47
Watching some pastors nowadays
showcasing on different television stations on how many miracles they
can perform through different moving testimonies, only a few will doubt
their power.
But for 51-year-old Mcmillan Butali,
these adverts are torturing. He cannot forget the suffering he went
through three years ago when his daughter Sarah Mutuwa, an S.6 student
then at Seeta High School, nearly went insane.
Like any caring parent, he worked
tirelessly to have his daughter regain her senses and of course some of
the measures he undertook were to seek help from a number of pastors and
charismatic Catholic priests as advised by friends.
At Pastor Samuel Kakande’s church in
Mulago, Butali was denied entrance because he lacked medical forms to
prove that doctors had failed to heal his daughter. Since Butali only
possessed receipts from counsellors, he could not be helped.
He was convinced that his daughter had
no sickness, but was possessed by demons. For Butali, the turning point
came when he visited Pastor Augustine Yiga’s church in Kawaala.
Here, Butali recalls that if one had no
money, they could not join the queue of those in need of healing. Before
one joined this queue, they had to state the amount of money they had
and then register their particulars.
In the registration book, they put down
their full names, place of residence and phone contacts, so that they
could keep track of them. According to Butali, after payments were made,
people were grouped according to how much they had paid and those who
had paid more than Shs 100,000 would enter first, individually.
The rest who paid less than Shs 50,000
each, entered in groups to be prayed for. Within this make-shift church,
Butali says there is a small room, where the pastor sits and one has to
remove their shoes before they enter.
Inside this room, there is one table and
a chair to accommodate the pastor; the rest kneel down. Each time one
enters, this room is closed and there is no Bible in sight. Before
prayer, everyone has to have their eyes closed and the only sound one
hears is that of the whirring fan.
Butali recalls that after prayer, Yiga
asked him to take photographs of some of his family members and bring
them during his next encounter so that he could pray for them but at fee
of Shs 500,000.
“It is from here that I realized I was
being conned and that is why I stopped going to his church. Afterall he
also failed to heal my daughter. But since these people keep track of
you, I one time received a message that I could now take Shs 100,000,
then another day, the message read, I could now give them Shs 50,000.
So, you see the kind of religious leaders we have today,” Butali said.
Even while Butali has stopped going to
Kawaala, he says to date he still receives messages from the church,
offering him ‘prayer packages’. Butali has been so turned off by what he
encountered in Kawaala, that he forbids his family members to tune in
to Pentecostal sermons on radio or TV, because he now believes all
pastors are like that.
Efforts to talk to Yiga, who is also
nicknamed Abizaayo for his controversial doctrine of sending witchcraft
charms back to torment their senders, were fruitless as his known
telephone line was switched off. Butali is, nonetheless, thankful that
through constant prayers and fasting, his daughter got healed.
“She sat for her UNEB exams after
missing out nearly all the three terms of study and excelled,” says a
proud Butali. Mutuwa is now in her third year at Makerere University.
Apostle Alex Mitala, the chairman of the
National Fellowship of Born-again churches condemns the act of charging
money for prayers. Pentecostal pastors do not charge believers for
healing prayers or any other prayers.
According to Mitala, Jesus said, “I have
given to you freely, so do the same to others.” He, however, pointed
out that Catholics too charge for prayers.
“To conduct prayers either for the dead
or mass for anything, they ask for money. I think this is why this
disease is spreading so fast,” he argued.
But Fr Fred Jjenga, the Director of Holy
Cross Ministries in Nsambya, says there is no such habit as charging
money for prayers in the Catholic church. He said there are only a few
fees levied to process church work like printing baptism cards during
baptism and also to facilitate priests in case they are to travel
upcountry to conduct prayers.
Ronald Mukiibi, a pastor at Victory
Christian Centre in Ndeeba, also believes it is not biblically right for
religious leaders to charge for prayers, irrespective of denomination.
