FIRST READ:
City of Sacramento criminalizes
peaceful Occupy protest
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article191.htm
THE ELITES ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN OCCUPY WALL STREET & OTHER SIMILAR MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article192.htm
University of California - Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed by Cops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCSBVNn6ltg
Ugandan opposition leaders sprayed pink to stop rally
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13360427
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltU9u6_pBzA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi5PGapdYMI
What example should President Museveni and other African autocrats follow? How can you then blame Museveni for pink spraying Walk To Work Protestors??? Western Double Standards?? Kato Mivule
Seattle Police Pepper-Spray Pastor
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/16/police-hit-seattle-pastor-with-pepper-spray/
November 16, 2011
U.S. authorities and major news media are quick to condemn leaders of foreign nations when they unleash police to rough up and intimidate protesting citizens, but a different standard applies inside the United States, as Rev. Rich Lang discovered when he walked with an Occupy protest in Seattle.
By the Rev. Rich Lang
You could feel the tension and raw energy crinkling throughout the air as the marchers once again began their journey into downtown Seattle.
The Occupy Movement is the prophetic voice of God calling out to the nation to “repent” and turn from its ways of corruption. Those who camp are a rag-tag, motley crew made up of mostly young adults, mostly unemployed, almost all of whom are alienated and cast out of America’s promise of liberty and justice for all.
They are … the first fruits being devoured by the Beast of Empire.
The police were once conceived to be a citizen force created to serve and protect the public. Today however, the police have been militarized and view the populace as enemy combatants, as threats to their well being. The police, like our Armed Forces, are well-trained, disciplined and exceptionally talented. They follow a chain of command and are increasingly apprenticed into a culture of institutional conformity.
Because America has always affirmed the right of dissent, the role of the police is to keep the peace. They are trained to enter the protesting arena as unfeeling protectors of property and people.
What has changed in our time is that the police are entering the arena of protest as agents of provocation. They push and shove at will, they ride their bicycles up the backs of protesters, they engage in verbal abuse. Their commanders allow this breach of discipline. Their comrades silently condone the bullying.
The police become the agitators encouraging violence. It is as if they are spoiling for a fight – a fight, mind you, against the citizenry, against the youth, the unemployed, and those who are trying to return America back to its promise, and dare I say it, return America to its covenant with God, “we hold these truths to be self evident …”
On Tuesday night, a small group of the rag-tag campers of Seattle’s Occupy Movement left their camp to protest the destruction inflicted upon the Wall Street Occupy site.
Throughout the march, I — as a Pastor in full clergy alb, stole and cross – acted as a peacekeeper placing myself between the police line and the Occupy Movement. On four occasions I stepped between verbal battles between the police and the protesters. The point being that it was evident to all who I was and what my role was in this non-violent march of the few escorted by the many.
The incident was minor in nature. A girl, dressed in Anarchist black waving the Anarchist black flag, was plastered side by side with an officer on the bike. They were jawboning each other. At one point her flag was thrust in his direction – a provocation yes – threatening? – no.
The officer grabbed the flag and in the pulling, pulled down the girl. Her friends reacted jumping in to pull her away from the officer. It was at this point that the first wave of pepper spray went off.
Point: One might think the officer acted within reason, that the officer was suddenly threatened. But with what? By whom? The friends of the offender were grabbing for the girl, they were not grabbing at the police. Basically the officer and his comrades were trigger-happy as if they couldn’t wait for just this moment. And so the spray went forth.
I leapt to the front and tried to place myself between the parties – with spray in the air the protesters were also fleeing. Separation between the police line and the protesters was clearly visible … there was certainly no threat of the “mob” suddenly rampaging into the well-armed police.
The separation had occurred (as can be clearly seen on the video captured by King 5 News). But the spray continued. I walked between the lines, I was alone, I was in full clergy dress, everyone knew who I was and what I was – with the protesters fleeing and the police line holding – with my back to the police and my hands waving the protesters to get back.
I was alone in full alb, stole and cross when six officers turned their spray on me thoroughly soaking my alb and then one officer hit me full throttle in the face.
I praise the courage and compassion, the discipline and the decency of the Occupy Movement. Out of the rag-tag mob came help, grabbing my hands, leading me (I was blind by then) to the wall and administering care and concern for my well-being.
The protesters were assembled around all the wounded, and maintained the discipline of nonviolence (granted the nonviolence was in behavior but not language). And they were not afraid.
The spraying had been a baptism sealing them into the security of knowing that their prophecy of repentance was indeed the Spirit-Word through them – it is as if they did not prophecy their very bones would melt within them. Against the wall in increasing pain and burning I realized I was in the midst of church.
The police, on the other hand, were afraid. Their quick use of chemical warfare reveals how cowardly they are. The unwillingness of their commanders to maintain discipline reveals how incompetent they are becoming.
The only tool in their bag is brutality and like a drunken-raging father beating wife and kids, the police have increasingly disgraced themselves. Step by step, they are being shaped into the front face of fascism, the emerging police state that protects the property interests of the Marie Antoinette’s who have seized control of our government, commerce, media, military and increasingly the Church itself.
My question to my clergy colleagues is this: “Where are you? How much longer can you preach without practice? How dare you remain protected in your sanctuary while your people (the rag-tag mob of the least, last and lost whom Jesus loved) are slaughtered doing that which God has commissioned you to do (prophecy!).
“Where are you? Who have you become in this age of baptism by pepper spray? Do you not know how much power you have to stop our national descent into chaos? Don’t you realize that the world is your parish and right before your eyes the Spirit of God is doing a new thing?
“Can’t you hear that God’s judgment is upon the land? God is against the thieves that bankrupted our nation. God is against the armies of the Beast who pillage other lands in our name, and turn and destroy our people on our own soil.
“Are you blind? – Perhaps you need a baptism of pepper spray in your eyes to restore your vision.”
And to the police I say this: “There are always the brutal ones in our midst. As colleagues you have the moral responsibility to police your own. If your commanders order you to brutalize your people you have a Higher Command that says, ‘disarm yourself, turn away from your sin, renounce the orders of unrighteousness.’
“And in doing so, cross the line, come over and join us because we are the winning side of history. And we welcome your repentance and heal you of your shame.”
And to the church, beloved church, I say: “You cannot sing the hymns of faith if you are too afraid to live that faith. In Amos it says to silence your sacred assemblies and let JUSTICE burst forth. Our nation, with the nations of the world, are under an assault of tyranny and treason of the 1 percent against Creation itself.
“You may not worship God until and unless you care for the image of God living in those tents and prophesying on your behalf. Once the Powers sweep the Tents away, if you dare to lift your voice even a peep, you too will be swept away.”
But the destiny of the church, the Body of Christ, is not one of quiet passivity and fear, our destiny is to bear witness having no fear of the Cross because even now we have crossed over into resurrection.
A PASTORAL LAMENT FOR MY COUNTRY:
America, America, my country ‘tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing
America, oh America
America the Beautiful has fallen.
The people versus the police
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:46 By Naomi Wolf
http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/4875?task=view
Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?
America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement – sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.
In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland’s encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades, and tear-gas canisters – with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators. The Occupy Oakland Twitter feed read like a report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square: “they are surrounding us”; “hundreds and hundreds of police”; “there are armored vehicles and Hummers.” There were 170 arrests.
My own recent arrest, while obeying the terms of a permit and standing peacefully on a street in lower Manhattan, brought the reality of this crackdown close to home. America is waking up to what was built while it slept: private companies have hired away its police (JPMorgan Chase gave $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation); the federal Department of Homeland Security has given small municipal police forces military-grade weapons systems; citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and assembly have been stealthily undermined by opaque permit requirements.
Suddenly, America looks like the rest of the furious, protesting, not-completely-free world. Indeed, most commentators have not fully grasped that a world war is occurring. But it is unlike any previous war in human history: for the first time, people around the world are not identifying and organising themselves along national or religious lines, but rather in terms of a global consciousness and demands for a peaceful life, a sustainable future, economic justice, and basic democracy. Their enemy is a global “corporatocracy” that has purchased governments and legislatures, created its own armed enforcers, engaged in systemic economic fraud, and plundered treasuries and ecosystems.
Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for being disruptive. But democracy is disruptive. Martin Luther King, Jr., argued that peaceful disruption of “business as usual” is healthy, because it exposes buried injustice, which can then be addressed. Protesters ideally should dedicate themselves to disciplined, nonviolent disruption in this spirit – especially disruption of traffic. This serves to keep provocateurs at bay, while highlighting the unjust militarization of the police response.
Moreover, protest movements do not succeed in hours or days; they typically involve sitting down or “occupying” areas for the long hauls. That is one reason why protesters should raise their own money and hire their own lawyers. The corporatocracy is terrified that citizens will reclaim the rule of law. In every country, protesters should field an army of attorneys.
Protesters should also make their own media, rather than relying on mainstream outlets to cover them. They should blog, tweet, write editorials and press releases, as well as log and document cases of police abuse (and the abusers).
There are, unfortunately, many documented cases of violent provocateurs infiltrating demonstrations in places like Toronto, Pittsburgh, London, and Athens – people whom one Greek described to me as “known unknowns.” Provocateurs, too, need to be photographed and logged, which is why it is important not to cover one’s face while protesting.
Protesters in democracies should create email lists locally, combine the lists nationally, and start registering voters. They should tell their representatives how many voters they have registered in each district – and they should organise to oust politicians who are brutal or repressive. And they should support those – as in Albany, New York, for instance, where police and the local prosecutor refused to crack down on protesters – who respect the rights to free speech and assembly.
Many protesters insist in remaining leaderless, which is a mistake. A leader does not have to sit atop a hierarchy: a leader can be a simple representative. Protesters should elect representatives for a finite “term,” just like in any democracy, and train them to talk to the press and to negotiate with politicians.
Protests should model the kind of civil society that their participants want to create. In lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, for example, there is a library and a kitchen; food is donated; kids are invited to sleep over; and teach-ins are organized. Musicians should bring instruments, and the atmosphere should be joyful and positive. Protesters should clean up after themselves. The idea is to build a new city within the corrupt city, and to show that it reflects the majority of society, not a marginal, destructive fringe.
After all, what is most profound about these protest movements is not their demands, but rather the nascent infrastructure of a common humanity. For decades, citizens have been told to keep their heads down – whether in a consumerist fantasy world or in poverty and drudgery – and leave leadership to the elites. Protest is transformative precisely because people emerge, encounter one another face-to-face, and, in re-learning the habits of freedom, build new institutions, relationships, and organisations.
None of that cannot happen in an atmosphere of political and police violence against peaceful democratic protesters. As Bertolt Brecht famously asked, following the East German Communists’ brutal crackdown on protesting workers in June 1953, “Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?” Across America, and in too many other countries, supposedly democratic leaders seem to be taking Brecht’s ironic question all too seriously.
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
Inside the American Dream
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:03 By Andrew M. Mwenda
http://www.independent.co.ug/the-last-word/the-last-word/4872?task=view
The folly and delusions of a nation that has forgotten the concerns of its ordinary citizens
And so it was that on Nov. 4, I flew to New York City from London via Amsterdam. Upon landing at JFK International Airport, I entered the longest queue in the history of international travel and immigration clearance; there, a hoard of not less 4,000 human beings snaked inside the terminal building waiting for clearance.
The process of entering this “free” country is possibly the most excruciating. First, you have to go through the most rigorous security checks at the port of boarding; in my case London.
Each passenger is individually taken out of the queue, questioned by a US government agent, documents thoroughly checked and finally cleared to go through security.
Going through security is itself another slow and agonising experience. Passengers have to remove everything piece by piece: wallets, handkerchiefs, watches, belts, shoes, laptops and iPads. They have to surrender any drinks or perfumes or lotion, enter a gigantic security X-machine, raise one’s hands in surrender as this piece of equipment takes a digital picture of your body, all your body.
And even then, with this ultra-modern technology, the process is not yet done. Once out of the machine, a security officer begins the process afresh, checking you slowly and meticulously by touching and feeling your body from shoulders to toes, emphasising areas around your pelvic region, literary feeling your dick – well because a Nigerian boy tried to use an underwear to blow up a plane. Funny that the security officials largely put in place measures to deal with past experiences rather than predict future ones. Why would the next terrorist use the methods that were used before and are therefore on the security radar screen? Anyway, after about 10 minutes, one is finally free to board the plane to visit America.
For most non-Americans, the agony of entering America today actually begins when applying for a visa. It takes a minimum three months to get an appointment online; as I write this article the nearest appointment for Kampala is in March 2012. Then one also has to fulfill cumbersome visa requirements: an invitation letter with a bank statement of your host to prove they can feed and house you; submit your own bank statements to show that you earn sufficient income at home etc. The visa application forms are clear that one is presumed a potential illegal immigrant into the US until they prove themselves otherwise. Although consular officials exempt me from all this (due to my regular travel to the US) most Ugandans go through it.
Then for your passport photo, you need a special size taken without your glasses if you wear them; otherwise the embassy will turn you away. And you have to submit your fingerprint and a picture of your eyes. The first time my fingerprint and picture were taken this way was when I was going to jail; the second was when I was applying for a visa to America and when I was entering the country. Now even at Entebbe airport, this process has begun. The world isn’t free anymore.
As I have been travelling to the US more than five times every year for the last five years, I have grown wary of what is happening to this country’s free spirit. Increasingly, I encounter a paranoid nation ruled by opportunistic politicians so desperate to cling onto or take a grab at power that they govern by pandering to public sentiments. Rather than lead on the basis of a set of values, they are instead led by public opinion, itself that changes every hour. And all the time, those who control the platforms of expression have perfected the art of selling fear to the population.
Americans are told from morning to evening that everyone hates them (and that everyone loves them at the same time). The politicians sing fear, the journalist repeat the chorus. All debate on terrorism is about fear and hence how to design even more draconian controls on how people travel. There is almost no debate to challenge the current obsession with tighter and ever tighter security arrangements.
In this free country with supposedly independent media, it is often difficult to distinguish the word of the government from the word of the journalist – one is a spokesperson of the other. It is also difficult to find people in academia and civil society who challenge these self aggrandising rules of the security system. Yet this is not a fear of death per se but rather a fear of a particular type of death – terrorism – that politicians and journalists have made a taboo even at the price of taking away peoples liberties.
For instance, over 115 Americans die daily in car accidents, that is over 43,000 per year. Over 2.9 million get injured in car accidents per year. Over 30,000 die per year of gunshot wounds. To date plane crashes – even with terrorists looming everywhere – hardly kill anyone in this country. So if it is the desire to protect life, surely, there should be a large campaign against drunk and other forms of reckless driving in America and there should be a large campaign against the Second Amendment on the right to keep and bear arms.
America’s response to protecting its citizens from another terrorist attack is disproportionate to the threat the country faces. The country is becoming one vast prison of fear; its freedom of speech greatly compromised by political correctness, its space for policy alternatives undermined by the hegemonic influence of a distorted free market ethic and the myth of “the American dream” and its politics polarised along this very narrow spectrum of policy ideas.
America today is almost a one party state and that one party is divided into two factions; one calling itself Republican, the other Democratic. The irony is that the two sides are increasingly finding it very difficult to compromise on almost nonexistent policy differences. In the battle for the American voter, each side sells fear perhaps because a paranoid population is easier to control than a free one.
Back to the queue to enter America at the JFK terminal: There, I watch hoards of humanity walking slowly and impatiently to the immigration desks; immigration officials painstakingly take their fingerprints, photograph the inside of their eyes, check their documents and finally stamp their passports. The unlucky ones are pulled out and taken to private rooms for questioning especially Muslim or anyone who writes articles critical of America. I suppose they keep such writers’ names in their databases so that when you are entering the country, you are taken care of.
I can feel the suppressed rage of all these non-American visitors to America – the sense that these procedures are far too out of proportion with the threat of terrorism. However, no one dares speak out for fear that the FBI may pick you out of the queue for questioning or that your visa might be cancelled. So when I attempt to share my irritation with a white couple next to me, they simply answer that all these excruciating processes are meant for our safety. An Australian businessman next to me interjects rejecting this defensive answer by announcing that this is his last time to America. “I just cannot stand this abuse of my rights anymore,” he says.
It is difficult not to imagine you are entering a Stalinist state, something akin to North Korea when you are entering the United States these days. The exception is that the flat screens on the walls have CNN reporting the trial of Michael Jackson’s former doctor. There, I watch Americans busy arguing and dissecting every bit of the trial – free, passionate and proud. This vibrancy of freewheeling debate brings back the America I dreamed of as a child, adored as teenager, embraced as an adult and are now growing to realize is only one aspect of that nation’s life.
But it is the America I want, not the one I am suffering. It also reflects the complexity of America’s political life – a combination of a growing Stalinism alongside Jeffersonian democracy; the existing sense of freedom but largely in entertainment, itself perhaps to divert Americans from loss of free debate about security.
The tragedy of America is the failure of its mass media, journalists, intellectuals and civil society to challenge the growing Stalinism of the security-industrial complex; the systematic dismantling of many individual liberties, the uncalled for intrusion into people’s privacy through wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance in the name of security.
Finally I leave the airport and begin driving to New York City. On radio, another heated debate about new regulations to govern city cabs; it is heated and polarizing but again reflects the America that I admire - an America of a free and proud people – vibrant and competitive. How has the concern over security blighted this once proud and courageous society to behave paranoid like cowards?
America is suffering from a crisis of leadership. It reflects Athens after the death of Pericles in 429BC. The democratic process produced a string of politicians who pandered to public sentiment. Unable to develop a vision for the city state, the leaders resorted to exchanging intellectual blows at the Ecclesia, or general assembly, in entertaining fashion to win popular approval rather than to provide solutions. Every intellectual argument would be cheered like the steady blows of boxers and wrestlers at the Olympic and Pethian games.
Thus, as philosophy gave way to oratory, Athens degenerated into mob justice. It was rule by the eloquent rather than the intelligent; sentiment overtook reason as the basis of decision making. Thus Athens went from one tragedy to another until, after 27 years of the Peloponnesian war it surrendered to Sparta. The defeat of Athens ended the democratic experiment and plunged the country into a tyranny of the council of 30 under Critius. And when the democrats wrestled power militarily back into their hands, their first objective was to kill Socrates – the one sane voice who stood consistently in opposition to the decisions of the mob.
As I drive to Manhattan, I encounter another ignored America: the Occupy Wall Street movement. For many years, the upper classes of this country have promoted the one-sided story of a prosperous nation and an invisible economy built on free market capitalism. It seems this message, more than the reality in people’s lives, has sustained the legitimacy of this arrangement for the last three decades.
In reality, however, even during the boom years of the Clinton administration, the real income of the average American has been declining, not growing. The vast majority of Americans have therefore enjoyed prosperity by association, not in their pockets. Instead, most of the growth in real incomes has gone to the top 20 percent of the population. The rest are kept hoping against hope that they too will benefit through the myths of the American dream. And because their incomes are not growing, the financiers of Wall Street decided to make them beneficiaries of this dream largely through credit – hence the rapid growth of consumer debt, now over 150 percent of an individual American’s annual income.
US democracy has been significantly undermined by these developments. For example, the top two percent control 20 percent of national income; the top 20 percent take 80 percent of total income. So 80 percent of Americans share only 20 percent of its income. The rich who take most of the benefits of growth have adeptly used the political process to block the benefits of a free market system from reaching those on the bottom of the ladder. Even my hero Frederic Von Hayek would not agree that a free market society should look like America.
The rich in America own the mass media and therefore control public opinion. They finance think tanks and therefore control the production of alternative policies. They fund universities and therefore control the production of knowledge. They pay for the campaigns of politicians to congress and the White House and therefore control power. And they hire lobbyists to promote the policies they want. The voice of the ordinary American is missing in almost every aspect of public life in this country as the rich goad themselves in opulence.
While in New York, I decided to use subway (underground train system) and that brings you face to face with the indifference of the rich to the concerns of the ordinary people of this wealthy nation. The tracks are littered with garbage and flowing with muddy water or sewage or both. The walls are peeling, the roofs leaking, the steel rusting, the wood rotting, the staircases breaking and the trains old and tired. Those who rule New York above drive in fancy cars and know little or nothing about the plight of the majority of their fellow citizens who use this subway – stuffy and smelly.
But why are most ordinary Americans content with the existing political system? Occupy Wall Street is not a big movement – I visited them and they are as few as it gets. Antonio Gramci had the answer in his famous concept of hegemony. The American political system has been extremely successful in “manufacturing the consent” (the phrase is from Noam Chomsky) of its citizens to the existing political and economic framework – largely using the power of propaganda (through the mass media), the production of knowledge (through the control of think tanks and universities) and the power of Christianity (by promising rewards in heaven).
amwenda@independent.co.ug
Ugandan opposition leaders sprayed pink to stop rally
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13355229
10 May 2011 Last updated at 14:29 ET
Ugandan police have sprayed opposition leaders with a pink liquid to stop them holding a banned rally in the capital.
After the drenching, Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao was then arrested.
This week, opposition parities have stepped up their campaign over high prices, which has led to recent clashes between the police and protesters.
Meanwhile, President Yoweri Museveni has said to curb riots he wants a new law to deny bail for six months to those arrested while protesting.
Mr Museveni, who has been in office for 25 years, is due to be sworn in again as president on Thursday.
Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye lost to Mr Museveni in February in polls he says were rigged.
Dr Besigye is in Kenya where he was receiving treatment after being assaulted in April by police during a "walk-to-work" protest over the rising cost of living,
The opposition have been taking part in a campaign for protesting about the high cost of fuel and food
The BBC's Joshua Mmali in Uganda's capital, Kampala, says the police and military blockaded the entrance to the city's Constitutional Square where the opposition parties wanted to hold their rally.
The police then intercepted the opposition leaders' procession, which was heading towards the square, with dogs.
When this failed to stop them, they were drenched in the pink liquid sprayed from nearby trucks.
Before Mr Mao was hauled into a police van he told the BBC there was "no justification" for the police action.
"I don't know what liquid it is. I don't know whether it is lethal or not, but there was no justification for pouring those liquids on us," he said.
"We were simply accessing this place and the police needed to exercise restraint."
The police first intercepted the opposition leaders' procession with dogs
The police say political gatherings have been banned at the square since 2007.
Last month, riots broke out in Kampala in protest at the rough treatment meted out to Dr Besigye by the security services during his arrest on 29 April.
Plain-clothed policemen beat up his supporters, smashed the window of his car and doused the inside with pepper spray and tear gas before manhandling him into a vehicle and driving off.
The authorities say Dr Besigye provoked them - and he was charged with inciting violence.
Before the polls, Dr Besigye had called for Egypt-style uprisings in the event of fraud.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Saturday, 19 November 2011
1000 CHURCHES and 4000 HOMELESS??
1000 CHURCHES and 4000 HOMELESS??
http://www.johnthebaptisttv.com/2011/11/11/1000-churches-and-4000-homeless/
The poor and needy are a priority with God. The Bible makes this very clear, from the Old Testament to the New. The widow and the orphan are at the forefront of His concern. A timely comment on this topic is below-
1000 CHURCHES and 4000 HOMELESS
-by ‘Beres’.
I live in Nashville where more Bibles are printed than anywhere else in
the world. We have more Christian publishing houses in Nashville than
anywhere else on the face of the earth – more churches per square mile –
and, outside the Vatican, a greater percentage of bodies in buildings on
Sunday morning than anywhere else on earth. So we in Nashville have a
better chance to get it right, wouldn’t you say??
We have 1000 churches and 4000 homeless people living and dying under
bridges and in culverts.
I know because I have prayed with them and lain with them as they died,
and every week I feed and pastor them. We can’t even get it right enough
for every church to reach out to 4 homeless people. And yes, that includes
children as young as they get.
Nashville is the headquarters for a swag of church denominations,
and para church organizations like the Gideons, and from this
buckle on the Bible belt of the richest nation on earth, missions
go out all round the globe. Those missions are funded with .01
percent of all monies collected in North American churches.
That’s right! For every $1000 collected by North American churches,
ONE Dollar is sent to evangelize those who have never heard the
name “Jesus” – but from the latest stats, are probably well aware
of the name “Coca Cola”.
And frankly, whereas I once despaired of these manifest failures
of the church, now I say, Bring it on! Let the world see forever the
rich failures of putting religion before Jesus, ritual before relationship, rules before lives and liturgy before love.
When the world at large finally see that the emperor has no clothes,
so also will the light of the real gospel of grace and peace shine
the brighter. For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!
Let it get darker, our Jesus will shine brighter.
-Please comment on this topic below-
Posted in Uncategorized by Andrew on November 11th, 2011 at 3:36 pm.
http://www.johnthebaptisttv.com/2011/11/11/1000-churches-and-4000-homeless/
The poor and needy are a priority with God. The Bible makes this very clear, from the Old Testament to the New. The widow and the orphan are at the forefront of His concern. A timely comment on this topic is below-
1000 CHURCHES and 4000 HOMELESS
-by ‘Beres’.
I live in Nashville where more Bibles are printed than anywhere else in
the world. We have more Christian publishing houses in Nashville than
anywhere else on the face of the earth – more churches per square mile –
and, outside the Vatican, a greater percentage of bodies in buildings on
Sunday morning than anywhere else on earth. So we in Nashville have a
better chance to get it right, wouldn’t you say??
We have 1000 churches and 4000 homeless people living and dying under
bridges and in culverts.
I know because I have prayed with them and lain with them as they died,
and every week I feed and pastor them. We can’t even get it right enough
for every church to reach out to 4 homeless people. And yes, that includes
children as young as they get.
Nashville is the headquarters for a swag of church denominations,
and para church organizations like the Gideons, and from this
buckle on the Bible belt of the richest nation on earth, missions
go out all round the globe. Those missions are funded with .01
percent of all monies collected in North American churches.
That’s right! For every $1000 collected by North American churches,
ONE Dollar is sent to evangelize those who have never heard the
name “Jesus” – but from the latest stats, are probably well aware
of the name “Coca Cola”.
And frankly, whereas I once despaired of these manifest failures
of the church, now I say, Bring it on! Let the world see forever the
rich failures of putting religion before Jesus, ritual before relationship, rules before lives and liturgy before love.
When the world at large finally see that the emperor has no clothes,
so also will the light of the real gospel of grace and peace shine
the brighter. For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!
Let it get darker, our Jesus will shine brighter.
-Please comment on this topic below-
Posted in Uncategorized by Andrew on November 11th, 2011 at 3:36 pm.
Prosperity Indeed!!!Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral
Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518963/future-of-ministry-uncertain-after-cathedrals-sale
November 18,
The Roman Catholic Church is about to buy a beacon of Protestant televangelism.
The Crystal Cathedral, a temple of glass in Garden Grove, Calif., will be sold to the Catholic Church for $57 million — a decision that left some congregants furious and their future up in the air.
When the Crystal Cathedral declared bankruptcy last year, it soon became clear that the legendary building would have to be sold. There were several offers, but in the end, the church's board favored the Catholic diocese in Orange County.
Sheila Schuller Coleman, the cathedral's pastor, said in a videotaped message that it was the best way to save the church.
"The Catholic plan affords us the possibility of continuing all of our wonderful, beautiful ministries," she says. "And we all know that a church is not a building."
Of course, if any church is associated with its building, it's Crystal Cathedral, which was built by the architect Philip Johnson and became famous for its televised Hour of Power services, led by Coleman's charismatic father, Robert Schuller.
The cathedral shunned a bid by nearby Chapman University, which actually offered $2 million more than the diocese.
For his part, the Catholic bishop of Orange, Tod Brown, is thrilled. The diocese needed a cathedral. It didn't occur to him to try for the Crystal Cathedral, until some of his advisers pulled him aside and said, as he recalls, "Look, this is an incredible location and the iconic cathedral, and it will really serve our needs so well. And it would be much less expensive to acquire this property than it will be for us to build out a new cathedral."
About one-fourth of the cost, in fact.
The rise and fall of the Crystal Cathedral has many twists — from Schuller's message of positive thinking to his booming television ministry to the power struggle among his children when he retired. "But in the end, it's about living beyond your means," says Richard Flory, who teaches at the University of Southern California.
Flory says the church had enormous costs in maintaining the building and the services, which included professional musicians and a yearly Christmas pageant that cost $2 million. At the same time, Flory says, the Crystal Cathedral did not adapt to the times.
"They stuck with a particular model of what church was supposed to be and sound and feel like, and I think generationally people started to look for other things," he says.
In short, it lost market share — and the loyalty of congregants like Bob Canfield.
Canfield is angry that the board shunned Chapman University's offer. But he's furious about the Schuller family.
"It's a slap in the face," he says. "They've been taking exorbitant salaries, knowing for the last eight, 10 years that they were going down the tubes slowly but surely."
The family alienated many. For example, when they asked for food donations for Schuller's ailing wife, they announced that the donations would be delivered in a limousine.
It's not clear what happens to Crystal Cathedral's congregation. Coleman, the pastor, said they can stay in the building for up to three years, and she held out hope for a miracle.
"There is still time for God to step in and rescue Crystal Cathedral Ministries," she says.
But in all likelihood, they'll have to find a new place to rent, and hope that their congregants follow, even without the spectacular cathedral.
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518963/future-of-ministry-uncertain-after-cathedrals-sale
November 18,
The Roman Catholic Church is about to buy a beacon of Protestant televangelism.
The Crystal Cathedral, a temple of glass in Garden Grove, Calif., will be sold to the Catholic Church for $57 million — a decision that left some congregants furious and their future up in the air.
When the Crystal Cathedral declared bankruptcy last year, it soon became clear that the legendary building would have to be sold. There were several offers, but in the end, the church's board favored the Catholic diocese in Orange County.
Sheila Schuller Coleman, the cathedral's pastor, said in a videotaped message that it was the best way to save the church.
"The Catholic plan affords us the possibility of continuing all of our wonderful, beautiful ministries," she says. "And we all know that a church is not a building."
Of course, if any church is associated with its building, it's Crystal Cathedral, which was built by the architect Philip Johnson and became famous for its televised Hour of Power services, led by Coleman's charismatic father, Robert Schuller.
The cathedral shunned a bid by nearby Chapman University, which actually offered $2 million more than the diocese.
For his part, the Catholic bishop of Orange, Tod Brown, is thrilled. The diocese needed a cathedral. It didn't occur to him to try for the Crystal Cathedral, until some of his advisers pulled him aside and said, as he recalls, "Look, this is an incredible location and the iconic cathedral, and it will really serve our needs so well. And it would be much less expensive to acquire this property than it will be for us to build out a new cathedral."
About one-fourth of the cost, in fact.
The rise and fall of the Crystal Cathedral has many twists — from Schuller's message of positive thinking to his booming television ministry to the power struggle among his children when he retired. "But in the end, it's about living beyond your means," says Richard Flory, who teaches at the University of Southern California.
Flory says the church had enormous costs in maintaining the building and the services, which included professional musicians and a yearly Christmas pageant that cost $2 million. At the same time, Flory says, the Crystal Cathedral did not adapt to the times.
"They stuck with a particular model of what church was supposed to be and sound and feel like, and I think generationally people started to look for other things," he says.
In short, it lost market share — and the loyalty of congregants like Bob Canfield.
Canfield is angry that the board shunned Chapman University's offer. But he's furious about the Schuller family.
"It's a slap in the face," he says. "They've been taking exorbitant salaries, knowing for the last eight, 10 years that they were going down the tubes slowly but surely."
The family alienated many. For example, when they asked for food donations for Schuller's ailing wife, they announced that the donations would be delivered in a limousine.
It's not clear what happens to Crystal Cathedral's congregation. Coleman, the pastor, said they can stay in the building for up to three years, and she held out hope for a miracle.
"There is still time for God to step in and rescue Crystal Cathedral Ministries," she says.
But in all likelihood, they'll have to find a new place to rent, and hope that their congregants follow, even without the spectacular cathedral.
On Christians, Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, and Liberation Theology
On Christians, Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, and Liberation Theology
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/commentaries/471-on-christians-poverty-occupy-wall-street-and-liberation-theology.html
Kato Mivule | November 1, 2011
Recently, a number of protests dubbed “Occupy Wall Street”, have taken place in the USA , centered around issues of increasing poverty, lack of jobs, increasing disparity between the poor and rich, the unfair tax burden that seems to let the rich walk away without paying their dues in taxes, and excessive greed and capitalism among big financial institutions in the USA.
The protests that begun in New York City have not only spread around the USA but also in many other capitals around the world. While there is no central theme in the message conveyed by the protestors, the core content seems to be against excessive greed and injustice towards the poor.
However, of lately some evangelical leaders have come out openly and condemned the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, calling it among other things “socialists”, “evil”, “mobs”, “anarchists”, “neo-1960's hippies”, and “rebels”. Some of the evangelical leaders have gone to length in warning their members not to participate in the protests, noting that the occupy wall street protestors are simply “jealous” of the rich and with a socialist agenda to take over the USA.
Some christian leaders claim that any christian who joins in protesting or voicing against the injustices done to the poor, is engaging in “Liberation Theology”, a clever term re-coined by some evangelicals leaders as a slur against anyone who raises their voice to speak out for the poor and the injustices done against them.
The roots of Liberation Theology begun by a Roman Catholic in the 1950s, actually by Priests protesting the injustices done against the poor by the Catholic Church itself. The Roman Catholic Church then outlawed some of teachings of Liberation Theology inside the Catholic Church. However, in the 1960's, the civil rights movement in the USA included voicing against injustices done to the poor among the message of racial equality; black christian churches and other christian denominations took on this message.
On seeing this, some wealthy white evangelical leaders were quick to condemn the outcry as a “socialist Marxist movement”, and a “Black Liberation Theology” movement. Some of the rich white evangelical leaders taught that black christian leaders who voiced against black social injustices, like racism and poverty were teaching “Black Liberation Theology”, a “doctrine of devils”. This was done in part as a way to silence any Christian who voiced for the poor, from offending the wealthy capitalists who by large bankrolled most of the wealthy white evangelical churches and projects.
So, the basis of demeaning, degrading, and slurring anyone opposed to mistreatment of the poor by some of the rich white evangelical leaders had to do with securing their source of income and money but not because the Bible and especially the New Testament had anything to do with objecting to the poor crying out for justice.
This is not to say that the New Testament is a blueprint for a socialist economic framework. Yet while the New Testament does not speak in terms of “outlawing capitalism”, it does speak out against the mistreatment of the poor, and calls on the rich and wealthy to treat those not their equals with justice, fairness, and generosity. This is clearly spelled out in the Teachings of Jesus Christ and Book of James for example. To discard such teaching under the slur of “Black Liberation Theology” is a shame and a reproach by those who do so.
Luke 6:20 KJV
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 14:12-14 KJV
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. (13) But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: (14) And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
James 5:1-6 KJV
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
It is very clear that James, was speaking out against injustices, mistreatment of the poor, and greed by wealthy “Job Creators” of his day; for they had engaged in withholding the wages of the laborers and God in Heaven had listened to their cry. This story is not so different from the financial injustices being committed by some so-called “Job Creators” today.
Luke 4:18 KJV The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised
While Jesus Christ does not tell His followers to go and legislate His teachings as secular law, it ought to be the duty of Christians, at least to take action as a Church in helping the poor and weak of our society and yes, speak out against the mistreatment of the poor and weak, peacefully and with none violence. The point is not to place trust in governments or man, as some evangelical leaders love to dismiss anyone voicing for the poor. However, if there is a possibility for governments to wake up and reconsider their conscience towards the poor, then it is a good thing, yet even if governments do not help the poor, the Church and Christians ought to.
Besides, this is an opportunity for Christians to reach out and do good, and help the poor do the fishing for themselves, after all, that is what they are asking, not some new Limousine, or million dollar house. It is certain that while Jesus Christ might not legislate anti-poverty measures today, He would certainly stand with the poor, the orphans, widows and those most maligned by today's materialistic society.
One reason why some Christians have taken part in the Occupy Wall Street protests, is to voice against the injustices done to the poor and to highlight the excessive greed that seems to be a source of the economic downturn in the USA. While many political motivations and self-interests might be behind Occupy Wall Street, using that as an excuse to slur all those who voice for the poor and those who speak out against injustices done to the poor is basically shortsighted and a way to ignore the bigger problem.
While some evangelical leaders see very “big problems” with Christians raising their voice against injustices done to the poor, again, I do not see anything wrong with Christians raising their voices to call for justice and fair treatment of the poor in our present societies, as long as Christians voice peacefully, lawfully, and with none violence.
It is clear that some evangelical leaders have positioned themselves with those who practice excessive greed at the expense of the poor, while condemning the poor folks who raise their voices against such injustices as being guilty of “Black Liberation Theology” and “jealousy”. In doing so, the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been tainted by such evangelical leaders who are seen as one in bed with the pushers of injustices towards the poor. Those who are engaged in “class warfare” are not the poor but those who deny them their due wages and institute structures that ensure that those who are poor not only stay poor but become poorer.
As Christians and followers of Christ, even while we might not be engaged with the Occupy Wall Street protestors, at least we can join in voicing against the mistreatment of poor people just like Jesus Christ would certainly do. We must remember that part of preaching the Gospel involves helping the poor, calling this “Black Liberation Theology” is a slur not just to the poor but a slap in the face to Jesus Christ, a thing that some evangelicals leaders are busy doing by disparaging and despising the poor.
Galatians 2:9-10 KJV And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. (10) Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/commentaries/471-on-christians-poverty-occupy-wall-street-and-liberation-theology.html
Kato Mivule | November 1, 2011
Recently, a number of protests dubbed “Occupy Wall Street”, have taken place in the USA , centered around issues of increasing poverty, lack of jobs, increasing disparity between the poor and rich, the unfair tax burden that seems to let the rich walk away without paying their dues in taxes, and excessive greed and capitalism among big financial institutions in the USA.
The protests that begun in New York City have not only spread around the USA but also in many other capitals around the world. While there is no central theme in the message conveyed by the protestors, the core content seems to be against excessive greed and injustice towards the poor.
However, of lately some evangelical leaders have come out openly and condemned the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, calling it among other things “socialists”, “evil”, “mobs”, “anarchists”, “neo-1960's hippies”, and “rebels”. Some of the evangelical leaders have gone to length in warning their members not to participate in the protests, noting that the occupy wall street protestors are simply “jealous” of the rich and with a socialist agenda to take over the USA.
Some christian leaders claim that any christian who joins in protesting or voicing against the injustices done to the poor, is engaging in “Liberation Theology”, a clever term re-coined by some evangelicals leaders as a slur against anyone who raises their voice to speak out for the poor and the injustices done against them.
The roots of Liberation Theology begun by a Roman Catholic in the 1950s, actually by Priests protesting the injustices done against the poor by the Catholic Church itself. The Roman Catholic Church then outlawed some of teachings of Liberation Theology inside the Catholic Church. However, in the 1960's, the civil rights movement in the USA included voicing against injustices done to the poor among the message of racial equality; black christian churches and other christian denominations took on this message.
On seeing this, some wealthy white evangelical leaders were quick to condemn the outcry as a “socialist Marxist movement”, and a “Black Liberation Theology” movement. Some of the rich white evangelical leaders taught that black christian leaders who voiced against black social injustices, like racism and poverty were teaching “Black Liberation Theology”, a “doctrine of devils”. This was done in part as a way to silence any Christian who voiced for the poor, from offending the wealthy capitalists who by large bankrolled most of the wealthy white evangelical churches and projects.
So, the basis of demeaning, degrading, and slurring anyone opposed to mistreatment of the poor by some of the rich white evangelical leaders had to do with securing their source of income and money but not because the Bible and especially the New Testament had anything to do with objecting to the poor crying out for justice.
This is not to say that the New Testament is a blueprint for a socialist economic framework. Yet while the New Testament does not speak in terms of “outlawing capitalism”, it does speak out against the mistreatment of the poor, and calls on the rich and wealthy to treat those not their equals with justice, fairness, and generosity. This is clearly spelled out in the Teachings of Jesus Christ and Book of James for example. To discard such teaching under the slur of “Black Liberation Theology” is a shame and a reproach by those who do so.
Luke 6:20 KJV
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 14:12-14 KJV
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. (13) But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: (14) And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
James 5:1-6 KJV
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
It is very clear that James, was speaking out against injustices, mistreatment of the poor, and greed by wealthy “Job Creators” of his day; for they had engaged in withholding the wages of the laborers and God in Heaven had listened to their cry. This story is not so different from the financial injustices being committed by some so-called “Job Creators” today.
Luke 4:18 KJV The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised
While Jesus Christ does not tell His followers to go and legislate His teachings as secular law, it ought to be the duty of Christians, at least to take action as a Church in helping the poor and weak of our society and yes, speak out against the mistreatment of the poor and weak, peacefully and with none violence. The point is not to place trust in governments or man, as some evangelical leaders love to dismiss anyone voicing for the poor. However, if there is a possibility for governments to wake up and reconsider their conscience towards the poor, then it is a good thing, yet even if governments do not help the poor, the Church and Christians ought to.
Besides, this is an opportunity for Christians to reach out and do good, and help the poor do the fishing for themselves, after all, that is what they are asking, not some new Limousine, or million dollar house. It is certain that while Jesus Christ might not legislate anti-poverty measures today, He would certainly stand with the poor, the orphans, widows and those most maligned by today's materialistic society.
One reason why some Christians have taken part in the Occupy Wall Street protests, is to voice against the injustices done to the poor and to highlight the excessive greed that seems to be a source of the economic downturn in the USA. While many political motivations and self-interests might be behind Occupy Wall Street, using that as an excuse to slur all those who voice for the poor and those who speak out against injustices done to the poor is basically shortsighted and a way to ignore the bigger problem.
While some evangelical leaders see very “big problems” with Christians raising their voice against injustices done to the poor, again, I do not see anything wrong with Christians raising their voices to call for justice and fair treatment of the poor in our present societies, as long as Christians voice peacefully, lawfully, and with none violence.
It is clear that some evangelical leaders have positioned themselves with those who practice excessive greed at the expense of the poor, while condemning the poor folks who raise their voices against such injustices as being guilty of “Black Liberation Theology” and “jealousy”. In doing so, the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been tainted by such evangelical leaders who are seen as one in bed with the pushers of injustices towards the poor. Those who are engaged in “class warfare” are not the poor but those who deny them their due wages and institute structures that ensure that those who are poor not only stay poor but become poorer.
As Christians and followers of Christ, even while we might not be engaged with the Occupy Wall Street protestors, at least we can join in voicing against the mistreatment of poor people just like Jesus Christ would certainly do. We must remember that part of preaching the Gospel involves helping the poor, calling this “Black Liberation Theology” is a slur not just to the poor but a slap in the face to Jesus Christ, a thing that some evangelicals leaders are busy doing by disparaging and despising the poor.
Galatians 2:9-10 KJV And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. (10) Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Pastor Evans Mayambala a Prominent Kampala Prosperity Pastor in wife snatching scandal
15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (Matthew 7:15-20)
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s wife snatching saga
Recently, Elvis Singa 39, smashed Pastor Evans Mayambala’s car windscreen. Elvis suspects Pastor Mayambala(Pastor Robert Kayanja’s sheep) of having a love affair with his wife. Pastor Mayambala’s estranged wife died in 2007. Elvis says that in April 2011, he came home and found that his wife was not at home, however at about 4:00 o’clock in the morning, Elvis’s wife came back home in Pastor Mayambala’s car. Elvis put his wife to task to explain who the man(Pastor Evans Mayambala) who brought her home was. The wife said she was coming from a night prayer meeting at Seguku prayer mountain which made her run late. Because she was late, her pastor , Mayambala Evans gave her a lift
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s popular books are bogus to Christ’s kingdom
Pastor Evans Mayambala(pastor Robert Kayanja’s sheep) is a celebrity because he has become an expert as regards helping people to get rich. He has written two popular books; one is titled, The secretes of rich people and the other is titled, where do rich people get money. I tell you, Pastor Evans is a hero in Uganda. However, his gospel is at total variance with the Gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. Precisely it is bogus to the kingdom of Christ. Instead of telling sinners to come to the savoir Jesus, pastors like Mayambala are telling them to love money, materialism and to work hard to become billionaires. Can you imagine. I tell you, the Lord Jesus Christ is going to expose these crooks one by one.
Pastor Mayambala Evans facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mayambala-Evans/100001044573649
Pastor Mayambala Evans’ Wealth creation Website
http://www.wealthcreation.co.ug
FAMOUS PUBLICATIONS OF PASTOR MAYAMBALA EVANS !!!!!!!!
•Secrets of rich people “Ebyama bya baggagga”
•Where do rich people get money “Wa a baggagga gye bajja sente”
Paasita Mayambala asimattuse okuttibwa lwa mukamusajja
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/13596-Paasita-Mayambala-asimattuse-okuttibwa-lwa-mukamusajja.html
Nov 15, 2011
Bya JOSEPH MUTEBI
OMUSUMBA Evans Mayambala asimattuse omusuubuzi w’omu Kampala amulumiriza okumusigulira omukazi.
Elvis Singa 39, agamba nti asanze Mayambala enfunda nnya ng’akukuta ne mukazi we Sauda Namata okutuusa lwe yeekyaye n’akwata oguyinja n’agukuba emmotoka mwe baabadde batambulira.
Mayambala addukidde ku poliisi ya Kampalamukadde okuggula omusango ku musajja eyabadde ayagala okusaanyaawo obulamu bwe era Singa naye yabadde agenze ku poliisi okuggula ku Paasita omusango gw’okumutabulira amaka; ate abaserikale ne bakwata mukwate ne bamuggalira.
Singa attottola nti:
Omulundi ogwasooka mu March w’omwaka guno nnasanga Mayambala ng’ali mu ddiiro ne mukazi wange mu maka gange e Nsambya mu Kirombe Zooni nga balaba ttivvi. Nnamubuuza nti “Ono tumuyita tutya?” n’anziramu nti “Musumba wange azze kunsabira.”
Ayongerako nti: Mu April 2011, nnatuuka awaka nga mukyala wange taliiwo kyokka ku ssaawa nga 4:00 ez’ekiro, mukazi wange yakomawo ng’ali mu mmotoka ne Mayambala era ne mubuuza nti “Oyo akuleeta ng’ani awaka?” n’annyanukula nti, “Obudde butuzibyeko nga tuli mu kusaba kw’oku Prayer Mountain e Seguku, Omusumba wange n’asalawo ampe ku lifuti.”
Singa agamba nti yatandika okwekengera era n’asalawo n’agulira mukazi we emmotoka okwetangira Mayambala nti kyokka obujoozi bwagenda mu maaso.
Omusajja ono alumiriza nti ne mu kuziika Omusumba Micheal Mugerwa e Katende ku lw’e Masaka, Namata ne Mayambala baatambulira mu mmotoka emu ey’ekika kya Big Horn era n’agezaako okubawondera ng’ali mu yiye, nti kyokka bwe baamulaba ne bagezaako okumutomera.
Ku mulundi guno, be yassaako okumulondoolera mukazi we baamutegeezezza ku Ssande nti mukazi we ne Mayambala ekyemisana baakiriira ku 2K Restaurant ewa Bakuli mu Kampala era n’ajja n’abateega.
Baabadde baakatuuka nga bapaakinga mmotoka y’omukyala ey’ekika kya RAV4, Singa n’ava mu wooteeri n’ayambalira Mayambala era mu kwerwanako n’amukoonya mmotoka n’agwa.
Olwasituse wansi n’akwata oguyinja n’akuba mmotoka n’agyasa endabirwamu era wano Mayambala kwe kusimbula mmotoka n’agyolekeza poliisi ya Kampalamukadde n’aggula omusango gw’okwonoona mmotoka ku fayiro eri ku CRB:5113/11.
Singa naye yazze okuggulawo omusango ku Mayambala okumusigulira omukazi n’okumutomeza mmotoka mu bugenderevu kyokka n’atakkirizibwa era n’ayingizibwa mu kaduukulu gye yasuze okutuusa akawungeezi k’eggulo lwe yakkiriziddwa okweyimirirwa.
Mayambala yategeezezza poliisi nti enkolagana ye ne Namata ekoma ku “Njiri” kubanga bombi basumba. Namata ye musumba w’Ekkanisa ya Faith Christian Centre e Makindye ate Mayambala musumba wa kkanisa ya Let There Be Healing Church e Kiwaatule mu Kampala.
Singa yagambye nti yagattibwa ne Namata mu 2009. Yasanga Namata alina abaana babiri be yasooka okuzaala nti kyokka okuva olwo omukyala ono tamuzaalirangayo mwana yenna.
Aduumira poliisi y’e Kampalamukadde, Siraje Bakaleke yategeezezza nti baakuwulira n’okwemulugunya kwa Singa era bamukkirize n’okuggulawo omusango ku Mayambala.
Ebikwata ku Mayambala
•Yazaalibwa 1972, wa myaka 39.
•Bazadde be ye Daniel Ssennoga ne Mary Nakandi ab’e Kawempe.
•Yasomera Old Kampala S.S ng’atambuza bigere okuva e Kawempe.
•Yasooka kusabira Lubaga Miracle Centre ewa Robert Kayanja gye yava n’akola ekkanisa ye eya Let There Be Healing e Kiwaatule.
•Alina ekkolero lya ssabbuuni n’ebizigo erya Destiny Roki Investments
•July 20, 2007 yasimattuka abakungubazi abaali bamulumiriza okusibira omulambo gwa mukazi we Margaret Nantongo mu nju olw’ebyobugagga.
•Awandiise obutabo obuyigiriza abantu okukola ssente era busomwa ku leediyo eziwerako.
Paasita Mayambala yeegaanyi okusigula omukazi
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/13616-Paasita-Mayambala-yeegaanyi-okusigula-omukazi.html
Nov 16, 2011
Bya MOSES JJAGWE
PAASITA Evans Mayambala agambye nti omukazi gwe bamulumiriza okusigula amulabidde wiiki ssatu zokka era tamwagala nga bba bw’akimussaako.
Mayambala ow’ekkanisa ya Let There Be Healing e Kiwaatule mu Kampala yannyonnyodde nti: Wadde omusajja ono (Elvis Singa) agamba nti yaakansisinkana enfunda nnya nga nkukuta ne mukaziwe, nze simulabangako era ogwasoose okumulaba nnamwekangidde wa Bbakuli (mu Kampala) ng’akuba emmotoka mwe nabadde.
Yayongeddeko nti: Bwe namubuuzizza lwaki agezaako okuntuusaako obulabe n’ang’amba nti alina obutakkaanya ne mukaziwe gw’alumiriza obwenzi.
Sirina nkolagana yonna ya mukwano ne Sauda Namata era emirundi esatu gye naakamusisinkana tubadde twogera ku nsonga za mwoyo.
Namata naye musumba akulira ekkanisa ya Faith Christian Centre e Makindye ate bba Singa musuubuzi wa mu Kampala ali mu bizinensi ya bya ntambula era alina loole ezisaabaza eby’amaguzi ezisukka mu ttaano.
Mayambala yattottodde nti: Omulundi ogwasooka yampita okugenda ku kkanisa ye e Makindye mbuulire (enjiri) era kino kyaliwo wiiki nga ttaano eziyise.
Omulundi ogwokubiri nti baasisinkana Katende mu Mpigi mu kuziika omusumba Micheal Mugerwa eyafiira mu kabenje e Kakira ku lw’e Jjinja omwezi oguwedde.
Nti Namata bwe yalaba Mayambala n’amusanyukira nti era yali n’abakazi abalala ne basaba Mayambala ‘abawe ku lifuti’ era n’abakomyawo n’abaleka mu Kampala.
Yagambye nti omulundi ogwokusatu (Singa we yabasangidde) yabadde agenda mu kivvulu ky’okutongoza olutambi “Nninda” olw’omuyimbi Solome Mirembe e Kawaala gye yabadde ayitiddwa ng’omugenyi omukulu n’asanga Namata ne muwalawe Patricia ne bamusaba abatwaleko era bwe yatuuse ewa Bakuli n’ayimirira okubaggyamu era wano Singa we yafubutukiddeyo n’atandika okukuba mmotoka nga bwe yeecwacwana.
Yatutte emmotoka n’agiteeka ku poliisi ya Old Kampala n’ategeeza abaserikale ebibaddewo era Singa kwe kukwatibwa n’aggalirwa.
Singa nga tannayimbulwa ku poliisi yakoze siteetimenti ng’alumiriza Mayambala okumusigulira mukaziwe Namata gwe yagattibwa naye mu 2009 era n’ategeeza nti abasisinkanye enfunda nnya omuli lwe yabasanga mu makaage (aga Singa) mu Kirombe Zooni Nsambya mu March 2011, olulala Mayambala n’akomyawo Namata mu mmotoka ekiro, lwe baaziika Mugerwa ne ku luno olw’ewa Bakuli era eggulo Singa yazzeeyo ku poliisi ya Old Kampala n’aggula omusango ku Mayambala ogw’okugezaako okumutuusaako obulabe olw’omukazi.
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s other scandals
Violence Erupts at Vigil
http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12431
A silent vigil in memory of Pastor Evans Mayambala's wife, turned violent last night when the pastor confronted his in-laws demanding for the deceased's property.
Pastor Evans Mayambala, of iLet there be healing churchi in Kiwatule shocked mourners who had come for the vigil, when he stormed out of the house demanding for the keys of three cars which were owned by his deceased wife, Margaret Nantongo.
Pastor Mayambala also demanded for the land title of one of the houses which were owned by the deceased.
Shocked by the surprise demands, his in-laws led by the deceased's mother, Mirabu Nakalema, refused to hand over the keys and the land tittle, prompting a barrage of insults from the pastor.
Pastor Mayambala ordered all the deceased's relatives out of the house where the body laid during the vigil and warned them against showing up for burial.
The pastor then locked himself up in the house with the body, and asked the mourners to give him time to calm down as he settled his scores with his in-laws.
Police was quickly called in to control a possible outbreak of violence at the vigil.
Yesterday, the pastor and his in-laws clashed for more than 12 hours quarreling over the dead body.
The row erupted after the pastor demanded to burry his estranged wife.
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12431#ixzz1drHOuKcy
Chaos At Vigil of Pastor's Wife
http://allafrica.com/stories/200707201119.html
Steven Kibuuka & Jude Luggya
The New Vision , 21 July 2007
Kampala — A NIGHT vigil for Margaret Nantongo, wife to Pastor Evans Mayambala, who died on Monday, turned violent on Thursday following a serious family dispute.
The deceased's relatives, with the help of sympathisers suddenly gathered at around 10:00pm and almost lynched Pastor Mayambala accusing him of attempting to inherit his wife's wealth.
Kampala Pastor in Furious Row over Dead Body
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12421#ixzz1drCJAsjQ
The death of a pastor's wife in Kiwatule triggered off a furious row between the pastor and his in-laws.
The row erupted after Pastor Evans Mayambala, of iLet there be healing churchi in Kiwatule clashed with his in-laws, demanding for a right to burry his wife, Margaret Nantongo, with whom he separated from six months ago.
According to Roy Nalubega, a sister to the deceased, Nantongo had intimated to her family that she wished to be buried at her ancestral home in Mityana, following a series of marital problems with Pastor Mayambala.
Nalubega said that her sister had fallen out with the pastor with whom she had been married to, for ten years and had four children. Their relationship turned sour after the pastor doused her with petrol and allegedly threatened to set her ablaze.
The pastor is also alleged to have thrown his wife out of their marital home, forcing her to rent a room in Katwe, where she has been staying for the last six months.
Harbored with bitterness in their hearts, Nantongo's relatives stormed Mayambala's home in Kiwatule demanding for the body. They maintained that the pastor had no right to either claim for the body or defy her wife's wish to be buried at her ancestral home.
But Mayambala insisted that he would burry his wife at his ancestral home in Kawempe, despite the fact that they had fallen out.
The two parties were for more than six hours locked up in a verbal exchange, as the body lay in a coffin in the sitting room, and the couple's four children sat screaming confused about the scenario. They were quickly grabbed and locked up in a bedroom.
It took the intervention of the Former presidential aspirant, Dr Abeedi Bwanika, the Nakawa division Resident District Commissioner, Edward Sekabanja, and police to reconcile the two parties.
Dr Abeedi Bwanika, a friend to the couple advised that the body be transported to Mulago hospital mortuary, as the families sort out their misunderstandings.
But pastor Mayambala quickly shot up and refused to heed to Bwanika's advice. In response, Relatives of the deceased quickly grabbed hoes and started to dig a grave in the couple's compound, arguing that it would provide the only neutral ground.
Meanwhile, three other graves had reportedly been dug up in Mityana, in Kawempe at pastor Mayambala's home and in Mukono, the couples up country home.
Caught in a seemingly difficult situation, Dr Bwanika quickly convened a meeting during which the two parties finally agreed that the deceased will be buried at the pastor's ancestral home in Kawempe, because the couple had not divorced officially.
Nantongo, a prominent city businesswoman, succumbed to cardiac arrest yesterday.
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12421#ixzz1drC94pBs
Pastor Mayambala, Uganda’s next billionaire?
http://www.orumuri.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=5&newsCategoryId=10&newsId=641069
He shot to the limelight in July last year, when, following the death of his estranged wife, Margaret Nantongo, reports emerged that he was entangled in a property battle with his in-laws.
Police had to intervene and the burial was delayed for two days. Recently, Pastor Evans Mayambala of Let There Be Healing Church in Kiwatule seems to have embarked on motivational speaking.
During the Victoria Gospel Music Awards at Serena Hotel, Mayambala, said he was going to be Uganda’s next billionaire, to wild applause.
He recently published a book, Strategic Business Planning: Aspects You Ought To Embrace If You will Excel (Nissi Publishers Ltd). We guess he took a dose of his medicine.
Published on: Friday, 25th July, 2008
Get Rich By Investing
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808180215.html
Paul Tentena
The New vision, 16 August 2008
Kampala — PROSPERITY does not require supernatural powers. The opportunity is right under your nose.
In his book Strategic Business Planning: Aspects You Ought To Embrace If You Will To Excel, Evans Mayambala, the executive director of the School of Business Planning and Management, helps one create a successful business that could improve one's wealth.
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s wife snatching saga
Recently, Elvis Singa 39, smashed Pastor Evans Mayambala’s car windscreen. Elvis suspects Pastor Mayambala(Pastor Robert Kayanja’s sheep) of having a love affair with his wife. Pastor Mayambala’s estranged wife died in 2007. Elvis says that in April 2011, he came home and found that his wife was not at home, however at about 4:00 o’clock in the morning, Elvis’s wife came back home in Pastor Mayambala’s car. Elvis put his wife to task to explain who the man(Pastor Evans Mayambala) who brought her home was. The wife said she was coming from a night prayer meeting at Seguku prayer mountain which made her run late. Because she was late, her pastor , Mayambala Evans gave her a lift
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s popular books are bogus to Christ’s kingdom
Pastor Evans Mayambala(pastor Robert Kayanja’s sheep) is a celebrity because he has become an expert as regards helping people to get rich. He has written two popular books; one is titled, The secretes of rich people and the other is titled, where do rich people get money. I tell you, Pastor Evans is a hero in Uganda. However, his gospel is at total variance with the Gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. Precisely it is bogus to the kingdom of Christ. Instead of telling sinners to come to the savoir Jesus, pastors like Mayambala are telling them to love money, materialism and to work hard to become billionaires. Can you imagine. I tell you, the Lord Jesus Christ is going to expose these crooks one by one.
Pastor Mayambala Evans facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mayambala-Evans/100001044573649
Pastor Mayambala Evans’ Wealth creation Website
http://www.wealthcreation.co.ug
FAMOUS PUBLICATIONS OF PASTOR MAYAMBALA EVANS !!!!!!!!
•Secrets of rich people “Ebyama bya baggagga”
•Where do rich people get money “Wa a baggagga gye bajja sente”
Paasita Mayambala asimattuse okuttibwa lwa mukamusajja
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/13596-Paasita-Mayambala-asimattuse-okuttibwa-lwa-mukamusajja.html
Nov 15, 2011
Bya JOSEPH MUTEBI
OMUSUMBA Evans Mayambala asimattuse omusuubuzi w’omu Kampala amulumiriza okumusigulira omukazi.
Elvis Singa 39, agamba nti asanze Mayambala enfunda nnya ng’akukuta ne mukazi we Sauda Namata okutuusa lwe yeekyaye n’akwata oguyinja n’agukuba emmotoka mwe baabadde batambulira.
Mayambala addukidde ku poliisi ya Kampalamukadde okuggula omusango ku musajja eyabadde ayagala okusaanyaawo obulamu bwe era Singa naye yabadde agenze ku poliisi okuggula ku Paasita omusango gw’okumutabulira amaka; ate abaserikale ne bakwata mukwate ne bamuggalira.
Singa attottola nti:
Omulundi ogwasooka mu March w’omwaka guno nnasanga Mayambala ng’ali mu ddiiro ne mukazi wange mu maka gange e Nsambya mu Kirombe Zooni nga balaba ttivvi. Nnamubuuza nti “Ono tumuyita tutya?” n’anziramu nti “Musumba wange azze kunsabira.”
Ayongerako nti: Mu April 2011, nnatuuka awaka nga mukyala wange taliiwo kyokka ku ssaawa nga 4:00 ez’ekiro, mukazi wange yakomawo ng’ali mu mmotoka ne Mayambala era ne mubuuza nti “Oyo akuleeta ng’ani awaka?” n’annyanukula nti, “Obudde butuzibyeko nga tuli mu kusaba kw’oku Prayer Mountain e Seguku, Omusumba wange n’asalawo ampe ku lifuti.”
Singa agamba nti yatandika okwekengera era n’asalawo n’agulira mukazi we emmotoka okwetangira Mayambala nti kyokka obujoozi bwagenda mu maaso.
Omusajja ono alumiriza nti ne mu kuziika Omusumba Micheal Mugerwa e Katende ku lw’e Masaka, Namata ne Mayambala baatambulira mu mmotoka emu ey’ekika kya Big Horn era n’agezaako okubawondera ng’ali mu yiye, nti kyokka bwe baamulaba ne bagezaako okumutomera.
Ku mulundi guno, be yassaako okumulondoolera mukazi we baamutegeezezza ku Ssande nti mukazi we ne Mayambala ekyemisana baakiriira ku 2K Restaurant ewa Bakuli mu Kampala era n’ajja n’abateega.
Baabadde baakatuuka nga bapaakinga mmotoka y’omukyala ey’ekika kya RAV4, Singa n’ava mu wooteeri n’ayambalira Mayambala era mu kwerwanako n’amukoonya mmotoka n’agwa.
Olwasituse wansi n’akwata oguyinja n’akuba mmotoka n’agyasa endabirwamu era wano Mayambala kwe kusimbula mmotoka n’agyolekeza poliisi ya Kampalamukadde n’aggula omusango gw’okwonoona mmotoka ku fayiro eri ku CRB:5113/11.
Singa naye yazze okuggulawo omusango ku Mayambala okumusigulira omukazi n’okumutomeza mmotoka mu bugenderevu kyokka n’atakkirizibwa era n’ayingizibwa mu kaduukulu gye yasuze okutuusa akawungeezi k’eggulo lwe yakkiriziddwa okweyimirirwa.
Mayambala yategeezezza poliisi nti enkolagana ye ne Namata ekoma ku “Njiri” kubanga bombi basumba. Namata ye musumba w’Ekkanisa ya Faith Christian Centre e Makindye ate Mayambala musumba wa kkanisa ya Let There Be Healing Church e Kiwaatule mu Kampala.
Singa yagambye nti yagattibwa ne Namata mu 2009. Yasanga Namata alina abaana babiri be yasooka okuzaala nti kyokka okuva olwo omukyala ono tamuzaalirangayo mwana yenna.
Aduumira poliisi y’e Kampalamukadde, Siraje Bakaleke yategeezezza nti baakuwulira n’okwemulugunya kwa Singa era bamukkirize n’okuggulawo omusango ku Mayambala.
Ebikwata ku Mayambala
•Yazaalibwa 1972, wa myaka 39.
•Bazadde be ye Daniel Ssennoga ne Mary Nakandi ab’e Kawempe.
•Yasomera Old Kampala S.S ng’atambuza bigere okuva e Kawempe.
•Yasooka kusabira Lubaga Miracle Centre ewa Robert Kayanja gye yava n’akola ekkanisa ye eya Let There Be Healing e Kiwaatule.
•Alina ekkolero lya ssabbuuni n’ebizigo erya Destiny Roki Investments
•July 20, 2007 yasimattuka abakungubazi abaali bamulumiriza okusibira omulambo gwa mukazi we Margaret Nantongo mu nju olw’ebyobugagga.
•Awandiise obutabo obuyigiriza abantu okukola ssente era busomwa ku leediyo eziwerako.
Paasita Mayambala yeegaanyi okusigula omukazi
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/13616-Paasita-Mayambala-yeegaanyi-okusigula-omukazi.html
Nov 16, 2011
Bya MOSES JJAGWE
PAASITA Evans Mayambala agambye nti omukazi gwe bamulumiriza okusigula amulabidde wiiki ssatu zokka era tamwagala nga bba bw’akimussaako.
Mayambala ow’ekkanisa ya Let There Be Healing e Kiwaatule mu Kampala yannyonnyodde nti: Wadde omusajja ono (Elvis Singa) agamba nti yaakansisinkana enfunda nnya nga nkukuta ne mukaziwe, nze simulabangako era ogwasoose okumulaba nnamwekangidde wa Bbakuli (mu Kampala) ng’akuba emmotoka mwe nabadde.
Yayongeddeko nti: Bwe namubuuzizza lwaki agezaako okuntuusaako obulabe n’ang’amba nti alina obutakkaanya ne mukaziwe gw’alumiriza obwenzi.
Sirina nkolagana yonna ya mukwano ne Sauda Namata era emirundi esatu gye naakamusisinkana tubadde twogera ku nsonga za mwoyo.
Namata naye musumba akulira ekkanisa ya Faith Christian Centre e Makindye ate bba Singa musuubuzi wa mu Kampala ali mu bizinensi ya bya ntambula era alina loole ezisaabaza eby’amaguzi ezisukka mu ttaano.
Mayambala yattottodde nti: Omulundi ogwasooka yampita okugenda ku kkanisa ye e Makindye mbuulire (enjiri) era kino kyaliwo wiiki nga ttaano eziyise.
Omulundi ogwokubiri nti baasisinkana Katende mu Mpigi mu kuziika omusumba Micheal Mugerwa eyafiira mu kabenje e Kakira ku lw’e Jjinja omwezi oguwedde.
Nti Namata bwe yalaba Mayambala n’amusanyukira nti era yali n’abakazi abalala ne basaba Mayambala ‘abawe ku lifuti’ era n’abakomyawo n’abaleka mu Kampala.
Yagambye nti omulundi ogwokusatu (Singa we yabasangidde) yabadde agenda mu kivvulu ky’okutongoza olutambi “Nninda” olw’omuyimbi Solome Mirembe e Kawaala gye yabadde ayitiddwa ng’omugenyi omukulu n’asanga Namata ne muwalawe Patricia ne bamusaba abatwaleko era bwe yatuuse ewa Bakuli n’ayimirira okubaggyamu era wano Singa we yafubutukiddeyo n’atandika okukuba mmotoka nga bwe yeecwacwana.
Yatutte emmotoka n’agiteeka ku poliisi ya Old Kampala n’ategeeza abaserikale ebibaddewo era Singa kwe kukwatibwa n’aggalirwa.
Singa nga tannayimbulwa ku poliisi yakoze siteetimenti ng’alumiriza Mayambala okumusigulira mukaziwe Namata gwe yagattibwa naye mu 2009 era n’ategeeza nti abasisinkanye enfunda nnya omuli lwe yabasanga mu makaage (aga Singa) mu Kirombe Zooni Nsambya mu March 2011, olulala Mayambala n’akomyawo Namata mu mmotoka ekiro, lwe baaziika Mugerwa ne ku luno olw’ewa Bakuli era eggulo Singa yazzeeyo ku poliisi ya Old Kampala n’aggula omusango ku Mayambala ogw’okugezaako okumutuusaako obulabe olw’omukazi.
Pastor Evans Mayambala’s other scandals
Violence Erupts at Vigil
http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12431
A silent vigil in memory of Pastor Evans Mayambala's wife, turned violent last night when the pastor confronted his in-laws demanding for the deceased's property.
Pastor Evans Mayambala, of iLet there be healing churchi in Kiwatule shocked mourners who had come for the vigil, when he stormed out of the house demanding for the keys of three cars which were owned by his deceased wife, Margaret Nantongo.
Pastor Mayambala also demanded for the land title of one of the houses which were owned by the deceased.
Shocked by the surprise demands, his in-laws led by the deceased's mother, Mirabu Nakalema, refused to hand over the keys and the land tittle, prompting a barrage of insults from the pastor.
Pastor Mayambala ordered all the deceased's relatives out of the house where the body laid during the vigil and warned them against showing up for burial.
The pastor then locked himself up in the house with the body, and asked the mourners to give him time to calm down as he settled his scores with his in-laws.
Police was quickly called in to control a possible outbreak of violence at the vigil.
Yesterday, the pastor and his in-laws clashed for more than 12 hours quarreling over the dead body.
The row erupted after the pastor demanded to burry his estranged wife.
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12431#ixzz1drHOuKcy
Chaos At Vigil of Pastor's Wife
http://allafrica.com/stories/200707201119.html
Steven Kibuuka & Jude Luggya
The New Vision , 21 July 2007
Kampala — A NIGHT vigil for Margaret Nantongo, wife to Pastor Evans Mayambala, who died on Monday, turned violent on Thursday following a serious family dispute.
The deceased's relatives, with the help of sympathisers suddenly gathered at around 10:00pm and almost lynched Pastor Mayambala accusing him of attempting to inherit his wife's wealth.
Kampala Pastor in Furious Row over Dead Body
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12421#ixzz1drCJAsjQ
The death of a pastor's wife in Kiwatule triggered off a furious row between the pastor and his in-laws.
The row erupted after Pastor Evans Mayambala, of iLet there be healing churchi in Kiwatule clashed with his in-laws, demanding for a right to burry his wife, Margaret Nantongo, with whom he separated from six months ago.
According to Roy Nalubega, a sister to the deceased, Nantongo had intimated to her family that she wished to be buried at her ancestral home in Mityana, following a series of marital problems with Pastor Mayambala.
Nalubega said that her sister had fallen out with the pastor with whom she had been married to, for ten years and had four children. Their relationship turned sour after the pastor doused her with petrol and allegedly threatened to set her ablaze.
The pastor is also alleged to have thrown his wife out of their marital home, forcing her to rent a room in Katwe, where she has been staying for the last six months.
Harbored with bitterness in their hearts, Nantongo's relatives stormed Mayambala's home in Kiwatule demanding for the body. They maintained that the pastor had no right to either claim for the body or defy her wife's wish to be buried at her ancestral home.
But Mayambala insisted that he would burry his wife at his ancestral home in Kawempe, despite the fact that they had fallen out.
The two parties were for more than six hours locked up in a verbal exchange, as the body lay in a coffin in the sitting room, and the couple's four children sat screaming confused about the scenario. They were quickly grabbed and locked up in a bedroom.
It took the intervention of the Former presidential aspirant, Dr Abeedi Bwanika, the Nakawa division Resident District Commissioner, Edward Sekabanja, and police to reconcile the two parties.
Dr Abeedi Bwanika, a friend to the couple advised that the body be transported to Mulago hospital mortuary, as the families sort out their misunderstandings.
But pastor Mayambala quickly shot up and refused to heed to Bwanika's advice. In response, Relatives of the deceased quickly grabbed hoes and started to dig a grave in the couple's compound, arguing that it would provide the only neutral ground.
Meanwhile, three other graves had reportedly been dug up in Mityana, in Kawempe at pastor Mayambala's home and in Mukono, the couples up country home.
Caught in a seemingly difficult situation, Dr Bwanika quickly convened a meeting during which the two parties finally agreed that the deceased will be buried at the pastor's ancestral home in Kawempe, because the couple had not divorced officially.
Nantongo, a prominent city businesswoman, succumbed to cardiac arrest yesterday.
Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=12421#ixzz1drC94pBs
Pastor Mayambala, Uganda’s next billionaire?
http://www.orumuri.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=5&newsCategoryId=10&newsId=641069
He shot to the limelight in July last year, when, following the death of his estranged wife, Margaret Nantongo, reports emerged that he was entangled in a property battle with his in-laws.
Police had to intervene and the burial was delayed for two days. Recently, Pastor Evans Mayambala of Let There Be Healing Church in Kiwatule seems to have embarked on motivational speaking.
During the Victoria Gospel Music Awards at Serena Hotel, Mayambala, said he was going to be Uganda’s next billionaire, to wild applause.
He recently published a book, Strategic Business Planning: Aspects You Ought To Embrace If You will Excel (Nissi Publishers Ltd). We guess he took a dose of his medicine.
Published on: Friday, 25th July, 2008
Get Rich By Investing
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808180215.html
Paul Tentena
The New vision, 16 August 2008
Kampala — PROSPERITY does not require supernatural powers. The opportunity is right under your nose.
In his book Strategic Business Planning: Aspects You Ought To Embrace If You Will To Excel, Evans Mayambala, the executive director of the School of Business Planning and Management, helps one create a successful business that could improve one's wealth.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Family Radio Founder Harold Camping Repents, Apologizes for False Teachings
Family Radio Founder Harold Camping Repents, Apologizes for False Teachings
Bible Teacher Confesses He Was Wrong to Predict Christ's Return; Says God Has Not Stopped Saving People
http://global.christianpost.com/news/family-radio-founder-harold-camping-repents-apologizes-for-false-teachings-59819/
The Christian Post > International > N.America|Sun, Oct. 30 2011 12:20 PM EDT
By Nicola Menzie | Christian Post Reporter
With his speech sounding somewhat slurred and labored, Family Radio Stations Inc. founder and chairman Harold Camping sought to address in a recent message why Christ failed to return on Oct. 21 as the Bible teacher had predicted. Camping confessed, after decades of falsely misleading his followers, that he was wrong and regrets his misdeeds.
In addition to attempting to correct his erroneous teachings on the Rapture and God's day of final judgment on the world, Camping, 90, also confessed, "incidentally," that he was wrong to claim that God had stopped saving people after May 21 – the date which God's so-called "spiritual" judgment had begun.
This is undoubtedly a radical shift for Camping, who has staunchly claimed since 1992 that he had discovered a special numerical system in the Bible that allowed him to calculate the exact dates of certain events, such as the Great Flood, the Crucifixion and the day of Jesus Christ's return to Earth.
Camping first falsely predicted that the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994, then again on May 21, 2011, and finally on Oct. 21.
When Camping's final doomsday predication failed to come to pass, Family Radio soon removed its teachings regarding the failed May 21 rapture, which also included the claim that God had stopped saving people after that date and that the world was headed for a final judgment on Oct. 21.
On Oct. 24, 2011, The Christian Post also reported in an exclusive interview with a member of Camping's Bible ministry that the Alameda, Calif., Bible teacher was no longer able to lead Family Radio or his ministry.
A transcript of the audio message, published to Family Radio's website on Oct. 28, 2011, is below:
We're living in a day when one problem follows another. And when it comes to trying to recognize the truth of prophecy, we're finding that it is very very difficult.
Why didn't Christ return on Oct. 21? It seems embarrassing for Family Radio. But God was in charge of everything. We came to that conclusion after quite careful study of the Bible. He allowed everything to happen the way it did without correction. He could have stopped everything if He had wanted to.
I am very encouraged by letters that I have received and [am] receiving at this time concerning this matter. Amongst other things I have been checking my notes more carefully than ever. And I do find that there is other language in the Bible that we still have to look at very carefully and will impinge upon this question very definitely. And we should be very patient about this matter. At least in a minimal way we are learning to walk more and more humble before God.
We're ready to cry out and weep before God: 'Oh Lord, you have the truth, we don't have it. You have the truth.' And this is another place where we have to cry out for... There's one thing that we must remember – God is in charge of this whole business, and we are not. What God wants to tell us is His business. When He wants to tell us is His business. In the meanwhile, God is allowing us to continue to cry to Him for mercy – oh my, how we need His mercy – and continue to wait on Him. God has not left us. God is still God. But we have to be very careful that we don't dictate to God what He should do.
In our search in the Bible, we must continue to look to the Bible, look to the Bible. Because there is where truth comes from. And God in His own timetable and in His own purposes will reveal truth to us when it's His time to do it. In any case, we do not have to have a feeling of calamity or a feeling that God has abandoned us. We are simply learning. And sometimes it's painful to learn. We are learning how God brings His messages to mankind, and my my, we have claimed to be a child of God, and therefore as we search the Bible, we're bound to feel the darts of the Lord. Sometimes He gives us the truth and sometimes He gives us something that causes us to wait further upon Him.
Whatever we do, we must not feel for a moment that we have been abandoned by God – that He is no longer helping us or interested in us. Oh my, what an encouragement it is to go to the Lord again and again – "Oh Lord, I don't know anything. You teach me." And that's the attitude that has to be apart of each one of us. And God will not abandon us, He will provide, but we have to be just very careful that we don't dictate to him when that has to happen.
Incidentally, I have been told that I said back in May that people who did not believe that May 21 should not be the rapture date, probably had not been saved. I should not have said that, and I apologize for that. One thing we know for certain, is that God is merciful, merciful beyond anything that we would ever expect. And so, we can pray constantly, and should be praying constantly: "Oh Lord, we look to Thee for Thine mercy, and we're so thankful that we know that Thou art so merciful."
How wonderful to know that God is still on the throne, that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that He hears every one of our prayers. And let's not hesitate, let's be, if anything, let's pray more than ever for God's mercy, and keep praying and God will provide. But God is in charge, and we must always keep that in mind.
Bible Teacher Confesses He Was Wrong to Predict Christ's Return; Says God Has Not Stopped Saving People
http://global.christianpost.com/news/family-radio-founder-harold-camping-repents-apologizes-for-false-teachings-59819/
The Christian Post > International > N.America|Sun, Oct. 30 2011 12:20 PM EDT
By Nicola Menzie | Christian Post Reporter
With his speech sounding somewhat slurred and labored, Family Radio Stations Inc. founder and chairman Harold Camping sought to address in a recent message why Christ failed to return on Oct. 21 as the Bible teacher had predicted. Camping confessed, after decades of falsely misleading his followers, that he was wrong and regrets his misdeeds.
In addition to attempting to correct his erroneous teachings on the Rapture and God's day of final judgment on the world, Camping, 90, also confessed, "incidentally," that he was wrong to claim that God had stopped saving people after May 21 – the date which God's so-called "spiritual" judgment had begun.
This is undoubtedly a radical shift for Camping, who has staunchly claimed since 1992 that he had discovered a special numerical system in the Bible that allowed him to calculate the exact dates of certain events, such as the Great Flood, the Crucifixion and the day of Jesus Christ's return to Earth.
Camping first falsely predicted that the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994, then again on May 21, 2011, and finally on Oct. 21.
When Camping's final doomsday predication failed to come to pass, Family Radio soon removed its teachings regarding the failed May 21 rapture, which also included the claim that God had stopped saving people after that date and that the world was headed for a final judgment on Oct. 21.
On Oct. 24, 2011, The Christian Post also reported in an exclusive interview with a member of Camping's Bible ministry that the Alameda, Calif., Bible teacher was no longer able to lead Family Radio or his ministry.
A transcript of the audio message, published to Family Radio's website on Oct. 28, 2011, is below:
We're living in a day when one problem follows another. And when it comes to trying to recognize the truth of prophecy, we're finding that it is very very difficult.
Why didn't Christ return on Oct. 21? It seems embarrassing for Family Radio. But God was in charge of everything. We came to that conclusion after quite careful study of the Bible. He allowed everything to happen the way it did without correction. He could have stopped everything if He had wanted to.
I am very encouraged by letters that I have received and [am] receiving at this time concerning this matter. Amongst other things I have been checking my notes more carefully than ever. And I do find that there is other language in the Bible that we still have to look at very carefully and will impinge upon this question very definitely. And we should be very patient about this matter. At least in a minimal way we are learning to walk more and more humble before God.
We're ready to cry out and weep before God: 'Oh Lord, you have the truth, we don't have it. You have the truth.' And this is another place where we have to cry out for... There's one thing that we must remember – God is in charge of this whole business, and we are not. What God wants to tell us is His business. When He wants to tell us is His business. In the meanwhile, God is allowing us to continue to cry to Him for mercy – oh my, how we need His mercy – and continue to wait on Him. God has not left us. God is still God. But we have to be very careful that we don't dictate to God what He should do.
In our search in the Bible, we must continue to look to the Bible, look to the Bible. Because there is where truth comes from. And God in His own timetable and in His own purposes will reveal truth to us when it's His time to do it. In any case, we do not have to have a feeling of calamity or a feeling that God has abandoned us. We are simply learning. And sometimes it's painful to learn. We are learning how God brings His messages to mankind, and my my, we have claimed to be a child of God, and therefore as we search the Bible, we're bound to feel the darts of the Lord. Sometimes He gives us the truth and sometimes He gives us something that causes us to wait further upon Him.
Whatever we do, we must not feel for a moment that we have been abandoned by God – that He is no longer helping us or interested in us. Oh my, what an encouragement it is to go to the Lord again and again – "Oh Lord, I don't know anything. You teach me." And that's the attitude that has to be apart of each one of us. And God will not abandon us, He will provide, but we have to be just very careful that we don't dictate to him when that has to happen.
Incidentally, I have been told that I said back in May that people who did not believe that May 21 should not be the rapture date, probably had not been saved. I should not have said that, and I apologize for that. One thing we know for certain, is that God is merciful, merciful beyond anything that we would ever expect. And so, we can pray constantly, and should be praying constantly: "Oh Lord, we look to Thee for Thine mercy, and we're so thankful that we know that Thou art so merciful."
How wonderful to know that God is still on the throne, that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that He hears every one of our prayers. And let's not hesitate, let's be, if anything, let's pray more than ever for God's mercy, and keep praying and God will provide. But God is in charge, and we must always keep that in mind.
The Sin of Racism: John Piper Confronts Sin of Racism, Including His Own
John Piper Confronts Sin of Racism, Including His Own
The Christian Post > Church & Ministries|Fri, Nov. 04 2011 05:21 PM EDT
http://www.christianpost.com/news/john-piper-confronts-sin-of-racism-including-his-own-60575/
By Lillian Kwon | Christian Post Reporter
Evangelical theologian John Piper admits it: he was "racist to the core" and a born-again Christian at the same time.
But thankfully, he says, "God had mercy on this teenage racist who little by little was awakened to something beautiful – namely racial diversity – and to something horrible – namely my own sin – and to repentance as an ongoing way of life."
The influential pastor tackled the controversial issue of racism on Thursday at Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, a predominantly black church in Minneapolis. He addressed a diverse audience as he spoke about his latest book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, where he defined racism this way: The heart that believes one race is more valuable than another is a sinful heart.
While Piper has come a long way from his years as essentially a white supremacist, he made it clear that he was not there to lift himself up as a shining example for others to follow. But he wanted to convey the seriousness of the issue.
"I know that my tribe, my evangelical conservative white tribe, they're suspicious of social issues – 'that sounds like social gospel leading us away from Jesus and the cross' (they'd say)," Piper said. "So I'm playing to their music. I want to say this is not a social issue. This is a blood issue."
Piper grew up in Greenville, S.C., where racial segregation was enforced. Along with separate drinking fountains, schools and bus seating were also churches that excluded blacks. His home church voted in 1962 not to allow blacks into their services.
He writes in his book that he was "manifestly racist" during those years.
But God began to sow "seeds of deliverance" in his heart. Among those seeds was one sown during his senior year in college. He heard the general director of the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society respond to a student's question about the possibility of his daughter marrying a Pakistani while on the mission field.
His response was something like: "Better a Christian Pakistani than a godless white American!" Piper recalled.
Also, during his seminary years, Piper was given "shocking" readings on racial prejudice, detailing crimes of hatred toward blacks. He had a hard time coming away from the readings without trembling.
Such seeds have helped him to, as he says, "awake from [his] stupor." He has repented and grown in abhorrence to racism. But, he emphasized Thursday, he's not done. It's a process and he is continuously trying to bear the fruits of the seeds God sowed.
Piper is 65 now and currently serves as pastor for Preaching & Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. His church has grown in diversity and love but it's not a model church, he said.
Moreover, racism continues to plague America.
In fact, it was just in the year 2000 when Alabama removed its ban on interracial marriage. Piper's previous home state of South Carolina lifted its ban in 1998. And more than a quarter of the residents didn't favor it, the pastor lamented.
Piper also believes there are more "vicious white supremacists in America today than there were in 1968."
The longtime pastor, who adopted a black daughter 15 years ago, was commended by African-Americans on Thursday for his courage in addressing a controversial issue. Piper told the audience that he wrote Bloodlines because of some profound convictions on what the Bible says on this issue – an issue, he acknowledges, that many people choose to avoid – and because of longings for what he wants to see happen.
"There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity," Piper said.
"The most important one is the Gospel," he stressed. "You can talk about all of us … being in the image of God but I’m going straight to the cross."
Backing his argument with Scripture, Piper said Jesus died and ransomed his people – and that includes all ethnicities, tribes and races.
"He's gathering them by the power of the blood of Christ. That's huge if you believe in the blood of Christ," he emphasized. "This is a blood issue. This is a why Jesus died issue."
"The bloodline of Jesus," he highlighted, "is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family."
Paraphrasing Romans 3:27-30, Piper added, "I (God) have sent my son into the world to provide a righteousness that no human being can provide on their own. There's one way to get it, and it isn't Jewishness. It isn't white. It isn't black. It's faith.
"So right at the heart of the doctrine of justification by faith on the basis of the blood of Jesus is God saying I did it that way because .... I mean there to be a unity in the way of salvation and that means I mean to gather people of every stripe because those stripes don't matter."
Racism still in the church
Piper addressed the question of why the church isn't better at racial harmony if all that he presented was scriptural truth.
The answer he offered was that either the church didn't really believe in the Gospel or the issue is just a major blind spot for many believers. Satan, pride and guilt are also factors that can deter racial harmony.
"Why does God sanctify us so slowly?" he posed, not having an answer to the question but trusting in God's ways.
Not blaming God, however, Piper said, "We shouldn't make any excuses. Just say 'God, help me be part of the solution and not part of the problem.'"
After decades of wrestling with this issue, the Minneapolis pastor owes his life to the Gospel, which he views as the only solution to racism.
"Without it (Gospel) I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt,'" he writes in his book.
But not boasting of his new self either, Piper pointed Christians to the cross.
"I am 65 years old. I'm going to meet Jesus real soon. I’m going to stand before my judge real soon and I will give an account for how I served him," he said.
"My confidence before Jesus at that day does not rest there (my actions)," he emphasized.
"If he says 'why should I let you in here you former racist sinner?' You won't say 'I cleaned up my act.' If you say that, you don't get the Gospel."
"You're going to say 'there's no reason you should let me in ... I am expecting you to let me in ... because I held on to Jesus and he held on to me."
Piper invited Christians to join him in "a desperate dependence on the blood of Jesus."
"You've got to stand, if you stand at all, on the cross."
The Christian Post > Church & Ministries|Fri, Nov. 04 2011 05:21 PM EDT
http://www.christianpost.com/news/john-piper-confronts-sin-of-racism-including-his-own-60575/
By Lillian Kwon | Christian Post Reporter
Evangelical theologian John Piper admits it: he was "racist to the core" and a born-again Christian at the same time.
But thankfully, he says, "God had mercy on this teenage racist who little by little was awakened to something beautiful – namely racial diversity – and to something horrible – namely my own sin – and to repentance as an ongoing way of life."
The influential pastor tackled the controversial issue of racism on Thursday at Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, a predominantly black church in Minneapolis. He addressed a diverse audience as he spoke about his latest book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, where he defined racism this way: The heart that believes one race is more valuable than another is a sinful heart.
While Piper has come a long way from his years as essentially a white supremacist, he made it clear that he was not there to lift himself up as a shining example for others to follow. But he wanted to convey the seriousness of the issue.
"I know that my tribe, my evangelical conservative white tribe, they're suspicious of social issues – 'that sounds like social gospel leading us away from Jesus and the cross' (they'd say)," Piper said. "So I'm playing to their music. I want to say this is not a social issue. This is a blood issue."
Piper grew up in Greenville, S.C., where racial segregation was enforced. Along with separate drinking fountains, schools and bus seating were also churches that excluded blacks. His home church voted in 1962 not to allow blacks into their services.
He writes in his book that he was "manifestly racist" during those years.
But God began to sow "seeds of deliverance" in his heart. Among those seeds was one sown during his senior year in college. He heard the general director of the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society respond to a student's question about the possibility of his daughter marrying a Pakistani while on the mission field.
His response was something like: "Better a Christian Pakistani than a godless white American!" Piper recalled.
Also, during his seminary years, Piper was given "shocking" readings on racial prejudice, detailing crimes of hatred toward blacks. He had a hard time coming away from the readings without trembling.
Such seeds have helped him to, as he says, "awake from [his] stupor." He has repented and grown in abhorrence to racism. But, he emphasized Thursday, he's not done. It's a process and he is continuously trying to bear the fruits of the seeds God sowed.
Piper is 65 now and currently serves as pastor for Preaching & Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. His church has grown in diversity and love but it's not a model church, he said.
Moreover, racism continues to plague America.
In fact, it was just in the year 2000 when Alabama removed its ban on interracial marriage. Piper's previous home state of South Carolina lifted its ban in 1998. And more than a quarter of the residents didn't favor it, the pastor lamented.
Piper also believes there are more "vicious white supremacists in America today than there were in 1968."
The longtime pastor, who adopted a black daughter 15 years ago, was commended by African-Americans on Thursday for his courage in addressing a controversial issue. Piper told the audience that he wrote Bloodlines because of some profound convictions on what the Bible says on this issue – an issue, he acknowledges, that many people choose to avoid – and because of longings for what he wants to see happen.
"There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity," Piper said.
"The most important one is the Gospel," he stressed. "You can talk about all of us … being in the image of God but I’m going straight to the cross."
Backing his argument with Scripture, Piper said Jesus died and ransomed his people – and that includes all ethnicities, tribes and races.
"He's gathering them by the power of the blood of Christ. That's huge if you believe in the blood of Christ," he emphasized. "This is a blood issue. This is a why Jesus died issue."
"The bloodline of Jesus," he highlighted, "is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family."
Paraphrasing Romans 3:27-30, Piper added, "I (God) have sent my son into the world to provide a righteousness that no human being can provide on their own. There's one way to get it, and it isn't Jewishness. It isn't white. It isn't black. It's faith.
"So right at the heart of the doctrine of justification by faith on the basis of the blood of Jesus is God saying I did it that way because .... I mean there to be a unity in the way of salvation and that means I mean to gather people of every stripe because those stripes don't matter."
Racism still in the church
Piper addressed the question of why the church isn't better at racial harmony if all that he presented was scriptural truth.
The answer he offered was that either the church didn't really believe in the Gospel or the issue is just a major blind spot for many believers. Satan, pride and guilt are also factors that can deter racial harmony.
"Why does God sanctify us so slowly?" he posed, not having an answer to the question but trusting in God's ways.
Not blaming God, however, Piper said, "We shouldn't make any excuses. Just say 'God, help me be part of the solution and not part of the problem.'"
After decades of wrestling with this issue, the Minneapolis pastor owes his life to the Gospel, which he views as the only solution to racism.
"Without it (Gospel) I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt,'" he writes in his book.
But not boasting of his new self either, Piper pointed Christians to the cross.
"I am 65 years old. I'm going to meet Jesus real soon. I’m going to stand before my judge real soon and I will give an account for how I served him," he said.
"My confidence before Jesus at that day does not rest there (my actions)," he emphasized.
"If he says 'why should I let you in here you former racist sinner?' You won't say 'I cleaned up my act.' If you say that, you don't get the Gospel."
"You're going to say 'there's no reason you should let me in ... I am expecting you to let me in ... because I held on to Jesus and he held on to me."
Piper invited Christians to join him in "a desperate dependence on the blood of Jesus."
"You've got to stand, if you stand at all, on the cross."
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Joel Osteen Says Mormons Are Christian
Joel Osteen Says Mormons Are Christian
http://www.newsuganda.net/opposition-leader-wants-imf-chief-dismissed/
Friday, October 28, 2011
Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen said he believes Mormon's are Christians, even though other denominations may disagree with some aspects of the faith.
"I don't know if it's the purest form of Christianity, like I grew up with. But you know what, I know Mormons," Osteen told The Washington Times in an article published Wednesday, regarding recent criticism of GOP candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon beliefs.
"I hear Mitt Romney -- and I've never met him -- but I hear him say, 'I believe Jesus is the son of God,' 'I believe He's my savior,' and that's one of the core issues," he added.
Romney's faith came to the forefront again after a prominent pastor backing Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Mormonism a "cult."
Osteen, who pastors Lakewood Church in Houston, was in Washington for a book signing for his latest release, "Every Day a Friday."
He plans to return to the nation's capital during election season next April for an "America's Night of Hope" event.
While in Washington, Osteen shied away from political questions, but did say he prays for Perry as both a candidate and friend.
Despite the dreary economy, Osteen also said America's faith and hope for the better is "at an all-time high" right now.
Osteen, who's widely known for his charisma and optimistic sermons, added that a positive attitude will eventually pay off for those who are struggling.
"Part of our core message is that seasons change, and when you believe, if you don't get bitter, and you don't get discouraged, you may not change overnight, but you can get peace," he said.
Osteen's 40,000-member Lakewood Church is the largest in the U.S.
At his book signing, Osteen said he wants everyone to know and believe God is "on our side" and "can help us overcome."
*Original post Oct. 26, 2011.
http://www.newsuganda.net/opposition-leader-wants-imf-chief-dismissed/
Friday, October 28, 2011
Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen said he believes Mormon's are Christians, even though other denominations may disagree with some aspects of the faith.
"I don't know if it's the purest form of Christianity, like I grew up with. But you know what, I know Mormons," Osteen told The Washington Times in an article published Wednesday, regarding recent criticism of GOP candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon beliefs.
"I hear Mitt Romney -- and I've never met him -- but I hear him say, 'I believe Jesus is the son of God,' 'I believe He's my savior,' and that's one of the core issues," he added.
Romney's faith came to the forefront again after a prominent pastor backing Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Mormonism a "cult."
Osteen, who pastors Lakewood Church in Houston, was in Washington for a book signing for his latest release, "Every Day a Friday."
He plans to return to the nation's capital during election season next April for an "America's Night of Hope" event.
While in Washington, Osteen shied away from political questions, but did say he prays for Perry as both a candidate and friend.
Despite the dreary economy, Osteen also said America's faith and hope for the better is "at an all-time high" right now.
Osteen, who's widely known for his charisma and optimistic sermons, added that a positive attitude will eventually pay off for those who are struggling.
"Part of our core message is that seasons change, and when you believe, if you don't get bitter, and you don't get discouraged, you may not change overnight, but you can get peace," he said.
Osteen's 40,000-member Lakewood Church is the largest in the U.S.
At his book signing, Osteen said he wants everyone to know and believe God is "on our side" and "can help us overcome."
*Original post Oct. 26, 2011.
Friday, 28 October 2011
Bishop John Michael Mugerwa has died in a motor accident
UGANDA: Bishop John Michael Mugerwa has died in a motor accident
It is sad that Pastor John Michael Mugerwa has passed on. This is a lesson for all of us to know that we are just pilgrims and sojourners in this world. We should be more concerned with the next life than this life on earth. Dear brothers and sisters we must repent and turn away from the American prosperity Gospel. It is just a lie. Let us preach the gospel of repentance and most important of all let us prepare the saints to meet their Lord.
My 2008 warning to Pastor John Michael Mugerwa
Another Pastor who amuses me is John Michael Mugerwa. According to his biography, he really had a humble beginning. But interestingly, after escaping poverty, instead of preaching the gospel of the kingdom, he is preaching, the blessing of the city on LTV (Omukisa gwe Kibuga). Hiiii!!!!. Dear John Michael, if apostle Paul lived during your time and had the chance to preach to millions of people, do you think he would tell people about the material blessings of the city, like you. Repent and preach the true gospel my dear brother in Christ. (http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html)
SAINTS GATE CHURCH KAMPALA-UGANDA WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR 2011 WITH BISHOP JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxqJMPT-LL8
Two American evangelists perish in Jinja accident
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18725-two-american-evangelists-perish-in-jinja-accident.html
By Donald Kirya and Herbert Ssempogo
TWO American evangelists are among four people, who perished in a Thursday night accident along the Jinja-Iganga highway.
Dr. Reos Godzck, fellow citizen Leos Both and their hosts namely Bishop John Michael Mugerwa and Ronnie Ssebunya died after a trailer crashed their vehicle at Kakira at 7pm.
According to Jinja police spokesperson, Samsom Lubega, Paul, the driver of a Toyota Super Custom in which the deceased were, attempted to overtake two fuel tankers.
“As he overtook, he realized there was oncoming traffic so he decided to squeeze into a narrow gap between the two trailers,” Lubega stated.
Owing to humps on the road, the trailer in front reduced speed and Paul followed suit, Lubega said, adding that in the next few minutes, the trailer behind rammed into the Super Custom.
Godizic, Both, Mugerwa and Ssebunya died on the spot while Paul was rushed to hospital in Jinja. The police by Friday morning could not establish his state.
A fire brigade team from Jinja had to cut the wreckage to extract the bodies. The remains were taken to the city mortuary in Kampala.
From Phoenix, Arizona in US, the two Americans were here on the invitation of Mugerwa of Fast Assemblies Church located in Nkere zone, Katwe Makindye Division, Kampala.
Earlier in the day, they had attended a crusade for married couples in Namutumba district.
Saidi Nyogolo, the driver of the killer trailer disappeared but the police apprehended his colleague, Hamasi Kaizera. Kaizera disclosed that their vehicles contained jet fuel, which they were driving to Entebbe.
South Eastern traffic chief, Washington Labeja, who assessed the accident scene, attributed the crash to recklessness.
The vehicles were towed to Nalufenya police post traffic police continued investigating the tragedy continued. Accidents are among the leading causes of death in Uganda. Thousands of people perish in accidents annually.
Pastor John Michael Mugerwa's Personal Testimony
http://www.destinyschooluganda.com/Story/JMM.php
Hello my friends, my name is John Michael Mugerwa. I’m happy to introduce myself to you. I was born March 3, 1961 in the jungles, and raised up in those remote places. I grew up in a Catholic family. Both of my parents were Catholic and were also raised up as Catholic. I feared God, though I didn’t know much about salvation. When I was 16 years old, I moved to the city of Kampala, which was the only city we had in Uganda to further pursue my studies. Because by then I had finished my Primary section and I needed to join the Secondary level. I came to Kampala in 1977, but I didn’t go further as far as school was concerned. I ended up dropping out having lost my father who died in 1979. It wasn’t easy for my mother to pay for my school dues. Though she struggled and tried very much, she couldn’t push me ahead for long. She only pushed me for one year, and then in 1980 I dropped out due to the lack of school fees.
When I dropped out of school in 1981, I started working. I got a job washing cars and I started doing that as a source of my income. I washed cars many years, for almost 10 years from 1981 to 1991. However, in 1982 it was a Monday early in the morning, and I was on my way walking to work. One man who was a stranger to me asked me whether it was okay to join me, to walk together to town. I agreed, he joined me and we walked in company, and after we had walked for just a few meters, he asked me, “John, did you go to church yesterday?” Because it was Monday and yesterday was Sunday, so he wanted to know if I had gone to church. I told him “Yes”, and my yes was true because I had gone to church that Sunday. Then he asked me another question, “What did the priest talk about, what did he teach?” I had gone to the church, and attended only the mass, I wasn’t ready for that question, and I didn’t know much about the sermon. But this stranger wanted to know the sermon and I wasn’t able to answer that question. I tried to dodge it by trying to argue with him and say, “You don’t belong to my faith, and I don’t belong to yours, why should you like to know much about my faith?” But the fact is I was only trying to dodge him, I couldn’t answer his question. During that time we started arguing and when he saw that I was arguing even more, I don’t know how it came about, but he reached into his bag and pulled out a new bible and gave it to me. In my life I had never owned a bible so that gift simply shocked me, humbled me and I couldn’t argue with him any more.
When he realized that I had been humbled, he took the advantage of preaching to me and he went ahead and to tell me that I needed to clear my life, put my life right with Jesus. Remember, we are on our way walking but he was busy preaching to me. During that time he went ahead to ask me, “John, were you baptized?” I said, “Yes.” And he asked me, “When was that?” I told him that I was baptized as an infant, but he told me, “But John, you need to know that you must believe first so that you might be baptized.” He told me to open my bible, (because by then it was my bible) to the book of Mark, chapter 16, verse 15. But I didn’t know where the book of Mark was, so he helped me and we opened to the book of Mark, and we read “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel. Whoever believes shall be baptized.” He told me I must believe first so that you might be baptized.
During that sharing a light shone upon my mind and I knew I needed to believe in Jesus Christ to be my personal saviour. I told him, “I need to believe.” He was excited and he took me to the side of the road, it was a busy road. By then I was still a young man and this man led me to confess my sins and to repeat after him a confession prayer. I tried to argue with him, “Brother just give me the directions to your church, and I will come on Sunday”. But he couldn’t let me go, he wanted me to confess the sinners prayer. It was a bit of an embarrassment to me, I knew he wouldn’t let me go, and I didn’t want to disappoint him, thinking that he might even withdraw his bible from me. So I just agreed, he took me to the side of the street and I repeated after him and he told me to speak louder after him, though it was a bit of embarrassment to me, but you know I had to do it.
Then after that, he told me to close my eyes though people were looking at us. Most of them knew me, and they were surprised and wondered what I was doing. It was early in the day and they were wondering what had happened to me. He couldn’t let me go and he prayed over me, this was a Pentecostal man. He just shouted in his prayer and it was a long prayer, but what could I do. Then after that it was time for him to let me go and that is when I realized he wasn’t even going to town, he was just pretending, just using it as a trap to trap people like me. But good enough, he gave me money to catch a bus so that I didn’t have to walk to town. And the balance was enough for me to get lunch and supper for that day. What a blessing I received on the same day, salvation and money.
After that day, I went back home, by then I had entered into a traditional marriage with my wife Evah that happened in the same year. So I went back home and told my wife, she couldn’t believe me what happened, but it was the truth. And she told me “Okay, when you go to church on Sunday, then I will accompany you.” Sunday came and I dressed up and my wife did the same and she accompanied me and we ended up going to the church where that street preacher had directed us. We met him at the door, he introduced us to the pastor and the whole church was excited and received us with joy. When my wife saw what happened, how gladly they received us, she also surrendered her life to Christ on that day. So since then that was our turning point.
We stayed in that church, the pastor loved us, together with the street preacher, they loved us and he started to disciple me. Sometimes I would join him on the streets and we would preach together and then after, I became an interpreter for my pastor. He would preach and I would interpret in Swahili, sometimes he would preach in Swahili and I would interpret in Luganda, the local language mostly spoken here in Kampala. Being an interpreter of a man of God, I became acquainted with the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost would deliver the message some times through me. Then, in 1984 two years after my salvation, there was an apostle in the city, his name is Alex Mitala. Together with my pastor of the local church I was attending, they planted a church in one of the slum areas of Kampala, named Katwe. This was a place full of gangs, prostitutes, thugs, bandits and people of that calibre. So, I was to take the job of pastor to that newly established church. I accepted by the grace of the Lord though I was still young in the Lord and I didn’t know much about ministry. But I accepted by the grace of the Lord and on January 31, 1984 we took over the responsibility and the work of that church.
The church began with only two women, but we had to begin somewhere. It was only the might of the Lord which enabled me to stay. Just imagine, I was from a large church and now here I am beginning with only two women, that even shocked my wife and she went back to our former church. She did not like to come to my new church of only two women. But anyway, I stayed there and served those two ladies, the grace of the Lord was there and I ended up serving them and leading them what to do. One was the secretary, the other was the treasurer and I became the chairman, so the three of us were the elders. From time to time I wanted to quit, I thought that maybe this was not the right place, but spiritual fathers in the city told me to be faithful with few and the Lord would bless me with many.
One time I was attending a minister’s conference and I heard one preacher talking about how faithful Jesus was with one woman at the well, and after that faithfulness, the Lord poured out the whole city to him. That message changed my thinking and I went back and decided to be faithful with the two women, but as I am speaking now I have good news. The church started growing and growing. Right now the church has grown, we have given birth to many sister churches. I have many spiritual sons and have shown them how to plant churches around the nation. The church I started with is still growing and now if you visit us on Sunday morning you will see about 800 people and in the evening service you would see about 2,000 people. So God has just been taking us from glory to glory time after time. That is how the church has been growing, and the Lord has blessed us in that area.
To take you back, remember I had married my wife in 1982 the traditional way. We decided to renew our marriage vows in 1985, and that was a great blessing. As I am speaking right now, the Lord has blessed us so much, as I have told you. Our church has existed for 20 years and we have given birth to over 20 sister churches, and our church has grown to 2,000 people and the Lord continues to bless us. We constructed a church building which accommodated us for seven years, but we outgrew the building and the Lord gave us an additional piece of property. There we have set up a temporary shelter and by the year 2005 we will commence the work of constructing a new church building.
It is sad that Pastor John Michael Mugerwa has passed on. This is a lesson for all of us to know that we are just pilgrims and sojourners in this world. We should be more concerned with the next life than this life on earth. Dear brothers and sisters we must repent and turn away from the American prosperity Gospel. It is just a lie. Let us preach the gospel of repentance and most important of all let us prepare the saints to meet their Lord.
My 2008 warning to Pastor John Michael Mugerwa
Another Pastor who amuses me is John Michael Mugerwa. According to his biography, he really had a humble beginning. But interestingly, after escaping poverty, instead of preaching the gospel of the kingdom, he is preaching, the blessing of the city on LTV (Omukisa gwe Kibuga). Hiiii!!!!. Dear John Michael, if apostle Paul lived during your time and had the chance to preach to millions of people, do you think he would tell people about the material blessings of the city, like you. Repent and preach the true gospel my dear brother in Christ. (http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html)
SAINTS GATE CHURCH KAMPALA-UGANDA WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR 2011 WITH BISHOP JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxqJMPT-LL8
Two American evangelists perish in Jinja accident
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18725-two-american-evangelists-perish-in-jinja-accident.html
By Donald Kirya and Herbert Ssempogo
TWO American evangelists are among four people, who perished in a Thursday night accident along the Jinja-Iganga highway.
Dr. Reos Godzck, fellow citizen Leos Both and their hosts namely Bishop John Michael Mugerwa and Ronnie Ssebunya died after a trailer crashed their vehicle at Kakira at 7pm.
According to Jinja police spokesperson, Samsom Lubega, Paul, the driver of a Toyota Super Custom in which the deceased were, attempted to overtake two fuel tankers.
“As he overtook, he realized there was oncoming traffic so he decided to squeeze into a narrow gap between the two trailers,” Lubega stated.
Owing to humps on the road, the trailer in front reduced speed and Paul followed suit, Lubega said, adding that in the next few minutes, the trailer behind rammed into the Super Custom.
Godizic, Both, Mugerwa and Ssebunya died on the spot while Paul was rushed to hospital in Jinja. The police by Friday morning could not establish his state.
A fire brigade team from Jinja had to cut the wreckage to extract the bodies. The remains were taken to the city mortuary in Kampala.
From Phoenix, Arizona in US, the two Americans were here on the invitation of Mugerwa of Fast Assemblies Church located in Nkere zone, Katwe Makindye Division, Kampala.
Earlier in the day, they had attended a crusade for married couples in Namutumba district.
Saidi Nyogolo, the driver of the killer trailer disappeared but the police apprehended his colleague, Hamasi Kaizera. Kaizera disclosed that their vehicles contained jet fuel, which they were driving to Entebbe.
South Eastern traffic chief, Washington Labeja, who assessed the accident scene, attributed the crash to recklessness.
The vehicles were towed to Nalufenya police post traffic police continued investigating the tragedy continued. Accidents are among the leading causes of death in Uganda. Thousands of people perish in accidents annually.
Pastor John Michael Mugerwa's Personal Testimony
http://www.destinyschooluganda.com/Story/JMM.php
Hello my friends, my name is John Michael Mugerwa. I’m happy to introduce myself to you. I was born March 3, 1961 in the jungles, and raised up in those remote places. I grew up in a Catholic family. Both of my parents were Catholic and were also raised up as Catholic. I feared God, though I didn’t know much about salvation. When I was 16 years old, I moved to the city of Kampala, which was the only city we had in Uganda to further pursue my studies. Because by then I had finished my Primary section and I needed to join the Secondary level. I came to Kampala in 1977, but I didn’t go further as far as school was concerned. I ended up dropping out having lost my father who died in 1979. It wasn’t easy for my mother to pay for my school dues. Though she struggled and tried very much, she couldn’t push me ahead for long. She only pushed me for one year, and then in 1980 I dropped out due to the lack of school fees.
When I dropped out of school in 1981, I started working. I got a job washing cars and I started doing that as a source of my income. I washed cars many years, for almost 10 years from 1981 to 1991. However, in 1982 it was a Monday early in the morning, and I was on my way walking to work. One man who was a stranger to me asked me whether it was okay to join me, to walk together to town. I agreed, he joined me and we walked in company, and after we had walked for just a few meters, he asked me, “John, did you go to church yesterday?” Because it was Monday and yesterday was Sunday, so he wanted to know if I had gone to church. I told him “Yes”, and my yes was true because I had gone to church that Sunday. Then he asked me another question, “What did the priest talk about, what did he teach?” I had gone to the church, and attended only the mass, I wasn’t ready for that question, and I didn’t know much about the sermon. But this stranger wanted to know the sermon and I wasn’t able to answer that question. I tried to dodge it by trying to argue with him and say, “You don’t belong to my faith, and I don’t belong to yours, why should you like to know much about my faith?” But the fact is I was only trying to dodge him, I couldn’t answer his question. During that time we started arguing and when he saw that I was arguing even more, I don’t know how it came about, but he reached into his bag and pulled out a new bible and gave it to me. In my life I had never owned a bible so that gift simply shocked me, humbled me and I couldn’t argue with him any more.
When he realized that I had been humbled, he took the advantage of preaching to me and he went ahead and to tell me that I needed to clear my life, put my life right with Jesus. Remember, we are on our way walking but he was busy preaching to me. During that time he went ahead to ask me, “John, were you baptized?” I said, “Yes.” And he asked me, “When was that?” I told him that I was baptized as an infant, but he told me, “But John, you need to know that you must believe first so that you might be baptized.” He told me to open my bible, (because by then it was my bible) to the book of Mark, chapter 16, verse 15. But I didn’t know where the book of Mark was, so he helped me and we opened to the book of Mark, and we read “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel. Whoever believes shall be baptized.” He told me I must believe first so that you might be baptized.
During that sharing a light shone upon my mind and I knew I needed to believe in Jesus Christ to be my personal saviour. I told him, “I need to believe.” He was excited and he took me to the side of the road, it was a busy road. By then I was still a young man and this man led me to confess my sins and to repeat after him a confession prayer. I tried to argue with him, “Brother just give me the directions to your church, and I will come on Sunday”. But he couldn’t let me go, he wanted me to confess the sinners prayer. It was a bit of an embarrassment to me, I knew he wouldn’t let me go, and I didn’t want to disappoint him, thinking that he might even withdraw his bible from me. So I just agreed, he took me to the side of the street and I repeated after him and he told me to speak louder after him, though it was a bit of embarrassment to me, but you know I had to do it.
Then after that, he told me to close my eyes though people were looking at us. Most of them knew me, and they were surprised and wondered what I was doing. It was early in the day and they were wondering what had happened to me. He couldn’t let me go and he prayed over me, this was a Pentecostal man. He just shouted in his prayer and it was a long prayer, but what could I do. Then after that it was time for him to let me go and that is when I realized he wasn’t even going to town, he was just pretending, just using it as a trap to trap people like me. But good enough, he gave me money to catch a bus so that I didn’t have to walk to town. And the balance was enough for me to get lunch and supper for that day. What a blessing I received on the same day, salvation and money.
After that day, I went back home, by then I had entered into a traditional marriage with my wife Evah that happened in the same year. So I went back home and told my wife, she couldn’t believe me what happened, but it was the truth. And she told me “Okay, when you go to church on Sunday, then I will accompany you.” Sunday came and I dressed up and my wife did the same and she accompanied me and we ended up going to the church where that street preacher had directed us. We met him at the door, he introduced us to the pastor and the whole church was excited and received us with joy. When my wife saw what happened, how gladly they received us, she also surrendered her life to Christ on that day. So since then that was our turning point.
We stayed in that church, the pastor loved us, together with the street preacher, they loved us and he started to disciple me. Sometimes I would join him on the streets and we would preach together and then after, I became an interpreter for my pastor. He would preach and I would interpret in Swahili, sometimes he would preach in Swahili and I would interpret in Luganda, the local language mostly spoken here in Kampala. Being an interpreter of a man of God, I became acquainted with the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost would deliver the message some times through me. Then, in 1984 two years after my salvation, there was an apostle in the city, his name is Alex Mitala. Together with my pastor of the local church I was attending, they planted a church in one of the slum areas of Kampala, named Katwe. This was a place full of gangs, prostitutes, thugs, bandits and people of that calibre. So, I was to take the job of pastor to that newly established church. I accepted by the grace of the Lord though I was still young in the Lord and I didn’t know much about ministry. But I accepted by the grace of the Lord and on January 31, 1984 we took over the responsibility and the work of that church.
The church began with only two women, but we had to begin somewhere. It was only the might of the Lord which enabled me to stay. Just imagine, I was from a large church and now here I am beginning with only two women, that even shocked my wife and she went back to our former church. She did not like to come to my new church of only two women. But anyway, I stayed there and served those two ladies, the grace of the Lord was there and I ended up serving them and leading them what to do. One was the secretary, the other was the treasurer and I became the chairman, so the three of us were the elders. From time to time I wanted to quit, I thought that maybe this was not the right place, but spiritual fathers in the city told me to be faithful with few and the Lord would bless me with many.
One time I was attending a minister’s conference and I heard one preacher talking about how faithful Jesus was with one woman at the well, and after that faithfulness, the Lord poured out the whole city to him. That message changed my thinking and I went back and decided to be faithful with the two women, but as I am speaking now I have good news. The church started growing and growing. Right now the church has grown, we have given birth to many sister churches. I have many spiritual sons and have shown them how to plant churches around the nation. The church I started with is still growing and now if you visit us on Sunday morning you will see about 800 people and in the evening service you would see about 2,000 people. So God has just been taking us from glory to glory time after time. That is how the church has been growing, and the Lord has blessed us in that area.
To take you back, remember I had married my wife in 1982 the traditional way. We decided to renew our marriage vows in 1985, and that was a great blessing. As I am speaking right now, the Lord has blessed us so much, as I have told you. Our church has existed for 20 years and we have given birth to over 20 sister churches, and our church has grown to 2,000 people and the Lord continues to bless us. We constructed a church building which accommodated us for seven years, but we outgrew the building and the Lord gave us an additional piece of property. There we have set up a temporary shelter and by the year 2005 we will commence the work of constructing a new church building.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Ghana: Men of God Cautioned Against Materialism, Exploitation
Ghana: Men of God Cautioned Against Materialism, Exploitation
http://allafrica.com/stories/201110260248.html
Sebastian R. Freiku
The Chronicle, 25 October 2011
Kumasi — Apostle Kofi Nkansah-Sarkodie, General Overseer of the Open Arms Ministries at North Suntreso in Kumasi, has admonished Ministers of the Gospel to stay clear of anything that relates to the power of Satan, with the view of performing miracles and wonders for material gain and fame.
The man of God condemned the negative expose of Christendom, following the misconduct of some men of God on the local scene.
Apostle Nkansah-Sarkodie, who is also known as Brother Sark, noted that "Satan is seriously at work and infiltrating the ranks of Ministers of the Gospel," and cautioned them to beware and not allow the devil to use them perform miracles and wonders.
According to him, those men of God lose guard and fall to the tricks of Satan. He as well cautioned Ministers against resorting to lies, falsehood, and deceit, because they would be exposed, disgraced, and punished at the end of the day.
Apostle Nkansah-Sarkodie pointed out that recent reported cases of fornication, rape, armed robbery, adultery, stealing, and fraud, among other vices allegedly involving some men of God, which situation, he said, was driving many Christians away from God.
"Our church leaders, who should be shepherding the flock towards salvation, are themselves shamefully leading ungodly lifestyles."
The General Overseer has therefore, admonished Christians to be wide awake, lead godly lives, and not sway in their faith, so as not to lose salvation. He also advised unbelievers to repent their sins, and take up to Jesus Christ, in order to escape hellfire.
In a related development, Prophet Emmanuel Amoah of Gentle Prayer Ministry at Atwima Kokoben in the Ashanti Region has cautioned colleague pastors not to exploit the membership of their churches.
He said pastors who exploit and extort monies from their members are doomed and hellbound, because it was not right in the sight of God.
Pastor Amoah said in radio evangelism on BOSS FM in Kumasi recently that men of God who defy divine directive and milk their members dry, would face the wrath of God, and be judged.
He said it was against God's design for pastors to feed fat on members of their congregation.
The concerned man of God pointed to the common feature among most pastors who take care of themselves by living ostentatious lives at the expense of their members as in Ezekiel 34:1-10. Quoting 1 Peter 5:1-4, Prophet Amoah said pastors were bound to willingly take proper care of the flock God entrusts into their care. "Do your work not for pay, but from a real desire to serve," so that they (pastors) will share in God's glory, he advised.
Referring to Ephesians 2:2 and James 4:1-5, Prophet Amoah reiterated that pleasure seekers were God's enemies, and admonished that pastors who desire pleasures and do what pleases them are destined to suffer God's anger.
The Prophet noted that it was common to see the flock shepherding the shepherd, instead of the other way round, and attributed this situation to the fact that some men of God follow and obey the world's evil spirits and disobey God.
"Pastors, who do not do the right thing to save souls are doomed," Prophet Amoah cautioned.
He noted that in the face of lack of proper shepherding, the flock, which is vulnerable, is scattered out of frustration, thus falling prey to from one such pastor to another.
Prophet Amoah has, therefore, urged pastors to respond positively to their calling, and preach salvation to save souls for God's Kingdom, instead of preaching prosperity which never comes to the flock, because in the true sense, they (said pastors) care for themselves.
Prophet Amoah said the admonition to cater for the vulnerable and weak equally applies to politicians, ministers of state, district chief executives, government functionaries, public officers, civil servants and people in positions of trust, including journalists.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201110260248.html
Sebastian R. Freiku
The Chronicle, 25 October 2011
Kumasi — Apostle Kofi Nkansah-Sarkodie, General Overseer of the Open Arms Ministries at North Suntreso in Kumasi, has admonished Ministers of the Gospel to stay clear of anything that relates to the power of Satan, with the view of performing miracles and wonders for material gain and fame.
The man of God condemned the negative expose of Christendom, following the misconduct of some men of God on the local scene.
Apostle Nkansah-Sarkodie, who is also known as Brother Sark, noted that "Satan is seriously at work and infiltrating the ranks of Ministers of the Gospel," and cautioned them to beware and not allow the devil to use them perform miracles and wonders.
According to him, those men of God lose guard and fall to the tricks of Satan. He as well cautioned Ministers against resorting to lies, falsehood, and deceit, because they would be exposed, disgraced, and punished at the end of the day.
Apostle Nkansah-Sarkodie pointed out that recent reported cases of fornication, rape, armed robbery, adultery, stealing, and fraud, among other vices allegedly involving some men of God, which situation, he said, was driving many Christians away from God.
"Our church leaders, who should be shepherding the flock towards salvation, are themselves shamefully leading ungodly lifestyles."
The General Overseer has therefore, admonished Christians to be wide awake, lead godly lives, and not sway in their faith, so as not to lose salvation. He also advised unbelievers to repent their sins, and take up to Jesus Christ, in order to escape hellfire.
In a related development, Prophet Emmanuel Amoah of Gentle Prayer Ministry at Atwima Kokoben in the Ashanti Region has cautioned colleague pastors not to exploit the membership of their churches.
He said pastors who exploit and extort monies from their members are doomed and hellbound, because it was not right in the sight of God.
Pastor Amoah said in radio evangelism on BOSS FM in Kumasi recently that men of God who defy divine directive and milk their members dry, would face the wrath of God, and be judged.
He said it was against God's design for pastors to feed fat on members of their congregation.
The concerned man of God pointed to the common feature among most pastors who take care of themselves by living ostentatious lives at the expense of their members as in Ezekiel 34:1-10. Quoting 1 Peter 5:1-4, Prophet Amoah said pastors were bound to willingly take proper care of the flock God entrusts into their care. "Do your work not for pay, but from a real desire to serve," so that they (pastors) will share in God's glory, he advised.
Referring to Ephesians 2:2 and James 4:1-5, Prophet Amoah reiterated that pleasure seekers were God's enemies, and admonished that pastors who desire pleasures and do what pleases them are destined to suffer God's anger.
The Prophet noted that it was common to see the flock shepherding the shepherd, instead of the other way round, and attributed this situation to the fact that some men of God follow and obey the world's evil spirits and disobey God.
"Pastors, who do not do the right thing to save souls are doomed," Prophet Amoah cautioned.
He noted that in the face of lack of proper shepherding, the flock, which is vulnerable, is scattered out of frustration, thus falling prey to from one such pastor to another.
Prophet Amoah has, therefore, urged pastors to respond positively to their calling, and preach salvation to save souls for God's Kingdom, instead of preaching prosperity which never comes to the flock, because in the true sense, they (said pastors) care for themselves.
Prophet Amoah said the admonition to cater for the vulnerable and weak equally applies to politicians, ministers of state, district chief executives, government functionaries, public officers, civil servants and people in positions of trust, including journalists.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Obama sends 100 US troops to Uganda to fight LRA: It is not what you think!!!
First read:
THE MAIN REASON THAT THE U.S. IS TARGETING THE LRA IS THAT IT IS "UNSETTLING" AMERICA'S ATTEMPT TO RAPE THE AREA OF ITS OIL AND MINERAL RIGHTS.
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article026.htm
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9szEu9Ag
Obama sends 100 US troops to Uganda to fight LRA
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18452-obama-sends-100-us-troops-to-uganda-to-fight-lra.html
US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 "combat-equipped" troops to Uganda to help and advise forces battling Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of grievous human rights abuses.
The US troops, subject to the approval of national authorities, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Obama said in a message to Congress.
LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
"These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA," Obama said, but warned they would not lead the fighting themselves.
"Although the US forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces.
"They will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of US military personnel during their deployment."
According to AFP, the president said a small group of troops deployed on Wednesday and that additional forces will deploy over the next month.
Kony, accused of war crimes and wanted by the International Criminal Court, appears to have dropped any national political agenda and in recent years his marauding troops have sown death and destruction in the region.
The civil war effectively ended in 2006 when a peace process was launched, but Kony and his top commanders continue to commit atrocities in remote areas of neighboring countries.
General Carter Ham, the head of US Africa Command, said last week that his best estimate was that Kony was probably in the Central African Republic
AFP
An Excerpt from the letter President Obama Sent to the Congressional Leaders
For more than two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa. The LRA continues to commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security. ...
In furtherance of the Congress's stated policy, I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield. I believe that deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.
On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda.
During the next month, additional forces will deploy, including a second combat-equipped team and associated headquarters, communications, and logistics personnel. The total number of U.S. military personnel deploying for this mission is approximately 100.
These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA. Our forces will provide information, advice, and assistance to select partner nation forces.
Subject to the approval of each respective host nation, elements of these U.S. forces will deploy into Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The support provided by U.S. forces will enhance regional efforts against the LRA. However, although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of U.S. military personnel during their deployment.
Sourced from: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-dispatches-100-troops-to-uganda/1?csp=34news
US denies interest in Uganda oil
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18504-us-denies-interest-in-uganda-oil.html
THE US on Monday denied that its renewed interest in Uganda is a strategy to get hold of the newly found oil in the count.
The US government has announced that it will deploy troops to help Uganda fight the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who are currently in the Central African Republic.
Critics have said that the only reason that America seems to be coming up strongly to offer troops to help in fighting Kony when they did not when he was killing people here was because of the oil.
But the Charge d’Affairs at the American embassy in Kampala, Virginia Blaser, said yesterday that the US has been helping Uganda with especially with the humanitarian situation in the North where Kony was killing people. She was addressing journalists at a press conference.
“The US is deeply committed to supporting Uganda’s effort to eliminate the threat of LRA and providing humanitarian assistance to LRA affected regions,” Blazer said. “Since 2008, the LRA has been responsible for at least 2,400 attacks and over 3,400 abductions. According to the UN, there have been approximately 250 attacks attributed to the LRQA this year.
She said that over the recent years, the Ugandan military has persevered through some of the most difficult terrain in the world and significantly reduced the LRA numbers and kept them from regrouping.
She insisted that the US troops will assume an advisory, not a combat role. She said that the continued stay of the US troops is dependent on the continued cooperation of regional governments i8n fighting Kony.
“The US military personnel will assume a supporting role to strengthen information-sharing and operational effectiveness against the LRA,” She said and added that the decision to do so was taken in 2009. She said that only a portion of the personnel will travel to the field locations, but also to advise and would only defend themselves if attacked.
President Yoweri Museveni also told journalists on Sunday that American soldiers will not fight Kony, but will advise the Ugandan army.
“We have American advisors not fighters so there are no American troops here,” Museveni said in answer to journalists’ queries at a press conference yesterday.
According to an earlier message by US president Barrack Obama, the , US troops, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
According to AFP, the president said a small group of troops deployed on Wednesday and that additional forces will deploy over the next month.
Kony, is wanted by the International Criminal Court, over crimes against humanity appears to have dropped any national political agenda and in recent years his marauding troops have sown death and destruction in the region.
The civil war effectively ended in 2006 when a peace process was launched, but Kony and his top commanders continue to commit atrocities in remote areas of neighboring countries.
THE MAIN REASON THAT THE U.S. IS TARGETING THE LRA IS THAT IT IS "UNSETTLING" AMERICA'S ATTEMPT TO RAPE THE AREA OF ITS OIL AND MINERAL RIGHTS.
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article026.htm
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9szEu9Ag
Obama sends 100 US troops to Uganda to fight LRA
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18452-obama-sends-100-us-troops-to-uganda-to-fight-lra.html
US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 "combat-equipped" troops to Uganda to help and advise forces battling Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of grievous human rights abuses.
The US troops, subject to the approval of national authorities, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Obama said in a message to Congress.
LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
"These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA," Obama said, but warned they would not lead the fighting themselves.
"Although the US forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces.
"They will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of US military personnel during their deployment."
According to AFP, the president said a small group of troops deployed on Wednesday and that additional forces will deploy over the next month.
Kony, accused of war crimes and wanted by the International Criminal Court, appears to have dropped any national political agenda and in recent years his marauding troops have sown death and destruction in the region.
The civil war effectively ended in 2006 when a peace process was launched, but Kony and his top commanders continue to commit atrocities in remote areas of neighboring countries.
General Carter Ham, the head of US Africa Command, said last week that his best estimate was that Kony was probably in the Central African Republic
AFP
An Excerpt from the letter President Obama Sent to the Congressional Leaders
For more than two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa. The LRA continues to commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security. ...
In furtherance of the Congress's stated policy, I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield. I believe that deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.
On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda.
During the next month, additional forces will deploy, including a second combat-equipped team and associated headquarters, communications, and logistics personnel. The total number of U.S. military personnel deploying for this mission is approximately 100.
These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA. Our forces will provide information, advice, and assistance to select partner nation forces.
Subject to the approval of each respective host nation, elements of these U.S. forces will deploy into Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The support provided by U.S. forces will enhance regional efforts against the LRA. However, although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of U.S. military personnel during their deployment.
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US denies interest in Uganda oil
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18504-us-denies-interest-in-uganda-oil.html
THE US on Monday denied that its renewed interest in Uganda is a strategy to get hold of the newly found oil in the count.
The US government has announced that it will deploy troops to help Uganda fight the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who are currently in the Central African Republic.
Critics have said that the only reason that America seems to be coming up strongly to offer troops to help in fighting Kony when they did not when he was killing people here was because of the oil.
But the Charge d’Affairs at the American embassy in Kampala, Virginia Blaser, said yesterday that the US has been helping Uganda with especially with the humanitarian situation in the North where Kony was killing people. She was addressing journalists at a press conference.
“The US is deeply committed to supporting Uganda’s effort to eliminate the threat of LRA and providing humanitarian assistance to LRA affected regions,” Blazer said. “Since 2008, the LRA has been responsible for at least 2,400 attacks and over 3,400 abductions. According to the UN, there have been approximately 250 attacks attributed to the LRQA this year.
She said that over the recent years, the Ugandan military has persevered through some of the most difficult terrain in the world and significantly reduced the LRA numbers and kept them from regrouping.
She insisted that the US troops will assume an advisory, not a combat role. She said that the continued stay of the US troops is dependent on the continued cooperation of regional governments i8n fighting Kony.
“The US military personnel will assume a supporting role to strengthen information-sharing and operational effectiveness against the LRA,” She said and added that the decision to do so was taken in 2009. She said that only a portion of the personnel will travel to the field locations, but also to advise and would only defend themselves if attacked.
President Yoweri Museveni also told journalists on Sunday that American soldiers will not fight Kony, but will advise the Ugandan army.
“We have American advisors not fighters so there are no American troops here,” Museveni said in answer to journalists’ queries at a press conference yesterday.
According to an earlier message by US president Barrack Obama, the , US troops, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
According to AFP, the president said a small group of troops deployed on Wednesday and that additional forces will deploy over the next month.
Kony, is wanted by the International Criminal Court, over crimes against humanity appears to have dropped any national political agenda and in recent years his marauding troops have sown death and destruction in the region.
The civil war effectively ended in 2006 when a peace process was launched, but Kony and his top commanders continue to commit atrocities in remote areas of neighboring countries.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Mugabe urged to end attacks on Anglicans in Zimbabwe
Mugabe urged to end attacks on Anglicans in Zimbabwe
http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/dded840048a5b01aa6d0a65c3e4e6c86/Mugabe-urged-to-end-attacks-on-Anglicans-in-Zimbabwe-20111011
Tuesday 11 October 2011 05:35
The Archbishop of Canterbury asked President Robert Mugabe to end attacks on Anglicans in Zimbabwe, where a renegade bishop has forced the faithful out of their churches.
Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, met for two hours with Mugabe at State House to lay out his concerns about the assault on the Church that has seen even teachers and nurses chased from schools and orphanages.
"We have asked in the clearest possible terms that the president use his powers as head of state to put an end to all unacceptable and illegal behaviour," Rowan Williams told reporters afterwards.
"It was a very candid meeting, disagreements were expressed clearly, but I think in a peaceful manner," he said.
"We deeply deplore the manner in which many of the historic assets of the church... hospitals, schools have not only been seized by the breakaway group but are no longer used for the purpose for which were designed."
The police must perfrom their duties in a non-partisan way. Cabinet made that decision very clearly that when it comes to praying the state has no role in the church but protect people when they do pray
Mugabe, who at 87 has ruled since independence from Britain in 1980, made no comments either before or after the meeting.
Williams later met with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe's long-time rival who joined a unity government two years ago.
"The police must perform their duties in a non-partisan way. Cabinet made that decision very clearly that when it comes to praying the state has no role in the church but protect people when they do pray," Tsvangirai said.
Renegade bishop and Mugabe ally Nolbert Kunonga broke away from the Anglican Communion three years ago in a dispute over homosexuality. His new grouping seized all the Church's property and forcefully evicted Anglicans from their places of worship.
Kunonga, who has praised Catholic Mugabe as a "true son of God", has backed the president's violent land reform programme and endorsed his condemnation of homosexuality.
Mugabe, Archbishop of Canterbury set for fiery meeting
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18307-mugabe-archbishop-of-canterbury-set-for-fiery-meeting.html
HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will question the Anglican Church's silence on Western sanctions against him and its position on homosexuality, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will press him to end violent suppression of the church and its priests at a meeting expected on Monday.
Williams arrived in Zimbabwe on Sunday as part of a tour of southern Africa and is expected to meet 87-year-old Mugabe on Monday. Mugabe has yet to confirm the arrangement.
His spokesman George Charamba told the state-run Sunday Mail in an interview that "if ever" Mugabe and Williams were going to meet, Mugabe would ask why the church had not condemned the sanctions he says are hurting ordinary Zimbabweans.
"Has the Church consorted with the British State to impose sanctions against us?" said Charamba.
Western countries led by former colonial power Britain have maintained financial and travel sanctions on Mugabe and senior members from his ZANU-PF party since 2000 over charges of human rights abuse and electoral fraud. Mugabe denies the charges.
Charamba said that Mugabe had nothing to do with a dispute between the church and a rebel bishop who has taken over Anglican church assets.
The Anglican church is appealing against an Aug. 4 ruling that gave Nolbert Kunonga, a Mugabe supporter who leads a breakaway faction of the church, custody of the Anglican church's Zimbabwean properties.
Kunonga is a former head of the Anglican church in the country but resigned in 2007 claiming homosexual priests and congregants had gained influence in the church, although it does not conduct same-sex marriages or ordain gay priests.
"The second issue that the President wants this man of God (Williams) to clarify is why his Anglican Church thinks homosexuality is good for us and why it should be prescribed for us," said Charamba.
"He (Mugabe) thinks the Archbishop will be polite enough to point to him what portion of the Great Book sanctions homosexuality and sanctions."
Mugabe makes frequent verbal attacks on gays and lesbians and has previously said they are "worse than pigs and dogs".
On Sunday, a group of about 200 members from Kunonga's faction marched in central Harare denouncing homosexuality.
http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/dded840048a5b01aa6d0a65c3e4e6c86/Mugabe-urged-to-end-attacks-on-Anglicans-in-Zimbabwe-20111011
Tuesday 11 October 2011 05:35
The Archbishop of Canterbury asked President Robert Mugabe to end attacks on Anglicans in Zimbabwe, where a renegade bishop has forced the faithful out of their churches.
Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, met for two hours with Mugabe at State House to lay out his concerns about the assault on the Church that has seen even teachers and nurses chased from schools and orphanages.
"We have asked in the clearest possible terms that the president use his powers as head of state to put an end to all unacceptable and illegal behaviour," Rowan Williams told reporters afterwards.
"It was a very candid meeting, disagreements were expressed clearly, but I think in a peaceful manner," he said.
"We deeply deplore the manner in which many of the historic assets of the church... hospitals, schools have not only been seized by the breakaway group but are no longer used for the purpose for which were designed."
The police must perfrom their duties in a non-partisan way. Cabinet made that decision very clearly that when it comes to praying the state has no role in the church but protect people when they do pray
Mugabe, who at 87 has ruled since independence from Britain in 1980, made no comments either before or after the meeting.
Williams later met with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe's long-time rival who joined a unity government two years ago.
"The police must perform their duties in a non-partisan way. Cabinet made that decision very clearly that when it comes to praying the state has no role in the church but protect people when they do pray," Tsvangirai said.
Renegade bishop and Mugabe ally Nolbert Kunonga broke away from the Anglican Communion three years ago in a dispute over homosexuality. His new grouping seized all the Church's property and forcefully evicted Anglicans from their places of worship.
Kunonga, who has praised Catholic Mugabe as a "true son of God", has backed the president's violent land reform programme and endorsed his condemnation of homosexuality.
Mugabe, Archbishop of Canterbury set for fiery meeting
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18307-mugabe-archbishop-of-canterbury-set-for-fiery-meeting.html
HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will question the Anglican Church's silence on Western sanctions against him and its position on homosexuality, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will press him to end violent suppression of the church and its priests at a meeting expected on Monday.
Williams arrived in Zimbabwe on Sunday as part of a tour of southern Africa and is expected to meet 87-year-old Mugabe on Monday. Mugabe has yet to confirm the arrangement.
His spokesman George Charamba told the state-run Sunday Mail in an interview that "if ever" Mugabe and Williams were going to meet, Mugabe would ask why the church had not condemned the sanctions he says are hurting ordinary Zimbabweans.
"Has the Church consorted with the British State to impose sanctions against us?" said Charamba.
Western countries led by former colonial power Britain have maintained financial and travel sanctions on Mugabe and senior members from his ZANU-PF party since 2000 over charges of human rights abuse and electoral fraud. Mugabe denies the charges.
Charamba said that Mugabe had nothing to do with a dispute between the church and a rebel bishop who has taken over Anglican church assets.
The Anglican church is appealing against an Aug. 4 ruling that gave Nolbert Kunonga, a Mugabe supporter who leads a breakaway faction of the church, custody of the Anglican church's Zimbabwean properties.
Kunonga is a former head of the Anglican church in the country but resigned in 2007 claiming homosexual priests and congregants had gained influence in the church, although it does not conduct same-sex marriages or ordain gay priests.
"The second issue that the President wants this man of God (Williams) to clarify is why his Anglican Church thinks homosexuality is good for us and why it should be prescribed for us," said Charamba.
"He (Mugabe) thinks the Archbishop will be polite enough to point to him what portion of the Great Book sanctions homosexuality and sanctions."
Mugabe makes frequent verbal attacks on gays and lesbians and has previously said they are "worse than pigs and dogs".
On Sunday, a group of about 200 members from Kunonga's faction marched in central Harare denouncing homosexuality.
Reverse Psychology: Rwanda to send back minerals to the DRC
FIRST READ: Impunity and Complicity in the Genocide in Rwanda and Congo: African Mercenaries for the American New world order system
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2011/09/impunity-and-complicity-in-genocide-in.html
Rwanda to send back minerals to the DRC
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18400-rwanda-to-send-back-minerals-to-the-drc.html
KIGALI,Rwanda - Government has announced that it will soon send back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 70 tonnes (70,000Kgs) of untagged minerals smuggled into the country.
The New Times daily published in Kigali yesterday quoted Dr Michael Biryabarema, the Director General for Mines and Geology in the Ministry of Natural Resources, saying the handover date was yet to be determined by the relevant ministers from both countries.
The minerals were seized by Revenue Protection Department’s anti-smuggling unit as they were sneaked into the country, from DRC, through the western corridors of Rusizi and Rubavu, over the last five months, Biryabarema said.
They include cassitarite and wolframite, tungsten and tantalum, he added.
“We no longer export untagged minerals. So, any minerals that come into Rwanda without a tag are impounded and taken back to the country of origin,” Biryabarema said.
In January, this year, Rwanda set up a mineral tagging and sealing scheme that is internationally recognised as the iTSCi project, which aims at curbing illegal trading of minerals, particularly from conflict areas in the DRC.
DRC is singled out as a conflict zone.
Between March and September this year, 91,000 Kgs of smuggled minerals have been impounded. 55,000kgs in Rubavu district, 27,000 in Rusizi and 9,000 in Kigali.
The 70,000kgs to be sent back to DRC are part of 91,000 kgs impounded. The ministry of Mines is in the process of identifying the origin of the remaining minerals.
The US passed a law putting an end to the exportation of untagged minerals in July 2010, with the aim of discouraging trading in ‘blood minerals’, a requirement that came into force in April, 2011.
Rwanda has the capacity to tag up to 98 percent of its minerals.
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2011/09/impunity-and-complicity-in-genocide-in.html
Rwanda to send back minerals to the DRC
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18400-rwanda-to-send-back-minerals-to-the-drc.html
KIGALI,Rwanda - Government has announced that it will soon send back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 70 tonnes (70,000Kgs) of untagged minerals smuggled into the country.
The New Times daily published in Kigali yesterday quoted Dr Michael Biryabarema, the Director General for Mines and Geology in the Ministry of Natural Resources, saying the handover date was yet to be determined by the relevant ministers from both countries.
The minerals were seized by Revenue Protection Department’s anti-smuggling unit as they were sneaked into the country, from DRC, through the western corridors of Rusizi and Rubavu, over the last five months, Biryabarema said.
They include cassitarite and wolframite, tungsten and tantalum, he added.
“We no longer export untagged minerals. So, any minerals that come into Rwanda without a tag are impounded and taken back to the country of origin,” Biryabarema said.
In January, this year, Rwanda set up a mineral tagging and sealing scheme that is internationally recognised as the iTSCi project, which aims at curbing illegal trading of minerals, particularly from conflict areas in the DRC.
DRC is singled out as a conflict zone.
Between March and September this year, 91,000 Kgs of smuggled minerals have been impounded. 55,000kgs in Rubavu district, 27,000 in Rusizi and 9,000 in Kigali.
The 70,000kgs to be sent back to DRC are part of 91,000 kgs impounded. The ministry of Mines is in the process of identifying the origin of the remaining minerals.
The US passed a law putting an end to the exportation of untagged minerals in July 2010, with the aim of discouraging trading in ‘blood minerals’, a requirement that came into force in April, 2011.
Rwanda has the capacity to tag up to 98 percent of its minerals.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
President Museveni calls for inter religious cooperation
President Museveni calls for inter religious cooperation
http://www.256newsonline.com/index.php?category=stories&id=441&cd=1&hl=President%20Museveni%20calls%20for%20inter%20religious%20cooperation
9th,October 2011
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the movement of righteous people from all religions is good for society.
The President was this morning speaking during the annual Uganda National Prayer Breakfast held at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The 13th Uganda National Prayer Breakfast is a brainchild of the Uganda Parliamentarians that is traditionally held to give Uganda a spiritual strength as the country prepares for the annual Independence Day Anniversary celebrations that fall on October 09th.
This year’s Prayer Breakfast session was held under the theme: “For God and My Country: A Call for Excellence in service”. In reference to the Bible, the President urged Uganda Parliamentarians and leaders at large to “let your light shine before the people so that they may praise you for the good deeds.”
President Museveni commended Mr. Steven Akabway former Commissioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Ms. Allen Kagina presently the URA Commissioner General and Ms. Jennipher Musisi a former employee at the national tax body, for having served as exemplary tax collectors in the Uganda Revenue Authority.
He noted that they were among the people who have served without stealing the tax payers’ money and attributed this to their commitment to their faith. He further commended Ms. Musisi, now the Executive Director of Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) for the good start in her new assignment of reorganizing the City of Kampala into a better place.
Mr. Museveni also challenged Africans to multiply their God-given talents adding that the continent’s major challenge is underdevelopment. He warned that Africans must not remain weak thereby offering a bait to greedy people to steal from the innocent ones. He strongly called for efforts to tame and dominate nature but also cautioned leaders against dividing the people along unprincipled sectarian lines.
The wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni, prayed to God to visit Uganda with a heart of blessings as the country enters its jubilee year of Uhuru. She also prayed for permanent peace and harmony as well for all people to work with integrity.
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, saluted the President for promoting African women. She also lauded him for facilitating and attending the national prayer breakfast.
The guest Speaker, who is the Ambassador of Zambia to Belgium, Dr. Inonge Lewanika, said that by attending the national prayer breakfast, became a dream come true. She challenged the leaders to work for the good of the future generations adding that “dig wells for the good of the people.”
The Minister of Health, Dr. Christine Ondoa in her testimony, revealed that she has achieved a lot due to her commitment to God. She noted that “we are blessed to have President Museveni who has a good vision for the country”.
Museveni wanted Musisi for judiciary
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15398&Itemid=59
Written by David Tash Lumu Monday, 10 October 2011 00:05
President Museveni has said Jennifer Musisi, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director, turned down an offer of an appointment to the judiciary and chose to take up the challenge of cleaning up Kampala.
“I wanted her to bring some Christianity and godliness to the judiciary, so I called her and told her to apply to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), but she said: ‘I cannot apply to be a judge’,” Museveni said.
The President, who was speaking at the 13th national prayer breakfast at Hotel Africana on Saturday, added that he did not give up on his quest to persuade the woman he describes as a “heroine”.
“I later told her that if you don’t want to go to the judiciary, why don’t you become a garbage cleaner? She agreed.”
Museveni said he does not regret having appointed Musisi as ED of Kampala and that very soon, he will write a letter congratulating her for “saving us from the floods at Clock Tower”.
“KCC had become a centre of filth, dirt, theft and disorganisation, but for the short time this woman has been there, you have all seen the work,” he said.
Musisi belongs to a group of people the President describes as “righteous” and whom he believes will change the way his government operates by restoring integrity. Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Allen Kagina and Health minister Christine Androa are some of the other people in this group that Museveni mentioned.
He implored born-again Christians (balokole) to continue nurturing “a nursery of producing cadres who can deliver excellent service”.
But, in his usual humorous way, Museveni turned around and described the style of worship in balokole churches as “simply just jumping and dancing around”.
He was prompted to say this shortly after Androa’s testimony detailing how God compelled the President to appoint her a minister even when she had never had any connection to him.
“I didn’t know that Androa belongs to one of these churches where they dance and shout. They simply just jump and dance around. You see, I was tired of corrupt doctors and I told my network to look around and they contacted her,” Museveni said.
The joke sparked off some grumbling in the audience, but Museveni tactfully calmed the people when he reaffirmed that Androa’s appointment was ordained by God: “She told me that I was compelled by God to appoint her. It’s true that I was compelled; God compelled me”.
However, the President maintained that balokole are “mad”. Quoting from stories his grandmother used to tell him, Museveni said if she was still alive, she would say, “You are beyond madness”.
He said one of the reasons he remains close to balokole is the fact that they do not indulge in alcohol. “You are mad without drinking alcohol. Since you don’t drink alcohol, I welcome you. Anybody who is voluntarily mad without [the influence of] alcohol, I welcome,” he said.
The guest speaker, Dr Inonge Mbikusita Lewanika, advised Museveni and other leaders to start planning for Africa’s future generation if they are to change the continent from “a problem to a solution”.
“Are we digging wells for the future generation? We are here because someone dug a well for us. What are we doing for our children?” she asked.
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, said the prayer meeting cost Shs 90 million.
dtlumu@observer.ug
Museveni Warns on Religious Extremism
http://allafrica.com/stories/201008260067.html
Cyprian Musoke, John Ssemakula and Francis Kagolo
The New Vision, 25 August 2010
Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni has warned against religious intolerance, saying it is one of the reasons that prompted him and his comrades to go to war in order to stabilize the country.
Addressing the All Africa Bishops Conference in Entebbe yesterday, Museveni said the formative years of religion in Uganda were characterised by friction between denominations. "There was friction between the Protestants and Catholics and later between the two and Muslims. Protestants came in 1877 and the Catholics in 1879, but by 1890, we already had a civil war. You can imagine the confusion allegedly in the name of God," he said.
From 1888, he noted, people were killing each other 'on behalf of God'. "I don't know where they met God to instruct them to go and kill each other, you should study this," he told the prelates, throwing them into laughter. That rivalry, Museveni added, went on into the 1970s, climaxing into the (former dictator) Idi Amin regime.
"This problem is one of the issues that formed my political awareness and together with my colleagues, we were determined to stop it. As a Christian, I challenged this and said: 'This is not what God told you to do; you are all wrong'," he said, to thunderous applause. He reminded them of the story of the Good Samaritan who helped a man who had been beaten up by robbers, yet he (Samaritan) was not of the victim's social caste.
"I am always looking for the Good Samaritan. Jesus said we shall know them by their deeds. Not clothes, titles or names, but by their deeds," he stressed. He described the religious wars going on in the world as okuhimbagira, "to disorient oneself in a very fundamental way".
"You fight this one, fight that one; what is your problem? That I am a Muslim? If you are, so what? If I am a Christian, what's your problem?" "You are what you are, I am what I am and everyone of us is here in their own right by the permission of God; so you must accept me the way I am."
He said there were some groups in Kawempe on the outskirts of Kampala some years ago who wanted to riot because somebody had eaten pork. "I don't eat fish because my people call it snake. I don't eat chicken because my people think it makes one unstable, don't eat pork and sheep but I am the number one promoter of piggery in the whole of Uganda.
"I think tolerance is firmly based on the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan," he said. The President, who was jolly and kept cracking jokes, invited the clergy to visit Uganda again, saying it is unique, being on the equator but experiencing permanent snow on Mt. Rwenzori because it is 5,000 metres above sea level. Only Kenya and Ecuador in South America, he added, have such an experience.
Addressing a press conference later, Orombi said they had met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, over homosexuality which has split the Anglican church. "He recognised that he has complicated work to do. We impressed it on him that he had totally gone in a different direction and he has to sort it out," Orombi said.
He said the church in Singapore, south-east Asia and Africa had decided to stick to the Word of God and the Anglican Communion was strengthening its ties with them. "We sympathise with his (Williams) position. It's like having unruly kids in his house and he can't sit down to eat food. We told him no more diplomacy on that matter," he said.
Experts on family issues, maternal health and HIV/AIDS also made their presentations. Dr. Peter Okaalet said the 10 killer diseases in Africa like malaria, HIV/AIDS and accidents are preventable. "Africa has failed to prevent these 10 killer diseases because its health system is overburdened to the extent that it cannot deliver anything," Okaalet said.
"Most of the budgets of the African countries offer $10 to $20 for health per person every year, which cannot do anything."
Sylvia Mwichuli said Africa has the potential to end poverty. "Africa is not doomed, it has a lot of potential and South Africa has just exhibited it when she hosted a successful World Cup recently," she added.
Mwiculi observed that the gap between the rich and the poor who struggle to live is very big and needs to be bridged urgently.
She challenged religious leaders to support people and groups of people who advocate for the positive change on the continent.
Museveni Warns Religious Extremists
http://allafrica.com/stories/200004270093.html
Jonathan Angura and Nathan Etengu
The New Vision, 27 April 2000
Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni has said religious extremism will not be tolerated in Uganda. He said having fought the liberation war, he will ensure that Uganda remains a peaceful and organised society.
"We are not going to allow anyone to use religion to disturb the peace we have sacrificed our lives, energy and resources to bring about," Museveni said in a speech read yesterday by second deputy prime minister Moses Ali at the seventh graduation ceremony of the Islamic University in Uganda A total of 289 students, 93 of them women, graduated in various disciplines.
President Tells African Bishops - 'There Should Be No Room for Intolerance Because Everyone is Made in the Image of God'
http://allafrica.com/stories/201008271108.html
Uganda's President Museveni said today that tolerance was a biblical imperative and that Christians should not "have one minute of time wasted" by those promoting prejudice.
Speaking to almost 400 bishops and other guests at the All Africa Bishops Conference in Entebbe this morning, President Museveni used the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan to highlight the need to overcome difference and pursue peace and healing.
Drawing on Ugandan religious history, President Museveni explained it took only ten years after the first convert to Christianity in Uganda before Catholics and Protestants were fighting and killing each other.
"I don't' know where they heard God wanted them to fight and kill each other," he said. "A civil war between those calling themselves Catholics and those calling themselves Protestants! Then there was another war between the two of them and Muslims. They were all fighting on behalf of God, they said."
He recounted the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan to demonstrate that prejudice should not get in the way of peace and helping other human beings. In this New Testament story it is a traditional enemy of the Israelites, a Samaritan, who aids an injured Israelite when members of the Jewish religious elite fail to do so.
"I am always looking for the good Samaritan," he said. "Jesus says you shall know them by their fruits. You shall know them by their actions. Not by their words, not by their addresses, not by their titles, but by their works, by their deeds, by the products of their works."
The President said those of all denominations or faiths needed to recognise one another's right to exist: "If you are a Muslim, so what? I am a Christian. OK, so what's your problem? You are what you are, but I am what I am. We're different...I'm here by the permission of God. You must accept me the way I am whether you want it or not."
He added that anyone promoting intolerance should not "waste one of our minutes with this...We are all created in the image of god, so you are made in the image of god. I don't know whether God is black or white or Chinese, but we are created in his image-that's what the bible says."
He concluded his well-received speech by officially opening the CAPA-run conference for bishops of the Anglican Communion in Africa that is running until Sunday 29 August at the Imperial Beach Hotel, Entebbe. Aims for this conference include mobilising the bishops to tackle the obstacles that continue to keep the continent in conflict, poverty, corruption, poor leadership and disease.
http://www.256newsonline.com/index.php?category=stories&id=441&cd=1&hl=President%20Museveni%20calls%20for%20inter%20religious%20cooperation
9th,October 2011
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the movement of righteous people from all religions is good for society.
The President was this morning speaking during the annual Uganda National Prayer Breakfast held at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The 13th Uganda National Prayer Breakfast is a brainchild of the Uganda Parliamentarians that is traditionally held to give Uganda a spiritual strength as the country prepares for the annual Independence Day Anniversary celebrations that fall on October 09th.
This year’s Prayer Breakfast session was held under the theme: “For God and My Country: A Call for Excellence in service”. In reference to the Bible, the President urged Uganda Parliamentarians and leaders at large to “let your light shine before the people so that they may praise you for the good deeds.”
President Museveni commended Mr. Steven Akabway former Commissioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Ms. Allen Kagina presently the URA Commissioner General and Ms. Jennipher Musisi a former employee at the national tax body, for having served as exemplary tax collectors in the Uganda Revenue Authority.
He noted that they were among the people who have served without stealing the tax payers’ money and attributed this to their commitment to their faith. He further commended Ms. Musisi, now the Executive Director of Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) for the good start in her new assignment of reorganizing the City of Kampala into a better place.
Mr. Museveni also challenged Africans to multiply their God-given talents adding that the continent’s major challenge is underdevelopment. He warned that Africans must not remain weak thereby offering a bait to greedy people to steal from the innocent ones. He strongly called for efforts to tame and dominate nature but also cautioned leaders against dividing the people along unprincipled sectarian lines.
The wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni, prayed to God to visit Uganda with a heart of blessings as the country enters its jubilee year of Uhuru. She also prayed for permanent peace and harmony as well for all people to work with integrity.
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, saluted the President for promoting African women. She also lauded him for facilitating and attending the national prayer breakfast.
The guest Speaker, who is the Ambassador of Zambia to Belgium, Dr. Inonge Lewanika, said that by attending the national prayer breakfast, became a dream come true. She challenged the leaders to work for the good of the future generations adding that “dig wells for the good of the people.”
The Minister of Health, Dr. Christine Ondoa in her testimony, revealed that she has achieved a lot due to her commitment to God. She noted that “we are blessed to have President Museveni who has a good vision for the country”.
Museveni wanted Musisi for judiciary
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15398&Itemid=59
Written by David Tash Lumu Monday, 10 October 2011 00:05
President Museveni has said Jennifer Musisi, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director, turned down an offer of an appointment to the judiciary and chose to take up the challenge of cleaning up Kampala.
“I wanted her to bring some Christianity and godliness to the judiciary, so I called her and told her to apply to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), but she said: ‘I cannot apply to be a judge’,” Museveni said.
The President, who was speaking at the 13th national prayer breakfast at Hotel Africana on Saturday, added that he did not give up on his quest to persuade the woman he describes as a “heroine”.
“I later told her that if you don’t want to go to the judiciary, why don’t you become a garbage cleaner? She agreed.”
Museveni said he does not regret having appointed Musisi as ED of Kampala and that very soon, he will write a letter congratulating her for “saving us from the floods at Clock Tower”.
“KCC had become a centre of filth, dirt, theft and disorganisation, but for the short time this woman has been there, you have all seen the work,” he said.
Musisi belongs to a group of people the President describes as “righteous” and whom he believes will change the way his government operates by restoring integrity. Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Allen Kagina and Health minister Christine Androa are some of the other people in this group that Museveni mentioned.
He implored born-again Christians (balokole) to continue nurturing “a nursery of producing cadres who can deliver excellent service”.
But, in his usual humorous way, Museveni turned around and described the style of worship in balokole churches as “simply just jumping and dancing around”.
He was prompted to say this shortly after Androa’s testimony detailing how God compelled the President to appoint her a minister even when she had never had any connection to him.
“I didn’t know that Androa belongs to one of these churches where they dance and shout. They simply just jump and dance around. You see, I was tired of corrupt doctors and I told my network to look around and they contacted her,” Museveni said.
The joke sparked off some grumbling in the audience, but Museveni tactfully calmed the people when he reaffirmed that Androa’s appointment was ordained by God: “She told me that I was compelled by God to appoint her. It’s true that I was compelled; God compelled me”.
However, the President maintained that balokole are “mad”. Quoting from stories his grandmother used to tell him, Museveni said if she was still alive, she would say, “You are beyond madness”.
He said one of the reasons he remains close to balokole is the fact that they do not indulge in alcohol. “You are mad without drinking alcohol. Since you don’t drink alcohol, I welcome you. Anybody who is voluntarily mad without [the influence of] alcohol, I welcome,” he said.
The guest speaker, Dr Inonge Mbikusita Lewanika, advised Museveni and other leaders to start planning for Africa’s future generation if they are to change the continent from “a problem to a solution”.
“Are we digging wells for the future generation? We are here because someone dug a well for us. What are we doing for our children?” she asked.
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, said the prayer meeting cost Shs 90 million.
dtlumu@observer.ug
Museveni Warns on Religious Extremism
http://allafrica.com/stories/201008260067.html
Cyprian Musoke, John Ssemakula and Francis Kagolo
The New Vision, 25 August 2010
Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni has warned against religious intolerance, saying it is one of the reasons that prompted him and his comrades to go to war in order to stabilize the country.
Addressing the All Africa Bishops Conference in Entebbe yesterday, Museveni said the formative years of religion in Uganda were characterised by friction between denominations. "There was friction between the Protestants and Catholics and later between the two and Muslims. Protestants came in 1877 and the Catholics in 1879, but by 1890, we already had a civil war. You can imagine the confusion allegedly in the name of God," he said.
From 1888, he noted, people were killing each other 'on behalf of God'. "I don't know where they met God to instruct them to go and kill each other, you should study this," he told the prelates, throwing them into laughter. That rivalry, Museveni added, went on into the 1970s, climaxing into the (former dictator) Idi Amin regime.
"This problem is one of the issues that formed my political awareness and together with my colleagues, we were determined to stop it. As a Christian, I challenged this and said: 'This is not what God told you to do; you are all wrong'," he said, to thunderous applause. He reminded them of the story of the Good Samaritan who helped a man who had been beaten up by robbers, yet he (Samaritan) was not of the victim's social caste.
"I am always looking for the Good Samaritan. Jesus said we shall know them by their deeds. Not clothes, titles or names, but by their deeds," he stressed. He described the religious wars going on in the world as okuhimbagira, "to disorient oneself in a very fundamental way".
"You fight this one, fight that one; what is your problem? That I am a Muslim? If you are, so what? If I am a Christian, what's your problem?" "You are what you are, I am what I am and everyone of us is here in their own right by the permission of God; so you must accept me the way I am."
He said there were some groups in Kawempe on the outskirts of Kampala some years ago who wanted to riot because somebody had eaten pork. "I don't eat fish because my people call it snake. I don't eat chicken because my people think it makes one unstable, don't eat pork and sheep but I am the number one promoter of piggery in the whole of Uganda.
"I think tolerance is firmly based on the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan," he said. The President, who was jolly and kept cracking jokes, invited the clergy to visit Uganda again, saying it is unique, being on the equator but experiencing permanent snow on Mt. Rwenzori because it is 5,000 metres above sea level. Only Kenya and Ecuador in South America, he added, have such an experience.
Addressing a press conference later, Orombi said they had met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, over homosexuality which has split the Anglican church. "He recognised that he has complicated work to do. We impressed it on him that he had totally gone in a different direction and he has to sort it out," Orombi said.
He said the church in Singapore, south-east Asia and Africa had decided to stick to the Word of God and the Anglican Communion was strengthening its ties with them. "We sympathise with his (Williams) position. It's like having unruly kids in his house and he can't sit down to eat food. We told him no more diplomacy on that matter," he said.
Experts on family issues, maternal health and HIV/AIDS also made their presentations. Dr. Peter Okaalet said the 10 killer diseases in Africa like malaria, HIV/AIDS and accidents are preventable. "Africa has failed to prevent these 10 killer diseases because its health system is overburdened to the extent that it cannot deliver anything," Okaalet said.
"Most of the budgets of the African countries offer $10 to $20 for health per person every year, which cannot do anything."
Sylvia Mwichuli said Africa has the potential to end poverty. "Africa is not doomed, it has a lot of potential and South Africa has just exhibited it when she hosted a successful World Cup recently," she added.
Mwiculi observed that the gap between the rich and the poor who struggle to live is very big and needs to be bridged urgently.
She challenged religious leaders to support people and groups of people who advocate for the positive change on the continent.
Museveni Warns Religious Extremists
http://allafrica.com/stories/200004270093.html
Jonathan Angura and Nathan Etengu
The New Vision, 27 April 2000
Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni has said religious extremism will not be tolerated in Uganda. He said having fought the liberation war, he will ensure that Uganda remains a peaceful and organised society.
"We are not going to allow anyone to use religion to disturb the peace we have sacrificed our lives, energy and resources to bring about," Museveni said in a speech read yesterday by second deputy prime minister Moses Ali at the seventh graduation ceremony of the Islamic University in Uganda A total of 289 students, 93 of them women, graduated in various disciplines.
President Tells African Bishops - 'There Should Be No Room for Intolerance Because Everyone is Made in the Image of God'
http://allafrica.com/stories/201008271108.html
Uganda's President Museveni said today that tolerance was a biblical imperative and that Christians should not "have one minute of time wasted" by those promoting prejudice.
Speaking to almost 400 bishops and other guests at the All Africa Bishops Conference in Entebbe this morning, President Museveni used the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan to highlight the need to overcome difference and pursue peace and healing.
Drawing on Ugandan religious history, President Museveni explained it took only ten years after the first convert to Christianity in Uganda before Catholics and Protestants were fighting and killing each other.
"I don't' know where they heard God wanted them to fight and kill each other," he said. "A civil war between those calling themselves Catholics and those calling themselves Protestants! Then there was another war between the two of them and Muslims. They were all fighting on behalf of God, they said."
He recounted the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan to demonstrate that prejudice should not get in the way of peace and helping other human beings. In this New Testament story it is a traditional enemy of the Israelites, a Samaritan, who aids an injured Israelite when members of the Jewish religious elite fail to do so.
"I am always looking for the good Samaritan," he said. "Jesus says you shall know them by their fruits. You shall know them by their actions. Not by their words, not by their addresses, not by their titles, but by their works, by their deeds, by the products of their works."
The President said those of all denominations or faiths needed to recognise one another's right to exist: "If you are a Muslim, so what? I am a Christian. OK, so what's your problem? You are what you are, but I am what I am. We're different...I'm here by the permission of God. You must accept me the way I am whether you want it or not."
He added that anyone promoting intolerance should not "waste one of our minutes with this...We are all created in the image of god, so you are made in the image of god. I don't know whether God is black or white or Chinese, but we are created in his image-that's what the bible says."
He concluded his well-received speech by officially opening the CAPA-run conference for bishops of the Anglican Communion in Africa that is running until Sunday 29 August at the Imperial Beach Hotel, Entebbe. Aims for this conference include mobilising the bishops to tackle the obstacles that continue to keep the continent in conflict, poverty, corruption, poor leadership and disease.
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