Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni urged believers gathered at the Namugongo Shrine in Kampala, Uganda, for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on Monday to be at the forefront of fostering peace ...

Designed to look like an African hut, and wrapped around 22 copper pillars signifying the 22 Catholic martyrs, the shrine’s ...

They came by plane, by bus, and even on foot: pilgrims traveled thousands of miles to Uganda's Catholic shrine for the feast of the Uganda Martyrs, celebrated each year June 3. Police estimated that ...

NAMUGONGO, Uganda — Thousands of pilgrims from Uganda and beyond trekked hundreds of miles on foot to honor the Uganda Martyrs and invoke their intercession In the lead-up to the celebrations of ...

NAMUGONGO, Uganda --Pope Francis on Saturday honored the Ugandan Christians who were burned alive rather than renounce their faith a century ago, urging today's Catholics to follow in their missionary ...

Priests carry some relics of Ugandan Martyr St Charles Lwanga in the procession during the Martyrs Day celebrations at the Catholic Shrine in Namugongo in 2022. PHOTO/COURTESY OF UGANDAN CATHOLICS ...

President Yoweri Museveni has praised the impact of Christianity on Uganda while marking the 60th anniversary of the canonization of the Uganda Martyrs. In a speech delivered on his behalf on Saturday ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Thousands of pilgrims from across Uganda and neighboring countries converged on Namugongo, a Kampala suburb, after walking for days to join the country’s annual Martyrs Day ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Centenary Bank, together with the Centenary Group of Companies have made a contribution ...

President wants Protestants to replicate the tourism success of Catholics. Today tens of thousands of Christians in Uganda will dip themselves and their children into a lake where executioners ...