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News Uganda » Religion: Muslim attacks his family and demolishes church building

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/muslim-attacks-his-family-and-demolishes-church-building/ar-AA1PmUIZ
Published on: Tuesday 28 October 2025

A Muslim in eastern Uganda this month severely beat his wife and two children for putting their faith in Christ and demolished their church building, sources said.

News Uganda » Religion: In Uganda, politics tangles with magic

News channel or source: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/jul/19/in-uganda-politics-tangles-with-magic/?features-religion
Published on: Friday 18 July 2025

MBALE, Uganda -- Wilson Watira offered his hand when he met his political rival at a funeral, gesturing for a proper handshake. The man didn't want contact, instead folding a piece of paper that he ...

News Uganda » Religion: Uganda: Museveni Advisor Reaffirms Govt's Commitment to Financially Empower Muslim Leaders

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/museveni-advisor-reaffirms-govts-commitment-to-financially-empower-muslim-leaders/ar-AA1Pv5Lt
Published on: Thursday 30 October 2025

The Senior Presidential Advisor in charge of Political Mobilization, also Chief Agent for the NRM Presidential flagbearer 2026-2031, Mr. Moses Byaruhanga, has reaffirmed the government's commitment to ...

News Uganda » Religion: Uganda Isn’t Alone in Persecuting Gays

News channel or source: https://religiondispatches.org/uganda-isnt-alone-in-persecuting-gays/
Published on: Wednesday 16 December 2009

While the world’s attention has been sharply focused on the anti-homosexuality bill now pending before the legislature in Uganda, no one has seemed to notice that Rwanda is not far behind its ...

News Uganda » Religion: Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo calls for LGBTQ+ rights in Dickey talk

News channel or source: https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025/10/ugandan-human-rights-lawyer-nicholas-opiyo-calls-for-lgbtq-rights-in-dickey-talk
Published on: Thursday 30 October 2025

On Oct. 29, human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo described a “steep decline in democratic practices” in Uganda in a Dickey Center for International Understanding event. Approximately 65 people attended ...

News Uganda » Religion: Extracts from "Mengo notes" - IV : how religion came to Uganda / by Apolo Katikiro and Henry Wright Duta

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/extracts-mengo-notes-iv-how-religion-came-uganda-apolo-katikiro-and-henry-wright-duta:siris_sil_1113990
Published on: Thursday 25 September 2025

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!1113990~!0#focus ...

News Uganda » Religion: Uganda: Ibanda NRM Mobilisers Urged to Shun Politics of Tribe and Religion

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202510230675.html
Published on: Thursday 23 October 2025

The Director of State House Political Mobilisation, Robert Rwakandare, has urged members of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to conduct issue-based mobilisation and avoid politics ...

News Uganda » Religion: “They’re Putting Our Lives at Risk”

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/05/26/theyre-putting-our-lives-risk/how-ugandas-anti-lgbt-climate-unleashes-abuse
Published on: Sunday 25 May 2025

Since President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, his government has imposed restrictions on the rights to free expression, assembly, and association. These restrictions have been particularly ...