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 ...

NAMUGONGO, Uganda – Pope Francis on Saturday honored Uganda’s 19th century Christian martyrs and encouraged its 21st century Christian youths during a day that saw nearly a half-million Ugandans turn ...

(RNS) — The Uganda martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964, and their story continues to resonate across Africa. NAMUGONGO, Uganda (RNS) — Beneath the equatorial sun and a sky streaked with ...

Catholic sisters are among the crowd gathering at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine of Namugongo in Kampala, Uganda's capital, to honor the 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican martyrs killed between 1885 and 1887.

NAMUGONGO, Uganda — In an extraordinary display of the vitality of the Catholic faith in Africa, a crowd of possibly more than 4 million people gathered for Mass today on the very same grounds where ...

One of Africa’s — and the world’s — largest religious gatherings will take place on June 3 in Kampala, Uganda, and one group from Kenya has already begun its more than 200-mile pilgrimage to arrive ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Pilgrims from Nangina Parish ready to start walking to Namugongo to visit Martyrs Catholic Shrine. [Ignatious Odanga ...

Kampala — NOT even the scorching sun could stop them from walking through Namugongo to express peace. Carrying peace banners and boxes of donations, the Uganda Martyrs Namugongo Secondary School ...

Namungongo — Police have deployed at Namugongo and along roads leading to the shrines. The Police Commander Kampala Extra Grace Turyagumanwe told Daily Monitor on phone that security had been beefed ...

Pilgrims from Nangina Parish ready to start walking to Namugongo to visit Martyrs Catholic Shrine. [Ignatious Odanga/Standard] At least four Kenyan pilgrims who were walking to Namugongo’s Martyrs ...

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 ...