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 ...

On October 18, 1964, something extraordinary happened at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. As Pope Paul VI prepared to declare the Uganda Martyrs as saints, a choir of African men and women stood before ...

A sound of the xylophone and a delectable one-string fiddle, alias endingidi, dominates the introduction of the song Karoli Lwanga Wuuno Omulwanyi, literally creating a feel to the Buganda’s Kings ...

Earlier this month over 500,000 people gathered in northeastern Uganda to celebrate the feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga and companions, who are known as the Uganda Martyrs. Catholic faithful from ...

Kampala — Today marks the yearly celebration of the Uganda martyrs at Namugongo shrine. June 3 is the date when Christians in Uganda remember fellow believers who were killed by the brutal Buganda ...

In this 2015 file photo, faithful near Kampala, Uganda, pray at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo. (Credit: CNS photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, EPA.) Listen NAMUGONGO, Uganda — A sixty-two year old woman ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Pope Francis is paying his respects to 19th century Ugandan Christians who were burnt alive rather than renounce their faith, the latest group of martyrs from around the world ...

Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - About 4 million faithful participated yesterday, June 3, in the Uganda Martyrs Catholic Shrine Basilica in Namugongo, in the celebrations in memory of the Ugandan Martyrs.