“We hope the Pope’s message will not diverge from the core beliefs of Ugandans”, Bantariza said.
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This comes two days after State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu indicated there would be no public holiday during Pope Francis’ visit to Kenya starting Wednesday and instead urged employers to give their employees flexible hours. Dozens of people have been killed there since September in violence between Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian anti-balaka militias.
Msgr John Baptist Kauta has alleyed rumors that only accredited people will be allowed access to the venues Pope Francis will be during his visit…
“The pope is so interested in reaching out to the most vulnerable wherever he is and Uganda has shown the world that LGBT people are the most vulnerable in its society”, he said.
The Pope’s Kenya visit will conclude his Kenya tour with the coverage of the pontiff’saddress to the youth at Nairobi’s Kasarani stadium where Barack Obama also addressed an estimated 300 000-strong crowd while on his visit in July.
The papal Mass is due to take place Thursday on the grounds of the University of Nairobi.
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Joseph Ntuwa is the parish secretary at Our Lady of Africa Catholic Church. In Kenya, about 30 percent of the 45 million population are baptised Catholics, including President Uhuru Kenyatta.
On Monday, a new poll published by Infotrak showed that nine out of 10 Kenyans, Catholic or otherwise, were looking forward to Francis’ visit. And he must decide whether to address the widespread discrimination against gays in Africa, at a time when he has begun to move cautiously away from the Church’s traditional dogma on homosexuality.
Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou composed a chapter for this novel in which he said Christianity was being challenged “not only by a radical, militant Islamism, but also by a particular Western civilization that’s secularist, hedonist, sensualist, and consumerist”. In several African countries, homosexuals are greatly discriminated against and there are few instances of tolerance. The poll also indicated that by 65 per cent, the Pope’s message to Kenyans should focus on the same.
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The pope’s “compassion for the poor and his frankness of spirit is an encouragement to all of us who live in the light and stand for the causes that matter to humanity”, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement Monday. The 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is on one of those special visits by global leaders whose memories linger for years.In the message, Pope Francis told the people living in the war-torn country that he wanted his visit to bring them “consolation and hope”, according to Vatican Radio. “He wants you to understand how not to do things by not doing things himself”.
