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 — 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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

On Tuesday, President Museveni used the solemn occasion of the 140th Uganda Martyrs’ Day commemoration to deliver a commanding admonition against mixing religion with politics, emphasizing national ...

Uganda is to repatriate the remains of two "Ugandan Martyrs" who were executed more than a century ago for refusing to renounce Christianity, a Church official said Sunday. Twenty-two Roman Catholics ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Vatican City released a set of six ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Uganda is to repatriate the remains of two "Ugandan Martyrs" who were executed more than a ...