Uganda's Vice-President, Dr Specioza Windira Kazibwe, has criticised an Anglican bishop for urging the Government to hold peace talks with armed rebels in northern Uganda.P Addressing a crowd in the town of Kitgum on 9 February, the Vice-President described the leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, and his supporters as "killers, rapists and people who had devastated the economy". The LRA is terrorising the towns and villages of northern Uganda, killing hundreds of people and abducting teenagers to force them to become guerrillas in the struggle for control of the region.
14 February 1997
The Bishop Alison Bible School in Koboko in north-west Uganda was razed to the ground at the end of October by Ugandan rebels believed to be sponsored by the Government of Khartoum in their attempt to get the Sudanese refugees in the area back into the Sudan. Families were made to stay inside their houses as the grass roofs were set alight. Only when the smoke and fire were threatening to kill them were people let out.
17 January 1997
The Anglican Church of Uganda has added its voice to the chorus of protests against lottery games sanctioned by the Ugandan Government. The Church said the lottery games, which have recently come to dominate public life in this east African country, were corrupting Ugandan society.
02 September 1996
More than 30 clergywomen from all dioceses of the Anglican Church of Uganda have accused their male counterparts of discriminating against them and relegating them to secondary positions in the Church hierarchy.
02 September 1996
An Anglican Studies Centre has opened at Bishop McAllister College in Kyogyera in West Ankole Diocese. The Centre will serve the whole of the province and its aim is to strengthen Ugandan's understanding of their Anglican heritage in the African context.
02 September 1996
The Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze of Busoga Diocese has been forced to retire. The Ugandan House of Bishops Meeting in late July made the decision after years of conflict between the Bishop and his diocese.
02 September 1996
The results of Uganda's presidential election, held on 9 May, represented a fair and authentic view of the voters, despite some shortcomings and anomalies, according to the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC), which monitored the elections.
19 June 1996
For the past four years reports about conflict in the Diocese of Busoga and the Bishop, the Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze, have appeared in various papers and news services. The Province has now written the following report
03 April 1996
The Anglican Church of Uganda is grappling with an acute financial crisis, despite an appeal by President Yoweri Museveni to the Churches to become self-reliant and stop "begging" abroad. A spokesperson for the Church said employees at the Church's headquarters, in Kampala, including Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo, had not received their salaries for the months of October and November 1995.
03 February 1996