Archbishop Lwanga and Uganda’s Catholic ‘rebels’ with a cause
Wednesday April 07 2021
Summary
Mr Onyango Obbo says: Coincidentally, on April 2, another figure in the same tradition, Cameroonian Catholic Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi died. ..
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Roman Catholic prelate Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, who was Archbishop of Kampala, died on April 3. May his soul rest in peace.
In recent years, Lwanga had become increasingly outspoken against State violence, and was nearly a lone voice for democracy in the country among the main established churches.
According to his prepared Easter sermon, that he didn’t get read, and was delivered for him posthumously by Monsignor Charles Kasibante, the Vicar General of Kampala Archdiocese, according to a report in Daily Monitor, he was on form.