Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
President Museveni (left) meets religious leaders during the African Bishop’s conference in July 2019. PHOTOS/ FILE, RACHEL MABALA
Summary
Coming against a backdrop of unequivocal demands by President Museveni that religious leaders must leave politics to politicians, his revelations during Archbishop Kizito Lwanga’s funeral service at the Kololo Independence Grounds has only served to return the debate on whether or not religious leaders should be engaging in politics, or making pronouncements about matters politics.
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On Tuesday, President Museveni revealed that the late Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, his predecessor, Cardinal Nsubuga, and other religious leaders had been supportive of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA’s) five-year Bush War.
Fare-thee-well Archbishop Lwanga
Friday April 09 2021
Catholic bishops at the grave during the burial of Archbishop Lwanga at Rubaga Cathedral in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOWA
Summary
In a condolence message read by Vice President Edward Ssekandi, President Museveni described Archbishop Lwanga as a humble and faithful servant of God whose noble actions and wise counsel facilitated the growth of the Christian faith in Uganda and beyond.
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Rubaga Cathedral yesterday exploded into loud wails and outpouring of emotions as the casket bearing the remains of late Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga was lowered into a crypt inside the Church.
The cathedral pews and the marques on the church grounds teemed with mourners who braved the scorching sun to witness the burial of a man revered as generous and pragmatic shepherd.
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Archbishop Lwanga died on Saturday and on Monday, a postmortem report revealed that he had succumbed to a heart attack caused by a blood clot.
But unlike many, the Prelate’s final resting place is not outside in a grave yard- It will be inside Rubaga Cathedral, the parent Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala.
This designated burial location is inside Rubaga Cathedral, on the right-hand side, more precisely, between the graves of Dr. Joseph Kiwanuka and Bishop Edward Michaud.
Dr. Kiwanuka served as the Archbishop of Rubaga from 1961 until the time of his death in 1966, while Bishop Michaud served as the apostolic vicar in Tabora, Tanzania before being transferred to Uganda in 1932. He later died in 1945.
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Daily Monitor
Tuesday April 06 2021
This photo handout from the PPU shows president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni laying wreath on on a casket containing remains of deceased Kampala Archdiocese- Archbishop Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, during a State funeral at Kololo Independence grounds, April 06, 2021. PHOTO/PPU
Summary
Postmortem details disclosed to the mourners indicated that Dr Lwanga on April 03 suffered heart thrombosis, a condition pathologists said kills within a space of just 3-5 minutes.
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President Museveni has tasked personal physicians of the deceased Kampala Archbishop, Dr Cyprian Lwanga to ‘explain more’ about Ischemic heart disease which is said to have been the cause of his demise.