Daily Monitor
Thursday April 08 2021
A cleric swings a thurible with burning incense around the casket containing the remains of Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga during a requiem Mass at Uganda Martyrs Catholic Shrine, Namugongo in Wakiso District yesterday. PHOTO | STEPHEN OTAGE
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The funeral-goers began gathering at the shrine, a gigantic physical symbol of many of Lwanga’s feats, from as early as 8am amid heavy police deployment and tight security.
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Hundreds of mourners yesterday flocked Uganda Martyrs Catholic Shrine at Namugongo to pay their last respects to late Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga.
The funeral-goers began gathering at the shrine, a gigantic physical symbol of many of Lwanga’s feats, from as early as 8am amid heavy police deployment and tight security.
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Archbishop Lwanga and Uganda’s Catholic ‘rebels’ with a cause
Wednesday April 07 2021
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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.
Archbishop Odama’s last phone call with Lwanga
Tuesday April 06 2021
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Archbishop Odama said he reached out to him Friday night through a telephone conversation and they spoke at length.
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The Archbishop of Gulu, John Baptist Odama, was among the last people who spoke to the late Archbishop of Kampala, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, on Friday night before he was pronounced dead.
Lwanga died on Saturday morning and according to the postmortem report released yesterday, he succumbed to heart attack due to a blood clot.
Archbishop Odama, who expressed shock at the sudden death of his colleague, said he reached out to him through a telephone conversation and they spoke at length.
However speaking at Kololo Independence Grounds today, Museveni said that it is difficult to understand how Lwanga could die of a condition that was well-known for long by his doctors. Museveni said he consulted his personal doctor, Diana Atwine who told him Lwanga s condition could have been managed better. Because really, although you’re saying God has called us and all that, really I want our people of value to stay here as long as possible. So his doctors, apparently, they were managing him for a long time, they should explain at some stage that condition because I asked my young doctor, Atwine that condition, how do you detect it? There is what they call the ECG [electrocardiogram machine] where the machines detect the electrical activities of the heart. But apparently, it may not see well the other one where the fats along the vessels. That there is another test called eco-something something that that is the one that can do that. Then I said if that is the case why woul