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.