In some schools that the Daily Monitor team has visited, tuition fees have been increased by Shs20,000, and in others by ...

Catholic sisters are among the crowd gathering at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine of Namugongo in Kampala, Uganda's capital, to honor the 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican martyrs killed between 1885 and 1887.

The Uganda martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964, and their story continues to resonate across Africa. In 1993, Pope John Paul II visited Namugongo. And in 2015, ...

President Yoweri Museveni has praised the impact of Christianity on Uganda while marking the 60th anniversary of the canonization of the Uganda Martyrs. In a speech delivered on his behalf on Saturday ...

Every 3 June, Ugandans mark the deaths of the Martyrs, 22 Christian converts who were killed by the king of Buganda almost 140 years ago. The Uganda Martyrs offer a tragic illustration of the dynamics ...

Uganda, for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on Monday to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region. The Namugongo Shrine is the site where St. Charles Lwanga and ...

In the late 19th century, a group of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic converts in Buganda Kingdom (modern-day Uganda) met a tragic fate that would echo through the annals of religious history.

Did you know that in Uganda there is a day where millions of people walk to the capital to celebrate Mass at a shrine to 45 'Ugandan Martyrs' who ... had traditional forms of African paganism ...

The seeds of Uganda Martyrs’ Day can be said to have unknowingly planted in 1875 when the British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley arrived in the royal court of the Buganda Kabaka (king ...

Today, more than 80% of the about 42 million people in Uganda are Christians. The Martyrs’ day memorial takes the form of prayers, pilgrimage and singing praises. Though other Ugandans use it as ...

Thousands of pilgrims from across Uganda and neighboring countries converged on Namugongo, a Kampala suburb, after walking for days to join the country's annual Martyrs Day observance. The day is ...

Thousands of pilgrims from across Uganda and neighboring countries converged on Namugongo, a Kampala suburb, after walking for days to join the country’s annual Martyrs Day observance.