Earlier this month over 500,000 people gathered in northeastern Uganda to celebrate the feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga and companions, who are known as the Uganda Martyrs.

Established in 2015, the Uganda Martyrs Museum in Namugongo at the Church of Uganda grounds was founded under the vision bearer Dr Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo. After its construction, the church ...

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.

Pilgrims to Uganda Martyrs' Day 2024 from Nzoia Deanery of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega in Kenya, with the parish priest of St. Joseph the Worker Kongoni Parish, Father Columban Odhiambo, on ...

When Bishop Joseph Kiwanuka, Uganda's first African Catholic bishop, needed someone to compose music for the martyrs' canonisation, he turned to Kyagambiddwa.

Uganda is to repatriate the remains of two "Ugandan Martyrs" who were executed more than a century ago for refusing to renounce Christianity, a Church official said Sunday. Twenty-two Roman ...

Upon their return, the remains will be displayed at Uganda Martyrs University alongside other powerful artifacts.

At the annual Uganda Martyrs Day Mass, shared through video, Catholics were urged to remember two nuns who were healed of bubonic plague through the martyrs' intercession. Archbishop Cyprian Kizito ...

The Uganda Martyrs offer a tragic illustration of the dynamics between pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Uganda and the outside world in the 19th century.

The Vatican canonized the martyrs in 1964. Buganda (Uganda) became a British protectorate in the 1890s, and Mwanga fled to exile in the Seychelles after 1897. The vertical stamps measure 4 x 3 cm and ...

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 ...

The Vatican canonized the martyrs in 1964. Buganda (Uganda) became a British protectorate in the 1890s, and Mwanga fled to exile in the Seychelles after 1897. The vertical stamps measure 4 x 3 cm and ...