TWO mainstream Christian churches yesterday condemned the rising cases of human sacrifice, promiscuity, social inequality and vulgarity in the media. The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches called on Ugandans to repent so as to stop “sliding deeper into sin”.
The remarks came yesterday as the churches marked Palm Sunday, the prelude to the Holy Week of Easter, which marks Jesus’ death and resurrection. The week also ends Lent, the 40-day fasting period.
The faithful thronged churches, waving palm fronds which signify Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem before he was crucified.
“When Jesus entered Jerusalem, he wept,” the Rev. Canon Stephen Kewaza said at Namirembe Cathedral. “He cried because he saw that people had not understood why He came.”
Kewaza said likewise, Jesus is angered when he sees the way Ugandans sacrifice children and the vulgarity on radio and newspapers.
At Rubaga Cathedral, the Rev. Fr. Achilles Mayanja condemned hypocrisy. “We frequent church activities; but when we encounter problems, we resort to witchcraft and deny our faith,” Mayanja said. What a shock, he added, that most perpetrators of child sacrifice, arson, divorce and gluttony are Christians.
“Let us reject what may prevent us from following Christ and resurrect with him this Easter holiday,” he counselled.
At Christ the King, parish priest Gerald Kalumba blamed moral breakdown for human sacrifice.
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