From New Vision (Africa)
ABOUT 400 African bishops begin a seven-day meeting in Entebbe today for the second All Africa Bishops Conference. The theme of the conference, organised by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), is “Securing the future, unlocking our potential”.
President Yoweri Museveni will officially open the conference tomorrow.
The conference takes place at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel. Yesterday, the lobby of the hotel was a beehive of activity, as delegations of clergy from Burundi, Central Africa, Congo, Egypt, Indian Ocean islands, and Kenya checked in for registration.
Others from Nigeria, Rwanda, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, West Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Togo, Comoros and West Saharawi arrived.
More delegations were still streaming in by press time.
The hotel was fully booked, forcing other delegations to book into nearby hotels.
Prayers, the Holy Eucharist and Bible study sessions will be held every morning from the conference hall.
The CAPA general secretary, the Rev. Canon Grace Kaiso, said Uganda was chosen by vote as the venue for the conference by the standing organising committee on the sidelines of the first conference that sat in 2004 in Abuja in Nigeria.
“It is interesting that we are having the second African bishops conference in Uganda just after the African Union summit. Those of us who believe in God think this is a message in terms of the privileged place Uganda occupies on the continent,” he said.
More here-
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/729687
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