Shrine security increased ahead of Uganda’s Martyrs Day

Posted Jun 2, 2017

[Anglican Communion News Service] Security in and around the Namugongo district of Uganda has been increased ahead of the June 3 Martyrs Day commemorations. The district is home to two neighboring shrines to 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic converts to Christianity who were executed in the mid-1880s on the orders of Mwanga II, King of what was then Buganda.

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