{"id":42154,"date":"2022-12-27T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers"},"modified":"2022-12-27T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:43:02","slug":"why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers","title":{"rendered":"Why Museveni missed Christmas prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>As thousands of Christians thronged churches to attend this year\u2019s Christmas Day prayers, President Museveni and his family chose to pray from his country home in Rwakitura.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Presidential Press Secretary, Mr Sandor Walusimbi, told this publication yesterday that since the Church is not the only place where someone can worship God, the President and his family decided to conduct their Christmas prayers at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrayer can be conducted anywhere. Not in church always. I\u2019m sure the President and his family prayed from home,\u201d Mr Walusimbi said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Mr Museveni used the day to interact with his children and grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure he spent Christmas talking to his grandchildren and taking photos with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the President and the First Lady, who is also the minister of Education and Sports, Ms Janet Museveni, spent Christmas Day at their country home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District due to the Covid-19-induced lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Kabaka Ronald Mutebi, who often attends Christmas prayers at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral Namirembe in Kampala, was absent for this year\u2019s prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to get details on why the Kabaka did not attend prayers were futile as the responsible people did not answer our calls.<\/p>\n<p>In his Christmas message read for him in his absence, by the Deputy Prime Minister of Buganda Kingdom, Prof Twaha Kawaase Kigongo, during the Christmas Mass at Namirembe, the Kabaka expressed concern over greedy people, unfulfilled pledges made by some politicians and undemocratic acts that he said were causing physical and internal injuries to Ugandans in addition to paralysing development.<\/p>\n<p>He asked Ugandans to embrace government programmes but also monitor their implementation to ensure they serve their purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mutebi also suggested that Uganda\u2019s Constitution be revised to include important issues which he said, were left out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany important things including issues concerning culture were left out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. As thousands of Christians thronged churches to attend this year\u2019s Christmas Day prayers, President Museveni and his family chose to pray from his country home in Rwakitura. The Senior Presidential Press Secretary, Mr Sandor Walusimbi, told this publication yesterday that since the Church is not the only place where someone can worship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[233,240,241,234],"class_list":["post-42154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-museveni","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Museveni missed Christmas prayers - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As thousands of Christians thronged churches to attend this year\u2019s Christmas Day prayers, President Museveni and his fam ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Museveni missed Christmas prayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As thousands of Christians thronged churches to attend this year\u2019s Christmas Day prayers, President Museveni and his fam ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-27T10:56:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-27T11:43:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1672125990.30.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why Museveni missed Christmas prayers\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-27T10:56:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-27T11:43:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\"},\"wordCount\":331,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1672125990.30.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"Museveni\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/why-museveni-missed-christmas-prayers\",\"name\":\"Why Museveni missed Christmas prayers - 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