{"id":43662,"date":"2023-01-23T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:49:58","slug":"christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality","title":{"rendered":"Christians urged to wage war against immorality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Anglican Church has asked Christians to lead the fight against immoral vices such as corruption and homosexuality, which, he said, are targeting the young generation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the confirmation ceremony for 350 holidaymakers at All Saints Church on Friday, North Kigezi Diocese Emeritus Bishop Edward Muhiima said the people recruiting school children to propagate immorality and corruption cannot be stopped by anyone else other than Christians themselves by grooming leaders who understand the values Jesus Christ stands for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current behaviour of Ugandans is weird because we have taken God for granted. If you think there is anybody who is going to get us out of this dilemma, you are being deceived. The only way out of this confusion is by receiving Jesus Christ as the Lord and saviour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Not open tickets<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said baptism and confirmation are not open tickets to enter heaven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1959 when I was confirmed, on the same day, I slept with a woman to celebrate the confirmation, which was not a Godly way of celebration. But in 1963 when I got saved, that is when I discovered Jesus who transformed my life from a poor boy born in a banana plantation and a heavy smoker, to become a bishop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Muhiima\u2019s counsel to the young converts comes at a time when the country is at cross roads with information trickling in about an alleged underground movement, which is recruiting children in schools to join homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of Education is investigating allegations raised by a parent at Kings College Budo that one of their teachers has been having same-sex relations with some of the male students at the school.<\/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. The Anglican Church has asked Christians to lead the fight against immoral vices such as corruption and homosexuality, which, he said, are targeting the young generation. Speaking at the confirmation ceremony for 350 holidaymakers at All Saints Church on Friday, North Kigezi Diocese Emeritus Bishop Edward Muhiima said the people recruiting school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-43662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","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>Christians urged to wage war against immorality - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Anglican Church has asked Christians to lead the fight against immoral vices such as corruption and homosexuality, w ...\" \/>\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\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christians urged to wage war against immorality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Anglican Church has asked Christians to lead the fight against immoral vices such as corruption and homosexuality, w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\" \/>\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=\"2023-01-23T15:28:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-23T15:49:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674475110.72.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1151\" \/>\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\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Christians urged to wage war against immorality\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-23T15:28:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-23T15:49:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674475110.72.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/christians-urged-to-wage-war-against-immorality\",\"name\":\"Christians urged to wage war against immorality - 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