The Church has urged the government to stop importing condoms and start another campaign on abstinence for which it will get support from Christians.
“The abstinence campaign will be in line with what we teach in our churches,” the vice-chairman of the Born Again Churches in Uganda, Dr. Joseph Sserwadda, said.
Sserwadda, the senior pastor of Victory Christian Centre in Ndeeba, said this at Namboole, where the Church and Impact Radio were organising the Fourth Passover Festival of thanksgiving yesterday.
The festival that has attracted preachers from France, the UK and the US begins today at 1:00pm and ends tomorrow morning. The theme for the festival is “God’s visitation on a nation.”
A new radio station, Alpha FM, is also to be launched. Participants will donate blood to the Blood Bank, clothes and other items to displaced persons in the north.
Sserwadda said 2005 brings challenges to Uganda. “President Museveni faces a big decision on whether to listen to his conscience or the people,” he said. He said the UPDF also had a challenge of the war in northern Uganda.