13 வயது சிறுமியை பலாத்காரம் செய்ததாக உகாண்டா கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் மீது குற்றச்சாட்டு

13 வயது சிறுமியை பலாத்காரம் செய்ததாக உகாண்டா கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் மீது குற்றச்சாட்டு

Ugandan pastor accused of molestation on flight

Associated Press - August 22, 2008 12:44 AM ET

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The FBI is investigating allegations that the pastor of a Ugandan megachurch molested a 13-year-old girl during a flight from Denver to Oakland.

Forty-1-year-old Jackson Senyonga initially was arrested by Oakland authorities after the flight landed Saturday. But Alameda County prosecutors say they've referred the case to the FBI because of jurisdictional issues.

Authorities say Senyonga fondled the girl, who was seated next to him during the flight.

Senyonga frequently preaches at Bay Area churches and is known internationally as a poverty-relief advocate. In Uganda, his Christian Life Ministries has 100,000 members.



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மூன்று நாடுகளில் கிறிஸ்துவ பயங்கரவாதம்- வடக்கு உகாண்டா, இந்தியா, அம்போன்

In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon
Authors: Jeroen Adam a; Bruno De Cordier a; Kristof Titeca a; Koen Vlassenroot a
Affiliation: a Conflict Research Group, Department of Third World Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

DOI: 10.1080/10576100701611288
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Published in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 30, Issue 11 November 2007 , pages 963 - 983
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Abstract
Although armed groups and political violence referring to Islam have attracted increasing attention since the start of the global war against terror, one particular religion can hardly be described as the main source of inspiration of what is commonly referred to as "terrorist acts of violence." Faith-based violence occurs in different parts of the world and its perpetrators adhere to all major world faiths including Christianity. As such, this article treats three cases of non-state armed actors that explain their actions as being motivated by Christian beliefs and aimed at the creation of a new local society that is guided by religion: the National Liberation Front of Tripura, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the Ambonese Christian militias. It analyzes the way by which they instrumentalized religion against respective backgrounds of conflict rooted in social change, the erosion of traditional identities, imbalances of power, and widening communautarian faultlines.

எல்லா பெந்த கொஸ்தே பாஸ்டர்களும் பிராடுகள்

உகாண்டாவின் பெந்தகொஸ்தே பாஸ்டர்கள் அடிக்கும் கூத்தை பற்றிய கடுமையான விமர்சனக்கட்டுரை

நன்றி மானிட்டர். உகாண்டா

I say, all Pentecostal pastors are frauds
July 22 - 28, 2007
Alan Tacca


For the seventh of July, 2007, Pastor Martin Sempa of Makerere Community Church (and other Pentecostal pastors) organised a package of celebrations, which they called 777 Mega-Fest. Hosted at Makerere's main sports ground, the 26-hour marathon event was scheduled to start at 5pm on July 6. According to a July 6 Daily Monitor preview, Pastor Sempa believed the repetitive seven marked a day of wonder and special significance in God's prophetic calendar.

In the West, where ignorance, faddish superstition and consumerism sometimes form an odd montage against a backdrop of advanced civilisation, thousands of people paid attention to 777, and many couples got married on the day.

The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) of course had their roots in ancient Middle Eastern and Asian paganism. When God - part super Pharaoh and part super magician - was young, His creators did not extricate Him from their long-standing preoccupation with numbers: 3, 7 and 12 making frequent appearances.

Human civilisation has made huge strides in mathematics, astronomy and cosmology since biblical times. For anyone who has attempted to internalise the sheer scale of the universe, it must be blinkered idleness to seriously link any particular calendric coincidence to some overarching divine agenda dedicated to human affairs.

That approach belongs to the same dustbin as the dubious "science" of astrology.
Pastor Sempa knows that he is being fraudulent when he leads the semi-literate young undergraduates who form the bulk of his congregation to a binge of special prayers and worship to mark 777, describing it as the day symbolising 2007, "a year of God's unprecedented blessings." Comparing this period of spiritual abundance to El Nino rains, Sempa throws in the inevitable clincher: "If the farmers knew about this season, they would plant much and harvest much."

Is it a spiritual sowing? Maybe. Is it a material sowing? That cannot be ruled out. In any trade, a subtle practitioner learns to disguise his motives. But my central target is not even pastoral profiteering; it is the very heart - the doctrinal underpinnings - of the Pentecostal ethos.

Pastor Sempa and other "good" pastors (including Ronald Kayanja!) have been quick to distance themselves from the "frauds" accused of sodomy, extortion and overt manipulation, but none of them has renounced the dubiously simplistic notion that they are specially empowered (anointed) intercessors, standing between ordinary humans and the spirit world; that through them the will and the power of God are casually accessible.

They have not renounced their return to a grotesque paganism that masquerades as born-again. Yeboah Jr. would (presumably) manipulate his followers with a 12-volt electric shock machine. Because the process is overtly mechanical, Yeboah's type is readily recognised as a fraud.

Sempa, Kayanja and others regularly manipulate their followers with weird performances and 120-decibel psychedelic sounds. Because the effects on their victims are expressed in hidden brain cell activity, the frauds generally pass as innocent. And in this market place, the "good" pastors must now be eyeing the deserters from the other camp.

But the pastors are tapping into a ready-made reservoir. In many homes, not only is a religious upbringing flaunted as a moral upbringing, but also a non-religious upbringing is fallaciously projected as a non-moral upbringing. In infant schools, where barely literate instructors parrot religious hogwash to millions of kids, the general view is that those lessons are useful; or, at any rate, that they are harmless because they are elementary!
Higher up, religious education tends to be convictional and denominational, instead of being comparative and critical. During their holidays, the teenagers are lured to mass mind control crusades, where politicians and pastors see them as herds of future voters and tithe hostages.

At various colleges, where they would expand their knowledge and develop their critical powers, they find an education regime that teaches them to become "mechanics." When will the pastors face an authentic educated class that instructs them that they are all frauds?

altacca@yahoo.com

பெந்தகொஸ்தே கிறிஸ்துவ பாஸ்டர்கள் பெண்களை பாலுறவு அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருப்பதற்கு எதிர்ப்பு

பார்ன் அகைன் கிறிஸ்துவ பாஸ்டர்கள் பெண்களை பாலுறவு அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள் என்று பலத்த குற்றச்சாட்டு எழுந்துள்ளது. ஏராளமான பெண்கள் முன்வந்து இப்படிப்பட்ட குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை வைத்துள்ளார்கள்.

உகாண்டா பெந்தகொஸ்தே சபை பாஸ்டர்கள் மீது வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை பல பெந்த கொஸ்தே பாஸ்டர்கள் ஒப்புக்கொண்டுள்ளனர்

Sex slavery in church
FRANK NYAKAIRU
FRANK NYAKAIRU
KAMPALA

At least 300 believers have so far come up to accuse born-again pastors of various crimes including extortion, sex slavery, fraud and manipulation. The growing list of the victims is being compiled by Pastor Solomon Male and lawyer John Kaggwa who are also recording their testimonies with a view to take the errant pastors to court.

"I have so far received more than 300 complaints and lawyer John Kaggwa and I are opening cases to bring these 'big men and women of God' to justice," said Pastor Male who runs a Christian counselling organisation Arising for Christ. He said many pastors even have military escorts whom they use for protection and intimidation.


COMPILING LIST: Pastor Male said he would pursue errant pastors. Photo by Frank Nyakairu
"Most of the pastors in town are high level crooks in one way or another. They enjoy army protection, they are highly connected and can kill to cover up their sins," Pastor Male told Sunday Monitor in an interview on Friday.

The Pentecostal church movement in Uganda has been thrown into confusion following several complaints and testimonies of people who say they have been conned and asexually abused by their pastors in their respective born-again churches in and around the city. The matters have been made worse after reports that pastors use "electric machines" to shock their believers and fake miracles.
"The victims are usually scared of coming out. These people have military protection, they hold diplomatic passports and of course have what it takes to get anything done,' Pastor Male said.

However the UPDF on Friday issued a strong warning to whoever is providing army escorts to pastors.
"We have never officially offered any escorts to these pastors. Whoever is doing it is doing so on individual basis and we are saying that it should stop immediately," Amy and Defence spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye said.
Some of the 300 victims who have given their testimonies to Pastor Male include a girl who was defiled by a pastor and says a similar fate befell many other girls.

Sex slavery
A 23-year-girl whose initials are A.K, accused one Pastor in Mengo (names withheld) of sexually exploiting and intentionally starving unemployed young girls.
"He convinced our parents that he was going to get us employment and he kept us in a hostel in Mengo. He did not give us food but he would come, pick one of us, take her in a nice restaurant after that he would demand sex. When I refused he beat me up badly," the girl narrated in tears.

Mr David Nsubuga of Bombo accuses his pastor and another church official (both names withheld) of taking his Pick Up truck by false pretence. "They told me that if I offered them my Pick Up Reg. No. 209 UAN, I would get blessed six times and in six months with a Pajero. It's now seven years and my car is nowhere to be seen. When I first came to explain my problem to Pastor Male, the pastor who took my Pick Up (names withheld) coerced me in retracting my story, but I could not continue being tossed around like that," Mr Nsubuga said in a statement dated July 11.

Soon after, Pastor Male picks up Nsubuga’s story, a UPDF lieutenant in military uniform came to his office and "tried to intimidate me into leaving that case, but we are not shaken." A former interpreter of a pastor accuses the "Man of God" of impregnating more than 10 young girls in his church in Kawala.

Pregnant girls
"He exploits girls who are desperate. He calls them for special prayers in his bedroom and forces them into sex. I have interpreted for him for years but two weeks ago when I attempted to expose him, I was jailed and tortured for several days at Old Kampala Police Station," says Mr Richard Mubiru.

He showed Sunday Monitor wounds and bruises which he claimed were inflicted on him during his detention. He was released after Pastor Male intervened.
Mr Robert Bukenya, a pump attendant in Mulago, accused another pastor of a church in the area (names withheld) of extorting Shs510,000 from him on a false promise that he would take him to the United States in 2005.

"The pastor told me he would take me to the US specifically Texas to work. So he asked me for Shs2 million. But I had to give him Shs510,000 first, for the visa and bank statement. After giving him the money he disappeared for several months,” Mr Bukenya said.

“When I met him finally I asked him about the travel, but he told me that hurricane Katrina had covered Texas in water so planes could not land. I asked him to refund my money, but he said he had already spent it.”

LRA கிறிஸ்துவ பயங்கரவாதிகளும் உகாண்டா அரசும் ஒப்பந்தம்

உகாண்டா அரசும், லார்ட் ரெஸிஸ்டென்ஸ் ஆர்மி என்ற கிறிஸ்துவ பயங்கரவாத குழுவும் சமாதான ஒப்பந்தம் எழுதினார்கள்.

இந்த கிறிஸ்துவ் பயங்கரவாத குழு பைபிளின் பத்து கட்டளைகளை நிறைவேற்றும்பொருட்டு உகாண்டாவிலும் சூடானிலும் பல கொடூரமான விஷயங்களை செய்து வந்திருக்கிறது. சிறுவர்களை கடத்திசென்று போராளிகளாகவும், சிறுமிக்ளை வேலைக்காரிகளாகவும், பாலுறவு அடிமைகளாகவும் பயன்படுத்தி வந்திருக்கிறது.

Uganda, LRA rebels sign third stage of peace deal
30 Jun 2007 10:40:10 GMT
Source: Reuters

Uganda violence
By Tim Cocks

KAMPALA, June 30 (Reuters) - Uganda's government and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have signed an agreement on how to deal with war crimes in the third phase of talks to end one of Africa's worst conflicts, the rebels said on Saturday.

The signing, at negotiations in southern Sudan, was a major development in an intended five-stage peace deal aiming to end two decades of violence in north Uganda.

"We signed the agreement on reconciliation and accountability late last night, which moves us one step closer to a final peace agreement," Martin Ojul, head of the LRA delegation in Sudan, told Reuters by telephone.

Talks between the two sides started last July, raising hopes of an end to a war that has caused tens of thousands of deaths and forced nearly two million refugees into camps that aid workers say are among most squalid in the world.

Progress had been slow since a truce signed in August, with the LRA frequently walking out of talks, but have since picked up pace. Last month, the two sides signed the second stage of the deal, breaking months of deadlock.

The third phase is supposed to set out principles for dealing with war criminals -- a thorny subject for a rebel group notorious for beating civilians to death, mutilating victims and kidnapping children.

LRA leader Joseph Kony and three other top commanders are wanted in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and have vowed never to quit their Congolese jungle hideouts unless the court drops the indictments.

Ugandan government officials were unavailable for comment, and the document was not immediately available. Ojul said it set out a framework for dealing with war crimes under Uganda's own law that they hoped would appease judges in the ICC.

"The agreement is about putting mechanisms in place under national law. We can take it to the ICC and say 'look: we are dealing with accountability'," he said.

Analysts say the trial of Liberian former president and warlord Charles Taylor in a special tribunal, also in The Hague, has shaken up the LRA leadership.

The LRA says the ICC indictments are too one-sided and fail to acknowledge crimes committed by government forces.

Leaders from Kony's Acholi tribe want him and his associates to undergo a traditional reconciliation ritual in which the murderer faces relatives of the victim and admits his crime before both drink a bitter brew made from a tree root.

Rights groups say such a method would condone impunity.

"There's nothing we signed that explicitly deals with punishment," Ojul said. "It is trying to find a way of dealing with war crimes locally. We don't see the ICC as appropriate."

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பின்புலம்

One of the world's most neglected crises

A brutal, two-decade insurgency by a cult-like rebel group in northern Uganda has created what the United Nations calls one of the world's most neglected humanitarian crises. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, notorious for massacring civilians and slicing off the lips of survivors, have abducted thousands of children for use as soldiers and sex slaves. Almost the entire population of the region is crowded into squalid settlements where they are vulnerable to disease and attacks.

More than 20,000 children kidnapped
Some 1.7 million people uprooted into camps
Violence and disease kills 1,000 people a week

The conflict has threatened to destabilise the volatile central African region as rebels seek shelter in neighbouring countries and violence spills across borders.

Hopes for lasting peace were raised after a landmark truce brokered in August 2007 by neighbouring south Sudan, often a haven for the rebels, brought relative stability to the war-weary north.

But the fact that international arrest warrants hang over top LRA officials is an enduring obstacle.

Violence also plagues Uganda's northeastern Karamoja region, where an influx of small arms has exacerbated banditry and cattle raiding. Karamoja often suffers from drought and food shortages, with more than half a million people receiving aid in 2007.


key facts

Number of internally displaced people in northern Uganda 1.7 million (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006)
Conflict-related mortality rate in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader districts at height of conflict 1,000 people a week (Ugandan health ministry, 2005)
Life expectancy at birth (whole of Uganda) 47.3 years
(Source: UNDP Human Development Report , 2003)
Public health expenditure as percent of GDP 2.1 percent (UNDP, 2002)
Population undernourished 19 percent (UNDP, 2000-2002)
Official development assistance received (net disbursements) per capita $38 (UNDP, 2003)