Nicholas Kajoba
19 August 2002
THE House of Bishops has asked the government to put down arms and have a dialogue with rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in order to restore peace in the country.
This was one of the resolutions adopted during a three-day 16th provincial assembly which ended on Friday at the Uganda Christian University, Mukono.
"We ask government to put down arms and have a dialogue with rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), in order to ensure peace in the country," the resolution said. Recently, the Acholi Parliamentary Group also called for a ceasefire between the army and Kony rebels.
Archbishop Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo officially closed the assembly attended by over 200 delegates from all the dioceses in Uganda.
The assembly resolved that government should strengthen its partnership with the Church to boost Uganda's development.
"Government should strengthen the partnership with the Church in order to ensure social-economic development since the church controls a bigger faction of the society," the statement said.
The delegates said the church should talk openly about HIV/AIDS but should not support the use of condoms. Nkoyooyo said the church's role is to nurture the morals of the young.
"The Church of Uganda identifies with the schools and gets involved in their management. In doing so, we will be able to instill good morals in our children," Nkoyooyo said.
He said the Church had designed programmes to lure back their former members who had joined other religious groups.
"The church has designed programmes that will bring back its former members who joined other religious groups," he said.
He hailed the Government for introducing programmes in the health and education sectors geared at improving the lives of rural people.
The delegates sent condolences to the families of the late Archbishop Yona Okoth and the late canon John Mukasa.
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