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Uganda: 'Libya Leader Needs Truth' - Catholic Cleric
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New Vision (Kampala)
22 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Paul Kiwuuwa And Francis Kagolo
Kampala
LIBYAN leader Col. Muammar Gadaffi should stop deceiving the world and seek the truth, the Kampala Catholic Archbishop has said.
"For Gadaffi to say the Bible was doctored is an insult to Christians. He needs to repent before God," Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga said.
He was on Friday addressing thousands of Christians at the conclusion of Good Friday's Way of the Cross, at Nakivubo Stadium, where on Wednesday, Gadaffi asserted that the Bible in use today was not the one revealed to Jesus and the Old Testament was not the one which Moses received from Allah.
Gadaffi said references to Mohammed had been deleted and any book that failed to mention Muhammad was fake.
Lwanga said: "If Christians called the Koran fake, Muslims would fight and shed blood."
He urged Christians to forgive Gadaffi "as Jesus forgave those who crucified him on the cross, for he doesn't know what he is doing".
Lwanga pointed out that Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, was written between 1,410 and 1,450 years before the birth of Christ (BC), while the New Testament was written from 55-65 years after Christ's death (AD). The Koran says the Prophet Muhammad lived between 610 and 632 AD.
"He (Mohammed) came 600 years later. How can you blame Christians for not including Mohammed in their Bible when he didn't exist at the time the Bible was written? Can you give witness ku kintu ekitaaliwo (to some body who never existed)?"
The Pope's Nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Paul Tschang In-Nam, lauded Lwanga for giving an "appropriate answer to Gadaffi's remarks."
Earlier, Lwanga led the Christians in a two-hour walk around Kampala city, together with Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga, the Orthodox Archbishop, and Bishop. Dr. Zac Niringiye of the Anglican Church.
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The Way of the Cross, an annual event, was organized by the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC), headed by Rev. Grace Kaiso, to commemorate Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
Christians were mesimerised at a 23-year old Ronnie Katumwa who was whipped while carrying a heavy cross in remembrance of the way Jesus suffered on the cross.
With a cage of thorns on his head, Katumwa carried the cross from St. Matia Mulumba Catholic Church at Old Kampala to Nakivubo.
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