The Catholic Church yesterday denounced domestic violence and vowed to fight it from the village level.

The Archbishop of Kampala Diocese, Dr Cyprian Lwanga while launching the Domestic Violence Partnership project at St Fatima Church in Nakulabye, a Kampala suburb, said the Church has an important role to play to ensure stable homes.

He said the church is committed to responding to domestic violence at all levels. "Domestic Violence continues to be an oppression and enslavement of the members of the family, community and society at large.

All possible ways and means must be sought to ensure that in designing interventions, the church retains the focus of the family and communities based on love, mutual respect and care for each other," he said.

The effort is a partnership between the Catholic Church, the Irish non government organisation, Trocaire and the Irish Embassy.

Parliamentary Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee scrutinises the Domestic Violence Bill. "We shall undertake a wider number of activities to highlight levels of violence and how it can be overcome .The Church cannot keep quite when there are visible increasing cases of men killing their wives and vice versa.

God created man in his own image and we really do not want to see people abusing this because all of us are God's creatures," he said.