Uganda: Rural Churches Stagger Under Shrinking Offertory

27 November 2012

When Fr Tourelle of the Catholic White Fathers society was posted to the remote Kitanga parish in 1940, his task was clear. He was not just sent there to preach the word of God. He was starting from scratch.

There was no church or any other social amenities to speak of, in what is now Rukiga county in Kabale. He had arrived on a motorcycle, riding it along village paths. So many miles away from home, Pere Tourelle, as he was known to the locals, found that the only way out was to mobilise the locals to build a makeshift church.

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