Anglican Communion News Service

Mrs Winifred Ochola, the wife of the Bishop of Kitgum, in northern Uganda was killed by a landmine on 23 May when a truck she was travelling in hit a mine and killed her and three others. According to the Church Mission Society in London the incident took place a long way from ongoing military activity. The Bishop of Kitgum, the Rt Revd Macleord Baker Ochola II, is a leading campaigner for reconciliation and has made strong calls for an end to rebel activity in northern Uganda.

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President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has again rejected pleas by religious leaders and some politicians for his government to hold peace talks with rebels fighting government troops in the north of the country.

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Two thousand people listened carefully as the Anglican Bishop of Lango, Uganda, the Rt Revd Melchizedek Otim recounted the trauma of having to hide in exile from Idi Amin's forces in 1977. "98% of my district was Christian, yet the people who plotted against me to kill me were members of my own diocese, and fellow Christians," recalled the emotional bishop.

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Uganda's Vice-President, Dr Specioza Windira Kazibwe, has criticised an Anglican bishop for urging the Government to hold peace talks with armed rebels in northern Uganda.P Addressing a crowd in the town of Kitgum on 9 February, the Vice-President described the leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, and his supporters as "killers, rapists and people who had devastated the economy". The LRA is terrorising the towns and villages of northern Uganda, killing hundreds of people and abducting teenagers to force them to become guerrillas in the struggle for control of the region.

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The Bishop Alison Bible School in Koboko in north-west Uganda was razed to the ground at the end of October by Ugandan rebels believed to be sponsored by the Government of Khartoum in their attempt to get the Sudanese refugees in the area back into the Sudan. Families were made to stay inside their houses as the grass roofs were set alight. Only when the smoke and fire were threatening to kill them were people let out.

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The Anglican Church of Uganda has added its voice to the chorus of protests against lottery games sanctioned by the Ugandan Government. The Church said the lottery games, which have recently come to dominate public life in this east African country, were corrupting Ugandan society.

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More than 30 clergywomen from all dioceses of the Anglican Church of Uganda have accused their male counterparts of discriminating against them and relegating them to secondary positions in the Church hierarchy.

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An Anglican Studies Centre has opened at Bishop McAllister College in Kyogyera in West Ankole Diocese. The Centre will serve the whole of the province and its aim is to strengthen Ugandan's understanding of their Anglican heritage in the African context. The new centre is the vision of the Rt Revd Y K Bamunoba, the Bishop of the Diocese.

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The Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze of Busoga Diocese has been forced to retire. The Ugandan House of Bishops Meeting in late July made the decision after years of conflict between the Bishop and his diocese. Earlier this year Bishop Bamwoze was sent on forced sabbatical leave to enable the Province to tackle the leadership problems in his diocese. The Bishop's retirement will take effect immediately after his sabbatical leave ends in February 1997.

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The results of Uganda's presidential election, held on 9 May, represented a fair and authentic view of the voters, despite some shortcomings and anomalies, according to the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC), which monitored the elections.

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For the past four years reports about conflict in the Diocese of Busoga and the Bishop, the Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze, have appeared in various papers and news services. The Province has now written the following report

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