Abbey Ssemuwemba
This is going to be a very interesting issue let us not take it for granted,
for churches do not have general standards of growth as a syllabus in
schools, and the churches are not standard so you cannot put the Seventh Day
Adventists for example with Catholics, you cannot put Moslems on the same
level with Anglican, each does their own thing different. There are
commitments done by churches and Mosques for example Catholic church through
offerings send their kids abroad to a meeting with the Pope at least once a
year in any county the Pope decides to meet them, Moslems go to Mecca, how
does the government decide those issues to fund them? And how will it decide
what number to send? Seventh Day Adventists for example go to The General
Conference many times it sits in United States or Canada, they send
delegates depending on what church has what amount of money, how will the
government decide that?
Now do not get me wrong here, I am in full support with the government in
this move, for we have very lately got a complete new investments into
crappy churches and Reverends making a killing out of people, but how do we
control it by refusing them to collect the money? The moment you turn the
church into a government funded sector then all 36 million Ugandans are
going to belong to a somehow church. By the way here is another one,
Namirembe is fundraising from its members to refurbish its church, will the
government fund that too? And that question goes to congregations that
collect money to build bigger and new churches, will they walk to the
minister with a plan and a budget? May be the only way to control it is by
setting up standards required for one to register as a church but to educate
the population as well not to dump all their savings into the church. I
think this only requires public education than slamming a full door on them.
And if a Police Force and the army have ghost officers, how will you prevent
ghost prayers? I question if this has been studied at all before getting
thrown out there. It will be very interesting to see how it gets
implemented.
One issue I would take with especially well established churches as Anglican
and Catholics with SDA, is sending money to their non-Uganda headquarters, I
am very uncomfortable with that and for a very simple reason we as Ugandans
get a very bad deal out of that. When I came to these countries I was so
surprised to learn that Reverends and Pastors have a retirement package done
by the church headquarters, the ones in our African countries do not have
that pension, yet the money funding these pensions comes from our people and
it comes here. I would stop that, if you are a Catholic Church in Uganda
send all your money to Rubaga than to Rome. That would be a sensible step to
be taken by the government but refusing them to collect money from the
parish is unattainable.
And one wonders how this will affect Natasha with her church !!!!!!
EM
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Friends,
I find this very interesting. Why would the govt want to be the one
maintaining churches and mosques considering the financial problems they
have got at the moment? Giving something in the mosque or churches is part
of faith. Isn't the govt biting too much of it can't swallow? Katulinde!
Abbey
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