{"id":129630,"date":"2024-06-03T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129630"},"modified":"2024-06-03T06:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:09:50","slug":"new-vision-nigeria-archbishop-celebrates-uganda-martyrs-decries-persecution-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129630","title":{"rendered":"(New Vision) Nigeria archbishop celebrates Uganda Martyrs, decries persecution of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Dr Stephen Kaziimba invited Ndukuba as the guest preacher at the Anglican site as the Church marks the 2024 Martyrs Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He thanked God for the 45 Uganda Martyrs from both Anglicans and Catholics and the opportunity for the Church of Nigeria to take part in this year\u2019s Martyrs Day celebrations. He asked Christians to emulate the martyrs because they did not forsake their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cThe Church in Uganda is because of God&#8217;s holy word and also on the sacrifices of those who were killed for their faith in God. I have been shocked by the many people who have travelled long distances to come here and worship God. The reward for sin is death, but the strength of God is seen in righteousness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He equated the Uganda Martyrs to the Biblical believers Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3:8\u201330 who chose to be thrown in the Lake of Fire rather than denounce God.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/category\/uganda-martyrs\/nigeria-archbishop-celebrates-uganda-martyrs-NV_189338\">Read it all<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria archbishop celebrates Uganda Martyrs, decries persecution of Christians<br><br>DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3POimeVkU\">https:\/\/t.co\/S3POimeVkU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VisionUpdates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VisionUpdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XgdjLjQoPQ\">pic.twitter.com\/XgdjLjQoPQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New Vision (@newvisionwire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newvisionwire\/status\/1797565824221237305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Dr Stephen Kaziimba invited Ndukuba as the guest preacher at the Anglican site as the Church marks the 2024 Martyrs Day. He thanked God for the 45 Uganda Martyrs from both Anglicans and Catholics<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129630\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129634,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129630\/revisions\/129634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}