{"id":143330,"date":"2026-02-17T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143330"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:19:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-janani-luwum-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143330","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Janani Luwum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, whose Son the Good Shepherd laid down his life for the sheep: We give thee thanks for thy faithful shepherd, Janani Luwum, who after his Savior\u2019s example gave up his life for the people of Uganda. Grant us to be so inspired by his witness that we make no peace with oppression, but live as those who are sealed with the cross of Christ, who died and rose again, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.O God, whose Son the Good Shepherd laid down his life for the sheep: We give thee thanks for thy faithful shepherd, Janani Luwum, who after his Savior\u2019s example gave up his life for the people of Uganda. Grant us to be so inspired by his witness that we make no peace with oppression, but live as those who are sealed with the cross of Christ, who died and rose again, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, February 17, 2026, marks 49 years since the godless regime of Idi Amin charged Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum of treason and murdered him. The Archbishop&#39;s remains a rare voice in the travesty that is the African nation-state. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vqWnfOE3QU\">pic.twitter.com\/vqWnfOE3QU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David *Objection* Ngong (@ProfDNgong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfDNgong\/status\/2023452298207523242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, whose Son the Good Shepherd laid down his life for the sheep: We give thee thanks for thy faithful shepherd, Janani Luwum, who after his Savior\u2019s example gave up his life for the people of Uganda. Grant us<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143330\">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":[186,396,438],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-uganda","category-death-burial-funerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143330","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=143330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143355,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143330\/revisions\/143355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}