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Saturday 28 November 2015
Pope arrives in Uganda, calls Africa ‘continent of hope’
N. WINFIELD 1887. Pope Paul VI canon- Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the
R. MUHUMUZA ized the 22 Ugandan Cath- Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. Pope Francis is in Kenya on his first-ever trip
Associated Press olics in 1964. to Africa, a six-day pilgrimage that will also take him to Uganda and the Central African Republic.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) “They remind us of the im-
— Pope Francis arrived in portance that faith, moral (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Uganda on Friday on the rectitude and commitment
second leg of his Africa pil- to the common good have failed. of Kenyan youths about ditions slum-dwellers are
grimage, declaring Africa played, and continue to Francis arrived in Kampala preventing young people forced to live in, saying ac-
the “continent of hope” play, in the cultural, eco- after a busy final day in Ke- from falling prey to cor- cess to safe water is a ba-
and honoring Uganda’s nomic and political life of nya that was highlighted ruption and radicalization sic human right and that
most famous Christians. this country,” Francis told by his visit to one of the to go fight with extremist everyone should have
Francis arrived from Kenya Museveni and other Ugan- capital’s 11 slums and a groups. dignified, adequate hous-
at Entebbe International dan authorities and diplo- spontaneous, off-the-cuff In the Kangemi shanty, ing, access to sanitation,
Airport, where Ugandan mats at a welcome cer- monologue to thousands Francis denounced con- schools and hospitals.q
President Yoweri Museveni emony at the state house.
welcomed him along with In an unusual break with
a military brass band and papal trip protocol, Musev-
traditional drummers and eni didn’t offer welcoming
dancers gyrating their hips. remarks.
Francis, who is also sched- Later Friday, a remarkably
uled to visit Central Afri- enthusiastic crowd, com-
can Republic, is in Uganda plete with more traditional
mainly to honor the mem- dancers and shrieking faith-
ory of a group of Ugandan ful, greeted Francis as he
Christians who were killed in arrived at a shrine honor-
the late 19th century on the ing the martyrs in Munyo-
orders of a local king eager nyo, where they were con-
to thwart the growing influ- demned to death.
ence of Christianity. Francis said their witness
Those victims, known as the helped Christianity grown
Uganda Martyrs, include 45 in Uganda, and that the
Anglicans and Catholics king’s plot to “wipe out
killed between 1885 and the followers of Christ” had
