New church policy provokes Pentecostals
Pastors of Pentecostal Churches have asked the government to involve them in the ongoing process of formulating a national faith-based organisation policy to regulate religious activities.
The religious policy seeks to provide standard guidelines on starting new churches. It has been criticised as an infringement on freedom of worship.
Under their umbrella body, National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda the pastors said the matter has caused anxiety due to uncoordinated and contradicting information from the promoters and framers of the policy.
During his New Year message at a media conference in Kampala yesterday, Bishop Lwere called for a balance between freedom of worship and the law.
The Kampala Regional Overseer of National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches, Pastor Godfrey Luwagga, described the new policy on religion as targeting the growing number of Pentecostal churches in the country.
