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The AIDS epidemic in Uganda has been viewed by scholars as particularly influential in its development; at the time, Uganda had one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection in the world. [3] [4] The MRTC has been classified as an African-initiated church; a highly diverse category of religious movements that stem from different Christian ...
Alice Ann Bailey (16 June 1880 – 15 December 1949) was author of about 25 books on Theosophy and among the first writers to use the term New Age.She was born Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England [1] and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.
The Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa. It was presented at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 by Theodor Herzl , the founder of the modern Zionist movement.
Alice Lakwena felt she was connected to the spiritual world, and could become possessed by spirits. [5] [8] Alice was a spiritual medium and healer in her town of Gulu, which was a common role for women to hold. [10] However, Alice claimed to be a nebi, which is the Swahili word for 'prophet' instead of ajwaka, the Swahili word for a normal ...
At about the same time, Uganda, South Sudan, and Congo-Kinshasa agreed to a plan to crush the movement together; [55] the South Sudanese Government claimed that the Lord's Resistance Army killed 14 of their soldiers in a raid on June 7 2008, in Nabanga, DR Congo. [56]
The history of the Jews in Uganda is connected to some local tribes who have converted to Judaism, such as the Abayudaya, down to the twentieth century when Uganda under British control was offered to the Jews of the world as a "Jewish homeland" under the British Uganda Programme known as the "Uganda Plan" and culminating with the troubled relationship between Ugandan leader Idi Amin with ...
In turn, Uganda invaded Zaire and Sudan as part of the First Congo War and the Second Sudanese Civil War, partially in an attempt to destroy the rear bases of Ugandan rebels. [6] [92] Besides the north and the west, other areas of Uganda also became affected by new or revived insurgencies.
In the last phase of the Ugandan Bush War from January to March 1986, the National Resistance Army (NRA) conducted a military campaign to conquer northern Uganda beyond the Nile, an area still held by the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and allied militias that had previously been loyal to the recently deposed government of Ugandan President Tito Okello.