14Apr19 AN APOLOGY IN UGANDA

AN APOLOGY IN UGANDA
The family of Archbishop Janani Luwum – the former Primate of what was then the Church of the Province of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Boga-Zaire – have reconciled with kinsmen of the former Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, who ordered his killing. Uganda’s Black Star News website reports that Canon Stephen Gelenga, from the same Kakwa tribe of Amin, delivered an emotional apology to Luwum’s family and the people of Acholi tribe during commemoration events recently.

ASIANS AND THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH
While the number of Christians in Australia is in decline (52.1 per cent according to the 2016 census compared with 61.1 per cent in 2011 and 88 per cent 50 years ago), Mike Raiter told the 2018 Oxygen Conference: “Asian immigration is saving the Australian church.” Raiter told Eternity News that he based his statement on anecdotal evidence and observations gleaned from many years of ministry including as principal of Melbourne School of Theology. It’s a sentiment echoed by the minister of Chatswood Presbyterian, Jeff Read, who is quoted as saying the Presbyterian Church in NSW had become heavily reliant on the “magnificent thing [God is doing] amongst Chinese people in Sydney” as well as Korean and Iranian people also in Sydney.