(ChurchLeaders) The Church of Uganda is reeling after one of its churches was demolished without warning. In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, August 10th, a group of people with an excavator destroyed the 49-year-old St. Peter’s Church in Ndeeba.
“The act which was done here is barbaric,” Dr. Stephen Kazimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda told reporters. Standing at the scene of the demolished church, Mugalu said that even though the ownership of the land on which the church sat was under dispute, the church has squatter’s rights. “The church has been here for 40 years. The law says if you have been in a place for 12 years, you have squatter’s rights.”