📷 26th national prayer breakfast in pictures

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WAKISO - President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated the organisers of the National Prayer Breakfast meeting and asked them to keep up the spirit. 

He said the National Resistance Movement (NRM) managed to succeed in the bush war that took place between 1981 and 1986 because they brought all religious faiths on board, adding that the spirit of religious sectarianism and divisionism should be discouraged. 

He gave the example of early missionaries who divided people on religious backgrounds.

The president was on October 08, 2024, speaking at the 26th Annual National Prayer Breakfast, which takes place every year before independence and was organized at State House, Entebbe. 

The event, organized by Parliament, was chaired by the state minister for industry and Member of Parliament for Ndorwa West, David Bahati. 

The president was accompanied by the First Lady, Janet Museveni.

It was attended by top government officials including the Vice President, Jessica Alupo, the Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among and her deputy Thomas Tayebwa, Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Doll, the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, the NRM vice chairman, Al hajji Moses Kigongo, the third deputy premier Lukia Nakadama, among others. 

Other guests included the speaker of the East Africa Legislative Assembly Joseph Ntakirutimana, former vice president of Liberia Jewel Howard-Taylor and Apostle Isi Igenegba, the founder of the Mantle of Deborah Global from Nigeria. 

Top religious leaders included the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr. Kaziimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of Kampala Paul Ssemogerere, Dr. Moses Odong, the overseer of the Pentecostal Churches of Uganda, the deputy Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Waiswa, Apostle Joseph Sserwadda, bishop Nectarios Kabuye, bishop of Gulu who represented the Archbishop of the Orthodox Church, traditional leaders, among others.
  
The President said Jesus did not support the idea of sectarianism and those who did so must have acted on behalf of Satan and not God.

The theme of the day was, “If the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do-Psalm 11:3".

The purpose of the national prayer breakfast fellowship is to give the nation that spiritual strength which is available to those who ask for it, renew and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood with the faithful across the country and around the world. 

The other purpose is to give people the opportunity to ask God’s guidance as well as express their gratitude for what God has given them and recognise Jesus as their common ground.   

Below is a picture highlight as hundreds of dignitaries graced the National Prayer Breakfast meeting at State House, Entebbe in Wakiso district as captured by multimedia journalist Eddie Ssejjoba;

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President Yoweri Museveni congratulated the organisers of the National Prayer Breakfast meeting and asked them to keep up the spirit. 

The president was accompanied by the First Lady, Janet Museveni.

The event, organized by Parliament, was chaired by the state minister for industry and Member of Parliament for Ndorwa West, David Bahati. 

The First Lady, also Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni among other dignitaries during the National Prayer Breakfast.

Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng praising during the National Prayer Breakfast.

Norbert Mao, the current Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs praising during the National Prayer Breakfast.

(L-R) Vice President Jessica Alupo, First Lady, also Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, and Uganda's Speaker of Parliament Anita Among during the National Prayer Breakfast.

First Lady, also Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, and Uganda's Speaker of Parliament Anita Among during the National Prayer Breakfast.

Vice President Jessica Alupo (l), and First Lady, also Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni (L).

Top religious leaders namely; Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr. Kaziimba Mugalu, and the Archbishop of Kampala Paul Ssemogerere, among others, graced the event.

Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr. Kaziimba Mugalu (L) chats with the Archbishop of Kampala Paul Ssemogerere (R).