Speaking to the press this week in regard to public uproar over the alleged burn of bibles and debate on Street preaching becoming illegal, Information and Communications Technology state minister, Idah Erios Nantaba has said the solution lies in enacting a law to regulate religious activities.
Nantaba, who is of the Seventh-day Adventist faith, revealed that government is working on a new bill that will regulation religious activities in the country.
“I am aware that the government is working on a bill to regulate religious activities. It will guide us on how to handle street preachers and all other religious activities,” she said.
Now 37 years, the minister explained that “so many mushrooming religious groups and preachers are hiding in religion to commit crimes.”
She noted that many preachers are defrauding people of their money.
“The law in the making is necessary because there are so many mushrooming religious groups and preachers who are hiding in religion to commit crimes. When you hear a pastor selling holy rice, when you hear a pastor torching a bible, and when you hear the rate at which churches are mushrooming, then you realize the need of regulation in my district. One village can have like 5 new churches. We have no laws regulation religious activities, and when we pass one, it will greatly help.” she said.
In his recent article to UG Christian News intended to equip ministers, Pastor Cyrus Rod warned that many preachers have become “result oriented” instead of “obedience oriented.”
“Pressures are high to keep numbers. Is it because it’s a vision from God? No! Pursuit of our own happiness which is lack of vision.” He said. ” We know no restraint at all. We’ve turned the gospel into merchandise in our pursuit of happiness that we falsely call vision. We can’t be retrained. We have embraced all shameful deeds and underhanded methods.”
Rod said that real vision is about obedience to the Word of God more than doing “big” things for God.
He noted that every minister of the gospel that keeps the word of God, happy is he.
By Paul Dennis.
