ByCatholicWorker.org
After attempting to educate subsistence farmers about their legal rights, Elizabeth Nakiwolo and Michael Setikoleko of the Uganda Catholic Worker were illegally detained in early June. Nakiwolo, a mother of three, was recently released. Setikoleko reports that the farmers’ village was raised, and several have died, in the wake of an illegal land seizure.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the third part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” Uganda Catholic Worker founder Michael Sekitoleko dreams of creating a sustainable, revitalized community—in spite of a skeptical priest and a stalled fundraising campaign.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the second part of our series, “The Catholic Worker in Africa,” founder Michael Sekitoleko carries on the work of the Uganda Catholic Worker in the wake of his two co-founders departing. One of the ways he copes is by forming his guests into an ad-hoc community with set routines and responsibilities. But when COVID-19 hits, the community is overwhelmed by people desperate for help.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Michael Sekitoleko, founder of the Uganda Catholic Worker, embraces the Catholic Worker vision of a society radically re-ordered around love, mercy, and justice, and he has ideas about what that might look like not only in Uganda, but for the African continent.
