The Namugongo shrine, now a sprawling complex featuring a basilica, museum and natural spring, holds deep religious and cultural value. Every year on June 3, Catholics and Anglicans alike believe the ...

Hundreds of pilgrims lined up outside the Uganda Martyrs Shrine in Namugongo on Monday morning, awaiting entrance to the revered site ahead of this year's Martyrs Day celebrations.

The president of Uganda urged believers gathered at the Namugongo Shrine for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage to be at the forefront of fostering peace.

With that in mind here is an excerpt from My Life with the Saints. And, amazingly, I found on the Internet my favorite depiction of them, at right, from the shrine at Namugongo, near Kampala.

Thousands of pilgrims from across Uganda and neighboring countries converged on Namugongo, a Kampala suburb, after walking for days to join the country’s annual Martyrs Day observance.

Namugongo is located in Kyaliwajjala, Kira Municipality in Wakiso district, approximately 16 km from Kampala. Every year on June 3, pilgrims from all over the world gather at Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine ...

Outshined by Namugongo Martyrs Shrine, Rev Fr Ulman Male, a Polish-born cleric, says Munyonyo had been forgotten and less talked about yet it is where the Uganda martyrs started their journey ...

They include Munyonyo and Namugongo Martyrs Shrines, the Anglican shrine at Nakiyanja, Bakateyamba (elderly home) at Nalukolongo, Lubaga Cathedral and Kololo Airstrip.

Ms Telezia Nabuzale is one of the more than two million pilgrims who made it to Namugongo at the weekend to pay tribute to the 45 Uganda Martyrs killed on Kabaka Mwanga's orders.