Africa Report

“As I left Australia to spend three and a half months on a hospital ship in one of the world’s poorest nations I had no idea what was ahead of me,” says Abbey Rowe of Brisbane.

In this age of rampant consumerism and selfish individualism, there seem to be few who genuinely answer God's call to give up everything to follow Christ. However Robby Keen, a new believer from the UK, has done just that in obedience to God. He is now serving the poorest of the poor and preaching Christ in a predominantly Muslim region near Mbale in Eastern Uganda - and God is doing wonderful things.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our own day-to-day lives that we forget the challenges being faced by other believers around the world. Worldview Interactive caught up with some people on the streets of Kampala and asked them what was the biggest challenge facing Christians in their country today.

How is it that a few Australian kids could afford to help 3000 needy children in a Northern Uganda IDP camp?

At long last, on the final day of our visit to Uganda, we finally did get to deliver our gift and message to President Museveni. Unfortunately we did not get to meet him in person. Instead we met with the Minister for the Presidency, Mr Kirunda Kivejinja, who assured us that he would pass our gift and message onto the President during his meeting with him later that morning. Click on the photograph (top right) to watch a video of the presentation.

As the news of the unfolding tragedy in western Sudan is now making front-page news, people should be made aware that atrocities have been taking place in southern Sudan for decades. Aerial bombardments and helicopter gunships have been used to attack the southern Sudanese civilian population for years.

The War Drags On: Not very far from this village, 5 kms from Lira, some of the worst atrocities of war have been committed. The cruelty and murderous barbarity of the LRA rebels defies belief, and yet here among these villagers we find genuine warmth, hospitality, generosity, gentleness, joy and faith. One can't help but think that these people are victims of a great evil that has conspired against them - as if an evil spiritual force, perhaps further incited to hatred by the very purity and vulnerability of these people, has amassed forces from hell bent on their destruction.