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The Global 5K Run (Global 5 kilometers run), a fundraising campaign is set to take place on 19th October, globally, and on 2nd November in Uganda. 

This year’s virtual event is organised by the Uganda Students Program Alumni through Uganda Partners and Uganda Christian University (UCU) Honors College.

 In a ceremony held last week on 6 September Uganda Christian University’s (UCU) Vice Chancellor, Prof. Aaron Mushengyezi and the UCU top officials,officially handed over the new School of Journalism faculty building to the Dean of the School of Journalism, Prof. Monica Chibita.

Top educators from Uganda Christian University (UCU) and Makerere University joined a distinguished gathering of academics from across Africa at a groundbreaking conference on media and e-learning, held from August 12-14 at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) in Blantyre.

Njangali was ordained as the first female deacon in East Africa on September 10, 1973. This outraged a number of lay people and priests who believed it not biblical to ordain a woman. Although she was never fully priested, her ordination broke the ecclesiastical glass ceiling, paving the way for future generations of women in ministry, and in 1983, Bishop Festo Kivengere of Kigezi ordained three women as priests.

In Acholi, a local dialect in Uganda, the name Lagen means “the trusted one.” And that is the name that a pastor in Uganda chose for his son 30 years ago. In three decades, there are examples to illustrate that, indeed, Joseph Lagen has earned people’s trust.