MUSEVENI HOSTS ORTHODOX POPE. #POAUpdates
The Pope pledged to send through the Uganda Embassy in Rome 2,000 covid-19 vaccines and continue to mobilize more vaccines for Uganda. President Museveni thanked the cleric for coming to commemorate the death of Metropolitan Yona with the people of Uganda and commended His Beatitude Theodoros the 2nd for the vaccines.
Nabaasa Innocent President Yoweri Museveni and the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Kataaha Museveni have today received the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa His Beatitude Theodoros II who paid a courtesy call on him at State House Entebbe. The visiting Beatitude is in the country to condole with the people of Uganda and the followers of the Orthodox Church in particular upon the death of the late Archbishop Yona Lwanga and to commemorate 40 days after Lwanga’s death on September 5 in Athens, Greece.
