Uganda: Police Start Hunt for Wired Pastors

POLICE are investigating the conduct of churches for born-again Christians in the wake of rising cases of pastors' impropriety. Police publicist Asan Kasingye said all allegations - from sodomy to fraud - would be investigated.

The detectives will be interested in the idea of "sowing", the term used to describe the generous tithes that pastors manipulate churchgoers into giving in the honest expectation of miracles.

"We are out to find out really if these [pastors] are using tricks to obtain people's property [and money]," Mr Kasingye said. It also emerged yesterday that there are "ongoing consultations" expected to lead to a policy that regulates the activities of the Pentecostals or balokole, as born-again Christians are popularly called.

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