1. ARISE AND SHINE IN
RECONCILIATION
Jairus Mutebe

2. COLOSSIANS 1:19-20
• 19 For God was pleased to have all
his fullness dwell in him,
• 20 and through him to reconcile to
himself all things, whether things on
earth or things in heaven, by making
peace through his blood, shed on the
cross.

3. YEAR 2013
• The year 2013 is for dealing with
rebellion, resistance and revolution.
• The devil is bent on fueling divisions,
disagreements & dissensions.
• We must therefore emphasize
reconciliation.
• Women will play a vital role in dealing
with rebellion & facilitating the ministry
of reconciliation

4. YEAR 2013
• Why?
• They are vulnerable to sexual
violence & neglect during conflicts.
• By 1998 there were 20 million refuges
in the world.
• 80% were women
• There are an estimated 35 million
refugees in the world by 2010.

5. DEMOGRAPHY
• Nearly 70% of the world refugees is in
Africa & the Middle East.
• 43.3 million - Forcibly Displaced
People. (FDP)

6. YEAR 2013
• Most refuge camps were death
camps for women.
• While all refuges are vulnerable girls &
women are more.
• During flights they are usually
• Physically abused & raped by
border guards, the army, bandits &
male refuges.

7. REFUGEES

8. YEAR 2013
• The facilities in camps are not
convenient for women
• In camps where men are in charge of
food women are blackmailed to get
food in exchange for their bodies.
• More than 70% of women in police or
military custody are sexually abused
(Rights of Women p.52)

9. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• Police records show that cases of
domestic violence have been on the rise
in Uganda:
• More than two thirds of Ugandan women
experience violence from their partners
• 68% were harassed or beaten by their
partners in 2006.
• This included: beating, pushing,
dragging, forced sex, arm twisting,
threatening, insulting & choking

10. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012

11. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• Rural women suffered more violence
than urban women.
• Uneducated women suffered more than
their educated colleagues.
• 7 in 10 women agree that it is justified for
women to be beaten by their husbands
when they make certain mistakes.
• indicating that women in Uganda
generally accept violence, since
traditionally, a woman must be
submissive to her husband.

12. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• The most accepted reasons for wife battery,
according to the report, are neglecting children
(56%) and going out without informing the
husband (52%).
• Acceptance of wife beating was found to be
common in the rural areas, while in the urban
areas, women were generally against it.
• According to sociologists, it begins with
dependence on a man. “When he is the one
providing everything, you barely have a say on
anything. And a no to anything means a slap, or
two,” says Laura Aryijuka, a sociologist &
counselor at Kyambogo University

13. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• demographic survey showed,
domestic violence was highest in the
Eastern and Central districts of Bugiri,
Busia, Iganga, Namutumba, Jinja,
Kamuli, Kaliro and Mayuge.
• “In such communities, men believe
you are not a man, if you don’t beat
your woman,” observes Aryijuka

14. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• A study conducted by Center for
Domestic Violence Prevention
(CEDOVIP) shows that individuals
spend about sh15bn annually to pay
for health services for treatment of
injuries sustained during the fracas.
• The information was collected from
217 health care providers across the
country

15. NALONGO FLORENCE
NABATEREGGA, 35 - SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012

16. NALONGO FLORENCE
NABATEREGGA SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• 22nd February, 2012, Nalongo’s Florence
Nabateregga, 35 husband, Bbanda,
(drunk) returned home at about 9:00pm.
• “As he entered the house, he picked a
machete & just started hacking us.
• He killed two children on spot and
chopped off wife’s hands.
• wife admitted in Mityana with one child
who’d survived with injuries.

17. NALONGO FLORENCE
NABATEREGGA SUNDAY
VISION 9TH
SEPT 2012
• They were referred to Mulago, where
child died a day after.
• in hospital for over two months,”
• The dead included one-year old twins,
Babirye Nalukwago and Justine Nakato,
& four-year old Kigongo Naluwagga.
• Bbanda, who had been hiding for two
days was also arrested
• charged with murder and remanded to
Ssaza prison for one year

18. RECONCILIATION
• Traffickers Sex slaves - 23 year old
Ugandan girl.
• 2 Samuel 20:16-22
• God will raise
• people who will deliver heads of rebels to
avert calamities – justice.

19. RECONCILIATION
• Women who will not fold their hands &
watch their husbands & children killed
because of ambitious and unreasonable
men.
• Women will be consulted to resolve
impossible situations of conflict.

20. WHAT TO DO - MATTHEW
5:9
• 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for
they shall be called the children of
God.
• Peace Making is forging a
settlement between people in a
dispute
• Peace-keeping is keeping people
from attacking each other by
putting a barrier between them

21. WHAT TO DO - MATTHEW
5:9
• Peace-building is a long lasting
process of normalizing relations
between disputing people &
reconciling them.