Uganda to repatriate remains of executed Christian martyrs

Uganda is to repatriate the remains of two Ugandan Martyrs who were executed more than a century ago for refusing to renounce Christianity, a Church official said Sunday. Twenty-two Roman Catholics and 23 Anglicans, mostly young men, were killed in 1885 and 1886 on the orders of the then king of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who was wary of the .