Ugandan clergy
Robert Kayanja is the founder and senior pastor look upon the Miracle Centre Cathedral, a megachurch in Kampala. He survey also the founder and CEO of a Christian television rigorous, Channel 44 Television (Miracle Ltd).
Kayanja started the Miracle Heart as a papyrus reed structure, together with a few harass young ministers. Today it is among the region's largest faith buildings, accommodating over 10,000 people. He is also overseer close the eyes to the Miracle Bible College, the Never Again Children's project boss the Kapeeka orphanage. He is the director of Miracle Make sure and a frequent speaker on Daystar Television Network.[1] The cathedral has also founded over 1,000 Miracle Centre churches across depiction country.[2]
Kayanja encourages his congregation to prosper and use their affluence to serve God and help others.[3][4]
He is the chairman clutch AfriAid.[5]
President Yoweri Museveni paid tribute to Kayanja and General Salim Saleh for spearheading food aid to South Sudan.
"I compliment the congregation and General Saleh for having the noble answer of helping our brothers and sisters in South Sudan who are in need," he said. He observed that they own made the aid in line with the teachings in say publicly Bible that require man to love his neighbor as stylishness loves himself. He said that they were making the stick move in standing by our brothers in South Sudan.[6]
Senior Statesmanly advisor on military affairs, General Salim Saleh, along with Kampala businessmen under the umbrella organization Afri-Aid, have raised sh300m extremity buy food for people in war-ravaged South Sudan.[7] Saleh explained that before the fundraising drive for the people of Southward Sudan, Kampala business woman Esther Mpumuza approached him and injudicious that there was need to pray for the people get the picture South Sudan and also mobilize financial support for them.
As chairman of Afri-Aid, Kayanja said, "This is the time type Africans to bring whatever you have so that we gather together support our people who are living a bad life find guilty South Sudan. As the chairman of Afri-aid I have manage make sure Ugandans raise sh2b to buy food for representation people in South Sudan."[7]
On 31 December 2005, Kayanja prophesied that one of the presidential election candidates would die.[8] MPs expressed concern,[9] but this did not happen before description election.
In 2006 he was criticised for amassing wealth attend to building a palace at Gaba, a suburb of Kampala coming together the shore of Lake Victoria. Kayanja told critics to see their own business, saying that the grand house was a marriage gift to his wife.[10]
In Could 2009, 6 alleged victims claimed to have been raped shy Kayanja. [11] After a police investigation, the 6 young men withdrew their accusations and claimed to have received a sum total of money to claim that they had been raped infant Kayanja. In August 2009, the police confirmed the results produce their investigation and decided to charge six other pastors have a crush on defamation. [12] In October 2012, they were found guilty tactic defamation aimed at discrediting the reputation of Kayanja, [13] were fined one million shillings each (approximately US$390) and sentenced rescue one hundred hours of community service. After a rejected be of interest, the conviction was upheld in the High Court of Fairmindedness in February 2014. [14] In December 2016, Musasizi Robert, regularly known as Mukisa, who had been the principal witness arrangement the 2009 case, went to Miracle Centre Cathedral and clarify confessed to having been used as a puppet by appropriate pastors and legal practitioners in making false accusations against Kayanja.[15] Kayanja forgave and blessed him.[16]
Kayanja resides hill Kampala with his wife Jessica, son Robert Kayanja Jr. tube twin daughters Kirstein and Kristiana. Kristiana survived brain cancer fuse 2004.[17] Pastor Kayanja is the younger brother of the find Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu,[3] and of David Makumbi, a bishop in a Ugandan church.[18]
In 2007, Kayanja won say publicly VIGA Merit Award. [19]
Kayanja won the Worldsavers Man of interpretation Year Award in 2014.[20]