A light on the mountain

By Isaac Lema, Itona, Tanzania (September 2015)- On August 28th, it was a beautiful morning, and the UCE team gathered and prayed before starting our journey into the mountains.  It took us 2 hours journey to reach Itona, which is about 80 kilometers from Iringa town. On reaching Mafinga town...

Youth in Uganda pledge to remain chaste and rejoin school

By Nevaless Masika, Kasese, Uganda (August)- On August 8th the UCE team traveled to Karambi to visit the reach out to the youth of the region. Now here, we desired to reach the out of school youth so we gathered them at the Church hall.  After the arrival of the...

UCE at Colorado Mesa University

On August 21st Universal Chastity Education (UCE) and Mesa Catholic campus ministry joined together to offer students the opportunity to choose chastity at ‘Safe and Sexy,’ an event hosted by Colorado Mesa University (CMU) in Grand Junction. The event was designed to encourage students to protect themselves by using a...

UCE Kasese holds prayer conference, reaches out to nomadic minority

By Nevaless Masika, Kasese, Uganda (July)- July 28th, 2015 was a very wonderful, special, and memorable day for the people of Kasese, especially for the youth who had ever signed chastity commitment cards. The day brought together 20 secondary schools with a total number of 1000 students, UCE Club Members,...

UCE Tanzania expands into the Dodoma region

By Isaac Lema, Dodoma, Tanzania (June 2015) In May of 2014, the Iringa municipality (the team’s home base) received guests from Bahi district in the Dodoma region. The guests came to learn about and share experiences in fighting new HIV transmissions. UCE, as one of the stakeholders, participated in one...

UCE team brings healing to war-torn northern Uganda

By Jude Walubo, Gulu, Uganda (March 2015)- This month we began outreaches in Gulu, northern Uganda. This is the area where terror, by a rebel group called ‘the lord’s resistance army,’ led by Joseph Kony, began 20 years ago. The people here have endured great suffering. The scars of that...

A God of Second Chance: Scovia’s Story

By Scovia Masika, Kasese Uganda (March 2015)- Many young people including me have confessed that before signing the UCE commitment card, they would make resolutions to stop fornicating, but would fail to overcome the temptation. Yet, from the time they signed the chastity commitment card, there has been a supernatural...

Official links chastity, reduced rate of HIV/AIDS

BY GAYLE PEREZ THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINPublished: November 30, 2014 Growing up in Eastern Uganda, Jude Walubo Tadeo experienced the devastation and death of the AIDS virus. “Uganda was one of the most hardest hit (countries) by HIV,” said Tadeo, a native of Jinja, Uganda. “In the 1980s, our rate was so high....