On November 4, 1958 four Holy Cross priest arrived in Entebbe, Uganda, as the first of many Holy Cross priests, brothers, and sisters who would come to serve in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania over the course of five decades.
The District of East Africa celebrated fifty years of Holy Cross ministry in East Africa on January 3 and 4 with Masses at Virika Cathedral, jubilee meals at St. Mary’s Minor Seminary and St. Paul’s Major Seminary, a march with the Uganda Police Band, and a football (soccer) match at Buhinga Sprots Grounds. Present at the celebrations were the Papal Nuncio to Ghana, Archbishop Léon Kalenga Badikebele; the Superior General of Holy Cross, Rev. Hugh Cleary, C.S.C.; Provincial of the Indiana Province, Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C.; and the Superior of the District, Rev. James Burasa, C.S.C..
The presence of Holy Cross in East Africa has been a blessing in the lives of many of the people served, but also for the many Holy Cross religious whose lives have been changed by the experience of serving there. Today 90 percent of the Holy Cross religious serving in East Africa are from East Africa. At the same time, the ties between Holy Cross institutions in East Africa and those around the world are stronger than ever.
Our mission sends us across borders of every sort. Often we must make ourselves at home among more than one people or culture, reminding us again that the farther we go in giving the more we stand to receive.
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