{"id":23924,"date":"2026-01-30T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=23924"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:24:35","slug":"uganda-bishop-wanok-urges-christians-to-embrace-income-generating-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/uganda-bishop-wanok-urges-christians-to-embrace-income-generating-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"UGANDA: Bishop Wanok Urges Christians to Embrace Income-Generating Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fr Isaac Ojok<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Lira Diocese, Uganda, Rt. Rev. Sanctus Lino Wanok has urged Christians to embrace income-generating activities to achieve economic empowerment and overcome household poverty.<\/p>\n<p>He made the call on Wednesday while addressing participants at the Diocesan Pastoral Assembly 2026, currently taking place at St. John Bosco Catechetical and Pastoral Centre, Ngetta.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Bishop Wanok noted that the Church and society are living in critical times that demand strategic thinking and deliberate efforts to build people&#8217;s capacity. He emphasized the need to economically empower Christian families to improve livelihoods and reduce household poverty within communities.<\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of dwindling external donor support, the bishop stressed the urgency of embracing local initiatives, such as poultry projects, savings groups, and other small-scale income-generating ventures, to help families grow within their communities. He challenged Christian leaders to take responsibility for enlightening household members on the importance of economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristians must start thinking big and refrain from low thinking,\u201d the bishop emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>He further called upon all Christian leaders, church movements, and associations to lead in championing income-generating activities to drive economic empowerment across the Diocese. According to the Bishop, sustained sensitization is necessary to enable Christians to invest wisely and free themselves from household poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In a passionate appeal, Bishop Wanok expressed concern that, as a shepherd, he cannot continue to see his flock suffer from poverty when there are opportunities to work and generate income to meet family and local needs.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop\u2019s message left participants in deep reflection as they considered practical ways to implement his exhortation across the parishes and communities of Lira Diocese.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>End<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr Isaac Ojok The Bishop of Lira Diocese, Uganda, Rt. Rev. Sanctus Lino Wanok has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23925,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions\/23925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}