Old Boys of Lacor Seminary School in Gulu district yesterday held a prayer for 11 missing students who were abducted by rebels of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) from the school in 2003.
During the prayers Rev. Father Ronald Regan Okello the vice Rector Lacor Seminary school urged parents to pray for the missing students.
Father Okello said that the abduction of the seminarians was an attack on the Catholic Church.
Cosmas Opio was one of the seminarian abducted but escaped after three months in LRA captivity
“When we were abducted from our hostels, we were told to move in a single line. Most of the seminarians were beaten seriously because they were not obeying the orders,” Opio told Acholi Times.
Opiyo escaped from Awach in district doubts the missing seminarians will ever come back.
“I do not think they will return because it has become so difficult for abductees to return home. I also think some of the 11 seminarians could be dead by now, ’he said.
Deogracious Wokorach, was also among the students who had been abducted but escaped. He said they were 41 students abducted on that fateful night 13 years ago.
“They came with a lot of chaos. They shot bullets which are still visible on the dormitory doors and windows. They abducted 41 students. I was among them,’’ recounted Wokorach.
After the abduction, more than 100 soldiers from Gulu went on a rescue mission to get back the students from the LRA. In the ensuring fight between the rebels and government soldiers, some of the students escaped, but 11 remained with the rebels.
The abduction of Lacor seminary students in 2003 was the second largest abduction after 139 girls from St. Mary’s Girls Secondary School in Aboke, in Apac district were abducted in 1996.
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Cal pa mwunu cokka matar ni tye lik ba. Wan myero pe waworu cal pa ngat mo (Nwonyocik 5:8-9). Gin jo lurok mukelo dini gubwolo lwak, gutuc ki jok ma megi ci giwaco ni meno Lubanga, onyo Yecu? Kare oromo myero wan Acoli wacako ngingo kor dini ma megwa matir ma en aye dini pa Jo Icarael macon. Meno aye diniwa dok tekwarowa me Yudaya.
Nwonyocik 5:8-9 book dini pa Acholi. Yuda is Judah a Jewish town where the city of Jerusalem is. You contradict yourself in the same sentence. Leave religion to the individual person do not cause division along religious line. The Acholi religious leaders and the Acholi ker kal kwaro have done a lot to see that not only the return of peace but unity and togetherness in Acholi land and we shall not allow thier integrity to be torn down just by one person seeking religious war.
You do not know what you are talking about. Lweny madit mubedo i komwa en aye obedo lweny me dini. Acoli religious leaders ki Ker kwaro know these very well. I have personally spoken to them. Jo ma kilwongogi ni jo Yudaya kombeddi ma mwuni ni meno gudonyo adonya. Wan aye anywalli me Yudaya. First go and investigate what the colonizers did. They destroyed the ways of the people and established their pagan belief system which will not benefit the souls but their political agenda. Guweko lok me jok mapiny ento ma malo ni kigengo ngec meno woko dok kibedo ka pwodo lwak apwoda pire. Nwoyocik is translated Deuteronomy 5:8-9. Ludito Acoli gipwonyo ni Lacwec obedo Tipo ma pe kicweyo kit cal mo keken me porone kwede. In ka iceto icaro inongo cal mo ma Acoli gucweyo ni meno cal pa Lacwec? Lukel dini gubwolo lwak. Dok Rujari ma giweko kilego bot tipo pa jo moto lumony Luroma ma naka yam gin aye guneko danowa. Gin ma gilwongo ni Maria Mary ni meno Jok pa Luroma ki jo Greek – Jok ma dako – pe min Lalar kulu. Min Lalar pe obedo gin awora.
You are exposing too much of yourself, I do not want to argue with you, but only one thing though, you confirmed that there exists a savior/Lalar when you wrote “min Lalar pe obedo gin a wora ” now Lalar in order to be Lalar pa dano must surly be a God. Your reference to min, refering to lalar as having a mother means a God born of human flesh, therefore you are coming from the incarnation concept a Lalar, a saving God. God incarnate, Emmanuel God with us, is this an Acholi religious concept or Hebrew-Jewish religious context passed to Christianity? There is no school of thought, history, archeology, anthropology or religion that systematically denies that Jesus existed, including your own, as your last sentente speaks out. There are hundreds of documents and acheological evidences pointing to Jesus existence and having been born. Therefore he had a mother, whoever that mother is must be a woman, whoever that woman is, must necessarily be human but since nothing begets a son but of its own substance, God’s son is of God’s substance and so his mother is the mother of God, and if it is true that no body sees God and remains the same, that is if he does not die, then what of that who gave birth to God’s son, is she not in a special place having dwelt with God fully cooperating with his divine will? Think well, think organically think logically before you think religiously.(Lalar/Savior in this context strictly refers to the religious sense of a savior not in the sense of Lalar as used in everyday speech context to mean one has helped the other)
What exactly are you trying to say? That the picture up there is God? or that the picture in the Mary worship is God? The main reason is as stated in Deuteronomy 5:8-9 which Acoli teach is that we are not to worship or make pictures of anything in heaven or on earth to symbolize God. Your logical arguments is based on a false interpretation to make people worship the ancient Greek/Roman pagan deity. There was a woman (Daker me Polo) being worshiped hundreds of years before Maliam was born. God punished the children of Israel for worshiping that woman. This is in Jeremiah 7:18 “The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out liquid offerings to other gods in order to provoke me.” Maliam as in Luke 2 was never a subject of worship. She was a servant – a vessel used but the Spirit existed before Maliam. Your other argument about Luo/Acoli is because you are not aware of the history. In peny kong ludito gubiwaco boti ni Luo aye jo Icarael. Luroma guyako coc ki bot jo Icarael, gulwenyo i kom dano. Ingeye gurubo pwony ki jok ma megi (Daker me Polo) ka dok gucwalo bot wilobo. Man bene obedo gin ma jo Arabo gutimo.
Guest ka cal ni lik boti ci pingo ineno? St Joseph obedo patron saint pa Lacoo seminary school. It’s a symbolic statue. And yes st Joseph pe obedo acholi dok bene pe munu. Jews are not white people and Joseph is a Jew like Jesus. Dong ineno ngat mo kalega onyo woro statue ne? Pingo iloko ataa ma pe kong iniang I gin moni? In la Protestant you don’t even belong to Yudaya ma iloko pire ni ka I ngiyo mot. Now ka in I woro yesu ni lalar ni ci pingo pe I woro mine? Kadi mege rwodi ataa ni bene ki woro gi ci pingo pe I wor min lalar ma otoo pi bal pa dano ducu? I tiime ni I ngeyo bible pingo pe ilub cik magicoyo ni pe ingol kop I wii lawoti pien en kop ma gibingolo I wiyi bene. Kwan Mathew. Ngo ma in I tye kayenyo I kom katoli? In ladwala, laruba, laroro, ladudu and lakel apoka poka I kin dano totwale I kin lodini. Ka imito cako dini mapat ci caki nongo in I tye antichris.
“Gin ma kilwongo ni Maria Mary obedo jok pa luroma ki Greek pe min lalar kulu” really? are you alright upstairs? Pwony me acel labikira Maria was a Jew and was a human being not a “thing” as you said she is a blessed virgin Who was chosen by God to gave birth to the saviour. Me aryo pingo I lere ka pe ingeyo gin moni. Cracked head are we?
By the way Dini, where is the picture of God? Who has the picture? Where is heaven, and who has been there to take or sculpture God’s picture you are talking about? And who is worshipping maliam, who is maliam? Are you talking about the teenage virgin Jew girl called Maria? She was not an Arab so why called her Arab name maliam? Are you a muslim that’s why you have no respect for women, and lack so much knowledge about the bible, or are you just a retard? Please shut the crap up. In I tye dano me te pii antichris don’t spread the crap.
In gin ma omoro wangi ni kilwonyo ni LACEN. You have over reacted. Take it or drop it, this is deception. Kitiyo ki dini me bwollo lwak wa ceng tin. Miyo woro but Lacwec PAT ki miyo woro bot dano adana.
It is not the same woman. The Jewish Maliam aka Mary gave birth to several sons and daughters after Jesus. And are you saying that she is a virgin? Matthew 13:53-56 “And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these parables he departed from there. Then when he was come into his own country he taught them in their synagogue, in so much that they were astonished and said Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works from? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brothers James, and Joses and Simon and Judas? And his sisters are they not all with us? …”
Those questions you should ask the teachers who taught us in the Catholic school. I studied religion and sacraments in the Catholic church. Even the film that they showed us, they did not say it was an actor but said this was Jesus. When you start going deeper then you will know that they deliberately taught us falsehood. As for the name, I think Acoli also call Mary as Maliam – It is not only Arab. Wan Acoli pe waworo cal, dok pe warumo i kom CAL meno kwer botwa. Jo mukelo dini gubwolo wan me wano tipowa.
Al of you read under Acholi Culture Menu above good research by D. Terence Paito. Remember when a foreigner makes you despise your religion and culture, he knows you are half-way to being enslaved. We knew how to build houses – look at modern roofing, how different is it from the Acholi roofing sub-structure? The white man rather than introduce anything new including religion. Ask yourself who Zapeth / Lapet, Ophir or Opii or Opira, or Jok or Joktan are. According to the bible these were Noah’s grand children with Luo names. Catholics are guilty worldwide of paedophiia, in Acholiand, just look at how much land surface they own in and around Gulu: form Layibi to Kati Kati to Aloklum. By the way did Abraham, Moses and the prophets perform cleansing ritual like “Timu tum” in front of Kac or Abila Acholi style? If Jesus is God, why did he die, felt hungry, curse the olive tree (which was following its season set by god), drank alcohol, firs miracle was to turn water into wine, Jesus said there is no greater man born of a woman than John the Baptist( really Jesus was also born of a woman)
Me acel, Catholics means universal church of the Almighty God. To attack Catholics in general it’s means that you are attacking the whole religion that believe in GOD. Don’t mistake “Roman Catholic” Church with the “The Catholic Church” check your dictionary please. Don’t generalise or stereotype Catholic that they are all peodophilia, only few priests mostly white who are the culprits. It’s mostly white, Jews, and Arabs culture. You can’t say that all African Catholics are peodophilia. Me aryo ayee lok mogo ma in I coyo ento I nyweno mogo woko. Jesus isn’t a son of a man. He was born to a virgin mother to be crucified for siners who by that time was the Jews. Acholi by the time were already living by the Ten Commandments . And yes Zionist, Jews, or the antichris have distorted culture history and African traditional religion that’s why the whole world is full of people who are disobeying God’s law. The Jews would not admit that Maria their teenage daughter was blessed and chosen by God to bare his beloved son who will be the saviour of the world. And yes if Jesus said that, “there is no greater man born of a woman than John the Baptist” then that’s right because he Jesus case was special and he is not a human being but Gods son who came thru a virgin woman to act as a human being since the Jews has failed to accept words from prophets and angels warning them from their sinful acts like homosexuality, peodophilia, idols worshipping and children sacrifices. His death and suffering was prophesied in the Old Testament. The second coming of the saviour is not only for Jews but for those who are copying the same nasty acts against God commands. Drinking alcohol is not a sin if consumed appropriately. Too much of anything is dangerous. And there is no where in the bible that says you should not drink.
Of course LACEN omoro wanga I kom coc ma in I coyo manyutu kamaleng ni in imito kelo apoka I kin lodini I Acholi. LACEN mamegani obedo pa acholi magurwenyo pi lok pa laruba ruba calo megi ma I cako ni. Ento megi ni LACEN adela wang ma yenyo nek I kin dano. Dano weng pe gin ming to see that someone is trying to cause or to start conflicting issues. Yes kitiyo ki dini me bwollo African watin not only the Roman Catholic but Protestant, Muslim and other religions as well. But now what can you do apart from just accepting the good, and leave the bad? Keep practicing good traditional way and dumping the bad one. It’s a different way, but it leads to the same God Almighty Father if we stick in his ways of life. Please don’t judge others and do what is good for you and others nyuka dong oton woko I ciip and God is the judge.
The Virgin Mary was born to Hanah and johacim and she was a teenager when Gabriel Angel visited her and announced that she was full of Grace and Blessed among women and that she is going to have a son who’s name shall be called Immanuel which means that God is with us. And she replied that “how can it be when she doesn’t know man” anyway let it be as you said for I’m devoted to my God.
Maria onywalo Yesu keken. Joseph ma onongo dong otegi woro ni, was a widower ma onongo dong tye ki lotino gin ki dako ne ma otoo woko ni. Those were the steps sons and daughters the Pharisees referring to and Jesus was the youngest in the family born to a virgin and Joseph was a foster parent to Him. Do more research please. Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist is first cousin to Maria aka the Virgin Mary. I don’t know where you got this maliam from. Those are some fake names from fake Christian denominations with fake bible.
You are lying to yourself Dini you never studied religion in a catholic school because they wouldn’t called Mary Maliam secondly you don’t study sacraments you have sacraments in the church or in the hospital for the last one. Any film is acted how can you believe that that was the real Jesus when he was not in this era of computerised world? Why don’t you know that acholi Catholics called Mary “Labikira Maria min yesu ” if you had studied in a Catholics school? Kede mono ibedo la lok otyeno ma pole pe gukwano ento ki cako nying gi ni?
“Those were the steps sons and daughters …” You are saying that Joseph had children by another woman – and you are calling them step sons? I have never heard this before. So all these pictures in the catholic churches portraying Joseph/Mary looking similar age mates are fake then. You do not sound a young person, so it is sad to see how deceived you are. And you talk about research? It is you who should have telephoned around to ask whether Acoli had alternative names for these bible characters before the so called missionaries came. For instance if you go to Sudan in Bar El Gazel what people say Yecu, they call YACWA – that is the original name. And where to we get this proverb “Acung i wi bye ci awaco ni CWA weeee.” CWA or CUWA means SAVIOUR. That is the original Hebrew name to date.
We always say AYA Ber. What is the meaning of YA or aleluYA? The Hebrew deity is YA. YACWA means YA is SALVATION or in other words YA is the SAVIOUR. So when the “missionaries” came they changed the names of these bible characters in order to create their religion.
Did I say in Catholic school they call Mary Maliam? You did not read my statement properly. What reason have I got to lie? I studied in the Catholic schools both primary and secondary. I used to read in front of the congregation in Gulu Cathedral. Anyway I will not waste more time on you. There are people who are waking up left and right against deception. I think that is the way to go.
Watch Hebrew Israelites Youtube for real insight into bible and the purpose of Jesus (black Afro hair according to Rev 1:14). You will know that even God hatted EDOM or sons of ESAU (Red Devil ). Remember there is no white race – their skin is transparent to the extent that you can see their blood hence “red-neck”,”Blushing red” etc and ESAU who god hates according to the bible. God says, “I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau.” (Mal. 1:2).
Jesus never came “but unto the lost children of Israel”.