The Bible League of Canada web site states that "[t]he people of Uganda have voted and the President, the First Lady and the Minister of Education are mandating daily Bible reading as part of public and vocational education. That claim appears t be partially corroborated in a story from the Texas-based World Bible Translation Center, which shows the Center's CEO Dale Randolph meeting with Janet Museveni and describes her motivation for the Bible-reading mandate:

Uganda's First Lady, Janet Museveni, is a devout Christian promoting a revival in her native country to stop Satan's attempt to destroy the families and the health of the people. She is convinced that God's Word must be their guide to accomplish this revival. When she and the Honorable Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, the Minister of Education and Sports, met with Dale Randolph, CEO of World Bible Translation Center, their idea was to begin in the public and private schools with daily Bible readings by the teachers. There existed one major hurdle, the teachers did not have a Bible to read.

...Dale made a commitment for WBTC to provide Bibles for the 283,000 Ugandan school teachers. This commitment would be made in two phases--163,000 Bibles for the first phase then 120,000 Bibles for phase two. This is one of the largest distributions WBTC has every undertaken.

According to the report, Uganda has received the first shipment of 163,000 Easy To Read, produced at a cost of USD $4.00 per Bible. Fund raising for 120,000 more of the Bibles is underway.

As quoted in the story, Uganda's Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity Dr. Nsaba Buturo, who along with Janet Museveni and Uganda's Minster of Education has approved distribution of the anti-Jewish Manga Messiah comic books, believes that the "Easy-to-Read Bibles will surely be a powerful aid as our teachers seek to model and teach what it means to follow Jesus Christ in everyday life."

[illustrations from Manga Messiah]

As an unusual feature of the new Bible translation, the World Bible Translation Center's Easy To Read Bible features a strangely distorted translation of a passage from the Book of Revelation often cited by adherents to the viciously racist theological views of Christian Identity but otherwise usually ignored by mainline Protestant clerics and by most Evangelicals as well, in part for the fact that the very inclusion of the Book of Revelation, attributed by scholars now to the 1st Century hermit John of Patmos, in the Biblical canon is controversial.

Translated in the Easy To Read Bible, Revelation 3:9 reads, "Listen! There is a group that belongs to Satan. They say they are Jews but they are liars. They are not true Jews. I will make them come before you and bow at your feet. They will know you are the people I have loved."

Most notably, the World Bible Translation Center's translation has replaced the word "synagogue" with "group". That is however a mis-translation which changes the meaning of the scripture. The Greek meaning of "synagogue" is literally an "assembly" or "gathering", and so the choice to use the word "group" instead of "synagogue" gives the impression that the passage refers to Jews as a people rather than to an apostate church.

What's striking about this is that the un-doctored version of Revelation 9:3, with the word "synagogue" rather than "group", is frequently cited by Christian Identity adherents to justify their claim to be the "real" Jews. But, the World Bible Translation Center has apparently decided to ratchet up the apparent anti-Jewish animus of the scriptural passage, as if to remove any iota of doubt that Jesus was proclaiming that the Jews were not really Jews at all.

According to Next, Inc., a company set up to promote and distribute Manga Messiah, the  [Anglican] Church of Uganda, under Archbishop Henry Orombi, has requested ten million copies of Manga Messiah, pared-down from 300 pages to 64 pages for lower cost.

Beyond an overt anti-Jewish animus, the Manga Messiah comic depicts Judas as gay; the Judas character is depicted as androgynous, with earings, sporting a 1980's style "Boy George" haircut and wearing a flowing head cloth. Judas is described, also, as the disciple who manages the group's money and as possibly a member of a violent sect of assassins as well.

In a March 2008 trip to Uganda, after which his ministry announced that Uganda was officially the second "Purpose Driven" nation on Earth, Rick Warren made statements publicly supporting Ugandan Archbishop Henry Orombi's public boycott of the upcoming Lambeth Conference, a gathering of all Bishops in the Anglican Communion held every ten years. Orombi, Peter Akinola and other Anglican Bishops were protesting the Anglican Church's invitation, to the Lambeth Conference, of Bishops from the US Episcopal Church -- due to that church's election, as a Bishop, of Eugene Robinson, who is openly gay and living in a homosexual relationship.

As described in a March 29, 2008 story published by AllAfrica.com,

"FAMED American pastor, Dr Rick Warren has said he supports the decision by Ugandan bishops to boycott the forthcoming Lamebth conference in England, United Kingdom...

Dr Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. "We shall not tolerate this aspect at all," Dr Warren said.

In June 2007, Archbishop Oromobi appeared to allege, in a public address, the existence of an elaborate gay conspiracy, stating: "Acts of homosexuality and lesbianism have infiltrated our schools, especially secondary schools."

Archbishop Henry Orombi, along with Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola, was one of the most prominent leaders at the GAFCON Conference held June 2008 in Jerusalem. GAFCON represents a dissident faction of Anglicans worldwide who are opposed to homosexuality and a perceived drift of the Anglican Church from Biblical orthodoxy.

During GAFCON, at a press conference, Orombi was asked by a journalist from the UK Guardian about the fact that Bishops at the conference had not condemned ongoing human rights abuses, against gays and lesbians, that included rape and torture and are especially common in Africa including in Orombi's Uganda. As Archbishop Oromobi replied,

"I would not believe a thing like that is done in the public knowledge of the people of Uganda because the gay people who are Ugandans are citizens of the country and we would cherish the fact that we would want to send it our people. For some of those things probably you get information in England and we may not even get information, I don't know how they get their information."

But an August 21, 2007 Human Rights Watch letter to Ugandan President Yowerie Museveni stated,

"In a country where homosexual conduct can be punished with life imprisonment, the Ugandan government's latest call for arrests based on sexual orientation is a grave threat to basic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Yoweri Museveni. The letter urged the government to repeal its colonial-era sodomy law and end a long record of harassing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people."

Despite the call, during the GAFCON Conference, for a return to Biblical orthodoxy, some theological ground covered at the conference was distinctly unorthodox to say the least. At a conference workshop entitled "The gospel and the UK's cultural context", as described in notes written up by the Rev. Tim Davies and currently published at GAFCON's official web site, in the "Resources" section under the heading "Church Planting and Evangelism", GAFCON attendees were taught that Anglicans are actually "Jews" who, collectively, represent the "true Israel".

As Rev Davies wrote,

`The issue we face in the UK is that there is already a network of "established" churches across the country. This makes our situation, ironically, closer to the New Testament than perhaps in other parts of the world, as there are two groups in most places: "Jews" (established confessing YHWHists, synagogue in the 1st Century, Anglican church in the 21st Century) and Gentiles (people who aren't religious in any real way, but are vaguely aware of these other religious types who've been a fact of life for a very long time. In lots of places that means opposition from the religious people and indifference from the Gentiles.

Again, interestingly, the argument Paul and the 1st Century Christians found themselves making over and over again in Acts was, "we're the true Israel". Which is what we'd say about us church planters. What drives us is the loss of the gospel in these other "churches", and therefore we're the real Christians just trying to put it back.'

GAFCON speakers Henry Orombi and Peter Akinola also focused heavily on what Akinola called "signs and wonders" as a part of Anglican religious experience that validated the faith. Archbishop Orombi discussed a special pool the GAFCON attendees apparently found in Jerusalem, which dispenses healing miracles according to Orombi, who nonetheless lamented that the pool only afforded "limited healing". But during the same talk Henry Orombi proclaimed that the [Anglican] church should speak with the voice of Jesus, which could raise the dead.

Upon arriving in Israel the GAFCON attendees received a warm welcome from Israel's Deputy Tourism Minister Rafi Ben-Hur who addressed, at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the 1,200 Anglicans gathered for GAFCON.

As described in a June 26, 2008 story by George Conger, Ben-Hur declared "God brought the Anglicans to Israel," and that "Christians and Jews must unite against a common foe." As Conger's story described the extent of Ben-Hur's praise for the GAFCON members, who would shortly proceed to learn, in a GAFCON workshop, that Anglicans are really "Jews" and constitute the "true Israel",

"It is time for Jews and Christians to be blood together," Ben-Hur told the gathering, with many African bishops shouting "Amen" and "Hallelujah" in response. "We have enemies across the world and must stand together", he said.

While Gafcon has an exclusively Anglican focus, it is likely to have political-diplomatic consequences, as Israel has fêted the Nigerian leader and visiting Anglicans. "Go out, tell the world about Israel," Ben-Hur said, and be "ambassadors of Israel."