Uganda, Feb. 26 -- The National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches (NFBPC) has asked the government to involve Born Again churches in government programmes if they are to also develop themselves.

The NFBPC leadership claimed that they have been left out of most government programmes such as the Parish Development Model (PDM), a programme that the government is seeking to lift 17.5 million Ugandans in 3.5 million households out of poverty.

Mr Richard Magongo, the spokesperson of Pentecostal Churches, said the NFBPC has more than 14,000 churches with about 1,000 pastors and that if the born-again churches are involved in the PDM, they will crusade and rally Christians to embrace other government programmes.

He made the call on...