Divorce is the process of terminating a contractual marital arrangement, marriage, or marital union. This arrangement can include cancelation and reorganizing the duties and responsibilities of marriage.
Christianity takes the stance that, often marriages can break down and this can sometimes mean that the couple decides to separate, this means to live apart. This separation can then lead to divorce if the couple chooses to end the marriage legally.
Divorce is mentioned in the Bible, the main source of authority and guidance for Christians. Jesus’ teaching on divorce is that it would lead to adultery, which is forbidden in the Ten Commandments, but he did allow for divorce in the case of a partner’s infidelity.
This follows the developments of House of Prayer Ministries International Church’s Pastor Aloysius Bugingo getting introduced by his worker Susan Makula while his official wife Teddy Naluswa Bugingo is still alive. Matooke Republic has compiled a list of some of the Ugandan pastors who divorced and remarried and those ones who left their lovers and remarried.
Pastor Aloysius Bugingo
Since 2019, House of Prayer Ministries International Senior Pastor Aloysius Bugingo has been trying to divorce Teddy Naluswa, his wife of three decades, so he can marry his employee, Susan Makula.
The excited man of God has even already announced that today Makula is introducing him to her parents.
“For the first time, a woman is going to introduce me to her parents,” Bugingo said on Sunday while leading prayers at Canaan Land in Makerere Kikoni.
Pastor Steven Mutesasira
Pastor Steven Mutesasira, Senior Preacher at Appointed Upper Room Church Kamwokya, and former husband to the singer Julie Mutesasira.
Steven and Julie were married for quite a long time and have three children together. Their marriage unfortunately ended with a divorce in 2016.
In 2020, he remarried, tied a knot with his new wife Judith Mutesasira in a glamorous wedding at Faith Power Centre, Entebbe.
Pastor Edwin Musiime
Pastor Edwin Musiime, the Chairman of the Crest Group Ltd, an investment firm and the founder of Transformation City Ministries in Uganda that has affiliations with Transformation City Church, in Australia and his estranged wife Isabella Lydia Masozera broke up over cheating allegations. The Pastor accused Isabella of cheating on him and the wife did the same. The marriage was full of counter accusations of infidelity.
In 2019, Edwin Musiime wedded another woman Christabell Musiime. The couple shared a meal with their guests at the plush Kampala Serena Hotel, following their introduction ceremony at Christabel’s home in Mutungo. They also had a boat-cruise pre-wedding celebration.
Pastor David Livingstone Kiganda
Pastor David Livingstone Kiganda, the founder and senior pastor of Christianity Focus Centre Church in Mengo Kisenyi, lost his first wife to a chapatti seller. His wife couldn’t settle for less in bed and decided to cheat on him. When the pastor got to know, he felt embarrassed and the woman fled their marital home.
In 2013 Kiganda married another woman Cindy Kiganda in an expensive wedding which took place in Harare Zimbabwe where they exchanged vows and promised to stay together for better for worse.