‘Bona fide rock star’: Archbishop of York’s controversial evangelical preacher brother

At his church in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, he has the delirious audience in
the palm of his hand.

“Say it’s gonna happen: in my clan, in my family, in my village, I’ll be
the richest!”, he boomed. “In my community, in the name of Jesus,
you are about to own estates!”

“You are about to own land! You are about to be the chief in the
corporation! You are about to be on the top. Remember this: you are the head
and not the tail!”

While Archbishop Sentamu frequently denounces consumerism in Britain, back in
Uganda, his brother glorifies the quest for riches.

“Someone say ‘I am on a mission today, in the name of Jesus. I will
dominate my field! I will be the smartest. I’ll be the most intelligent,
I’ll prosper! I’ll be the most wise. I am rich! I am wise! I am the head!
Hallelujah!” continued Mr Kayanja. “Oh lift up your hands and clap
your hands to Jesus, my God. Wooh!”

Again and again, Mr Kayanja urged his flock in one of the world’s poorest
countries to dig deep and donate to his church. “Just to let you know,”
he announced, “we need 100,000 Euros (£80,000) to buy dishes and
equipment for the satellite”.

The idea was to launch a satellite TV channel to spread the word, a project Mr
Kayanja hailed as “exciting, incredible, marvellous and supersonic”.

Anyone who donates will be rewarded, promised Mr Kayanja. “You might not have
been born rich but you can be born again rich IN CHRIST ALONE,” he recently
told his followers on Twitter.

As well as the largest church auditorium in East Africa where Mr Kayanja
controls two children’s homes and a primary school, along with a Bible
college and the Miracle TV station.

He has published more than 20 books, including “Purpose”, which
boasts of his prowess at miracles. “The most amazing miracles have been
witnessed with the blind, deaf, dumb, lame, lunatic (and) people with
hunchbacks” all being healed by the “power of God”, reads the
book.

James Onen, a local radio presenter, described Mr Kayanja as a “bona fide
rock star of evangelical Christianity in Uganda”.

Other pastors have been known to urge followers with Aids to abandon
antiretroviral drugs and rely on prayer. “To his credit, Robert Kayanja
is actually critical of pastors who tell their followers to stop taking ARVs
and pray instead,” said Mr Onen.

But the Archbishop’s brother is unabashed about his supposed miracle-working. “He
himself is known to frequently engage in miracle crusades, where purportedly
many people are miraculously healed,” added Mr Onen.

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