{"id":85027,"date":"2026-07-30T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85027"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:20:07","slug":"catholic-priest-sentenced-to-31-years-in-prison-for-murder-attempted-murder-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/catholic-priest-sentenced-to-31-years-in-prison-for-murder-attempted-murder-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Sentenced To 31 Years In Prison For Murder, Attempted Murder, In Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">A Catholic priest previously suspended in Uganda has been\u00a0<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/category\/news\/catholic-priest-rev-fr-alinga-sentenced-to-21-NV_237675_072026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sentenced to 31 years<\/a>\u00a0in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of a\u00a0<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ura.go.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uganda Revenue Authority<\/a>\u00a0(URA) official and the attempted murder of a man who tried to help, bringing to a close a criminal case that has drawn widespread attention in the East African nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Justice Flavia Nabakooza of the High Court in Entebbe handed down the sentences on July 23 after Father Dominic Alinga admitted to the murder of John Bosco Ngorok and the attempted murder of Moses Abigaba, who was riding a boda boda (a bicycle or motorcycle used as a taxi to carry passengers or goods) and tried to intervene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: A Catholic priest previously suspended in Uganda has been\u00a0sentenced to 31 years\u00a0in prison after pleading guilty to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85028,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions\/85028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}