Ajia Parish is a relatively young parish and since its inception and coupled with the poverty of the people, it was a big burden to build a new presbytery which was planned in the year 2005.  Since 2018 there is a new Parish Priest and a new Curate and with their effort it was possible to work on the…

St. Joseph’s Hospital Maracha, a private non-profit making organization in Arua Diocese under Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) network has been selected as isolation/treatment site in Maracha District and for the clergy and religious in Arua Diocese but it is not well prepared to prevent and respond to COVID-19 pandemic which has spread to Uganda with so…

St. Joseph’s Hospital was established in 1952 as an aid post and 1953 as a dispensary and then a maternity by the Comboni Missionaries. The health unit became a fully-fledged hospital in 1972. It was then handed over to Catholic Diocese of Arua in 1985, who now owns the hospital and manages it through a Board of Governors.

Catechists are the focal persons for holistic, grass-root evangelization. They have a fairly good number and proximity to the people compared to the priests and do 75% of the work of evangelization in the parishes with the guidance and directives of the priests.