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New Vision - December 7, 2004
Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala has directed school chaplains to register virgin students who have pledged to abstain from sex before marriage and encourage them to stick to the pledge.
Wamala said this while closing a five-day Catholic students' conference at Trinity College Nabbingo yesterday.
Over 300 Catholic students, chaplains and teachers from 30 schools in Kampala Archdiocese attended the conference, which started on Friday. Participants watched films on abstinence.
Wamala hailed President Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet, for advocating abstinence more than condom use in the campaign against HIV/AIDS.
The Catholic faith discourages condom use in the fight against HIV/AIDS but preaches faithfulness for married people and abstinence among youth.
Wamala said many youth had crossed to the pentecostal Church because they failed to master the Catholic principles.
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