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Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
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Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Mwerinde said that her messages from the Virgin Mary came through a hidden telephone system communicated through ordinary items.
One year before the alleged apocalypse, a teen member of the movement was interviewed by a state newspaper, and stated, "The world ends next year. There is no time to waste. Some of our leaders talk directly to God. Any minute from now, when the end comes, every believer who will be at an as yet undisclosed spot will be saved."
When the first day of 2001 came and went with no evidence that an end was near, the movement began falling apart.
The day of the 17th, festivities were held in the community. Much food and celebration commenced, and then group members attended to their church to pray and sing.
The fate of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a tragedy among Ugandan families who had lost loved ones to the brainwashing of the cult.
The Apocalypse
This Movement began in the early 1990's's in Uganda, derived from Roman Catholicism, and became a thriving church community by the late 1990's, under the lead of two main people:
- Credonia Mwerinde
- Jospeh Kibweteere
By 1997, the movement had up to 5,000 members, all living communally on farm land in the Kanungu District of Uganda. By the next year, there were rumors that the cult was using child labor, and that they were possibly even kidnapping children, but were not shut down by the government.
Members began questioning their leaders and rebelling against them, so a new date was announced: March 17, 2000
- In 1984 Joseph Kibweteere claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary.
- Credonia Mwerind also had claims of having visions of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph.
- The two of them met in 1989 formed the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
- The Purpose was to spread the Virgin Mary's message about the coming apocalypse
Goals and Beliefs
The main message they claimed that the Virgin Mary gave, was that the apocalypse would be coming in the year 2000 and the only way to avoid damnation in that event was to strictly follow the ten commandments.
Suddenly, an explosion went off, and the church was engulfed in flames. The fire killed all 530 people inside, including Mwerinde and Kibweteere.