In February 1977, Bishop Festo Kivengere fled Uganda in fear for his life.  A few days previously he had been part of a group of church leaders who had delivered a letter of protest to the dictator, Idi Amin.  They had spoken out against the beatings, arbitrary killings and unexplained disappearances taking place across Uganda at the time.  The delegation had been led by Kivengere’s friend and leader, Archbishop Janani Luwum.  Within twenty-four hours of delivering the letter, Luwum had been killed, and Kivengere driven into hiding and then exile.