The
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway
religious movement from the
Roman Catholic Church founded by
Credonia Mwerinde,
Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait in
Uganda. It was formed in the late 1980s after Mwerinde, a brewer of
banana beer, and Kibweteere, a politician, claimed that they had
visions of the
Virgin Mary. The five primary leaders were Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde. In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a
group suicide or an orchestrated
mass murder by group leaders after their
predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about. In their coverage of that event,
BBC News and
The New York Times referred to the Movement as a
Doomsday cult.