In other security measures, all-night prayer rallies and crusades, which are popular with Pentecostal and evangelical churches, will now end at midnight.

Ugandan church leaders are asking Christians to produce identity cards and agree to security checks before entering some churches after two terrorist attacks at World Cup viewing parties left more than 70 people dead.

“We are taking these new measures to ensure that the worshippers are safe. We do not want the wrong people to enter into our churches,” Anglican Bishop Stanley Ntagali of the Masindi-Kitara Diocese told ENInews.

The security measures follow bomb attacks on July 11 in Kampala at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant, where people were watching the final match of the World Cup soccer championship.

Al-Shabab, a radical Somali Islamic group, claimed responsibility for the blasts and said there would be more attacks.

The Ugandan government has urged owners of buildings and other public facilities, including churches, to ensure their premises have adequate security measures, such as guards, metal detectors, cameras and lights.

The security measures for churches are intended for high-risk targets, but no churches will be forced to implement the checks.

“Worshippers have been cooperating. This is for their good. Everyone was shocked by the attack,” Ntagali said.

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