Abudu Amisi was attacked in Kasasira West village, Kibuku District, Uganda on July 8, 2023. (Morning Star News)
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – About two weeks after a 22-year-old Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, villagers on Saturday (July 8) killed him for leaving Islam, sources said.
Abudu Amisi of Kasanvu village, Pallisa District was stabbed multiple times while returning from a market in Kasasira West village, Kasasira Town Council, in Kibuku District, and died en route to a hospital, eyewitnesses said.
Amisi had accepted Christ on June 22 after six months of learning about Christianity. He is survived by his wife and 3-year-old son.
Amisi had ties with a Muslim missionary active in Pallisa and Kibuku districts, said a Christian leader whose identity is withheld for security reasons.
“Immediately after his conversion, Amisi was very fearful of his life from the Muslims in his village at Kasanvu in Pallisa District,” the leader told Morning Star News. “The church then housed him in a rental house, and he remained indoors for two weeks.”
On Saturday (July 8), the church sent two young men to go with Amisi to buy food at a market in Kasasira for a seminar training of Christian leaders, he said. One of the young men said that as they entered the market area, a Muslim who seemed to know Amisi from his village greeted them cheerfully, and they spent 10 minutes with him before proceeding to the marketplace.
“After buying the food items, we then began our journey back to the church,” said the young man, whose identity is withheld for security reasons. “About 50 meters from the market area, people began shouting and mentioning the name of Amisi, saying, ‘Here comes the betrayer of Islam. He should not see the light of the day.’ There and then they surrounded him and then began cutting him with long knives on his head, face and neck, and fractured his legs and hand.”
The terrified young men fled and called the church pastor, who immediately phoned police, and officers rushed to the scene.
“They hurriedly tried to rescue him, but it was too late, they had already cut Amisi, and he had lost a lot of blood and died on the way to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital,” the pastor said.
Amisi’s body was taken to a mortuary, where it remained as church leaders feared burial could occasion further retaliation from area Muslims, he said.
“We are now engaging the Pallisa County Council to assist in reaching out to the family of deceased for his burial,” he said.
Police were searching for the assailants.
The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
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Photo: Abudu Amisi was attacked in Kasasira West village, Kibuku District, Uganda on July 8, 2023. (Morning Star News)
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- Abudu Amisi was attacked in Kasasira West village, Kibuku District, Uganda on July 8, 2023. (Morning Star News)
I am a “Christian” Biblically because I “believeth” in “the words of truth” that are written in “the word of the Lord” in Acts 11:26 ~ Romans 10:8-13 ~ Ephesians 4:4-6 [AV]~[KJV]
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– And “it is written” unto those of “us” who truly are the followers of “our Lord Jesus Christ” in Romans, Chapter 1 [AV] :
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
[17] For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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I am personally so very-very-very thankful unto “the LORD JEHOVAH” (Isaiah 26:3-4 ~AV) for every one of the former ‘Muslim Background Believers’ {MBB} who know that when they choose to become followers of “our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” that many of them will suffer – and die for their “faith”
– For many of them do – like my young Kenyan brother “in Christ Jesus our Lord” Abudu Amisi
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I am also very-very thankful for every one of “my brethren” “in Christ Jesus our Lord” in countries all around the world who “hath” also chosen to follow the spiritual leading of “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost” (John 14:26 ~AV) to pray Biblically “the words of truth” that are written unto “us” in 1 Timothy, Chapter 2 [AV] :
[1] I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
[2] For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
[3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
[4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
[5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
[6] Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
~~~> Proverbs 21:13 ~ Hebrews 13:3 [AV]
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NOTE – This is my second attempt to post this comment – For the FIRST one ‘disappeared’
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I mis-wrote the country that my martyred brother was from – The corrected sentence is —
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– For many of them do – like my young Ugandan brother “in Christ Jesus our Lord” Abudu Amisi
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