NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda killed him on Sunday (July 3), a witness said. Simolya Latifu of Molu village, Kasasira Sub-County, Kibuku District was slain with a sword at about 7:15 p.m. at a swamp near Molu, the witness said. […]
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Christian Convert from Islam Killed in Eastern Uganda
Evangelist slain for leading Muslims to Christ, witnesses say.
July 6, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
Two Christians Killed in Church Burning in Uganda
Evangelist slashed in separate attack.
May 10, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two Christians died when Muslim extremists on Thursday (May 5) set fire to a church building in southern Uganda, sources said. Most of the Christians holding an all-night prayer vigil had left when the structure of Holy Healing Ministry International Church in the city of Jinja’s Mpumudde ward was set […]
Christian Apologist Beaten Unconscious in Kampala, Uganda
Muslim extremists tried to kill him prior to debate, he says.
February 2, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists on Saturday (Jan. 29) stopped an evangelist on his way to participate in a debate about Christianity and Islam in Kampala, Uganda and beat him unconscious, he said. Charles Kamya, 43, said he was about 300 meters from the open-air debate site in the Bwaise area of Kampala […]
Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Beaten for Faith in Christ
Muslim relatives urged him to return home for years.
January 24, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
(Update: Bashir Sengendo on Jan. 25 succumbed to his injuries, sources said. The father of four children was 35. The original Jan. 24 story follows below.) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity is still hospitalized with serious head, back and hand injuries after Muslim relatives […]
Christian Widow, Daughter Beaten Unconscious in Uganda
Muslim extremists who killed husband also tried to kill them in October, mother says.
January 12, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda beat a widow and her 16-year-old daughter unconscious on Dec. 30, leaving the girl unable to walk a year after killing her father, sources said. Suffering from an apparent spinal injury, Oliva Apio has had to discontinue her high school studies, said her injured mother, […]
Mother, Children in Uganda Hanged for Faith in Christ
Absconding Muslim husband suspected.
January 5, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in central Uganda is suspected of hanging his wife and two children because the young mother and oldest child received Christ after attending Christmas Day and Sunday worship services, sources said. A neighbor on Dec. 28 found Shamira Nakato hanged with her two children, ages 3 and 8, […]
Newly Christian Families Driven from Homes in Uganda
Mother flees Muslim husband; farmer’s plantation destroyed.
December 30, 2021 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her children last week fled the violence of her Muslim husband in eastern Uganda, and earlier in a nearby district villagers destroyed a newly believing family’s crops and drove them from their home, sources said. Aisha Nambeya, 27, and her five children ages 9 to 2, […]
Muslim Extremists Suspected in Killing of Church Elder in Uganda
Police arrest two suspects, looking for others.
November 10, 2021 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the killing of a 60-year-old Christian elder who had led Muslims to Christ, sources said. The decapitated body of Alex Mukasa of Busandha B village, Bukoova Town council in Luuka District, was found on Oct. 17. He had left home on Oct. […]
Muslim Relatives Beat, Starve Christians in Eastern Uganda
Convert escapes being set on fire; mother and child locked in room.
October 22, 2021 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her young son on Monday (Oct. 18) escaped the bedroom where her Muslim husband had starved them for two weeks, a day before another Christian convert was beaten but escaped being set aflame, sources said. Muslim relatives on Tuesday (Oct. 19) beat Mustafa Obbo with sticks […]
Islamic Extremists Burn Pastor to Death in Uganda
Villagers set house on fire.
July 6, 2021 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda set a pastor’s home on fire on Wednesday (June 30), burning him to death, sources said. Pastor Isima Kimbugwe’s body was burned beyond recognition after the assailants set his home on fire in Buseta village, Kibuku District at about 10:30 p.m., local Christians said. Leaving […]