NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A church outside Kampala, capital of Uganda, has closed after months of area Muslims pelting its gatherings with rocks, sources said. The final blow came on Aug. 4, when a stone thrown through a window struck Pastor Moreen Sanyu of Greater Love Church in Namasuba Para Zone, Wakiso District, and […]
Church Near Kampala, Uganda Closes after Months of Islamist Attacks
Pastor knocked unconscious by stone.
August 22, 2018 By - Leave a Comment
Children Kidnapped by Islamists in Uganda in 2015 Are Found
Father suspects they were to be forced into foreign terrorist group.
July 25, 2018 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three children kidnapped in 2015 in eastern Uganda were found in May, malnourished and showing signs of having been indoctrinated in Islam, relatives said. Had the children not escaped, they might have been forced into a foreign terrorist group, their father, Badiru Madengho, told Morning Star News. “It seems the […]
Islamist Violence against Christians in Uganda Injures Pastors, Stops Church Services
Threats compel pastor to send his children to another village.
July 13, 2018 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In further anti-Christian hostilities in eastern Uganda, Muslims knocked a pastor unconscious at a debate and Islamist threats in another village put a halt to worship services. Threats by Muslims in Mazuba village, Namutumba District, stopped worship services in a half-constructed church building and led the pastor to send his […]
Muslim Relatives of New Christian in Eastern Uganda Attack Him with Hot Oil
Assault comes a week after converting.
March 23, 2018 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A week after a young Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, relatives attacked him with hot cooking oil, sources said. Gobera Bashir, 27, is still in pain with burns on 40 percent of his body after the assailants attacked him the night of March 10. Bashir, from […]
Christian Convert in Uganda Suffers Sudden Loss of Father, Wife, Children
‘Infidel’ fears for his life.
January 31, 2018 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In a village in eastern Uganda, it took no more than a day for Munabi Abudallah to lose his wife and seven children after putting his faith in Christ. “The Muslims are searching to kill me,” Abudallah, 37, told Morning Star News by phone. “My family members have deserted me. I […]
Christian Widow in Uganda Poisoned on Christmas Day
Muslim neighbor confesses.
January 4, 2018 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five in eastern Uganda was pleasantly surprised when two Muslim neighbors visited her on Christmas morning with gifts of sugar, salt, soap, matchboxes, groundnuts and cooking oil. Nafamba Bongo Madina, whose children range in age from 5 to 14, thanked Taaka Hajira and the other Muslim neighbor […]
Christian in Uganda Who Lost Family to Muslims Beaten Unconscious
Former sheikh lost wife, three children.
December 7, 2017 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former sheikh (Islamic teacher) in eastern Uganda has been in hiding since he lost his family for putting his faith in Christ two years ago, but last month he was tricked into a life-threatening encounter. Mulangira Ibrahim, 27, was on his way to his pastor’s house after a church […]
Muslim Posing as Christian Teacher at School in Uganda Attacks Director, Sources Say
Students afraid to return to class.
November 16, 2017 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory International Nursery and Primary School have been afraid to return to class after Mugooda Siraji […]
Muslim Father in Uganda Drives Son from Home for Becoming Christian
Young man cannot deny faith he tried to keep secret.
October 10, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The young man did not answer after his father asked him if he had ditched Islam to become a Christian. Magale (also called Mabala) Hamidu, 20, of Nanoko village in eastern Uganda, had become a Christian seven months before. He had been failing to attend mosque prayers, and his father […]
Mother in Uganda Beaten, Driven from Home for Embracing Christianity
Woman leaves Islam after daughter is healed.
August 30, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said. Sophia Nakisaala, 35, turned to Christ on Aug. 7 after her daughter was healed when a street preacher she’d heard in Bulopa village, Kamuli District, prayed […]