NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Upset over conversions to Christianity, hardline Muslims in an area of eastern Uganda this month sprayed a newly Christian family with acid and beat a former mosque leader, sources said. In Intonko village, Namutumba District, Muslim relatives on March 8 sprayed acid on Juma Waiswa, 38, his 32-year-old wife Nasimu […]
Family Sprayed with Acid for Leaving Islam
In same district, former mosque leader beaten.
March 22, 2022 By - 1 Comment
Hardline Muslims Kill Evangelist at Open-Air Event
Speaker cited Koran in campaign in Uganda.
March 8, 2022 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hardline Muslims who grew furious at the preaching of a speaker at an open-air evangelistic event last week in eastern Uganda beat him to death and burned his body, sources said. John Michael Okero was quoting verses from the Koran about Christ on Feb. 28 in Kadungulu village, Serere District […]
New Christian Seriously Injured after Church Service
Muslim 20-year-old accepted Christ that morning.
February 18, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Before Sadi Bwanga could make it home from the church service in eastern Uganda where he had just put his faith in Christ, Muslim relatives found out and intercepted him. Bwanga, 20, had prayed to receive Christ at the Feb. 6 church service in Kadama, Kibuku District that morning, said […]
Evangelist Beaten, Tied Up to Be Burned for Converting
Muslim relatives attack after funeral.
February 16, 2022 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a Christian evangelist on Feb. 6 beat and tied him up to be burned to death after he returned home for a funeral in eastern Uganda, he said. Malingumu Bruhan, 34, returned to Kaliro District for his grandfather’s funeral in Muhira village, Nawaikoke, and then accepted his […]
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, […]
Christian Previously Beaten Lured into Lethal Trap, Sources Say
Killing follows prior attempt by relatives to burn him to death.
November 17, 2021 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Brothers of a Christian in eastern Uganda on Nov. 2 lured him to a site more than six hours away where they and other Muslim extremists killed him for leaving Islam, sources said. Police from Kabango town, near Masindi in western Uganda, recovered the body of Mustafa Obbo, burned beyond […]