Early in the morning of Wednesday Dec 23, just two days to Christmas,
Pastor Bongo Martin received a phone call from a Church member that Muslims
were removing boundary marks between the church and a mosque, and erecting new
barbed wire fence. On arriving the scene, the imam who led the task force
reminded Pastor Bongo that he had been previously asked to move his church away
from their neighbourhood. Thereafter,
one Abdulhakha Mugen drew his sword and struck the pastor’s neck. A few more
sword blows and 32 year old Pastor Bongo was finally decapitated. His body was
summarily thrown into the river – in broad day light! The event happened at Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namudumba District
See details and picture here This is only part of
a series of all-year-round gruel violence in Eastern Uganda.
The story of Hajii
Suleiman Sajjabi a convert from Islam in Kachomo village, Budaka district of
East Uganda is equally saddening. Though having received
Christ two years earlier, Sajjabi continued to attend the local Mosque and has been able to systematically win over members of
his family and a few neighbours to Christ. In secret, for fear of the
aggressive muslim majority, he organizes Bible study cum luncheon for his
converts. During the Bible Study of
Friday Dec 18, agents from the local mosque succeeded in introducing a toxic
pesticide into the meal, leading to the death of five of the converts, one of
them a pregnant lady. Sajjabi himself went into coma. About a week earlier, the imam at the local Kaderuna
mosque had written a letter rebuking Sajjabi for his covert missionary
activities. He had written: “Please be informed that we have known of your
deception, and we cannot take this lightly…. You should stop trying to change
the Muslims to Christianity in the name of providing support to our members of
the Muslim ummah.”
Another incident from Eastern Uganda in December was
the ambushing
of Ismail Kuloba, another convert from Islam. A policeman, Ismail received an
urgent call to intervene in a crisis that was supposedly brewing in the locality.
Unfortunately it was all a trap. Ismail ran into an ambush laid by about 20
Muslim extremists. According to Morning
Start News, one of the
assailants, Mudangha Kasimu, threw a stone that hit Kuloba in the forehead.
Kasimu then shot him twice in the head, to the shouting of “Allah Akbar ”
by the others. He died on the spot.
For more details
please check http://morningstarnews.org/2015/12/pastor-hacked-to-death-bible-study-members-poisoned-in-eastern-uganda/
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