KAMPALA, Uganda — Injuries from a severe beating for trying to convert people to the “wrong religion” left an evangelist in Uganda hospitalized.
On Sept. 20, evangelists Robertson Eriot and Kefa Mukisa visited homes near Busia town, telling people about Jesus, Mukisa explained to Morning Star News. One homestead they visited was that of Sheikh Kalimu, an Islamic leader.
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As the evangelists told the sheikh’s gate watchman about Jesus, Kalimu overheard and “ordered his boys and other Muslims … to discipline us,” Mukisa recounted.
Kalimu, Mukisa continued, shouted that the evangelists were seeking “to convert our people to the wrong religion.”
Failed escape
Mukisa said he was able to escape by jumping a fence, but the group caught Eriot and beat him.
At Mukisa’s cries of distress, local leaders and others from the neighborhood came to help and found Eriot in a pool of blood. They took him to a clinic for treatment.
As of Sept. 25, Eriot — the father of six — was still in a Busia hospital. His recovery is expected to be long, his wife told Morning Star.
Approximately 12% of Uganda’s population is Muslim. Uganda’s constitution and laws allow for freedom of religion, including converting from one faith to another. However, Christian churches increasingly have received threats of violence, and some Christian converts have been attacked, killed or excommunicated by Muslim family members, the World Atlas reports.
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