KAMPALA, Uganda — Relatives of a Ugandan woman bound and beat her, and her father inflicted burns upon her a week after she put faith in Jesus Christ, Morning Star News reported.
Naasike Maliyati, 19, of Nampologoma in Butaleja District, put faith in Jesus Christ at an evangelistic crusade July 15 in Lwangoli in Mbale District. According to Morning Star News, she told her sister about the conversion, and her sister informed their father.
On July 21, Maliyati came home from a church service to find her father and uncles angry with her.
After the group bound and beat her, her father burned her with a flat iron and hot water for leaving Islam, Maliyati told Morning Star. She was left near the Namatala River.
Crying out to Jesus
A Christian passerby heard Maliyati crying out to Jesus. The passerby found her, transported her to a clinic and paid $8 (30,000 shillings) for her to be admitted for treatment.
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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