KAMPALA, Uganda — A young father who had put his faith in Christ only two weeks prior was killed July 8 for leaving Islam.
Morning Star News reported that Abudu Amisi, who lived in Kasanvu village, was stabbed multiple times as he returned from a market in Kasasira West village. He died on the way to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, sources said.
Amisi, who was married and had a 3-year-old son, had put his faith in Christ on June 22. After making this decision, he feared fellow villagers sought to take his life for leaving Islam, one source said. Amisi’s church protected him by housing him in a rental home.
The stabbing occurred when he accompanied two men from the church to a market in Kasasira, one of those men told Morning Star.
Police are looking for the suspects in Amisi’s death.
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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