KAMPALA, Uganda — A pastor remains in critical condition and a Christian couple continues to recover from being poisoned last November by Muslim extremists in Uganda.
The pastor, Francis Kutekereza, is in intensive care in a hospital in Hoima after seven Muslim extremists invaded a home and forced him and a couple to eat poisoned bananas, Morning Star News reported. The cooked bananas had been laced with a fungicide known to cause ptomaine poisoning.
Morning Star’s Jan. 5 report quotes a source as saying the pastor is still “battling for his life.”
The couple was released in December from a clinic in Kigorobya after three weeks of treatment.
The incident occurred as the pastor held a weekly prayer time with the couple, who converted in October from Islam to Christianity.
A church elder, Morning Star reported, said the couple must be relocated because their lives are in danger.
Approximately 12% of Uganda’s population is Muslim. The country’s constitution and laws allow for freedom of religion, including converting from one faith to another, but Christian churches increasingly have received threats of violence, and some Christian converts have been attacked, killed or excommunicated by Muslim family members, World Atlas reported.
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