A former sheikh who converted to Christianity in Uganda has again suffered for his faith. In the latest attack, his Muslim relatives apparently tried to kill him with poison in late April.
Since Hassan Muwanguzi became a Christian in 2003, he has lost his wife and his job as a school teacher, been beaten by his family, been falsely accused of a criminal offence, been ordered to shut the Christian school he had opened, had his home burned down and been threatened with death.
At the end of April, he was hospitalised following a family gathering at which it appears a relative put insecticide in his tea. Hassan said: ‘They have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much… to them it is like I brought shame by converting, as a [former] sheik. But to God the Almighty Father, this was his plan for me to expand his Kingdom.’
