Muslims in eastern Uganda put a Christian mother in hospital with injuries from a beating in one village, and tore down a church building in another in an attack on 20 December.
Both the woman and the Pastor of the destroyed church building fear their lives could be in danger.
Deborah Gimbo of Budaka town was attacked while praying by herself in her home. She prayed three evenings a week in her home with two other Christian women, and the assailants told her they did not want them praying loudly in Jesus’ name.
Warning
‘Today we have come to warn you that you should avoid noisy prayers and the use of Issa [Jesus] in your prayers,’ said the four assailants as they intruded into her home. A local sheikh (teacher) had instructed the assailants that people who pray in Jesus’ name should be fought and pressured until they accept only worship of Allah, or else be killed.
The woman said: ‘I cannot stop praying, and more so, Issa is my Lord and Saviour, and I will continue praying in his name’. Immediately two of the intruders left the house, and returned again with sticks and started beating up the woman.
