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A Christian human rights organization has called upon Christians to pray for a 27-year-old mother of three in Lwebitati village, Kitumbi Parish in Mubende District who was deserted by her husband upon finding out that she is born-again.
International Christian Concern (ICC) reported on Wednesday that Florence Namuyiga started secretly attending church shortly after converting on May 17, 2019.
She graced the prayer meetings with her 2- and 5-year-old sons, and had not chanced taking her 7-year-old son until November 24, 2019.
During an exclusive interview with Morning Star News, Florence Namuyiga revealed that the night she took her oldest son to church, he returned home and sang some of the church songs in front of his Muslim father.
When the husband heard the songs, he questioned Florence about where he had learned them. When she did not answer, the husband, 34-year-old Abudalah Nsubuga, questioned the son.
The boy, not knowing what was wrong, told his father about the church service. His father then went to bed without talking to his wife.
About four weeks ago, her husband told her she had to go to Friday mosque prayers, she told Morning Star News.
“I refused,” she narrated. “He started beating me up with sticks, blows and kicks. When I fell down, he left me and went to the mosque. I began bleeding with serious injury on my left arm. That evening he did not come to the house but slept in the house of one of my co-wives.”
When he returned, he threatened to kill Florence if she did not leave the house with their sons.
“He arrived and pronounced [ritual Islamic] words of divorce and threatened to kill me if I remained in the homestead together with my two sons,” she said. “There and then I left the homestead, leaving all my belongings behind.”
She said she and her three sons sought refuge at an undisclosed site.
“I have been supporting my three children by washing peoples’ clothing around the village,” Namuyiga told Morning Star News. “Indeed life is quite difficult for me and the children. I have realized that following Jesus is not easy. Sometimes I spend sleepless nights thinking on my future and that of my small kids, especially their school fees.”
Her husband, who has two other wives, divorced her after eight years of marriage, she said.
