Yusuf Kintu, a 41-year-old former Imam of Macca Mosque in Dolwe Island, Mayuge district was attacked and killed by a Muslims mob a few days after he renounced Islam to follow Christ.
International Christian Concern (ICC), a persecution watchdog located in Washington, DC, whose concern is the human rights of Christians and religious minorities, released a report yesterday confirming Kintu’s death.
The organisation said the father of four (4) succumbed to his injuries on December 7, 2020 after he was seriously beaten and left unconscious by a local Muslim community in the area that was upset in him for leaving Islam and becoming a Christian.
Speaking out on the tragic incident, Pastor Andrew Nyanma of the Full Gospel church Dolwe, told ICC Yusuf had put his faith in Christ on 30th November 2020 after hearing the gospel message.
He explained, “We had been talking on several occasions but he was so argumentative when we touched on matters related to faith. He was a brilliant Muslim Imam but also respected other people’s faith. On this day, he was calm and receptive. He gave me humble time to explain to him why Christ is the only way to the Father. He repented of his sins and committed to following Christ.”
Yusuf and his family were living in a house close to the Mosque where he was an Imam. Three days after he got saved, his wife Hashfa divorced him and left with two of their young children to her father’s home in Bugiri District. She left behind the two older children, Abudkriim 19, and Sauda 16.
“He was seriously beaten and left unconscious. His older son and daughter were not able to help him immediately, until morning when Pastor Andrew arrived and took him to the hospital. He later died while receiving care at the hospital,” ICC quotes one witness as saying.
As this website has revealed through various reports, many new Christians most especially in the Eastern region of Uganda suffer at the hands of their families and former islamic friends due to conversion.
Just recently, Muslim extremists raped a church pastor, 50, on Dec. 21 in Kapyani, Kibuku District, and warned her to stop converting Muslims to Christianity.
Two months before, she told media reporters, a Muslim neighbor had complained to her, telling her, “I am warning you not to come to our home. My children are now singing some Christian songs. I know soon they will come to your church. We as Muslims have no relations with infidels.”
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to convert from one faith to another.
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