By Our Reporter
Kibuku District. A gang of radical Muslims entered a church compound in eastern Uganda, and pulled down the church building while shouting “Allah Akbar, away with this church and Pastor.”
The Born-again Church led by former Muslim turned Pastor Simon Mustafa Waseke, who received Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour in 2017, is located in Kibenga village, Lyama parish in Kakutu Sub-County, Kibuku District.
Soon after leaving Islam, Pastor Waseke narrated to Journalists this week how he had a congregation to lead after many Muslims in Kibenga, a predominantly Muslim area, accepted the message of repentance from sin and trust in Jesus Christ for salvation.
“Having many followers from those who had left Islam, I decided to put up a church building, and many converts from Islam joined the church – in just a few months, the number rose to 35 members,” Pastor Waseke told Christian Persecution Watchdog Morning Star News.
“This made the Muslims to be against the church.”
Villagers led by an imam identified only as Yuba on Oct. 10 pulled down the building of Christian Family Church at 5:30 a.m., Pastor Waseke narrated.
Pastor Waseke was alerted by a close Christian friend who is in contact with the area Muslim community, that the assailants are threatening to kill him unless he leaves the area, so he does not dare bring legal action against them.
“Even if am given police protection, I am not sure of the security of my members of the church, who are now very fearful,” Pastor Waseke said, according to Morning Star News. “I am at a crossroads of not knowing what to do. My church members are scattered like sheep without a shepherd. Soon their faith in Christ will diminish, and they will possibly return to Islam.”
Neither he nor anyone from his congregation goes near the church site, he said.
