ICC Note:  A Baptist pastor in Kibuku, Uganda has died after his radical Muslim neighbor poisoned his food on May 15^th, according to Morning Star News. Ahmed Mupere Micah Byamukama after the Christian cleric publicly denounced Mupere’s beliefs in Islamic Jinn as Satanic. This latest crime happens in a long line of numerous attacks against Christians in the country for the past year, despite Uganda’s majority Christian population. Islamic extremists not associated with the state continue to attack, beat, murder, and rape Christians in Muslim-dominated pockets of Eastern Uganda, especially converts from Islam.

05/26/16, Kibuku, Uganda (Morning Star News) – A Muslim villager in eastern Uganda is suspected in the poisoning death of a pastor on Sunday (May 15), sources said.

Micah Byamukama, pastor of Kasecha Baptist Church in Kasecha village, Kibuku District, died at Kabweri Health Centre at 9 p.m. after ingesting an insecticide that Ahmed Mupere put into his food that evening, area sources said. He was 61.

Mupere was said to be upset with Pastor Byamukama, a fervent evangelist, after public discussions in which the pastor challenged his belief in Jinn, supernatural creatures in early Arabic mythology and later Islamic theology. The pastor had asserted that “the true God is the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, who conquered the power of Satan including the Islamic Jinn,” an area source said.

“He maintained that the Islamic Jinn are acts of Satan and should be denounced,” he said.

Last week unidentified persons whom neighbors believe Mupere hired attacked the pastor with knives. The pastor was wounded before the neighbors responded to his cries for help and rescued him, they said.

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