ICC Note 

Most of the Christian persecution experienced in Uganda is by converts from Islam. While Christians at birth do not become victims of violence by Muslim extremists, it is not so easy for those who leave the Islam faith. And those who provide shelter or any form of protection to converts will also experience a retaliation. A man who sheltered two convert boys was attacked and his home was burned down.  We pray both for the young men who recently came to Christ and the man who risked his own life to protect them.

11/8/2016 Uganda  (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a village in eastern Uganda on Sunday (Oct. 30) gutted the home of a Christian family for housing two boys threatened with violence for leaving Islam, sources said.

Stephen Muganzi, 41, told Morning Star News that the two teenaged boys sought refuge with him on Oct. 16 in Kobolwa village, Kibuku District after their parents earlier in the month learned of their conversion, began questioning them and threatened to kill them. The two boys, ages 16 and 17, had secretly become Christians nearly seven months before.

An area pastor told Morning Star News that Muganzi appeared terrified when he showed up at his church building with his family after fleeing the enraged mob.

“The life of my family is at stake,” Muganzi told the pastor, he said. “Where am I going to take them? I have lost everything that was in the house.”

After the boys had fled their homes and the parents began searching for them, Muganzi had begun receiving threats, he said.

“I started receiving threatening messages in my phone accusing me of converting the boys to Christianity, as well as housing them in my house without the parents’ permission, but I did not take it very seriously,” Muganzi said.

The boys’ fathers (names withheld, like those of the boys, for security reasons) organized a group of sharia (Islamic law) vigilantes to punish them for apostasy, and the mob, including the boys’ fathers, set fire to Muganzi’s house, he said.

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