ICC Note: A Christian woman was found dead in her house on June 23 after attending an all-night prayer meeting. The 50-year-old woman, Efranse Kadondo, was facing threats from her Muslim neighbors who wanted her to give up some of her land for them to build a mosque on; she had consistently refused to do so, saying that is she donated her land, it would be to the Catholic Church. Her body was discovered by the police in her home and six men are suspected of murdering her. In the same district, a week earlier, the infant child of a Christian woman was poisoned by her Muslim relatives. Angel Nabirye, is Christian but she is married to a Muslim man and it is suspected that his relatives poisoned the baby after seeing her feed him during Ramadan. Uganda is a majority-Christian country, but eastern Uganda contains large pockets of land dominated by Muslims where Christians reportedly face regular persecution.

07/03/2016, Luuka District, Uganda (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in eastern Uganda last week killed a Christian woman for refusing to allow a mosque on her property, and in the same district Muslim relatives of a young Christian mother poisoned her baby, sources said.

Efranse Kadondo, a 50-year-old Catholic of Naigobya village, Kiyunga Sub-County in Luuka District, had resisted relatives’ pressure in March to donate part of her land for construction of a mosque, a local source told Morning Star News. One of her Muslim relatives, Zainabu Kasubuza, pressured her along with some imams, the source said.

He said Kadondo had told him, “I told Zainabu that if I have to surrender part of my land, then I will give it to the Catholic Church. This angered Zainabu, who forcefully chased me away with some imams who had accompanied him.”

Kadondo took refuge at a relative’s place in a nearby village, and on June 17 she reported the seizure of her land to police in Lakabuku (File No. SD 17/06/06/16), seeking orders for the return of her property, according to an officer who requested anonymity.

Six days later, Kadondo was killed after an all-night prayer meeting, sources said.

“Efranse attended an overnight prayer meeting at our parish on June 22 and left at around 4 a.m. on June 23, and later we heard the sad news that she was found dead in her house,” a Kiroba parish priest told Morning Star News.

Kadondo’s relative had spotted some Muslims lingering around the place where she was harboring her that evening, including a neighbor named Shaban Waida, she said.

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