ICC Note: A Christian was attacke din Uganda by his Muslim family one week after he decided to follow Christ. When they found out he had converted, they gathered together and attacked him with hot oil. They left him in a swamp, and it was only because a Christian family found him, that he received help.

03/27/2018 Uganda (Morning Star News) – A week after a young Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, relatives attacked him with hot cooking oil, sources said.

Gobera Bashir, 27, is still in pain with burns on 40 percent of his body after the assailants attacked him the night of March 10. Bashir, from Kakoli village, Naboa Sub-County in Budaka District, had received Christ as Lord and Savior the previous Sunday (March 4) when he accompanied a friend to a church in another village (undisclosed for security reasons), he said.

A pastor gave him a Bible and counseled him before he left.

“Be cautious when reading the Bible, since your family is a Muslim family,” the pastor told him after praying for him, Bashir told Morning Star News.

Four days later he was reading the Bible in his room when his younger sister entered.

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