Husband who beat, strangled wife leaves her and son for dead
By Dan Wooding, who was born in Africa, and is the Founder of the ASSIST News Service
NSINZE VILLAGE, UGANDA (ANS - August 14, 2015),
A Muslim in eastern Uganda beat and left for dead his wife and
18-year-old son on Tuesday (Aug. 11) after learning they had converted
to Christianity, area sources said.
According to the East Africa Correspondent for Morning Star News (http://morningstarnews.org),
Issa Kasoono beat and strangled his wife, Jafalan Kadondi, in Nsinze
village, Namutumba District, but she survived, said a source who
requested anonymity for “security reasons.”
He said other relatives joined
Kasoono in beating her and their two sons, Ibrahim Kasoono, 18, and
Ismael Feruza, 16, though the younger son managed to escape with only
bruises on his arm.
All three were treated at a
local clinic. Due to injuries from the strangling, Kadondi has lost her
voice and has difficulty eating, according to the source and an area
pastor.
“The mother and Ibrahim Kasoono
were seriously injured,” the source said. “Ibrahim was hit with a blunt
object, had his right arm broken and has stomach pains, while the
mother was strangled and sustained neck and throat injuries.”
Morning
Star News stated that Kadondi requires specialized treatment for her
throat injury, said an area pastor whose name and church are withheld
for security reasons.
Issa Kasoono left his wife and
oldest son inside the house expecting them to die, the two sources said.
After Ismael escaped, he ran to a church and informed the pastor of the
violence. The pastor and two elders drove to the house, discovered
Kadondi and Ibrahim were alive and took them to the clinic in Nsinze, he
said.
On Wednesday (August 12, 2015), the pastor took them to a relative’s house in another district, he said.
The mother and her two sons put
their faith in Christ three months ago, and Kadondi had occasionally
been able to secretly attend church meetings. After attending an
open-air evangelistic event in May in Nsinze village, Kadondi and her
two sons met with the pastor. After he further explained the gospel,
they prayed with him to receive Christ as Lord and Savior, he said.
It
was only during this time, when Ibrahim and Ismael are in their
holidays, that Issa discovered that the three had joined the Christian
faith when a Muslim neighbor informed him,” he said.
Recently, converts from Islam
to Christianity in eastern Uganda, have been suffering persecution
regularly. The wife of a former sheikh (Islamic teacher) was poisoned to
death on June 17, 2015, after she and her husband put their faith in
Christ in Nabuli village, Kibuku District. Namumbeiza Swabura was the
mother of 11 children, including a 5-month-old baby.
In Kiryolo, Kaderuna
Sub-County, Budaka District on March 28, five Muslims gang-raped the
17-year-old daughter of a pastor because the church leader ignored their
warnings that he stop worship services, she said.
“Uganda’s population is 85
percent Christian and 11 percent Muslim. The country’s constitution and
other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to
propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another,” said
Morning Star News.
Photo captions: 1) Rural Mbala,
in eastern Uganda. (Photo: Michael Shade).2) Worship service in Uganda.
(Photo courtesy of Nathan Hale Williams blog). 2) 3) Book cover. 4)
Dan Wooding and Ray Barnett, standing on a bridge in Uganda, where the
bodies of thousands of Christians were fed to the crocodiles. This photo
was taken while Dan and Ray were researching their book, Uganda Holocaust.
About
the writer: Dan Wooding, 74, is an award-winning author, broadcaster
and journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents,
and is now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he
has been married for 52 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter,
and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He has written some 45
books, including Uganda Holocaust (with Ray Barnett) and has reported for ANS from all over Africa.
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