ICC Note: A Ugandan former Muslim who converted to Christianity recently, is now suffering the loss of his family, friends, home, and business. Driven from his home by his Muslim relatives who sought to take his life, Kuluseni Iguru Tenywa now lives alone in a small shanty. He complained to the local council after his relatives also destroyed his business, but their intervention had no effect and he now lives without any means to provide for himself. Uganda is a majority-Christian country that protects freedom of religion and conversion, but Christians in eastern Uganda reportedly face persecution in Muslim-majority communities.

07/22/2016, Jinja District, Uganda (Morning Star News) – A 53-year-old man in eastern Uganda sits alone in a small shanty after losing his family, house and business because he left Islam for Christianity.

Muslim relatives drove Kuluseni Iguru Tenywa, a former imam, from his ancestral home the night of June 27 in Budhagali village, Jinja District. Led by his brother-in-law, 45-year-old Isa Nsaja, the relatives gathered outside Tenywa’s house.

“I heard people talking outside my house around 8 p.m., saying that they wanted to take away my life and, ‘We cannot watch the whole family turning to Christianity,’” Tenywa told Morning Star News.

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