ICC Note:

The relationship between Muslims and Christians continues to deteriorate as significant number of   Muslim youth covert to Christianity.  Christians who harbor new converts from angry families and neighbors are being targeted.   According to the 2014 census, Muslims make up only 14% of the population in Uganda.  A conversion of one more person to another religion and abandoning the Muslim faith seems to cause angry backlash from the the small Muslim population as a threat to the continuing of  existence of Islam in Uganda. 

11/14/2016 Uganda ( Christianity Today) –  Two teenage boys who converted to Christianity from Islam have been forced to go on the run in fear of their lives.

The Muslim persecution of the two Christian boys in Uganda is reported by Release International and Morning Star News.

Already, Muslims in their village in eastern Uganda’s Kibuku district have set fire to the home of a Christian adult who had given them refuge. This man’s house has been completely gutted.

The two boys, aged 16 and 17, fled in fear for their lives after their own parents threatened to kill them when they learned of their conversion to Christianity seven months earlier.

Apostasy is a capital crime in Islamic law.

The Christian adult told an area pastor that he now believed the life of his own family is at risk and said he had lost everything.

“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,” he said, according to Morning Star News.

The arsonists left threatening leaflets behind, warning: “Be informed that we are not yet finished with you. Expect more, worse things are on the way.”

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