The disturbing treatment of Namukuve Sawuya illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the occasion for persecution of Christians — both of the converts and of those who brought the converts the word of the Gospel.
Among the Christians of Uganda are around 35,000 Orthodox Christians. For information about the Uganda Orthodox Church, which is part of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, see here.
For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of Christian persecution in Uganda, see here.
“Young Christian Woman Killed by Muslim Family Member,” Morning Star News, April 12, 2024:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim brother of a 19-year-old woman in eastern Uganda on March 29 killed her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said.
Namukuve Sawuya had come to faith through a Christian Union Fellowship at her high school, a relative said. When her father, 60-year-old Alhaji Muzamiru, noticed she was not attending Muslim prayer times during Ramadan, he became angry and called her and her six siblings together at their home in Nawaningi village, Bulamagi Sub-County, Iganga District.
Muzamiru asked her why she had not attended the prayers, the source said.
“Namukuve kept quiet for a while and later replied that she had converted to Prophet Issa [Jesus Christ],” the relative said. “This angered her elder brother, Abdul Rahim Munaabi, and he got hold of a wooden chair and hit her on the head. She cried out once, saying, ‘Oh Mum,’ and then stopped breathing.”
Her mother was away checking on a relative who was ill in Naluwerere, the source said.
“Namukuve’s body was removed from the house and dumped in a swamp near the River Naigombwa,” the relative said.
Rice farmers in the swamp discovered the body and informed police. Officers took it to a mortuary for autopsy and were investigating the crime.
Sawuya’s body, abandoned in the mortuary, was buried on hospital land, the source said….
