In Chains: Christian Persecution - 2019, Issue 1

Kidnapped and
Tortured but Won’t
Recant
Reprinted with permission: Morning Star News
Muslims in eastern Uganda sent a Christian
mother to the hospital with injuries from a
beating in one village and tore down a
church building in another, sources said.
Both the woman and the pastor of the
destroyed church building fear their lives
could be in danger.
“Today we have come to warn you that you
should avoid noisy prayers and the use of
Issa [Jesus] in your prayers,” the four
assailants said as they intruded into her
home at 2 p.m., according to Gimbo.
A local sheikh (teacher) had instructed the
assailants that people who pray in Jesus’
name should be fought and pressured until
they accept only worship of Allah, or else be
killed, she said.
“I said, ’I cannot stop praying, and more so,
Issa is my Lord and Savior, and I will
continue praying in His name,’” Gimbo told
Morning Star News. “Immediately two of the
intruders left the house, and in no time
entered the room again with sticks and
started beating me. I was hit on my face, and
blood started Ylowing down my face as I
started shouting for help.”
Neighbors arrived and rescued her, taking
her to a Budaka District hospital. She was
discharged after two days, she said.
Deborah Gimbo of Budaka town was
attacked the afternoon of Dec. 20 while
praying by herself in her home. She prays
three evenings a week in her home with two
other Christian women, and the assailants
told her they did not want them praying
loudly in Jesus’ name, Gimbo told Morning
Star News.
The intruders were identiYied as Satiya,
Ariziki, Mariam and Yahaya.
Neither Gimbo nor her husband, who was
away in Somalia on a six-month stint as part
of a U.N. peacekeeping force at the time of
the attack, are converts from Islam.