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Ugandan pastor "killed by group of Muslims" for evangelising
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A pastor was tied up and killed by a group of Muslims in
eastern Uganda reportedly for converting Muslims to Christianity and refusing
to sell land for the building of a mosque.
According to Morning Star News (MSN), 38-year-old
pastor Robert Bakulubanywa of Bubulanga Victory Church in the Kibuku District,
was on his way home from a church gathering "when a band of Muslims killed
him near his house".
A local resident told MSN: "They grabbed him, then
tied him up and cut him with very sharp pang [sword]".
Bakulubanywa was killed n 24 July. His wife said that
Muslims in the area had threatened the pastor on several occasions, especially
after Friday prayers.
"The Muslims had issued several warnings to him to
stop converting the Muslims to Christ, especially the youth," she told
MSN. "For over a month the Muslims have been pressuring us to sell a piece
of land to them for the construction of a mosque, but my husband refused."
The newspaper reported that after prayers at the local
mosque on 22 July, one Muslim neighbour told Bakulubanywa's wife, whose name
has been withheld for security reasons: "Please, things are not good for
your family. Tell your husband to be very careful and leave the Muslims
alone."
She became troubled when her husband did not return home
on 24 July, which was a Sunday. After trying to call him without success at
around 9pm, she called a church elder who told her the pastor left for home at
around 730pm with another member of the church. She then became very scared,
she said, because her husband had had "serious confrontations with the
Muslims." She added: "I telephoned a neighbour who had accompanied
the pastor, and he informed me that some five Muslims stopped them on the way
and started questioning Robert on several issues, including taking their young
boys to church. The talk got tense, and one of them tightly got hold of him.
The neighbour then took off for his life, leaving my husband struggling with
the gang."
She then set out to the scene of the attack with
Christian neighbours. "We found my husband killed and lying in a pool of
blood," she said.
The couple has four children, ages 3, 6, 8 and 10.
According to MSN, some Christians reported the killing to
the local council chairman, Tyogo Muniru, a Muslim, "who took no
action". Police are now reportedly searching for the killers. MSN said
that: "In predominantly Muslim Bubulanga village, the killing has left
area Christians confused, frustrated and fearing for their lives."
In Uganda, around 85 per cent of the population is
Christian, and 11 per cent Muslim. However some areas of eastern Uganda have
large Muslim populations.
The country's constitution and other laws provide for
religious freedom, including the right to propagate faith and convert from one
faith to another.
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