Posted on 05/03/2023 5:31:56 PM PDT by george76
Muslim from his hometown suspected.
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Christian college student was killed in northern Uganda on April 14 for sharing about Christ with Muslims, a fellow student said.
Jeremiah Mwanga, a second-year student at the Uganda Christian School of Professionals in Lira, Northern Region, was killed in his room at the school in Gwangabara cell, Boroboro ward, East Division in Lira. He was 24.
Mwanga was a native of Kapchorwa District, in eastern Uganda, where the Muslim student at the school charged with killing him also lived.
“Jeremiah complained about messages from one of the students threatening to kill him for misleading Muslims by preaching to them the gospel of Christ as well as converting them to the Christian faith in the school,” a friend of the deceased told Morning Star News. “He requested prayers from the Christian Union fellowship.”
The friend, whose name is withheld for security reasons, said that on April 14 he heard screaming from a room on the school premises at about 10 p.m.
“After 30 minutes I rushed to the scene of incident and found out that it was Jeremiah’s room,” he said. “Inside the room was a pool of blood.”
Mwanga had already been rushed to a medical clinic near the school, he said.
“Reaching the clinic, I was told by the medical personnel that he had been referred to Lira Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival,” he said. “I found him lying in the hospital bed, dead.”
The friend requested he be given Mwanga’s personal effects, including his mobile phone.
“Going through the phone, I found out that the threatening message was from a Muslim student who happened to come from Kapchorwa also,” he said. “I then took the phone to the school administration who reported the matter to the police.”
The suspect, identified only as Chengalat, was missing from the school. Police in Lira contacted officers at the Kapchorwa town police post, who arrested Chengalat in the town. Chengalat was brought to Lira to face murder charges, the friend of the deceased said.
The killing was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
He belonged to the Religion of Love.
Happy martyrdom, happy sainthood my friend!
These are the type of Uganda animals making their way to our borders!! God please help us!
2nd amendment ping. Never give up your weapons.
Christian persecution. Does your pastor/priest care?
Sounds like USA.
Maybe he should have gone to the Muslim School for Professionals?
Horrible... If not for these Christian news sources, would we even hear about these atrocities?
“...I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.”
He is going to a better place.
I’m glad they caught and are prosecuting his murderer.
“Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on, ‘Yes’ says the Spirit, for they will rest from their labors and their works do follow them.”
Rev. 14:13
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