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In the latest case of honour killing in Pakistan, a man allegedly axed to death his sister and one of her male friends in Punjab province as he suspected them of having an affair, police said on Wednesday.

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The incident happened on Tuesday in Alipur tehsil of Muzaffarnagar district of the province, some 375 km from the provincial capital, Lahore.

According to the police officer Haseeb Javed, Mulazim Hussain suspected that his sister Zaitoon Bibi, 20, had illicit relations with Fayyaz Hussain of their locality.

“On Tuesday, Mulazim followed his sister who met with Fayyaz at his place. Mulazim reached there and attacked the couple with an axe, killing them on the spot,” the police officer said.


After committing the crime Mulazim surrendered before the police and confessed to his crime.

“He killed his sister and her boyfriend as he felt that it has disgraced the family’s honour,” Javed said and added that a murder case has been registered against the suspect.

A good number of people, especially women, are killed in Pakistan every year in the name of honour.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honour every year in Pakistan.


The victims of honour killings are widely perceived to have brought shame and dishonour to their families either by marrying against their will or having an affair.

Most often the family members are behind such killings.

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Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted an explosive device on a street in central Warsaw, Poland, earlier this month. There were no injuries.

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Police said in a statement published on Monday that the woman placed the device in Warsaw on the night of November 10-11 and then took a train back to her home in western Poland.

Nobody was hurt, but the device had the potential to injure many people, police said.

“The makeshift explosive device filled with gas containers and nails could have caused a serious threat to the health and lives of many people,” the statement said. It added that she was charged with “causing danger and bringing danger to the life and health of many people, as well as preparation for causing such danger.”

Police used CCTV footage to track her movements. After planting the device in Warsaw, she headed to the central train station in the capital and then traveled to the western Polish city of Wroclaw, and was arrested at her home in the nearby town of Strzelin.

They released a video showing police fingerprinting and handcuffing her and also showed some of the objects they said they found in her home. Among them was an image of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

“Police officers secured items and gadgets related to Islamic State, as well as items that could have been used to construct another explosive device,” police said.

Two Christians in eastern Uganda were hospitalized after hardline Muslims beat them for their presentation at a religious dialogue organized by muslims, one of the victims said.

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Musa Kirongosa, 32, and Swidiki Buyinza, 27, of an undisclosed church in Nawaikoke, Kaliro District, were the first to speak at the Christian-Muslim dialogue organized by Muslims in Bulumba town. Using both the Bible and the Koran, they argued that Muhammad was a false prophet, with Kirongosa asserting, “Truth is only found in Christ Jesus as the one and the only Savior for mankind.”

Angry Muslims in attendance grew rowdy before the two Christians had finished, forcing them to flee and go into hiding at the nearby home of a Christian, Buyinza said. Some of the Muslims rushed ahead to block the road leading out of the area, and about two hours later, at about 7 p.m. when the area was vacated and quiet, the two Christians thought it was safe to leave.

“When we left around 7:30 on our motorcycle, just a few kilometers along the Nawaikoke-Bulumba road we were stopped by Buruhan Musobya, a well-known Muslim extremist, and six other Muslims,” Buyinza told Morning Star News. “They began shouting, ‘Allah Akbar [allah is Greater], these are the enemies of our prophet, Muhammad, as well as our religion. Kafir [Infidels]! Kafir!”

The assailants broke their motorcycle to pieces and tore up their Bibles and other Christian literature, he said.

“Thereafter they started beating us badly with blunt objects that led to the fracturing of Musa’s right leg,” Buyinza told Morning Star News. “Two of the attackers held me tightly and beat me with sticks as four others were beating Musa and stepping on him while he was lying down in the middle of the road.”

A taxi arrived and flashed its headlights, and the attackers fled, he said. The taxi stopped and passengers got out, including a pastor from Kaliro town who recognized Kirongosa and took the two Christians to a hospital there.

Buyinza said he was discharged after spending one night in the hospital, but that Kirongosa received treatment there for five days.

“One of the sheikhs secretly visited us in the hospital and said that he has been a seeker of Christianity and plans to join the Christian faith after listening to the dialogue where things went wild,” Buyinza said. “Please pray for the sheikh’s salvation and these radical Muslims, and as well the provision of the medical bill. Though we were beaten, we know all things work together for good to those who love Jesus.”

Their church was preparing to a file a case against Musobya and the other assailants, he said.

A 17-year-old Viennese teenager was seriously injured by self-appointed guardians of public morals on Reumannplatz because of a relationship with a muslim girl. Three of the attackers are now on trial.

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In a shocking incident in Vienna, a 17-year-old Austrian was brutally attacked on Reumannplatz by a group of self-appointed guardians of Islamic public morals. The young man suffered serious injuries, including a broken jaw, a broken cheekbone and a smashed nose. The reason for the attack: he was on a date with a muslim girl and had kissed her.

The victim, who is plagued by nightmares, reported that he was surrounded by seven to eight muslims. One of the attackers showed him a video of him and the muslim girl kissing. The attackers, who claimed to be moral guardians, explained that the girl was only allowed to go out with a muslim before brutally attacking him. After the attack, the victim was forced to delete the girl’s phone number from his mobile phone.

Three of the attackers, who are already known and have already stood trial, were charged again. The panel of lay judges came to the conclusion that it was a case of intentional grievous bodily harm. The sentences: 16 months’ conditional imprisonment for the first two defendants and twelve months’ conditional imprisonment for the contributory offender. In addition, the victim was awarded compensation for pain and suffering totalling 4,451 euros. All judgements are not yet final.

A Muslim gunned down a 20-year-old Christian in islamic Pakistan, the latest case of a religious minority victimized for unknown reasons with police slow to act, sources said.

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In Talwandi Inayat Khan village, Pasrur tehsil of Sialkot District, Punjab Province, Farhan Ul Qamar was killed in his under-construction house at about 3 a.m. by Muhammad Zubair, his brother Shahan Ul Qamar said.

“Farhan was training to be a laboratory technician and was a humble soul, and we are clueless as to why Zubair trespassed in our home in the dark of the night and killed him,” Ul Qamar told Morning Star News.

He said he and his brother were sleeping in their parents’ room when the noise of the intrusion woke them.

“When my father turned the light on, he saw Zubair sitting on the window sill with a pistol in his hand,” Ul Qamar said. “Before my father could say something, Zubair started hurling abuses at Farhan, who had just woken up, and then opened fire at him, hitting him thrice in the right ear, neck and collarbone.”

As the entire family woke to the gunshots, Zubair jumped inside and held Ul Qamar’s mother at gunpoint, he said.

“He continued to curse and abuse us as he made his way to the main gate while pointing the pistol at my mother,” he said. “We looked on helplessly as the murderer got on his motorcycle and fled while shooting in the air.”

The previous day, Zubair had tried to pick a fight with his brother as he stood outside the home under construction, Ul Qamar said.

“Farhan and my paternal uncle were talking when Zubair appeared out of nowhere and started cursing Farhan over a pile of bricks that was placed on the roadside by laborers working on our under-construction house,” he told Morning Star News. “Zubair doesn’t even live on our street, and there was no reason for him to quarrel with Farhan.”

After a minor verbal exchange, Farhan Ul Qamar avoided getting into an argument with Zubair and came inside, his brother said. He denied social media comments that his brother had been killed for writing a pro-Israel post on Facebook.

“We don’t know why people made these claims on social media when nothing of this sort actually happened,” he said.

Living among 18-20 other Christian families in the village, Ul Qamar’s family has resided in the area for generations.

“Though we have been living in this village for over 100 years, the attitude of some Muslims has been prejudicial towards us because of our Christian faith,” he said. “Some days ago, two Christian brothers, Aqib Javed and Asher Javed, were beaten up and their father, Javed Masih, was illegally detained by the local police for nearly a week after they reportedly expressed support for Israel in wake of the recent conflict in Gaza Strip.”

He added that some residents had subsequently threatened the Christian families, telling them to leave the village, but a local cleric and others intervened to stop the harassment.

“They told the inciters that Christians have been living here for a long time, and no one could force them to leave their ancestral village,” Ul Qamar said.

His parents and two sisters were traumatized by the killing, and lax efforts by police have added to their grief, he said.

“The police arrested Zubair the next day, but to date we have not been informed why he murdered my brother,” Ul Qamar said. “Every time we ask them about the progress in the case, we are told they are still investigating.”

The investigating officer on the case said police had taken Zubair into custody a few hours after the shooting, but that his arrest has not yet been formally registered.

“Zubair is a criminal and was previously booked in seven or eight cases of a different nature,” the officer, identified only as Fayyaz, told Morning Star News. “We are interrogating him for Farhan’s murder, but so far he hasn’t told us why he murdered the boy.”

He vowed that the Christian family would get justice for their slain son.

Attorney Lazar Allah Rakha said it was not uncommon for Pakistani police to delay registering formal arrest of [muslim] suspects and presenting them in court.

“Courts normally give police four or five days physical remand of the accused for interrogation, which is why police officials tend to complete their investigation before formally showing the accused’s arrest and presenting them before a judge,” Rakha told Morning Star News. “By doing this, the investigating officials try to show their superiors that they have managed to solve the case in record time.”

Rakha expressed concern over the killing and called for a thorough and fair investigation.

“Government and police officials need to take notice of growing incidents of violence against religious minorities in Punjab, especially Christians,” he said. “It’s also important that speedy justice is delivered to the victims, and the perpetrators are punished according to the law, so that the minorities can feel safe in this country.”

Ul Qamar said his father, Noor Ul Haq, used to work in the fields but had to quit some months ago due to health issues.

“We are poor and do not have the means to pursue the case in court,” he said. “Even the police are not paying any attention to our plight, and it seems that my murdered brother will not get justice.”

In a recent video exposé, Italian news group Fuori dal Coro unveils the growing influence of islam in Italy through an extensive investigative video. The report focuses on Tablighi Jamaat, a contentious muslim missionary movement recognized as the world’s largest religious proselytizing group. Operating globally, the group raises concerns due to its ties to terrorism, promotion of universal imposition of strict Islamic rules, and its ambition to replace Western laws and principles with sharia. The investigation emphasizes the urgent need to address and monitor such ideologies to safeguard the safety and security of the Italian and Christian populations.

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Tablighi Jamaat, originating in India, is active in various regions globally, including Southwest and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. Despite presenting itself as open and socially integrated, the group faced accusations of ties to terrorist organizations after the 9/11 attacks. Members, including those linked to the 2005 London bombings and the failed shoe bomber Richard Reid, have been associated with a Tablighi mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. U.S. security officials label Tablighi Jamaat a “recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda,” and French intelligence characterizes it as an “antechamber of fundamentalism,” suggesting the group’s ultimate goal, like Islam itself, is a “planned conquest of the world” in the spirit of jihad.

The video kicks off with chilling declarations foretelling a grim future: “There will be a massacre of millions of people,” setting an alarming tone that permeates the entire investigation. The report posits that what is often dubbed “radical” Islam is not a distortion but a direct embodiment of the teachings of [false] Prophet Muhammad, subtly concealed within the confines of mosques. This pervasive influence is increasingly asserting itself in Italian cities, with Rome emerging as a notable epicenter. The investigation challenges the prevailing notion that Islam is merely co-opted by extremists, emphasizing that, in reality, it is the very ideology that propels their actions.

A conversation with a prominent Tablighi leader in a mosque in Centocelle, Rome, reveals startling insights. The leader confidently asserts, “If the Muslims who are here in Rome practice that law, no one can stop them. No one. The conquest of Rome? Rome has already been conquered.” This articulation mirrors an ideology intent on imposing Islamic laws on the Christian world, showcasing the extent of their influence and the success they have already achieved.

The video traces the expansion of the Tablighi group in Italy, highlighting their role in establishing meeting places where Islam is preached. The report takes viewers on a journey from Calderara di Reno in the province of Bologna to Genoa, revealing the spread of Tablighi influence in Italy and their engagement in other European states, with some individuals participating in or advocating terrorist activities.

The investigation reveals the insidious nature of the Tablighi Jamaat movement, exposing their efforts to enforce stringent Islamic rules, including the compulsory wearing of the burqa, even on non-Muslims. A disturbing dialogue captured in the video showcases a Tablighi member attempting to impose Islamic norms on an individual, cautioning, “If you don’t wear the burqa, you will account to Allah because you didn’t wear the burqa.”

Moreover, the report addresses the discriminatory beliefs of the Tablighi group, unveiling statements suggesting that women are treated as objects and men’s property. The investigation highlights that these rules not only infringe upon women’s rights but also contradict Western values and laws.

The report draws attention to a concerning incident in Genoa, where a Bangladeshi citizen affiliated with Tablighi Jamaat Eddawa [the missionary branch of the group] was arrested for ties to a terrorist organization linked to Al-Qaeda. Despite such incidents, the head of the Tablighi center in Bologna denies any radicalism, stating, “We are open-minded people.” Simultaneously, there is an expressed desire to conquer Rome, echoing a prophecy from Prophet Muhammad.

In Brescia, the investigation reveals that multiple mosques managed by Tablighi members are under scrutiny for suspicious financing to countries at risk of terrorism. The report includes interviews with mosque representatives staunchly defending their practices, refusing to acknowledge wrongdoing.

Fuori dal Coro’s investigation underscores the Tablighi Jamaat movement’s active promotion of Islam and its explicit aim to conquer Christian societies by establishing Islamic laws, Sharia.

“The movement wants to impose the laws of the Qur’an on the entire West. According to the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Tablighi preach the true Islam, the radical one. They approach thousands of young people from European countries through daily ritualism that produces the rejection of the West. ‘There will be a battle against non-believers.’ ‘There will be a war against each other.’ ‘And it will be a massacre of millions of people.’ ‘And after the war?’ ‘Many people will join Islam. And so, the conquest of Rome, the conquest of the Christians will automatically take place.’

This raises grave concerns, emphasizing the need for careful consideration and monitoring to safeguard the safety and security of the Italian and European populations.

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"Non-Arab who without shame called themselves muslims are just plain converts whom are lowly cowards with unhonourable souls that were overwhelmed with ease by the sword of allah. Thus, they deserved to be called as our dogs."
-Arab Imam, Muhammad al-Arifi

Around 1,300 people, mostly [black muslim] civilians belonging to the Massalit tribe, were slaughtered in Sudan's West Darfur over three days earlier this month by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied Arab muslim militias, witnesses, local activists and human rights defenders have told Middle East Eye.

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The massacres in Ardamata, an area on the northeast outskirts of West Darfur's state capital el-Geneina, were committed after the RSF, a paramilitary force, expelled Sudanese soldiers from a military base in the suburb during battles from 2 to 6 November.

For the second time in a matter of months, the streets of el-Geneina and its surroundings have been left filled with corpses.

Witnesses said the scenes were reminiscent of June, when Arab muslim militias and RSF fighters killed more than 500 people in what human rights organisations described as ethnic cleansing against the Massalit, a Black [muslim] African tribe.

The Roots Organization for Human Rights and Violation Monitoring, a local NGO, has recorded 1,300 people killed in Ardamata since 4 November, when the RSF seized the garrison belonging to the Sudanese army's 15th Infantry Division and then turned on the local civilian population.

In a new report seen by MEE, the organisation said that more than 2,000 [black muslim] were wounded and 500 detained as the RSF and its Arab muslim militiamen allies brutally attacked civilians across Ardamata. Over 300 others are missing, it said.

The group said the RSF and militiamen "practiced many atrocities against the Massalit community", including killing, raping [black muslim] women, looting and torching homes.

Gamal Abdullah Khamis, head of the Roots Organisation, said there are multiple indications that the death toll is above 1,300. A local media report put the death toll at 2,000, though other reports have placed the number of killed much lower.

'We believe that the number is much higher, as other crimes and killings are being committed against civilians'
- Gamal Abdullah Khamis, activist.

Khamis said the ethnic-based attacks are continuing, with Arab militias near the Chad border tracking civilians trying to flee the country and ambushing them.

"Our report is based on 700 interviews and reports we got from our monitors in Chad. We have documented the names and the details of the 1,300 people that were killed up to now," Khamis told MEE.

"However, we believe that the number is much higher, as other crimes and killings are being committed against civilians in the areas of Kulbos, Sirba, Azorny, Adara and checkpoints on the road between Sudan and Chad."

Middle East Eye has asked the Rapid Support Forces for comment.

Massalit targeted
Ahmed Hajar, a lawyer and human rights activist in Adre refugee camp in Chad, told MEE that he has met hundreds of families who fled West Darfur and had to leave several dead relatives in el-Geneina and its surroundings.

Hajar, who runs a human rights and social development group called al-Mawi, said his organisation has registered hundreds of cases of ethnic-based killings and attacks.

After Sudan's war broke out on 15 April between the RSF and the Sudanese military, Darfur has been the scene of some of the most ferocious fighting, alongside Khartoum.

Between 2003-2005, Darfur endured a vicious conflict, in which the government of then-president Omar al-Bashir armed thousands of Arab muslim tribesmen, creating a militia known as the Janja.weed, which he used against Darfuri rebel groups that had revolted against Khartoum in response to longstanding neglect of the region's Black African population.

Around 300,000 [black people] were killed in the war, which is often described as genocidal and brought war crimes charges against several men leading it from the International Criminal Court, as the Janja.weed targeted Darfur's Black population, driving millions from their homes.

Today, the backbone of the RSF's paramilitary forces, including its leader, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemeti, is made up of Arab tribesmen from Darfur and its surroundings who used to be Janja.weed fighters.

According to Human Rights Watch researcher Mohamed Osman, the Massalit community, as well as other non-Arab communities, have been targeted by the RSF and its allied militias in el-Geneina since June.

"This ethnic targeting evidently can be seen in killings, especially of Massalit tribal leaders, lawyers and activists," he told MEE, adding that camps housing 2.5 million Sudanese internally displaced by the Darfur conflict 20 years ago have also been intentionally destroyed.

"Racial slurs from attackers demanding Massalit leave the land and destroying their means of survival have all been a recurring pattern of previous attacks, and as we so far hear from the latest attacks in Ardamata."

Atrocities follow army withdrawal
Though the RSF seized control of most of West Darfur in the war's earliest weeks, the Sudanese military clung on in the garrison belonging to the 15th Infantry Division in Ardamata. The troops at the base were supported by irregular Massalit fighters, who previously belonged to rebel groups and held districts surrounding the garrison.

However, in recent weeks the RSF has waged a new campaign across Darfur, trying to dislodge the army from various bases it was entrenched in as the warring parties met in Jeddah for talks sponsored by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

In late October, it succeeded in expelling the army from South Darfur and Central Darfur, in a severe blow to the military.

On 4 November, the outnumbered troops in the 15th Division garrison finally capitulated to better-armed RSF fighters and Arab militiamen and fled Ardamata for Chad, escaped soldiers and witnesses told MEE.

Witnesses said the collapse led to many atrocities being committed against the Massalit in the area.

Already, around 500,000 Sudanese had taken shelter in neighbouring Chad, mostly from West Darfur. Since the latest atrocities and RSF takeover of Ardamata, another 20,000 have fled across the border, people who recently escaped told MEE.

From Chad, witnesses told Middle East Eye by phone that they saw Arab militiamen kill hundreds of people, sexually assault women and destroy civilian houses in Ardamata.

They said that hundreds of bodies were left on streets, in medical centres near the garrison and inside houses, as well as along the roads leading to the Chad border.

Mohamed Hussein, a recent refugee, said he counted nearly 200 bodies around Ardamata's main market as fighting between Massalit former rebels and the RSF and Arab militias raged following the garrison's collapse.

He said he saw "revenge and racist attacks on the Black African tribes".

Ardamata resident Nasr Aldin Mohamed told MEE some of his family had been killed by RSF fighters.

"I saw fighters in RSF uniforms brutally killing soldiers after they surrendered, killing people while they shouted 'foolish slave Massalit, we will never give you mercy. The only fate we have for you is death'," he said.

"Three of my family, including one child, were killed in Ardamata. Others are missing and some fled to Adre with me. We didn't even have time to bury those who were killed or look for those who went missing."

Mohamed walked for two days to reach Chad and the refugee camp at Adre. But he said Arab militias were tracking him and his companions the whole time and killed many people in Kulbos, Adara and other areas near the border.

"Along the way I also saw dozens of bodies scattered in the streets. The militias stopped us looking for Massalit fighters and army soldiers, and killed them instantly," he said.

Another refugee in Adre, Adam Mohamed, told MEE that three members of his family were detained by militiamen in Kulbos and he has been told to pay a ransom to release them.

"We have no way to free them unless we pay three billion Sudanese pounds, which is around $3,000," he said.

Footage of abuses
Ardamata consists of nine small neighbourhoods, the military garrison and a camp for people displaced by the last conflict on the suburb's eastern side.

Residents and soldiers told Middle East Eye the RSF assault ramped up on 2 November, attacking from different directions using drones, which caused widespread damage to the army base and surrounding residential districts.

The army fought back, exchanging fire with the RSF and Arab militias until withdrawing. Then the RSF and its allies overran the base, as well as positions held by Massalit fighters supporting the army and all residential districts.

Fighting continued in Ardamata for a day after the main bulk of the army's troops withdrew, with many civilians reportedly caught in the crossfire.

According to witnesses, hundreds of civilians had gone to the garrison hoping the soldiers would protect them.

Once the RSF took the base and the soldiers and Massalit fighters withdrew, the atrocities increased rapidly, they said.

Middle East Eye has reviewed video footage purportedly showing dozens of civilians gathered by militiamen and lashed. One of the militiamen insults the captives, saying: "Where are the weapons, where did you hide them you sons of a dog?"

Another video, apparently from Ardamata's military hospital, shows a room full of lifeless bodies and wounded people lying on a bloody floor. Fighters are heard looking for soldiers of the Sudanese Armed Forces among them.

Another image circulating widely online shows around 16 corpses lying in a street in Ardamata.

A woman and mother of five children, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, has been detained and quarantined for five months since her arrest in May 2022 on questionable charges of blasphemy and incitement in Bauchi State of Nigeria’s Northeast Region.

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Elizabeth Kendal, publisher of the Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin from Australia, noted that the prosecution completed its argument but the defense has not been able to testify—because every time the defense comes to present its case, the court postpones the trial to a future date out of fear that the local population, which is 85 percent Muslim, may riot.

Solomon Dalyop Mwantiri, a human rights activist from Plateau State, traveled to Bauchi to check proceedings. “The postponement appears to be a tactical delay to keep Jatau in continued remand. A religious agenda of Christian persecution is being played out,” Mwantiri told Christian Solidarity International.” The defense is now scheduled to present its case on November 27.

The case stems from a Ghanian convert condemning the lynching of a Christian student, Deborah Samuel, in Sokoto, a city in northwest Nigeria, on May 12, 2022. Eight days later, Jatau sent a copy of the two-minute video via a supposedly secure platform to a group of staff at the Primary healthcare Board where she worked.

Muslim staff became enraged by the video and accused Jatau of blasphemy (never mind the murder) and mobilized local youths to find her. When they could not, a 200-strong mob stormed the area, vandalized Christian businesses, and burned Christian homes and the Evangelical Church Winning All church building, leaving 15 Christians injured.

Jatau’s family went into hiding and her husband sold all his belongings to finance his wife’s defense.

Judges overseeing the case have repeatedly refused to grant Jatau bail on the grounds that it would likely trigger a fresh wave of destructive radical Islamic rioting.

“The more you try to speak, the more you fall victim to situations like that of Rhoda, because they know they are the ones in control of the government and law enforcement,” said Rev. Ishaku Dano, overseer of the ECWA church in Katanga.

Urgently pray for Rhoda Jatau and her trial scheduled for November 27. — J. Lindner.

A woman in eastern Uganda has been hospitalized with serious burns after her Muslim husband discovered she had converted to Christianity and set her on fire, area sources said.

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Hajara Namwase, a 32-year-old mother of three children in Kenkebu village, Budaka town, is still receiving hospital treatment for third-degree burns after her husband, 42-year-old Musa Kalele, threw gasoline and a lighted match on her, a friend of the victim told Morning Star News.

After accepting Christ on May 3 while her husband was away on business in South Sudan, Namwase regularly attended a small group fellowship in Budaka with the friend who had introduced her to the gospel and other Christians. She returned home from the cell group meeting on Oct. 17 to find her husband had returned from a trip to South Sudan.

“I got scared upon seeing him, because I had some gospel tracts and a small New Testament Bible which I could not hide,” Namwase told her friend, whose identity is withheld for security reasons.

Upon seeing the Bible and other Christian literature, Kalele became furious, left the room and returned with a container of gas, she said.

“He took some bedsheets, covered them around my body and then removed me out of the house,” Namwase told her friend. “He forced me to lie down. He took the petrol, then poured it on me and thereafter took a matchbox, lit it, and the fire began burning me up.”

Her daughter alerted neighbors who rescued her and took her to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. Namwase’s sister later arrived to help her get admitted to the hospital, and on Oct. 24 she was transferred to a hospital in Kampala for more specialized treatment.

Her husband has fled to South Sudan, a relative of Namwase told Morning Star News.

Namwase said she is worried about where she will stay after her release, as all her relatives are Muslims, and what will become of her children, ages 4, 6 and 9, who have come under the care of their paternal grandmother.

Still hospitalized in Kampala, Namwase has third-degree burns on much of her body, with nerve damage and multiple red spots on her skin, Christian sources in the area told Morning Star News.

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists, Abdullah Arsalan (26) and Maaz Bin Tariq (25), of Aligarh and brought them to the ATS headquarters in Lucknow for questioning, on Monday. The duo was allegedly planning terror activities across the state.
Arsalan is a BTech in petroleum chemical engineering from a private university, while Tariq is pursuing a BCom degree through distance learning.

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Special DG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that both the accused were inspired by ISIS ideology and were taking instructions from their ISIS handlers to carry out terror activities in the state. "They were collecting material and planning some strike," Kumar added.

The ATS recovered propaganda material related to ISIS and Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) from the duo's pen drives.

The ATS said that Arsalan and Tariq's names came to light after the arrest of Shahnawaz Alam and Rizwan Ashraf by the Special Cell of Delhi police. They were associated with the Students of Aligarh Muslim University (SAMU).

"Some members of this students' body are sympathisers of ISIS," the ATS said. Alam and Ashraf were self-radicalized and had disclosed that they were planning attacks in Ayodhya, Delhi's Akshardham, and Chabad House in Mumbai on October 2.

Based on their confession, another member of the team, Rizwan Ashraf, an engineer was held. Ashraf was allegedly in communication with a foreign-based handler and remaining members of the module and had taken a pledge to join ISIS.

"From the memory of the electronic devices recovered from the arrested accused, anti-national ideology and literature of banned ISIS and AQIS were found," the ATS added.

The ATS said that both Arsalan and Tariq were arrested and presented before the local court, where they were sent to 14 days judicial custody. "We have asked the court for a custody remand of the accused so that more information can be obtained regarding the network of the accused through detailed interrogation and their associates can be arrested," a senior ATS officer said.

-An Islamic Iranian group has put up advertisements for would-be suicide bombers

-The group has asked people to register for 'martyrdom' in Mashhad, Iran

-The posters seek individuals to join a 'special battalion of martyr seekers'


A hard-line Iranian group has been actively recruiting potential suicide bombers for operations in Israel, images seen by MailOnline reveal.

The group responsible for this recruitment drive, Hezbollah, different from the Lebanese militant group with the same name, has initiated a campaign in the southeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, a significant place in Shia Islam.

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Posters featuring calls for 'martyrdom' have appeared on the streets of Mashhad, imploring residents to submit their personal details for consideration.

These posters declare, 'It's time for Jihad,' and seek individuals to join a 'special battalion of martyr seekers for Palestine.'

One poster, shared by a Telegram channel close to the group, shows triumphant jihadists arriving at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites after the defeat of Israel while waving Iran's flag.

'Liberating' Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one of the fundamental slogans of the Islamic Republic's officials over the past four decades.

The group has gone as far as providing potential recruits with the option to choose between using motorcycles or cars for their deployments to Israel.

Tawab, a resident of Mashhad, expressed his concern about the situation.

In a telephone interview with MailOnline, he stated, 'I have seen these posters in several places in the city, but no one seems willing to take such a perilous path. It makes the face of the city scary.'

While openly admitting its backing for Hamas, Iran's clerical rulers insist the Islamic Republic was not involved in the group’s 7 October attack on Israel.

In a move that reflects a growing internal dissent, dozens of Iranian political and civil activists have voiced their concerns and opposition to these actions.

On Thursday, they openly warned Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei against dragging Iran into the abyss of war.

The activists emphasised, 'They [Khamenei] must recognise that they lack the authority to lead our nation into war with their reckless, unwise, and unpatriotic policies, potentially transforming the peaceful people of Iran into war-weary victims.'

The statement further criticised the Supreme Leader's stance, saying, 'By directly involving our nation in these conflicts, he not only jeopardises the safety and prosperity of the Iranian people but also threatens to impose the scourge of war upon our land.'

The Islamic Republic has historically supported various organisations in the Middle East, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are engaged in activities related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This support includes the provision of weapons and other forms of assistance.

While some countries like Qatar and Turkey have offered financial aid to these groups . . .

Civilians in the town of Oicha in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are reeling after at least 30 people, including children, were killed in recent incidents.

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On Tuesday, armed men stormed Masosi, a Christian neighbourhood in Oicha, North Kivu province. “When the people heard gunshots at the beginning, they thought thieves had come into the village, which is not unusual,” shares Mumbere, a local Christian youth leader. “But when the cracking of bullets lasted for an hour, they then knew it was the ADF [which has links to Islamic State.]”

Christians were killed as they began to run for safety. Those who could not flee were burnt in their houses. At least 26 bodies, including those of 12 children, have been identified, but the death toll may be higher with many Christians reported missing. Shops were also looted. Masosi has been emptied of its population, with most fleeing to safer neighbourhoods.

Two days earlier, on Sunday, Mumbere Kafukuliro and Mbambu Ndalya – both from the Pastoral School in Oicha – were killed on the way to their farm. Whilst on 4 October, it emerged that Pastor Mbusa Lisasi, a father of six, and his brother Kakule Lisasi had been killed after they had been kidnapped on the way to their farm on 30 September.

Following the latest attack on Tuesday, locals in Oicha took to the streets, carrying corpses of the victims, to protest against insecurity. Schools and markets were closed, with angry communities burning more than 150 tonnes of food from the World Food Programme (WFP) for internally displaced people (IDPs) in the town.

“We don't need humanitarian aid, but we do want security,” one frustrated demonstrator told the media when asked why residents had attacked trucks carrying relief aid.

“This is a bad situation,” said Pastor Paluku Bagheni Joseph, a teacher at the Bible college used by Open Doors field contacts.

Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday.

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They attributed the killings to the ADF, a group originally from Uganda, now based in eastern Congo, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group and mounts frequent attacks.

Local army spokesperson Antony Mwalushayi said the attack against civilians in Oicha was believed to be retaliation for recent army strikes against the islamic terrorists.

The attackers carried out the slaughter with machetes instead of guns, so as not to alert nearby troops, he told reporters.

“The enemy was divided into three groups. The first group was there to prevent the intervention of the military, the second group was there to loot the stores of the civilian population and the third group was there to silently slaughter our population with machetes,” Mwalushayi said….

Personnel of Kaduna State University have aided in the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Christian student, according to a campus watchdog group.

Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, a 20-year-old, first-year chemistry student at the university, was an active member of the Fellowship of Christian Students when other members noticed her absence last month, according to leaders of Campus Mission Watch (CMW).

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Her parents received a phone call on Sept. 20 from Christian students saying they were distressed that she was acting strange before her disappearance.

“She was always looking scared, which shows she was being threatened by the Islamists on campus,” CMW leaders said in a press statement. “Dorcas was also not seen on campus for some days.”

After her parents were informed of her absence, they immediately called her mobile phone number.

“Their daughter’s phone was suddenly switched off, indicating that the call was rejected by her abductors who kept her in a house of a Muslim cleric outside the campus,” the CMW leaders said. “We believe she was forcefully abducted and taken out of campus by the Islamists on the fear of parents of the Christian student withdrawing her from the university.”

Fearing she had been abducted and forced to convert to Islam, her parents reported her absence to school authorities and the commissioner of police that day (Sept. 20).

“The following day being 21st of September, Miss Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola was physically seen being conveyed in one of the Kaduna State University (KASU), MAJLIS buses belonging to Muslims in the institution at about 4:30 pm, to the campus Chief Security Officer’s (CSO’s) office,” the CMW leaders said, adding that her parents were quickly alerted and came to the CSO’s office.

“Miss Dorcas told her parents that she was taken to an imam’s house, the imam of Sultan Bello Mosque, in the city of Kaduna, where she was kept against her will and threatened not to disclose that she was coerced into embracing Islam, before being brought back to campus,” the CMW leaders said. “She also told her parents that one Muslim woman, Mallama Amina, an academic staff in the Department of Biochemistry, was appointed as her godmother, who facilitated her forceful conversion to Islam through the renouncing of Christianity and the recitation of Kalma Sha’ada, the Islamic creed.”

The abducted student said Amina also taught her how to do Islamic ablution and prayer, among other Muslim practices, and gave her “a lot in cash and kind,” including Islamic clothing, according to the CMW leaders.

The university CSO referred her case to the Kaduna state commissioner of police, who in turn referred it to the Kaduna State Inter-Faith Commission. The commission was to decide her case on Sept. 29, but it has yet to make or reveal a ruling, and Adekanola has remained with her captors, CMW leaders said.

“Dorcas remains with the Muslim leaders and has not been allowed to have any contact with her parents or other Christians on campus,” CMW leaders said. “This development has created fear in Christians on KASU campus, forcing some to want to leave.”

A university spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the case. A representative of the Kaduna State Inter-Faith Commission also did not respond to request for comment.

CMW leaders said a well-financed campus group called the Majlis Muslim Sisters is pressuring students and staff members to convert to Islam.

“This group is made up of highly placed and influential female staff in the university. Some of them are professors, directors, senior lecturers from academic and non-academic cadres,” they said. “They are well coordinated and professionally structured. They have agents at the top management level, directorate levels, faculty levels, department levels, and even at the Student Union levels.”

The CMW leaders said the Majlis Muslim Sisters, with the tacit support of Muslim leaders in Kaduna state and the Muslim-controlled state government, is implementing a plan to forcefully convert Christians to Islam through use of charms, fetish substances, coercion, threats and even hypnosis.

These campus Islamists are also pressuring Christians with abduction, isolation, deprivation, false accusations of blasphemy, slander, and segregation, CMW leaders said.

On 22 October, Iranian state media shared that a 16-year-old girl named Armita Geravand, who had been assaulted by morality police in Tehran metro earlier this month is reportedly “brain dead.” The morality police attacked Geravand because she had broken Iran’s strictly implemented hijab policy. She had slipped into a coma after the attack.

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The Iranian state media reported, “Follow-ups on the latest health condition of Geravand indicate that her condition of being brain dead seems certain despite the efforts of the medical staff.”

The news of her hospitalisation was initially made public by human rights organisations like Kurdish-Iranian Hengaw. These groups shared images of the 16-year-old on social media which clearly showed her on life support and unconscious with a bandage over her head and a breathing tube.

However, the Islamic Republic denied the incident which transpired on 1st October on the Tehran subway.

Armita Geravand Attacked For Not Wearing a Hijab
Two well-known rights activists had shared that the girl was attacked by security personnel in the Tehran metro for breaking the country’s draconian hijab legislation which had left her in critical condition in hospital after falling into a coma. One of the activists informed, “We are following her case closely. She is in a coma at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and her condition is critical. Her relatives said there is a heavy presence of plainclothes security at the hospital.”

According to the second activist, the teenager’s parents were prohibited by security agents from speaking with human rights outfits or sharing her photo on social media. The activists only spoke under the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the matter.

Masoud Dorosti, the head of the Tehran Metro Operating Company, claimed that there was no evidence of verbal or physical altercation between patrons and staff members in the CCTV recording. Iranian media proclaimed that an Iranian journalist was briefly apprehended when she visited the hospital to find out about Armita Geravand’s condition.

A rights group located in Iran called Dadban posted, “Iranian security institutions have said her condition was caused by low pressure, an often repeated scenario from such institutions.”

Her parents said in a video uploaded to the official news agency IRNA that their daughter had experienced a dip in blood pressure, lost her balance and struck her head inside the metro cabin. Her mother said, “I think my daughter’s blood pressure dropped, I am not too sure, I think they have said her pressure dropped.”

However, rights groups have demanded that the government release footage taken inside the cabin and argued that the remarks of her parents were under pressure.

“Once again a young woman in Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair in the subway. It is unbearable. The parents of Armita Garawand do not belong in front of cameras, but have the right to be at their daughter’s bedside,” commented Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

The human rights activists fear that she might end up like 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose death at the hands of morality police last year set off months of widespread anti-islamic-government demonstrations.


Iran’s theocratic leadership imposed restrictions on women’s attire following a revolution that overthrew the secular government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979. Laws dictate that females cover their hair and dress in long and baggy outfits. Those who are found to be in violation risk arrest, penalties and public disgrace.

Police arrested a Syrian shouting Allahu Akbar inside the church of Agios Panteleimon in Athens.

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According to Proto Thema, a church boy saw a man entering the church and exhibiting strange behaviour. He then informed police in the area and asked them to check on him.

When the police arrived, the man resisted and shouted "Allahu Akbar". After police arrested him and searched his backpack, they found a knife and a Qu'ran.

The man was brought to the local Police Department, and an ongoing investigation is ongoing.

CJStarz:
Abeg,na for which country this thing happen?

Islamic Pakistan.

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In an incident that has sent shockwaves through Lilla Town, a suburban area of Pin Dadan Khan, a recently wedded couple fell victim to an honour murder within the walls of a mosque.

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According to the police, the victims were identified as 22-year-old Rehman Rasool and his 21-year-old wife, Safia. They added that the family of the young bride invited the couple to their home under the pretence of reconciliation. Suspicion gripped the newlyweds when they noticed the behaviour of their family members. The couple ran and sought refuge in the nearby mosque.

In a nightmarish sequence of events, the family members of the bride forcibly entered the mosque by breaking one of its windows. They opened multiple fires at the couple in the mosque’s courtyard, leaving them in a pool of blood, and escaped.[/b]

Promptly responding to the grievous incident, local law enforcement authorities have registered a case based on the complaint lodged by the mother of the deceased, Rehman Rasool.

An intense manhunt for the perpetrators is currently underway, said the police.

The funeral prayers for the couple were conducted in their native village, Lilla Town, where a community now mourns the loss of two young lives taken in the name of honour.

A Christian minor girl was (allegedly) abducted and forced to convert to Islam in Jaranwala, Faisalabad, in islamic Pakistan.

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The victim’s father, Aftab Joseph, said that her daughter, Samreen Aftab, was abducted by a boy named Muhammad Amir, who is a resident of Islampura Main Bazar Jaranwala, Faisalabad.

On August 22, Amir abducted Samreen and forcefully married her after changing her faith. Joseph said that the Muslim family had also filed a bogus abduction case against him and his family members when efforts were initiated for the safe recovery of his minor daughter.

He added that he, along with his six family members, are on pre-arrest bail.

While condemning the incident, minority rights activist Joseph Jansen has voiced deep concerns regarding recent developments in cases of forced abductions, particularly involving minors. These developments shed light on distressing patterns of actions that hinder justice and perpetuate the heinous crime of sex trafficking, he added.

He mentioned that it is a common tactic to misrepresent these cases as mere love affairs, diverting attention from the gravity of the crime and preventing appropriate legal action against the perpetrators.

He also said that filing countercomplaints by abductors is another distressing trend. This malicious manipulation of the legal system obstructs the path to justice for the vulnerable victims and allows the real culprits to escape accountability, he stressed.

Bowing to pressure from Islamic protestors, local officials in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia have vowed to withdraw permission that had been granted to build a Christian school, sources said.

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In the town of Parepare, the district representative council had granted permission for the construction of the school as the Gamaliel Christian School Foundation had completed all requirements, but the council promised to withdraw the permission after a demonstration that included a banned Islamic extremist group, according to legionnews.com.

Members of the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI), banned since December 2020, participated in the march through the city along with hundreds of area residents, Muslim leaders and members of the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia, or ICMI) and the Soreang Society Alliance, arriving at the office of the district representative council, according to detik.com.

As a result of the protest, Parepare’s representative council promised to withdraw the permits to build the Christian school, saying it could potentially cause friction, according to legionnews.com. In Indonesia, such promises by officials to Islamic groups can be tantamount to an official decision, but the council has issued no letter of revocation of permission.

A video widely viewed online shows some participants unfurling banners that read, “Rejecting the Construction of the Gamaliel Soreang Christian School,” among others. Demonstrators shouted, “Refuse the permit, revoke the permit,” and some orators called on the government to do the same.

“We are the most tolerant people – Muslims need no education on tolerance,” said one orator. “We live in a neighborhood with non-Muslims and provide food to each other; we never disturb other’s worship, but it is intolerance if you build a Christian school in a majority Muslim community.”

At the Parepare city representative council office, the protestors were greeted by the chairman of the council, two deputies and a council member identified only as Kamaluddin.

“The residents refused because the majority of people there were Muslims, and they said the permission was not clear, according to the residents who held the demonstration,” Kamaludin said, according to detik.com. “We are trying to avoid any conflict in the community.”

Opposition began mounting when hundreds of residents on Sept. 30 gathered at the Al Amin Mosque, in Soreang Permai Estate, Parepare, and signed a statement opposing the construction of the school, according to znews.com.

Legally Authorized
The construction of the Gamaliel Christian School had been legally authorized, bnn.com reported.

The deputy chairman of the Gamaliel Christian Education Foundation, Sinta (who goes by a single name), confirmed that her institution had obtained the necessary permits for construction, in line with all relevant regulations and approved by authorities.

In the face of the protest and the promised revocation of the building permit, Sinta said the foundation would not dare build the school without legal permission from the government.

“We have fulfilled all [permits] before building,” Sinta told detik.com, adding that the building permit process was not as problematic as residents claimed.

Bonar Tigor Naipospos, deputy chairman of the Setara Institute, which advocates democracy and human rights in Indonesia, particularly religious freedom, said the case was “a clear sign of state subordination to the will of the intolerant groups.”

“Local political constellations and electoral interests, in gaining support from the masses, make public officials choose sides and accommodate the demands of intolerant groups,” Bonar told Morning Star News. “They intentionally ignore it, even though it is considered to violate the constitution.”

Ugandan police foiled a bomb attack on churches by islamic ADF about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni said.

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The ADF made two bombs, which they "were planning to plant in churches in Kibibi, Butambala", Museveni wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

But the devices "were reported to police and defused", he added.

The ADF group has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Earlier Sunday, Museveni, 79, who has ruled the country since 1986, said Ugandan forces had carried out air strikes against ADF positions in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

"It seems quite a number of terrorists were killed," the president said on X, without elaborating.

The ADF could attempt "to commit some random terrorist acts" in Uganda following the airstrikes, he warned.

In September, Ugandan police said they had foiled another bomb attack on a Kampala cathedral, arresting a man suspected of trying to activate the explosive device among worshippers.

In June, ADF militia members killed 42 Christians including 37 Christian student in a high school in western Uganda near the border with DR Congo.

It was one of the deadliest attacks in Uganda since the 2010 double attack in Kampala that killed 76 people in a raid claimed by the Somali-based Islamist group al-Shabaab.

In its latest report in June, a United Nations expert panel on DR Congo confirmed ISIS had "provided financial support to the ADF since at least 2019".

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Muslims on Saturday (Oct. 7) kidnapped more than 30 People in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, residents said.

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The assailants ambushed and took the Christians away at gunpoint at about 11 a.m. as they worked on a communal farm in Chikuri, Chikun County, said area resident Victor Dabo in a text message.

“Over 30 Christian farmers who were cultivating a farm have been abducted in one fell swoop,” Dabo told Morning Star News. “Please pray for the Chikuri Christian community.”

Another resident, Dogara Peter, said his mother and sister were among those kidnapped as they worked on the farm.

“The terrorists kidnapped 30 of our Christian villagers as they were working on a farm which belongs to Mr. Maikudi, an elderly member of our community,” Peter told Morning Star News. “My mother and sister are among those kidnapped by the terrorists. This incident has thrown our community into confusion. The terrorists are yet to contact us more than 24 hours after the abduction of our family members.”

The abductions marked the third time the terrorists have invaded their traumatized community, he said. Saying the community’s last hope lay with police, other security agencies and the Nigerian government, he issued an appeal for them to rescue those held captive.

“We make this appeal because we have nowhere to raise money for payment of ransom if these terrorists eventually ask us to do so, as has been the norm in the other two attacks on our community,” Peter said.

An elderly couple has fled their village after Muslim relatives upset with their conversion to Christianity threatened to destroy them and their home, sources said.

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In Wakalende village, Kyebando Ward in Mayuge town, 70-year-old Sula Mugudi and his wife, Aisha Mugudi, 62, put their faith in Christ during a church’s weeklong evangelistic campaign of home visits.

Three days after converting, the couple attended a church all-night prayer vigil, returning home on to find that relatives who had learned of their conversion had bashed bricks from their modest home.

“As we returned back to our grass-thatched roof house, we found some of the debris around the house,” Sula Mugudi told Morning Star News. “On entering the house, we found there was a threatening message, ‘Today if we find you around, we shall destroy you with the house. You have become an embarrassment to our Muslim family by joining a wrong religion.’”

The fearful couple left the house immediately.
“It was a very difficult moment for us – no place to stay, no clothing and beddings,” Mugudi said.

A pastor whose name is withheld for security reasons said the couple has been relocated as far away as possible to avoid attack by the Muslim relatives.

“When the couple arrived at our church, they looked shaken and fearful,” he said. “The church has hidden them for the sake of the church as well for the lives of these two new Christians. We need prayers for God’s protection and providence.”