A
23-year-old Muslim woman
from
Wakawaka village, eastern Uganda who
converted to Christianity at a church service
was poisoned to death the same night.
Returning
from
the
service, Namata
Habiiba
told
her Muslim
stepmother,
Namu Sauya, that she had put her faith
in Christ. Sauya prepared and served food
for them and then left the room. Within
minutes, Habiiba
started complaining of
severe stomach pain and began to vomit, the
friend said. She was rushed to hospital but
soon died. A postmortem determined the
cause as ingesting rat poison.
Iran: church leader
released
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Iranian church leader Youcef Nadarkhani
has been released
from prison under a
national amnesty issued by Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Khamenei to commemorate the
anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Pastor Nadarkhani was first arrested
in
2016 during a series of raids by security
agents on Christian homes. In 2021, the
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
stated that the pastor’s continued detention
was arbitrary. CSW said: ‘We welcome the
long-overdue release of Pastor Nadarkhani,
although he has spent years in prison on
false charges as a result of Iran’s continuing
criminalisation of Christianity’.
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