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  • Uganda: wife killed for becoming a Christian

    40-year-old Abudullah Waiswa, a Muslim in Bugiri, eastern Uganda has killed his wife for converting to Christianity. Amina Nanfuka, 31, had returned from a medical check-up in Kampala, where she also attended a worship service at a church.

    A relative said ‘We went inside the bedroom and found Amina unconscious with blood coming out of her mouth. She was rushed to a nearby clinic, but the doctor pronounced her dead upon arrival. She had been strangled and hit with an object around her mouth’. The couple had three children, aged 3, 6 and 9.

  • Indonesia: church service broken up

    As police looked on, a group of Muslims in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, broke up a worship service, asking why a church should be present in a Muslim-majority area.

    The attack was the second in two months suffered by the Mawar Sharon Church congregation as they met in a café in Setia village, Binjai. After demonstrations against the church, a hijab-clad Muslim woman led the disruption of the service. A video on social media shows her standing next to a police officer as she loudly refuses to allow Christians to worship.