The seventh and youngest child of Lezia Nakayiza, a widow, didn’t know that his family was keeping their Christianity a secret. The 8-year-old boy didn’t realise that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family. ‘I could not share my faith with the brothers of my husband as well as the relatives who are radical Muslims’, said Nakayiza. ‘In June my son told one of the relatives of the wonderful choir at church, and that we have been attending the church since March. This was the beginning of our persecution.’ A Christian neighbour told her that the relatives were planning to punish her for leaving Islam, so when she saw many people approaching her house with weapons and shouts of ‘Away with this infidel’, she and her children escaped through the back door. The family is now living at an undisclosed location that is not sustainable.
Uganda: homeless because of faith
Written by David Fletcher 12 Sep 2019Additional Info
- Pray: for this family and the thousands of others persecuted and driven from their communities because of their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives. (Psalm 23:4)
- More: www.assistnews.net/mother-of-seven-homeless-when-muslims-learn-she-is-christian/
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