Two evangelists are still receiving hospital treatment weeks after attackers in eastern Uganda beat them unconscious for proclaiming Christ, sources said.
Samuel Mukiibi, 27, and 25-year-old Ephraim Duula in the last six years have led several Muslims to Christ. They were attacked on May 16 near Naigombwa swamp near Bukwanga village in eastern Uganda.
After an evangelistic outreach in the Nambale area on May 13–16, they left at about 4 p.m. after open-air preaching and were approaching the swamp when three men blocked the road, said Mukiibi.
Rescued
“They stopped us and asked us to renounce Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching at Naigombwa trading center for four days,” Mukiibi told Morning Star News. “At the same time, they wanted to forcefully circumcise us as per Islamic teaching for us to live. We totally refused, and they started beating us badly with sharp objects and left us unconscious in a coma in a pool of blood.”
The assailants took their Bibles and gospel tracts, he said.
They regained consciousness in a hospital in Iganga, where they learned that motorcycle riders led by a man identified only as Dauson rescued them. Dauson said he knew their pastor.
The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has reported.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written and originally published by Morning Star News.
