Uganda: Islamic-State Affiliates Slaughter 10 Christians in Run-Up to Christmas, “The Christians Will Not Celebrate the Birth of Issa [Jesus]”
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – As swathes of Africa succumb to Islamic jihadist terrorists intent on slaughtering Christians and other “infidels,” members of the Islamic-State affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) murdered 10 Christians in western Uganda on Dec. 19, Morning Star News reports.
The Dec. 19 attack in Uganda came just days before Islamic terrorists slaughtered around 160 Christians in Nigeria in a series of “well-coordinated” attacks carried out over the Christmas weekend.
Originating in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, the ADF attacked western Uganda’s Kyitehurizi village, Kamwenge Sub-County in Kamwenge District at around 2 am on Dec. 19, MSN reports. Ten members of the Anglican Church of Uganda, the Pentecostal Church, and the Roman Catholic Church were murdered.
“I heard the attackers saying that, ‘The Christians will not celebrate the birth of Issa [Jesus] — we have to teach a lesson to these infidels for refusing our religion,'” a young woman who escaped the attack said in a statement. Around 200 local people were able to escape the attack, but their homes were burned down by the terrorists, MSN said.
While Christianity is legal under Uganda’s constitution, and Muslims make up no more than 12% of population, the country has seen an increasing level of violent Islamic persecution against Christians. “The Dec. 19 attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented,” MSN noted in its report.
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