Uganda: Evangelist Murdered for Leading Muslims to Christ, “We Are Coming for Your Life”

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Yowabu Sebakaki, a Ugandan evangelist who led Muslims to Christ and discipled them, was brutally murdered for the Gospel by Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda earlier this month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Christianity is legal in Uganda, but evangelists and Muslim converts are vulnerable to violent attacks and murder by Islamic extremist elements in the country.

A resident of Nyanza village in Budaka District, 52-year-old Sebakaki was murdered while getting a lift home on the bicycle of fellow Christian David Nkomba on August 19, MSN reports. He had just finished leading a discipleship course when his assailants drew up and butchered him.

“Just when we were 5 kilometers (3 miles) from reaching the homestead, at around 6:20 p.m. a motorcycle came up just behind us, and in no given time Sebakaki was struck with an object which happened to be a ‘panga’ [long Somali sword] on the back near the neck,” Nkomba told Morning Star News. “He fell down and then was cut by another panga on the head. Sebakaki became unconscious due to too much bleeding.”

“Other attackers were shouting, ‘Your time has come, and pray hard if your God will save you — you have been deceiving people about life after death given by Issa [Jesus],’” Nkomba said. “I took off, but I managed to recognize one of the attackers as Rashid Siriman, a well-known radical Muslim youth from Mbale.”

The attack on Sebakaki was preceded by threats against him for his discipleship courses and evangelistic outreach, MSN reports. The evangelist’s wife Nambaluka Sebakaki told MSN that on one occasion he received a text message that she copied to her phone: “We are aware of some secret meeting you are undertaking. You have to stop preaching as well as converting our faithful Muslims to Christianity, and if not, then soon we are coming for your life.”

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