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A 27-year-old Muslim in Kibuku District, eastern Uganda renounced Islam to pursue a relationship with Jesus.
Mbulakyaalo Badawuyi said he had an encounter with Jesus in a dream which led to his conversion.
This happened on 4 August, 2019, when he fell asleep during night prayers with sheikhs and other Muslims at a mosque.
“I fell asleep and had a dream that Isa [Jesus] told me that I was in a wrong place, and that therefore I was to go and look for His shepherds who will teach me all His holy words, then after learning go and preach those words to others,” he said.
Badawuyi spoke to Morning Star News, a non-profit corporation in U.S that offers news reports of persecuted Christians, saying during the dream he heard people shouting “Hallelujah!”
“In the dream I also repeated the same, and this made me shout in the mosque, ‘Hallelujah!’” Badawuyi said. “The sheikhs and other Muslims who heard me shouting were very astonished, and one came and asked me that why are you shouting that hallelujah? I answered him that I have seen Jesus. As he called others to come and hear, I jumped out and took off, and since it was night they couldn’t get me.”
He went to a pastor who prayed for him, and he put his faith in Christ.
Morning Star News reports that about 10 months later, hard-line Muslim residents of the district beat Badawuyi with sticks and burned his home for refusing to renounce Christ.
Mbulakyaalo Badawuyi said the attack happened on 25 May, 2020, when area Muslims he knew knocked on his door at about 7 p.m., and he refused to open.
“They destroyed the door and made entry, but I escaped through the rear door,” Badawuyi told Morning Star News. “They followed me and got hold of me and began beating me up. Neighbors came when I screamed for help.”
A neighbor took him to a nearby medical clinic, he said. As he was being treated, he said, the same Muslims – identified as Nabutono Saida, Kulemuzamiru, Kapesa Musitafa, Ganda Amisi and Mugooda Abudallah – returned to his house and set it on fire, he said.
The attack in eastern Uganda is the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians that this website has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another.
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