Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
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Two Christians, through whom God revealed the salvation of Christ to nonbelievers during a series of debates with Muslim leaders in Uganda, have suffered immensely for their faith.
According to a report by Morning Star News, Andrew Dikusooka and Ronald Musasiz, ages 35 and 26, respectively, had been engaged in debates with Islamic scholars in the Iganga District over a series of five days in late September.
As the Holy Spirit began to work, some debate attendees began accepting the gift of eternal forgiveness through Christ Jesus.
This development angered some residents of Nampirika, a predominantly Muslim village in the district, and the proponents of Islam armed themselves with knives and attacked the two evangelists
Dikusooka and Musasiz survived the attack but sustained severe lacerations.
“The two evangelists are nursing terrible wounds on their sick beds in Iganga town after being attacked and beaten by radical Muslims,” the leader of the ministry to which the men belonged told Morning Star News.
Dikusooka, who was well enough to speak to a journalist, indicated at least some of the attackers were familiar to him. He identified two by name and as people with whom Dikusooka had previously engaged in debates.
“Many people gave their lives to Christ, including Muslims, witchdoctors and street vendors,” Morning Star News quoted Dikusooka as saying. “The conversion of these people angered Muslims who began shouting to disrupt the occasion. When the meeting ended, we took the new converts aside and had a few minutes explaining the meaning of the new life in Christ and the commitment to follow Jesus Christ.”
This was hardly the first time Muslim extremists have perscuted Christians in Unganda.
In late July, a group of extremists murdered Sozi Odongo, a Christian pastor who had hosted public Christian services during which he he quoted the Koran and Islamic hadiths.
Odongo’s murder came five months after Islamic radicals severely beat a 43-year-old evangelist.
Persecution of Christians, though not prevalent in the United States, continues to afflict members of the Church worldwide. FISM has previously reported on violent anti-Christian acts committed in Mozambique, Burkina Faso, and numerous instances in Nigeria.
However, FISM’s Seth Udinski warned in a 2021 commentary that in an ever-more-secular West, the day will come when Christiians face some form of persecution in the United States.