-Student Slain For Sharing Gospel Of Jesus Christ In Uganda
A Christian college student was slain in northern Uganda on April 14 for sharing the gospel about Jesus Christ with Muslims, as reported by a fellow student.
Jeremiah Mwanga, a second-year student at the Uganda Christian School of Professionals in Lira, Northern Region, was killed in his room at the school in Gwangabara cell, Boroboro ward, East Division in Lira. He was 24.
“Jeremiah complained about messages from one of the students threatening to kill him for misleading Muslims by preaching to them the gospel of Christ as well as converting them to the Christian faith in the school,” a friend of the deceased told Morning Star News. “He requested prayers from the Christian Union fellowship.”
The friend’s name which is not disclosed due to security reasons said he heard screaming from a room on the school premises at about 10 p.m.
“After 30 minutes I rushed to the scene of incident and found out that it was Jeremiah’s room,” he said. “Inside the room was a pool of blood.”
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“Reaching the clinic, I was told by the medical personnel that he had been referred to Lira Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival,” he said. “I found him lying in the hospital bed, dead.”
The undisclosed friend he requested that he be given Jeremiah’s property and cell phone to search through it.
“Going through the phone, I found out that the threatening message was from a Muslim student who happened to come from Kapchorwa also,” he said. “I then took the phone to the school administration who reported the matter to the police.”
