Source: Morning Star News
September 28, 2023 By Our East Africa Correspondent
Mother of 17-year-old boy who was denied food and medicine in Nankoma, Uganda for accepting Christ. (Morning Star News)
NAIROBI, Kenya – An evangelistic team in eastern Uganda this month discovered a Muslim, Musobya Aramanzanihad, locked up his son and starved him for more than four months for accepting Christ, sources said.
“The mother used to sneak in with only water, but when her son fell sick, she didn’t bring him medicine but insulted him by calling him an infidel to the family religion, and that he should die,” the pastor told Morning Star News.
The pastor learned of the abuse on Sept. 15 during evangelistic home visits in Nankoma. He said the previous day Aramanzani did not allow him and other Christians engaged in an evangelistic campaign that week to enter his property, and the team learned from area residents that he had locked his son inside for more than four months for converting to Christianity.
The team returned on Sept. 15, and the pastor pleaded to be granted a few minutes to pray for the family; they were given five minutes, he said.
“As we were praying, there was a very strong, bad smell in the house,” said the pastor, whose name is withheld for security reasons. “Since we were many, we forcefully entered the inner room where the smell was coming from and found a teenage boy in a dilapidated state.”
Team members forcibly took the teenager, whose name is withheld for security reasons, to a nearby hospital for treatment while the pastor and others remained with the Muslim family.
Aramanzani later repented of the cruelty and other sins and put his faith in Christ, the pastor said.
“He persuaded us not to report the incident to the police,” the pastor said. “The situation at the moment is very delicate, because the father risks to be arrested, and at the same time he is a new Christian. We first need to treat the suffering young man, then later discuss with the family the next course of action.”
Pray for the son that he will fully recover from starvation and sickness.
Pray that the son would remain strong in his new faith in Jesus.
Pray that the father would also remain faithful in his new faith in Jesus.
Pray that the mother and other family members would also commit their lives to Jesus.
Pray for the evangelistic team as they spread the good news that many would come to faith in Jesus in Uganda.
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