A mother of six children was stabbed to death by her Muslim husband in Uganda after she attended her first church service on 23 March, only two days after receiving Christ as her Saviour, sources said.
Nasiimu Mirembe had put her faith in Christ on 21 March after hearing the gospel from a friend in eastern Uganda’s Busembatya town council. She was 41.
She and her friend were on their way to a church service on 23 March when they passed a Muslim neighbour who greeted them and continued on, said the friend, whose name is withheld for security reasons.
Mirembe feared the neighbour would tell her husband she was heading toward a church service and that he would kill her, but the friend encouraged her to trust in God and persuaded her to continue on. After the service, where Mirembe was introduced as a new Christian, they were returning home when they met her husband, Adamu Mukungu, about 200m from the church site, the friend said. Mukungu did not greet them.
“I saw you come out of the church,” Mukungu told his wife, according to the friend. “What you have done is very bad, especially during this period of Ramadan.”
“Immediately he started slapping his wife,” the friend said. “I started screaming and shouting for help. Mukungu then removed a long knife and started cutting her with it.”
When Mukungu saw several church members led by a church elder rushing over, he fled, the friend said.
They took Mirembe to a nearby clinic for medical treatment, but after two hours, her condition worsened and she was referred to a larger hospital in Bugiri, where doctors found extensive internal and external bleeding. Mirembe succumbed to her injuries in the early hours of 24 March. Mirembe was mother to two sons and four daughters ages 18,15, 11, 9, 6 and 3. Mukungu has absconded, and police were still looking for him, a church member said.
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