When Mohammed Nsera graduated from high school last year, his Muslim family built a small house for him on their homestead in eastern Uganda.
Nsera’s family lives in the predominantly Christian village of Katende near Busede, Jinja District, some 50 miles east of the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Part of a hard-line Islamic minority, his family strongly objected to his conversion in January. The young man’s father and uncle went to his house to confirm the allegation that he had left Islam.
House burned down
‘I could not deny Christ when my father asked me whether I had joined Christianity’, he said. ‘With a lot of joy I said “yes”. My uncle, who had a walking stick, hit me on my back, and my father tried to get hold of my shirt, but I managed to escape with a tattered shirt and a bleeding back.’
