Christian Couple, Girl They Led to Christ Poisoned to Demise

Doreen Nairuba, six months pregnant, was poisoned to death on March 16, 2025 along with a Muslim woman she led to faith in Christ in eastern Uganda. (Morning Star News)

Doreen Nairuba, six months pregnant, was poisoned to demise on March 16, 2025 together with a Muslim girl she led to religion in Christ in japanese Uganda. (Morning Star Information)

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star Information) – A Muslim girl in japanese Uganda this month killed a Christian couple and unintentionally took her personal daughter’s life with the identical poison she used on those that had led her to Christ, sources mentioned.

Doreen Nairuba died on March 16 from consuming poisoned meals ready by Hanifa Hamiyat in Nabiganda city, Butaleja District, an space neighbor mentioned. Nairuba was six months pregnant.

Hamiyat’s 18-year-old daughter, Marriam Kapisa, died the identical day after unknowingly consuming the meals ready for Nairuba and Nairuba’s husband, Jackson Wampula, who died from the poisoning the following day (March 17), residents mentioned.

Nairuba had been sharing her Christian religion with Kapisa, who had completed highschool exams and was awaiting outcomes to find out entry to varsity. Hamiyat was indignant that the couple had introduced her daughter to a church service on March 17, an space supply mentioned.

A Muslim neighbor who had seen the Christian couple leaving for church with Kapisa and returning along with her that afternoon knowledgeable Hamiyat, who requested him to search out out from her daughter the place she had been, the world supply mentioned.

At about 5:30 p.m. the neighbor intercepted Kapisa, and she or he advised him she had attended the church service. He and Kapisa returned to her dwelling and advised her mom.

“The mom was very indignant with the lady, however because it was Ramadan she didn’t wish to trigger numerous alarm, therefore she stored quiet,” mentioned the world supply, who had made a quick go to to the household that day.

Throughout Ramadan it is not uncommon for space Muslims to share meals with different households within the night to interrupt the every day quick, and at 7 p.m. Hamiyat ready a meal and despatched Kapisa to share it with the Christian couple, the supply mentioned.

“The daughter didn’t know that her mom had put some poison within the meals,” he mentioned. “When the daughter reached Doreen’s dwelling, the three participated in sharing of the meals, and instantly [afterward], she left.”

At dwelling, Kapisa complained of abdomen ache and was quickly vomiting and wailing, the supply mentioned.

“The mom requested what might be the issue, and why had she delayed? The lady answered that she shared in consuming the meals with Doreen’s household, and she or he was in deep ache. Upon listening to that, Hamiyat shouted in a loud voice, “Allah Karim [Generous Allah], I’ve killed myself,” mentioned the supply, who visited the household upon listening to their misery.

Kapisa was rushed to a close-by hospital, the place she died, he mentioned.

After about an hour, Nairuba and her husband began struggling abdomen ache and diarrhea and made an emergency name to a different neighbor.

“After I arrived on the home the 2 have been in unhealthy state, and I took them to a close-by clinic the place they got first help earlier than they have been referred to the primary hospital,” mentioned the neighbor, whose identify can also be withheld for safety causes.

Nairuba died earlier than reaching the hospital, and Wampula died the following day on the hospital, the neighbor mentioned.

In exams carried out on samples of remaining meals, medical doctors discovered it contained a toxic drug that brought on the demise of the couple and Kapisa, mentioned the neighbor.

Native leaders detained and questioned Hamiyat, and she or he confessed to having poisoned the meals, the neighbor mentioned.

“I by no means meant to kill my daughter, however my plan was to kill the neighbors due to taking my daughter to church throughout this holy month of Ramadan,” she mentioned, in accordance with the supply. “Our imam had assured us that whenever you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise] known as Firdausi, so I needed to get that Jannah.”

Hamiyat was in police custody at this writing, with a listening to scheduled for Wednesday (April 2).

Evangelists Significantly Wounded

In Iganga city, Iganga District additionally in japanese Uganda, two Christians have been in vital situation after hardline Muslims beat and stabbed them throughout an open-air evangelistic effort, one of many evangelists mentioned.

Ephraim Idube, 32, and Tefiiro Mwanani, 40, left Buseesa city to evangelise the gospel to Muslims in Iganga on March 14. After establishing small moveable audio system, they proclaimed the gospel, saying Christ is the Son of God, that He alone will lead folks to heaven and that Muhammad was merely a prophet “from nowhere,” mentioned Mwanani.

“Muslims got here in an enormous quantity and began shouting whereas asking us questions why we have been making noise and deeming their prophet to a decrease place of their holy month of Ramadan,” Mwanani advised Morning Star Information.

Earlier than they may reply, one of many Muslims grabbed their moveable speaker, plucked out wiring and hit it with a hammer whereas others beat them, he mentioned.

“One recognized as Bruhan Isabirye went and picked up a panga [long Somali sword] in a close-by butcher store and began slicing us,” Mwanani mentioned. “Many individuals together with Christians got here to rescue us, picked the panga from his hand. Although it was a bit late, we had bled an excessive amount of, however we thank God that speedy assist got here and we have been rushed to the hospital.”

Having sustained deep wounds, they have been in vital situation at Iganga Hospital, mentioned a Morning Star Information contact who visited them.

The assaults have been the newest of many cases of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star Information has documented.

Uganda’s structure and different legal guidelines present for spiritual freedom, together with the best to propagate one’s religion and convert from one religion to a different. Muslims make up not more than 12 p.c of Uganda’s inhabitants, with excessive concentrations in japanese areas of the nation.

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