Christian Death Toll from Herdsmen Attacks Mounts in Adamawa State, Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen have killed at least 54 Christians this year in the northeastern state of Adamawa, Nigeria, according to area sources.

In a state where predominantly Christian Bachama tribesmen have formed militias in response to violence by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram and heavily-armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen, Christians were slaughtered in the Numan, Demsa, Lamurde and Girei areas, the sources  said.

At least 15 Christians were killed in the Numan area on May 2 when Fulani herdsmen attacked Bang, Nyanga, Bonki and Nzomosu villages, area resident Harold Wilson told Morning Star News by text message.

“About 400 armed Fulani herdsmen carried out the attacks,” he reported.

Arnold Jibla, chairman of the Numan Local Government Area (LGA), confirmed the attack in a phone interview with Morning Star News.

In the Demsa LGA, herdsmen attacked Gwamba village on Feb. 27, killing 20 Christians and wounding 23 others, said resident Omayan Tambaya Dilli.

“The attack occurred about 8 a.m. and lasted three hours,” Dilli said. “The Fulani herdsmen drove into Gwamba in four trucks and many motorbikes to carry out the attack.”

In apparent retaliation for attacks by ethnic Bachama militia on Fulani families, among the 20 Christians killed by the armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen was the Rev. Haruna Enoch, area residents said. The killings reportedly came in retaliation for an unspecified attack on Fulani families by young men from the predominantly Christian Bachama tribe who have formed militias in response to violence by Boko Haram and heavily-armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen.

Dilli said about 3,000 Christians in the community were displaced after the Feb. 27 attacks, and that it was the second time the community was attacked this year.

“In January, the Gwamba community was also attacked by the herdsmen, and one Christian was killed,” he said.

Also in January, Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed three Christians in Kikon in the Numan LGA. On Jan. 21 the herdsmen drove into the community on motorbikes and destroyed whatever they saw, area resident Mary Amos told Morning Star News by text message.

“They invaded our community at about 2 a.m., burning down houses and destroying farmlands,” she said, adding that other Christian communities in roughly the same period, Mbang and Baga villages, were also attacked.

Two weeks earlier in the Lamurde area, the herdsmen on Jan. 7 attacked the Christian communities of Suwa and Burukutu, resident Thomas Ayuba told Morning Star News by phone.

“The attacks by the Fulani herdsmen occurred at about 4 a.m.,” he said. “They destroyed our houses completely, forcing those of us who survived to flee.”

A day earlier in the Girei LGA, herdsmen killed 15 Christian in an attack on Luru village on Jan. 6, said area resident Christopher Ahmadu.

“The herdsmen attacked these farmers while they were working on their farms,” Ahmadu told Morning Star News.

The Rev. Musa Panti Filibus, president of the Lutheran World Fellowship and archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN), recently said the killings were undermining the church.

“It is most saddening that the senseless killings and attacks on our people continues unabated,” Filibus told delegates to the General Church Council of the LCCN in Numan town on May 29. “We are disturbed by the monstrous acts of our attackers and killers, who raid, ransack, and set ablaze our villages and towns sometimes in broad daylight.”

Filibus urged Christians in northern Nigeria not to give up praying for the herdsmen and for a halt to the carnage, and to advocate for government action.

“I call us to continue to put pressure on our government at all levels to rise to their responsibility of protecting citizens from internal and external aggression,” he said. “We will continue to condemn in strongest terms possible the brutal and gruesome killings of innocent citizens.”

Five Christians Sentenced to Death

While no Muslim Fulani herdsmen has been prosecuted for the thousands of murders of Christian civilians in recent years in Nigeria, Christians were outraged when a Muslim judge in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, this month sentenced five Christians to death for the killing of a herdsman who had joined attacks on Christian communities.

Abdul-Azeez Waziri on June 11 rejected the self-defense argument of Alex Amos, Alheri Phanuel, Holy Boniface, Jerry Gideon and Jari Sabagi, all residents of the Demsa LGA, in the June 1 killing of Adamu Buba. The judge said the five Christians “willfully and intentionally conspired and attacked three herdsmen rearing cattle, killing one of them, Adamu Buba,” in Kadamun village, Demsa LGA.

“I hereby sentence the accused persons on counts one and two to death by hanging, while on counts four and five, I sentence the accused to three years in prison to run concurrently,” Waziri reportedly said, adding that they have the option of appealing within 90 days.

Yola resident Zidon Love said in a text to Morning Star News shortly after the ruling that the five Christians are members of the LCCN.

“These five Christians will die if nothing is urgently done to assist them,” he said.

The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the Rev. Samson Ayokunle, said in a June 12 statement that there is no moral justification for the death penalty for the five Christians.

“CAN is not supporting jungle justice or any criminality,” Ayokunle said. “But hundreds of our members [Christians] in southern Kaduna, Benue, Taraba and Plateau states in the north-central geo-political zones, and a state like Enugu in the south, have been killed. Citizens stood helpless at the massacre of their peaceful fellow Nigerians; the international community watched in anguish how government security agencies could not bring perpetrators of these heinous killings to book.”

Ayokunle said that in spite of gruesome killings of Christians in different parts of Nigeria, it saddens the church that no Muslim herdsmen have been arrested and charged.

“We are shocked at the speed of light deployed by security and judicial officers in sentencing the alleged killers of the herdsman in Adamawa state,” he said, questioning the rationale behind the death sentence while Muslims who killed Christians in major Nigerian cities for evangelizing have been set free.

“Why did the court discharge the alleged killers of Madam Bridget Agbahime on the orders of the Kano state government?” he said. “Why have security officials not arrested those behind the killings of Christians in southern Kaduna? Why did Nigeria Police set free those arrested for the murder of Mrs. Eunice Elisha Olawale in Kubwa, Abuja? In view of this, CAN is calling on President Buhari to intervene in the death sentence passed on these Christian youths in Adamawa.”

Ayokunle said CAN leaders have asked attorneys to urgently study the sentencing in order to file a stay of execution motion.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) also opposed the verdict of the Yola High Court. Bishop Emmah Isong, PFN spokesman, said in a statement on Tuesday (June 19) that the Pentecostal fellowship’s opposition to the death sentence should not seen as supporting crime in any form.

Isong, who is also president of the Christian Central Chapel International in Calabar, said there should be equity and fairness when issues involving Christians and Muslims are presented before Nigeria’s courts.

Isong said it is unacceptable to the Pentecostal fellowship that no herdsman has been arrested, prosecuted and condemned to death by any court in Nigeria for killing thousands of Christians in Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, and Kogi states.

“It looks as if it is vengeance for a Yola court to condemn five Christians to death for allegedly killing herdsman when herdsmen are rampaging everywhere killing and maiming innocent Christians and going free,” he said.

The pastor also said the leadership of PFN will have no option but to mount protests if the execution of the five Christians is not overturned.

“It is high time the federal government had to intervene and to ensure that those Christians are not killed to forestall further religious conflict within that axis,” Isong said. “Instead of killing people for herdsmen, the Nigerian federal government should rather find a way to curtail their activities and provide adequate security to all Nigerians.”

The World Council of Bishops, whose World Episcopal Headquarters is based in Texas, sent a letter dated June 13 to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari calling for a halt of the death sentences.

“Nigeria has suffered untold bloodshed from killings, maiming, traumatizing of innocent citizens around the north-eastern, north-central and Middle Belt states, as a result of the frequent attacks by the Fulani herdsmen times without number,” the bishops stated.

Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population, while Muslims living primarily in the north and middle belt account for 45 percent.

Nigeria ranked 14^th on Open Doors’ 2018 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution.

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Pastor in India Arrested while Securing Affidavits on Converts’ Faith

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh state, India was filing affidavits stating that 16 people had become Christians of their own will this week when Hindu extremists came and accused him of forcible conversion – resulting in his incarceration.

After manhandling and jailing 58-year-old Dependra Prakash Maleywar on Monday (June 18) at the Sardhana lower court premises near Meerut, the Hindu extremists have since gone to the 16 new Christians’ homes and threatened to expel them if they do not recant their faith, sources said.

Members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal surrounded Maleywar while the Church of North India (CNI) pastor and a lawyer were securing notarizations of affidavits for baptisms signifying the faith in Christ of 16 people, sources said.

Someone on the court premises had informed the extremists about the affidavits, sources said, and at about 1 p.m. a few members of the Bajrang Dal, youth wing of the Hindu extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad, approached and questioned Pastor Maleywar about the affidavits as they man-handled him.

Checking the pastor’s bag and grabbing the affidavits, they accused him of forcible and fraudulent conversion, the sources said.

Officers at the adjacent Sardana police station noticed the commotion, took Pastor Maleywar into custody and transferred him to the Abdullapur jail near Meerut, 14 miles away, the sources said.

“They confiscated my father’s cell phone and all the affidavits – he could not even contact us,” the  pastor’s 30-year-old son, Rohin Maleywar, told Morning Star News.

The affidavits are not legally required in Uttar Pradesh, but church leaders request them to avoid controversies and the very kind of accusations that occurred, said the Rev. Prem Prakash Habil, CNI bishop of the Diocese of Agra that encompasses the two churches the 16 people belong to. Two of the Christians belong to the church Pastor Maleywar leads, St. Thomas Church in Mulhera, and 14 belonging to Epiphany Church in Khatauli.

The affidavits are self-declarations that the signees willingly choose to follow Christ, want to get baptized and are not coerced or offered inducements.

“We always follow this procedure; they have to submit a hand-written application in their own writing, verification papers and an affidavit if they want to become a member of the church and receive baptism,” Habil told Morning Star News.

Usually, however, the candidates for baptism file the affidavits themselves, he said.

“The way my evangelist was working was not the right way – it was [supposed to be] the work of the individuals who believed to get their own paperwork done and then submit it to their respective churches,” he said.

Pastor Maleywar had gone to get the affidavits notarized in Mulhera, where his church is located, but he was unable and so went to the lower court Sardhana, fewer than seven miles away, sources said.

All 16 baptisms were still set to take place, sources said.

Pastor Maleywar has been leading the CNI’s St. Thomas Church for five years and working as an evangelist with CNI for 17 years.

Intimidation

The families of the 16 Christians have become the targets of both the Hindu extremists and local media.

“The members of the Bajarang Dal went door-to-door and met all the 16 families and spoke to them,” said Pastor Maleywar’s daughter, Ritika Maleywar.

Pastor Nirmal Jacob of the Ephiphany Church said that Bajarang Dal members are exerting severe pressure on all the families.

“The head of the village, along with Bajarang Dal members, went to the homes of these believers and threatened them with dire consequences,” Pastor Jacob said. “They said that they would be boycotted from the village, asked to leave, their educational certificates would be confiscated and their entitlement to government benefits would be withdrawn if they profess their faith in Jesus Christ.”

He said local and national television media visited him in Khatauli on Wednesday (June 20), along with local police, and interviewed him and many families from his church.

“People testified to the media how prayer and attending church has healed them from fatal diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis,” Pastor Jacob said. ‘One family boldly shared how they did not have a child after 12 years of their marriage, and after they got themselves prayed for and started to regularly attend church, they have two children now.”

The pastor was deeply troubled, however, when none of their testimonies were broadcast, and editing changed the meaning of the interviews entirely as they were shown saying only that they were once Hindus, he said.

He is receiving threatening calls, and friends have been warning him that he could be attacked at any time.

“I do not know where to find help in a situation like this,” Pastor Jacob said. “The police, media and judiciary are biased; I do not feel safe any longer.”

The pastor, 39, has been ministering with the CNI synod for 14 years.

Alwan Masih, general secretary of the CNI synod, said the churches will go forward.

“As citizens of our country, we have rights and we will execute our rights, but at places people have suffered for their faith,” he told Morning Star News.

Bail Rejected

At this writing Pastor Maleywar remained in the Abdullapur jail under Section 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, “Arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offense,” after the Sub-Divisional Magistrate rejected his bail petition on Wednesday (June 20), sources said.

He has also been charged with causing voluntary hurt under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 504 of the IPC, “Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace.”

“Local politicians created a ruckus in the courtroom,” his attorney, Reena Luka, told Morning Star News. “The judge said if he granted Maleywar bail, the peace of the area would be compromised.”

Luka said that the judge told them to wait a few days until tensions cooled.

“We are hopeful that we will be able to procure the bail on Monday (June 25),” she added.

The hostile tone of the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Hindu nationalist BJP, against non-Hindus, has emboldened Hindu extremists in several parts of the country to attack Christians since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in May 2014, religious rights advocates say.

India ranked 11^th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2018 World Watch List of countries where Christians experience the most persecution.

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ISLAMIC HATE AND MALICE

Hadith 1:13-- "I have been ordered by Allah to fight with people till they bear testimony to the fact that there is no God but Allah."

Hadith 1.24 "Narrated Ibn `Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers"

Hadith 1.25"Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)? He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause."

Hadith 19:4294 "Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war."

Hadith 1:35 "The person who participates in Allah's cause (namely, in battle). . will be recompensed by Allah either with reward or booty or will be admitted to Paradise."

Hadith 9:4 "Wherever you find infidels kill them; for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection."

Hadith 9:50, 57 "No Umma (a member of Muslim community) should be killed for killing a Kafir (an infidel). . Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."

Sahih Muslim 4363: "You (the Jews) should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle and I wish to expel you from this land (Arabia)

Sahih Muslim 4366 Narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab. Umar heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims

Shalom

Max Shimba Ministries Org.

MUHAMMAD ALIKUWA AMEPAGAWA NA MAJINI 80,000 MWILINI MWAKE

Na Daniel Mwankemwa

MUHAMMAD ALIKUWA AMEPAGAWA NA MAJINI 80,000 MWILINI MWAKE

"MAJINI 80,000 MWILINI MWA MUHAMMAD S.A.W"

Kwa bahati mbaya ni kwamba, watu wengi sana wakiwemo Waislamu, hawajui kwamba katika maisha yake Muhammad s.a.w, Mtume wa Waislamu, alikuwa amepagawa na majini yapatayo 80,000 yaliyokuwa yakimtawala, yakimuongoza, yakimuamuru na kumuelekeza.

Imeandikwa,
“Waanazuoni hao wanaendelea kusema kwamba Muhammad alipohubiri Uislamu, Mungu akamtumia Jibrili kwa sababu aliona anafanya kazi mbaya. “Uende kwa Wakristo kujifunza uwe Mkristo.” Alikataa kwa sababu ndani yake majini walimkataza kwenda kuokoka, yaani, kuwa Mkristo.
Ujumbe wa Jibril haupati nafasi kumwingia Muhaamd kwa sababu majini walikuwa wameziba kila sehemu. Rohoni walikaa majini 40,000 asipokee ujumbe na maneno ya Mungu; akilini walikaa majini 30,000 na machoni majini 10,000. Baada ya kutawaliwa sehemu hizo Muhammad hakuwa tayari kusikiliza ujumbe wowote kutoka kwa Mungu.”

-UTUOKOE NA YULE MWOVU, ULIMWENGU WA MAJINI, JOSHUA KANANI CHABU-GRADUATED FROM AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY CAIRO, UK.28

Je vipi kuhusu waumini kuingiliwa na majini!
Kwa mujibu wa Kitabu hicho hicho,Waumini wanawake wa Kiislamu wanapokwenda msikitini huungiliwa na majini hayo.
Katika ukurasa wa 34 kinaeleza kazi mojawapo ya jinni aitwaye Arafu.

Imeandikwa,

“Kazi ya kufurahisha akina mama
Akina mama Mwislamu akishika sawasawa imani yake ya Kiislamu anaweza kuingiliwa na ‘jini mwanamume’ anafurahi sana, hata siku 30 hatamani mume wake. Jini huyu ndiye mmojawapo wa wale waliomwingia wakati wa kusilimishwa. Mwanamke akisali msikiti anakaa bila chupi. Desturi hiyo imetoka zamani kabisa na ina masimulizi yake, kwa mfano Aish aliizungumza. Baba amheshimu mwanamke ambaye aliingiliwa na jinni. Majini wanawake pia wapo kwa ajili ya kuwafurahisha wanaume.”

Muhammad s.a.w na Waislamu wameishi/wanaishi kipindi cha baada ya Yesu Kristo (570-632 (B.K).

Yesu Kristo alipokuwa hapa duniani moja ya utume aliowapa Mitume wake ni kutoa watu majini (mapepo). Imeandikwa,

“Pozeni wagonjwa, fufueni wafu, takaseni wenye ukoma, toeni pepo; mmepata bure, toeni bure.” (Math 10:8)

Tena imeandikwa,

“1 Wakafika ng'ambo ya bahari mpaka nchi ya Wagerasi.
2 Na alipokwisha kushuka chomboni, mara alikutana na mtu, ambaye ametoka makaburini, mwenye pepo mchafu;
3 makao yake yalikuwa pale makaburini; wala hakuna mtu ye yote aliyeweza kumfunga tena, hata kwa minyororo;
4 kwa sababu alikuwa amefungwa mara nyingi kwa pingu na minyororo, akaikata ile minyororo, na kuzivunja-vunja zile pingu; wala hakuna mtu aliyekuwa na nguvu za kumshinda.
5 Na sikuzote, usiku na mchana, alikuwako makaburini na milimani, akipiga kelele na kujikata-kata kwa mawe.
6 Na alipomwona Yesu kwa mbali, alipiga mbio, akamsujudia;
7 akapiga kelele kwa sauti kuu, akasema, Nina nini nawe, Yesu, Mwana wa Mungu aliye juu? Nakuapisha kwa Mungu usinitese.
8 Kwa sababu amemwambia, Ewe pepo mchafu, mtoke mtu huyu. 9 Akamwuliza, Jina lako nani? Akamjibu, Jina langu ni Legioni, kwa kuwa tu wengi.10 Akamsihi sana asiwapeleke nje ya nchi ile.11 Na hapo milimani palikuwa na kundi kubwa la nguruwe, wakilisha.12 Pepo wote wakamsihi, wakisema, Tupeleke katika nguruwe, tupate kuwaingia wao. 13 Akawapa ruhusa. Wale pepo wachafu wakatoka, wakaingia katika wale nguruwe; nalo kundi lote likatelemka kwa kasi gengeni, wakaingia baharini, wapata elfu mbili; wakafa baharini.” (Marko 5:1-13)

Ninajiuliza, ilikuwaje Muhammad s.a.w alikubali kuendelea kuteseka na majini hayo 80,000 mpaka anakufa badala ya kwenda kwa Wakristo kuombewa ili yamtoke na kuwa huru?

Tena inakuwaje Waislamu wanawake wanamkataa Yesu wakati wako katika hatari ya kuingiliwa na majini? Je, wanapovua nguo zao za ndani msikitini, wanajua wanamvulia nani?

Ninajiuliza sana, na ninapenda na wewe ujiulize sana kuhusu hali hii.

Shalom

Max Shimba Ministries Org.

Muslim Father Burns 9-Y-O Son for Converting to Christianity in Uganda

A Muslim man in eastern Uganda tied his 9-year-old son to a tree and lit it on fire after his son converted to Christianity and refused to fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a Christian persecution watchdog group is reporting.

Morning Star News reports that 9-year-old Nassif Malagara, who lives in the Kamuli District of the Kisozi subcounty, was severely burned by his father, 36-year-old Abubakar Malagara, who caught him breaking the Ramadan fast after going two days without food on June 9.

Just four days earlier on June 5, the child decided to give his life to Christ after a neighbor took him to a church outside the village.

The church's pastor, who remained nameless for security reasons, told Morning Star News that the boy stayed after the service and told him that "he wanted to receive Jesus as his personal savior."

"I was a bit hesitant, but after his continuous press, I then prayed with him, and he left," the pastor explained.

Following the experience at the church, the pastor said that the boy expressed to his father and stepmother, 35-year-old Madina Namwaje, that he no longer wanted to attend the madrassa (Islamic school) or take part in Muslim activities. The pastor added the father and stepfather became angry when they learned that the boy had converted to Christianity.

Despite Malagara's conversion, the parents fully expected him to observe the Ramadan fast. Malagara told Morning Star News that he starved for two days before he snuck into his neighbor's house for food.

On June 9, the boy's father caught him eating. Malagara said that after his father caught him eating, he began to beat him with sticks. Although Malagara initially escaped from his father and hid behind a bush, his father eventually found him.

"My father then followed me and got hold of me back to the homestead, where he tied me up to a banana tree," the boy was quoted as saying. "He went into the house and came back with a hot piece of wood. The banana tree had dry leaves, which caught fire and caused serious burns on my body."

Fortunately for Malagara, his neighbors heard his screams, untied him from the tree and took him to a hospital to get his burns treated.

Abubakar Malagara was arrested by local police officers after residents alerted the authorities about the abuse.

A hospital employee named Walwawo Zubari told Morning Star News that Malagara had burns on many different parts of his body.

"Nassif has been recovering, but at a very slow pace," Zubari said. "He might need to be referred to another hospital for specialized treatment."

Although the father was later released on bail, a relative told Morning Star News that she hopes to take custody of the child after he is released from the hospital.

In addition to Malagara being burned, the neighbor who took the boy to the church told Morning Star News that he has also been threatened by an unidentified person through text message.

Although the neighbor is not sure who sent the threatening text message, he believes that the message could have been sent by Abubakar Malagara from another Muslim's phone.

"We know that you are behind the conversion of Nassif to Christianity," the neighbor recalled the message saying. "You will soon reap what you have sown, which will be a lesson to others. Islam is against such conversion."

Although 85 percent of the Ugandan population is Christian, Malagara's incident is far from the first time a Muslim family in eastern Uganda retaliated against a member of their own family for converting from Islam to Christianity.

In March, two Muslim men in Katende beat their own son and nephew with sticks and burned down his home when they learned that he had embraced Christianity.

Last June, a Christian mother of 11 was poisoned to death by her Muslim sister-in-law after she and her husband, a former Islamic school teacher, converted to Christianity.

Last October, it was reported that a Christian mother of eight was dragged from home by a Muslim mob and hacked to death because she converted to Christianity. The murder of the mother came about a month after her brother-in-law was murdered for the same reason.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-father-burns-9-y-o-son-for-converting-to-christianity-in-uganda-165743/

8 Children Beaten, Rejected by Parents as 'Infidels' in Uganda for Converting to Christianity

Eight children from a village in Uganda were beaten by their Muslim families and cast away as "infidels" after giving their lives to Jesus Christ. Additionally, the pastor who led them to Christ is now facing death threats.

According to the Christian persecution watchdog Morning Star News, the children come from four different Muslim families who live in Busalamu village in the country's southwestern Luuka district and range in age from 9 to 16 years old.

The children converted to Christianity after meeting with 29-year-old Pastor Brian Mukisa from the Power Gates Church.

After telling their parents about their conversion and newly discovered love for Jesus, the children were beaten and forbidden from attending worship services.

According to Morning Star News, the parents retaliated against the church with the help of a local mosque.

The families burned down Power Gates' rented facility on May 25, forcing Mukisa to relocate his congregation to a temporary home about 6 miles away from away from the location of the original church building.

Morning Star News reports that one of the enraged Muslims even threatened to kill Mukisa.

"Your church activities will not be tolerated in this area," the angry man was quoted as saying. "If you do not leave our village, then we shall soon come for your life."

According to Mukisa, the children, many of whom are still recovering from injuries they sustained from their parents' beatings, took refuge at the church on June 29 and are now staying with members of the church.

"The parents have totally disowned them as infidels," Mukisa told Morning Star News. "They need prayers to come to terms with the separation from parents for choosing Christ."

As the church continues to face the threat of persecution, destruction and death, Mukisa affirmed that persecution is something that is to be expected for Christians in Busalamu.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/8-children-beaten-rejected-parents-infidels-uganda-converting-christianity-167885/

Namusisi Birye, from Uganda, was beaten by her father and mother for choosing Christ and leaving her Muslim

Namusisi Birye committed her life to Christ at an evangelistic outreach, leaving the Muslim religion of her family. When she returned from the event, she told her father about her decision. He immediately began beating her, with her mother’s support. Namusisi’s screams attracted a crowd of neighbors, and the believers among them rescued Namusisi. 

“[My parents] chased me away from home, saying that I am supposed to die,” Namusisi told a VOM worker. She received injuries to her back and ribs and remains in a lot of pain. Although she is being cared for by Christians, she is still being watched; her village is 95 percent Muslim.

 Pray for Namusisi’s healing and that those supporting her will determine a good plan for her long-term care.

ZIFAHAMU ALAMA ZA KISHETANI ZILIZOZAGAA KILA MAHALI

Alama kuu ya 'kanisa' la kilimwengu la kishetani Maandiko yanasema kwamba: Nao wanaoufuatia uhai wangu hutega mitego; nao wanaotaka kunidhuru hunena mabaya; na kufikiri hila mchana kutwa. (Zab. 38:12). Wenye kiburi wamenifichia mtego na kamba; wametandika wavu kando ya njia; wameniwekea matanzi. (Zab. 140:5). 

Pia imeandikwa: Kwa hiyo kuzimu kumeongeza tamaa yake, kumefunua kinywa chake bila kiasi; na utukufu wao, na wingi wao, na ghasia yao, naye pia afurahiye miongoni mwao, hushuka na kuingia humo. (Isaya 5:14). Shetani halali. Usiku na mchana, karne hadi karne yuko katika hekaheka za kuwakusanya wanadamu ili kwenda nao kwenye jehanamu ya moto. Zipo njia maelfu za kutekeleza malengo yake hayo. Lakini msingi wa hayo yote, ni kumtumia mwanadamu mwenyewe. Wako wanadamu wengi leo ambao ni waabudu shetani na wanajua kabisa; na wameamua toka mioyoni mwao kwamba wao watakuwa ni raia wa kuzimu. Wako wengine, walio kundi kubwa zaidi, ambao wameingizwa kwenye uraia wa kuzimu bila wao kujua. Lakini ukiwauliza kama wao ni raia wa kuzimu watakataa katakata. Hata hivyo, ukweli ni kwamba ni washirika wa huko kwa asilimia mia moja. Sitaongelea kila njia anayotumia shetani kuwanasa wanadamu, lakini nitapenda tuangalie njia ambayo si wengi wanaweza hata kuidhania. Biblia inamtaja ibilisi kama kerubi afunikaye (Ezekieli 28:14). Kwa hiyo yeye ni fundi wa kufunika mambo na kuyafanya yaonekane ya kawaida au ya kuvutia kumbe ni mitego ya mauti. Ulimwengu wa giza unatumia sana alama (symbolism). 

Ziko alama mbalimbali za kishetani ambazo zimeingizwa sehemu nyingi mno kiasi kwamba si rahisi kuzigundua maana sasa zinaonekana kama ni mambo ya kawaida tu. Zinaweza kuwa kwenye bidhaa tunazotumia kila siku kama vile mavazi, mikufu, bangili, pete, hereni, muziki, sinema, video games, nk. Shetani hafanyi mambo yake kwa haraka. Amepanga mambo yake kwa miaka mingi na kuyaingiza polepole kiasi kwamba muda si mrefu, dunia itashuhudia mlipuko wa kazi zake za uharibifu. 

Hata sasa uovu umeshashika kasi kubwa; na bado unazidi kufunguka zaidi na zaidi; maana kuzimu kumeongeza tamaa. Tambua kwamba waabudu shetani wana ajenda kubwa moja, nayo ni kufika mahali ambapo watauteka ulimwengu wote. Sasa ili kutekeleza malengo hayo, wanahitaji pia fedha. Njia mojawapo ya kupata fedha ni kuuza bidhaa mbalimbali, zikiwamo za mapambo. Lakini bidhaa hizo zinakuwa na lengo jingine zaidi ya lile la kuleta fedha. Nalo ni kuyatuma mashetani ulimwenguni kote ili kukamata akili na fahamu za watu na kuziweka mbali na Mungu wa kweli. 

Kwa hiyo, mara zinapotengenezwa, kabla ya kusambazwa, wanasema kuwa ‘wanazibariki.’ Na ni wazi kuwa shetani anapobariki kitu ina maana kuwa anakilaani. Kwa hiyo, unapokuwa nazo, huo ni mlango tosha wa shetani na laana zake kuingia maishani mwako na kuanza kukuongoza katika njia yake, hata kama wewe hujui. 

Zifuatazo ni baadhi tu ya alama ambazo inawezekana umeshaziona au hata kuzivaa; lakini ni alama za kishetani ambazo kimsingi zinakuwa zimepandiwa au kunuiziwa mapepo.

·  Alama ya kwanza inahusiana na kuwaingiza vijana kwenye ushetani (teenage satanism). Huo mshale uliovunjika na kukwepa tundu lililo mbele yake unamaanisha uasi na kukataa kuwa chini ya mamlaka yeyote, iwe ni wazazi au serikali. Inaitwa ni alama ya njia ya kushoto. 

·  Alama ya pili ni msalaba uliogezwa juu chini na kuvunjwa. Hii ina maana ya kusema kuwa hakuna Mungu. Ni uasi dhidi ya Mungu Mwenyezi. 

·  Alama ya tatu ilianzia kwenye ubudha ikiwa na maana ya bahati. Lakini Hitler aliigeuza na kuifanya alama au nembo yake na majeshi yake. Hitler alikuwa ni mwabudu shetani. Kwa hiyo, alifuata ushauri wa mwabudu shetani mwingine mkubwa kabisa (Aleister Crowley) aliyesema kwamba, ukitaka kufanikiwa katika kumwabudu shetani, basi fanya kila kitu kinyumenyume. 

·  Alama ya nne, ambayo nayo ilitumiwa na Hitler (SS), ina maana ya ‘wafalme katika jeshi la shetani’ (kings in satan service).

Alama ya tano, ambayo huenda hata umeiona kwenye hereni za akina mama, ni alama yenye asili ya Misri ya kale. Hii ni alama ya mungu wa Misri Ra na mwanawe Horus. Kumbuka siku zote kuwa, unaposikia miungu, maana yake ni mashetani. 

Alama ya sita inaitwa ‘tau’. Ni ya asili ya Babeli. 

Alama ya saba ni msalaba uliogeuzwa juu chini. Ina maana ya kumkufuru Kristo kwamba alichokifanya msalabani si lolote si chochote. 

Alama ya nane inaitwa alama ya mungu mke wa utatu (symbol of triple goddess). Kama ambavyo Wakristo tunaamini kuwa kuna Mungu mmoja katika nafsi tatu – Baba, Mwana na Roho Mtakatifu, waabudu shetani nao wanaamini kuwa mungu wao mkuu ana nafsi tatu, lakini wa kwao ni mungu mke.

Alama ya tisa inaitwa gurudumu la uhai (wheel of life). Kila mara duara humaanisha kuwa maisha yanaendelea bila mwisho. 

Alama ya kumi ni alama maarufu ya kishetani inayowakilisha ‘kanisa’ la ulimwenguni kote la shetani (universal church of satan). Kwa kawaida huwa na kichwa cha mbuzi katikati ambacho ni alama ya shetani (Lusifa) mwenyewe. 

Alama ya kumi na moja ni pembetatu. Hii huwakilisha vitu vitatu ambavyo ni muhimu katika mambo ya kishetani, yaani ardhi, upepo na moto. 

Alama ya kumi na mbili inaitwa ‘msalaba wa mkanganyiko’ (cross of confusion). Tundu lililo katikati ni dhihaka kwa Ukristo kwamba una tundu. Na mkunjo wa chini nao ni dhihaka nyingine kwamba Kristo alikufa lakini hakufufuka – aliishia huko huko kuzimu.

Alama ya kumi na tatu ni alama ya mungu mke Diana. Huyu ni mungu mkubwa kabisa anayeabudiwa na waabudu shetani pamoja na dini za kipagani kama tulivyoona kwenye makala mojawapo huko nyuma. Unaweza kusoma kuhusu makala hayo hapa. 

Alama ya kumi na nne ni sawa na ya kumi na tatu. Nayo inamwakilisha mungu mke Diana kwa waabudu shetani. 

Alama ya kumi na tano hutumika sana katika mapambo ya wanawake, hasa hereni – japo inaweza kuwa kokote kwingine. Hii ina maana ya kusema kwamba, “Ninamwamini shetani katika kupata mapato yangu.”

Alama ya kumi na sita ina maana ya nguvu za kijoka za kiume (male serpentine power). Ukiitazama ni mfano wa nyoka aliyejiviringa. Na nyoka ni alama muhimu kabisa ya kumwakilisha shetani. 

Alama ya kumi na saba ina maana ya nguvu za kijoka za kike. (female serpentine power). Ni sawa na alama ya 16 hapo juu. 

Alama ya kumi na saba ni mdudu yule ambaye hukusanya kinyesi, kwa mfano cha ng’ombe na kutengeneza kama gololi, kisha anaanza kukisukuma kwa miguu yake ya nyuma (beetle). Alama hii ina asili ya Misri na ilihusishwa na roho iliyokufa kupewa mwili upya, yaani wafu kurudi tena duniani kwa umbo jingine (re-incarnation). 

Kama nilivyogusia hapo nyuma, alama hizi zinakuwa zimenuiziwa mashetani. Unapozivaa, hilo linakuwa ni agano kati yako na kuzimu. 

Hivyo, unamruhusu shetani kupitia mapepo hayo kuingia maishani mwako na kuyamiliki na kukuvuvia tabia fulanifulani za kishetani ambazo ni uasi na ni kinyume cha Mungu aliye hai. Na Mungu wa mbinguni huwa haingilii kati uamuzi wa mtu binafsi hata kidogo. 

Ndiyo maana shetani akishakufungisha agano – uwe unajua au hujui – wewe unakuwa kisheria ni wake kabisa. 

Ndugu, shetani yuko kazini. Sasa na wewe usilale!! 

Unawezaje kupona? Jambo moja la busara ni kukana na kuachana na maagano hayo. Lakini sasa swali litakuwa kwamba utaacha vingapi? Maana si rahisi kuvijua vyote. Karibu kila bidhaa tunayotumia imechezewa kwa namna fulani za kishetani. Kukwepa kila kitu cha kishetani kwa asilimia mia moja ni mtihani mkubwa sana. Cha kufurahisha ni kuwa yuko Mungu ajuaye vyote. Sisi ni wanadamu tu na ulimwengu huu ni ‘so complex’ kiasi kwamba ujanja wetu wote haufui dafu. 

Yesu Kristo ana hamu kubwa sana ya kumsaida kila mwanadamu aliye tayari. Lakini kama nilivyosema, huwa halazimishi mtu hata kidogo. Ni hadi wewe mwenyewe umkaribishe moyoni na maishani mwako ndipo mnaingia katika agano na Yeye. Na hapo Yeye anachukua jukumu la kusimamia maisha yako. Lakini ukiamua kujitumaini amwenyewe au kutumainia dini, utakwama, utakwama tu. Mungu akubariki na kukufungua macho ya rohoni ili uweze kulitambua hilo. 

Yesu anakupenda, anakuthamini, na anakuonea shauku ili akupe uzima wa milele.

HIZI NDIZO ALAMA HASA.. ZA DINI YA KISHETANI FREEMASON

Alama hii inapendwa kutumiwa sana na wengi wa watu hasa vijana lakini pia wazee, na wanatumia kwa kuiga na pasipo kujua kwamba ni alama ya Kishetani.

Alama nyingine wakati wa kusalimiana kwa kushikana  mikono

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Alama nyingine

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