By Funmilayo Akinyemi
A Uganda Muslim man, Adamu Mukungu, has reportedly stabbed his 41-year-old wife, Nasiimu Mirembe to death for attending a church service during the Ramadan.
The incident occurred on March 23, 2025, in the Eastern Uganda’s Busembatya Town Council.
According to Morning Star News, the mother of two sons and four daughters who was recently introduced to Christianity, had put her faith in Christ on March 21 after accepting the gospel from a friend in the Eastern Uganda’s Busembatya Town.
It was gathered that she was attending a church service with her friend for the first time on March 23, when a Muslim neighbour, Awudu Mbulalina, saw them.
The report had it that Mirembe expressed fear that Mbulalina would tell her husband that she was heading toward a church service and that he would kill her, but the friend who encouraged her to trust in God, persuaded her to continue in her new found faith.
After the church service, Mirembe was said to have been introduced as a new Christian.
However, tragedy struck as they were returning home when they met her husband about 200 metres from the church site.
According to the friend, Mukungu said to his wife: “I saw you come out of the church. What you have done is very bad, especially during this period of Ramadan.”
“Immediately he started slapping his wife. 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 related.
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.
Sadly, she was pronounced dead at 3.45 am on March 24.
Meanwhile, Mukungu has fled the the area and police are still looking for him.
The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in Eastern areas of the country.
