Uganda Christian Couple, Woman They Led to Christ Poisoned to Death

3/28/2025   (Morning Star News)

A Muslim woman in eastern Uganda this month killed a Christian couple and accidentally took her own daughter’s life with the same poison she used on those who had led her daughter to Christ. Doreen Nairuba and her husband died from eating poisoned food prepared by Hanifa Hamiyat. Nairuba was six months pregnant. Hamiyat’s 18-year-old daughter, Kapisa, died the same day after unknowingly eating the food prepared for Nairuba and Nairuba’s husband, Jackson. Nairuba had been sharing her Christian faith with Kapisa, who had finished high school exams and was awaiting results to determine entry to college. Hamiyat was angry that the couple had taken her daughter to church. During Ramadan it is common for area Muslims to share food with other families in the evening to break the daily fast, and at 7 p.m. Hamiyat prepared a meal and asked her daughter to take it to the Christian couple. Her daughter stayed to eat with the couple, and after returning home became sick and died after being taken to the hospital. Nairuba and Jackson also died from the poison. 

Please pray…　

• Pray for the Lord to comfort the families of those who were poisoned, including Hamiyat, who has been arrested.

• Pray that Hamiyat will repent of her sins and put her faith in Jesus as she grieves her daughter’s death.

• Pray that the Lord will comfort, encourage and strengthen the church in their village as they mourn the death of these three martyrs.