Surely Imam Hassan Musa couldn’t have had anything to do with the murder of Pastor Bernard Mulongo, right? After all, Islam is a religion of peace, right? A Muslim cleric must know that above all people. So an imam certainly wouldn’t get involved in an act of violence over Islam, right? He knows that when Allah says “Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5), he doesn’t really mean it, right?
“Young Pastor Killed after Religious Debate in Uganda,” Morning Star News, July 24, 2026:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An imam who debated a pastor at an interfaith dialogue in Uganda is a suspect in the killing of the church leader after the event on Saturday (July 18), sources said.
Bernard Mulongo, a 25-year-old pastor at New Restoration Church of Christ in Butebo District, was killed nine miles from Mbale in Jami village late that night, his traveliing companion said. He is survived by his wife and two children, ages 4 and 7.
A pastor present at the interfaith dialogue and debate, David Omala, said Imam Hassan Musa was angry with the Pastor Mulongo after the event, at which two prominent Muslim women publicly converted to Christianity.
Pastor Mulongo spoke convincingly at the debate, and afterward Musa warned him, “Bernard, you deserve death for blasphemous deeds and leading our people to that false religion. It is not right for you to use the holy book, Quran, to mislead our members,” according to Pastor Omala.
He added that Musa made additional comments encouraging violence against Christians….
Pastor Muloong left the radio station in Mbale city with a friend, Robert Mukisa, on the same motorcycle, Mukisa said. On the way to the place where they were lodging, when they were nine miles from Mbale, several men on motorcycles passed them and stopped ahead of them, he said….
Pastor Omala said he later received a telephone call from an elder of Pastor Mulongo’s church informing him that he had been killed in Jami village. The pastor called Pastor Mulongo’s father, and they rushed to the site….
Musa is a suspect in the killing, and at this writing the imam was absconding, sources said. Police were investigating but have made no arrests. The pastor’s family has called for a thorough investigation into the killing and for those responsible to be prosecuted….
Raja says
These people of the devil want to kill everyone because they blame everything on the Jews and other non-Muslims just because the devil said so in the koran.
In this case they must have been really pissed because the pastor dared to/and succeeded in pulling out some from the devil’s grasp.
Carol Hult, BSW says
So why do we not learn of the IS-backed genocide of Nigerian Christians from the CBC, Global or CTV news networks? They seem to have an anti-Christian and pro-Hsmas bias.
Lisa says
My God, what happened to those women who converted to Christianity. They too were probably disposed of. There is NO hope for the media in America. They will sell out their own and then they too will be the target of the radicals when they are of no use any longer.
Mo says
Oh, so young at 25!
Lord, please help his poor wife and children. Give them strength. Protect them.
Have mercy on the women who converted as well.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Pastor is murdered after Muslims convert to Christianity, imam is suspect
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This *poor man* and converts to Christianity. You don’t find Christian–or Jewish or Hindu or Buddhist–clerics who act like this Muslim thug. God, I hate Islam.