The Somali female Muslim husband sent her back to his parents to accept Christ without three young children. And her parents drove her away to share the gospel with her sister, sources said.
Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten on Saturday (March 22) and later exiled to his birth family after sharing a new faith in Christ with his sister at Tabta Village, the leader of the Christian team he first visited on March 15th.
They entered the house that day as her relatives had quickly broken daily Ramadan around 7:30pm, and Hussein’s husband was not there. The team discovers that Hussein is feeling unwell and complains to Jin (the supernatural being in the invisible world of Islam). They prayed for her and set out for another village, the leader said.
On March 17, Hussein called the team to let them know that since the time of prayer she felt peace and comfort in her heart and invited them to her home. When they arrived, she was willing to request more prayers, and she said she would pay them 100 US dollars – the team declined and told her that salvation was God’s free gift through his son, Issa (Issa), the leader said.
Hussein told the team that the voice of God was telling her.
“She needed some clarification about this. We took the time to explain to her that she was a ship of God. She was being saved by Christ Jesus,” the leader told Morningstar News. “After she received Christ as Savior, we left the village to another area for mission outreach.”
On March 19, Hussein boldly shared her new faith with her husband Ibrahim Suleiman. Angry at her for accepting a different faith than Islam, he told his parents that Hussein’s father told Suleiman to send her back to him so that he could “deal with the matter.”
On March 20, Hussein’s husband sent her back to relatives without three children, ages 7, 5 and 3, she said. In a daze, she began to share with her sister about God’s love, the Christian leader said.
On March 22nd, Hussein’s father learned that she began to share Christ with other daughters and abuse her, and Hussein said he had told him.
Driving by both families, Hussein is lonely and prays to receive what they have received, the leader said. His team connected her to a nearby underground Christian family.
Hussein said he trusts in God to take her to a safe place where she can have the freedom to worship him.
“I have lost my child, but God’s peace will continue to comfort my heart,” she told the leader. “Please keep praying for me to my Christian family and helping me with money to buy food to keep me where I stay, so that I don’t get a burden.
According to the US State Department, Somali’s constitution establishes Islam as a national religion and prohibits the spread of other religions. It is also required that the law comply with the principles of Sharia (Islamic law) without exception to the application of non-Muslims.
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law, according to the mainstream schools of Islamic law. Al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamic extremist group, is allied with al-Qaeda and is accommodating education.
Al-Shabaab or Al-Shabaab sympathizers have killed non-local people in northern Kenya since 2011, when Kenyan forces led African coalitions to rebels against rebels in response to terrorist attacks on tourists and other people on Kenya’s coast.
Somalia ranks second on the 2025 watch list of Christian support groups Opendoas in 50 countries where becoming a Christian is the most difficult.
