Two Kenyan teenage girls are in hiding after being beaten and starved by their uncle for accepting Christ.

Namwase Aisha, 16 and her sister Nabagabana Fatuma, 14, are being given trauma counseling and medical care after being rescued from their Muslim uncle.  The uncle had taken custody of the girls five years ago after the death of their father and tried to force them to become Muslims.

“My uncle became so furious because we had embraced Jesus,” Aisha told a Morning Star News source. “He locked us inside the house and began beating us with a wooden stick, and then we were left for three days without food. At the third day, we felt as if we were going to die, and we began crying for help.”

The girls say that while being taught about Islamic jinn, or evil supernatural creatures, they were troubled and could not sleep.  They said they were being harassed by these evil spirits and sought out the Christians because they wanted to be set free.

“Before leaving he church, we told the pastor of our problems, who first prayed for us to be followers of Jesus and later prayed that the evil spirits will not torment us again,” Aisha said. “After the prayers, we felt as if a big burden had been rolled away.”

The girls, fearful they will be killed for their profession of Christ, will be kept in hiding until they can flee to a western nation.