By BosNewsLife News Center
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (BosNewsLife)– A Colombian pastor has been shot and killed at his home in front of his wife and church members, the latest in a series of deadly attacks against Christians in the South American nation, Christian rights investigators said Monday, September 14.
Rafael Velasquez, the 41-year-old pastor of the evangelical Foursquare Gospel Church in the town of Maranonal, died instantly following the attack by three masked gunmen last Sunday, September 6, said Britain-based advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).
The attack took place after a church service, CSW added. “The armed and masked men broke into Pastor Velasquez’s home and shot him dead in front of his wife and six young members of his church.”
Paramilitary groups vying for power in the region are thought to be responsible for the pastor’s murder.
LARGER PATTERN
CSW said the situation in Cordoba is part of “a larger pattern of severe violations of religious liberty in Colombia.” Over 200 churches have been forcibly closed and more than 35 pastors have been assassinated in different parts of the country during the last three years, CSW told BosNewsLife.
At least fifteen pastors in the northern Cordoba region have reportedly been threatened over the last six months. Several church leaders “have been forcibly displaced” because of the threats against them and their families, said CSW, which has close contacts with Christians in Colombia.
A new CSW report details what the group calls “systematic religious persecution in areas under the control of armed groups.”
CSW’s National Director Stuart Windsor said that his group has urged the European Union and Britain to urge the Colombian government to properly investigate this murder as well as the other threats against church leaders. “We urgently ask the Colombian government to bring those involved in the resurgence of paramilitary activity in Córdoba to justice”. (Follow BosNewsLife on Twitter. http://twitter.com/bosnewslife )
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Ecclesiastes 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Matthew 18:7Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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Revelation 1:17-19 (King James Version)
17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
19Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Luke 12:4
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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Revelation 6:9-11 (King James Version)
9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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