Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:56 pm (PST)
UNDERGROUND CHRISTIAN LEADER BEHEADED IN KASHMIR,
INDIA
Source: Assist News Service
An active member of the Salem Voice Ministries
underground house church in Kashmir, India,
was brutally murdered on Saturday, April 14.
Manzoor Ahmad Chat, 33, was beheaded after being
tortured by Hizbul militants before dawn Saturday.
Local police recovered the head and the remains
of his body from the Pulwama district. Manzoor
and his family became believers after converting
from Islam. They regularly attend prayer services
which he led at the house church. Manzoor was
employed by the government as a lineman of the
Power Development Department in the Kakapora
area. The day before his death he was traveling
by scooter to carry out his duties when he was
kidnapped by the militants, according to police
reports. This was the third attack on believers
in the region in the last four months. In December
evangelist and campaigner Basheer Ahamed Tantry,
a government-employed engineer, was shot to
death in public, and last month Pastor Ashir
of the underground church in Kupwara was severely
attacked.
