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Russian priest slain after death threats
Daniil Sysoyev, 34, was shot in the head by a masked gunman in St. Thomas Church in southern Moscow, police said.
The killer entered the church, asked for Sysoyev by name and opened fire with a pistol at close range, RIA Novosti reported. The priest died later in a hospital. His assistant was badly wounded in the attack.
"The main theory is that religious motives are behind the crime," a spokesman for the investigating committee of the Prosecutor-General's Office said in comments broadcast on the Rossiya state-run TV channel.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported Friday Sysoyev had revealed in a recent interview with one of its journalists that he had received 14 death threats by phone and e-mail.
"They've threatened to cut my head off 14 times," the newspaper quoted the priest as saying. "The FSB (Federal Security Service) got in touch with me a year ago to say they had uncovered a murder plot against me."
Sysoyev also told the newspaper that in the past year, his church had "christened 80 Muslims, among them Tatars, Uzbeks, Chechens and Dagestanis."
He said other Orthodox priests were "afraid" to carry out missionary work among Muslim immigrants.
"They are afraid of revenge from the Muslim world," he said.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/20/2009
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11-23-2009 13:36
RH wrote:
The lamb was to be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Leavening is symbolic of sin. Bitterness speaks of death.
The people of Israel lived because the passover lamb died. We gain eternal life through Jesus' death, who, though sinless, took all our sins upon himself. Our Passover lamb.
Leaven causes dough to puff up, more volume but not weight. Sin of pride makes us puff up, to think more of ourselves than we are.
Passover commemorates Israel's redemption from Egyptian slavery. Easter or Resurrection Sunday, commemorates our (Christians) redemption from our slavery to sin, and eternal life.
Praise God!
The people of Israel lived because the passover lamb died. We gain eternal life through Jesus' death, who, though sinless, took all our sins upon himself. Our Passover lamb.
Leaven causes dough to puff up, more volume but not weight. Sin of pride makes us puff up, to think more of ourselves than we are.
Passover commemorates Israel's redemption from Egyptian slavery. Easter or Resurrection Sunday, commemorates our (Christians) redemption from our slavery to sin, and eternal life.
Praise God!
11-23-2009 13:26
RH wrote:
Jesus is our "door." Jesus was crucified. His head pierced with the crown of thorns and bled (blood above). His outstretched hands pierced with the nails on the cross (blood at each side). His pierced feet nailed together on the cross, bled (blood below).
Jesus was perfect, he was without sin. Even Pilate found no fault in Him (Luke 23:13-15 NT). He was "without spot or blemish." Not a bone of the Passover lamb was to be broken (Exodus 12:46 OT). The legs of Jesus were not broken, as was always done to those crucified. Which was done to the two thieves crucified with him. (John 19:33 NT).
The Passover lamb was to be roasted and eaten--all of it, what was left was to be burned. (Exodus 12:8)
Fire is symbolic of God's judgement. Jesus who was sinless took all our sins and was stricken with God's judgement. (Isaiah 53 OT) cont'd.
Jesus was perfect, he was without sin. Even Pilate found no fault in Him (Luke 23:13-15 NT). He was "without spot or blemish." Not a bone of the Passover lamb was to be broken (Exodus 12:46 OT). The legs of Jesus were not broken, as was always done to those crucified. Which was done to the two thieves crucified with him. (John 19:33 NT).
The Passover lamb was to be roasted and eaten--all of it, what was left was to be burned. (Exodus 12:8)
Fire is symbolic of God's judgement. Jesus who was sinless took all our sins and was stricken with God's judgement. (Isaiah 53 OT) cont'd.
11-23-2009 12:34
RH wrote:
Verhoeven
You quoted from Exodus 11. In Exodus 12 it goes on to tell us that the Israelites in slavery in Egypt were not exempt from the last plague.
God gave Moses specific instructions as to what they were to do in order to be exempt from the wrath of God.
They were to take a lamb, perfect "without spot or blemish" (Exodus 12:5), it was to be kept four days then slaughtered at evening, the blood smeared on the door lintel (above), and the two side posts. God seeing the blood on the houses of the Israelites, would pass over them, no harm would come to them. cont'd.
You quoted from Exodus 11. In Exodus 12 it goes on to tell us that the Israelites in slavery in Egypt were not exempt from the last plague.
God gave Moses specific instructions as to what they were to do in order to be exempt from the wrath of God.
They were to take a lamb, perfect "without spot or blemish" (Exodus 12:5), it was to be kept four days then slaughtered at evening, the blood smeared on the door lintel (above), and the two side posts. God seeing the blood on the houses of the Israelites, would pass over them, no harm would come to them. cont'd.
11-23-2009 01:03
jb wrote:
what a courageous christian
To follow Jesus' "Great commission" even though it meant he might die for it. May God raise up many more such courageous men.
11-22-2009 22:48
RH wrote:
That priest is a Martyr. He was doing what Jesus told all his apostles they should do--proclaim the Good News!
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