Evangelist Shot Dead in J&K in India
Pattan (J&K in India), (SVM News), November 21, 2006: Evangelist Bashir Ahmad Tantray was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 21st November, Tuesday morning at Mamoosa village in northern Barmullah district. He was a popular evangelist and very helpful to the christians in Jammu and Kashmir region in India. An Underground Missionary of the At Anycost Jesus Mission in Jammu and Kashmir reported to the SVM News Service.
The gunmen fired three pistol shots at Basheer Ahamed from a close range at 10:30 am. He killed on the spot in a public view. And the assilants escaped easily from the place, for nobody made any attempts to capture them. A villager who witnessed the incident told to the underground missionary.
Basheer Ahamed was born and brought up from the same village. By profession he is an Engineer. He converted from Islam to Christianity during the year 2000. For ministry purpose he was settled in Srinagar, the capital city of Kashmir. He had come to the village on Monday evening to see his ailing father.
He was spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ very boldly in and around Kashmir. A good number of people from his village accepted Jesus as their personal savior and Lord.
The village hit the newspaper headlines in March 2003 with the reports of mass conversion to Christianity by the residents. Some of the villagers denied the conversion, but some village elders privately admitted that several families had converted to Christianity.
Kashmir has been witnessing a discreet spurt in conversion from Islam to Christianity over the past 15 years. Sources say that some 15000 Muslims across the valley have converted to Christianity during this period.
Parts of Pulwama, Uri, Karnah, Baramullah and outer areas of Srinagar and Kangan are reported to be main centers of Christian missions. Around a dozen Christian missions and churches involving with the ministries.
Conversions have not encountered any major resistance from Muslim organisations, it has led to tensions among common people, who are increasingly getting vocal against the Christian missionaries. Hundreds of residents gathered outside a missionary school - Good Shepherded School - in Pulwama, holding demonstration against the school management and staff for “converting Muslim students to Christianity”. The protestors attacked the school building causing damage to the building.
Government had to order temporary closure of a missionary school in September this year and ordered probe into the allegations. The school was also target of a grenade attack by militants.
At Anycost Jesus Mission has three mission fields in Northern part of Jammu and Kashmir, doing underground ministries for the evangelisation of Muslims.
Pastor Paul Ciniraj,
Salem Voice Ministries
http://salemvoice.org
The gunmen fired three pistol shots at Basheer Ahamed from a close range at 10:30 am. He killed on the spot in a public view. And the assilants escaped easily from the place, for nobody made any attempts to capture them. A villager who witnessed the incident told to the underground missionary.
Basheer Ahamed was born and brought up from the same village. By profession he is an Engineer. He converted from Islam to Christianity during the year 2000. For ministry purpose he was settled in Srinagar, the capital city of Kashmir. He had come to the village on Monday evening to see his ailing father.
He was spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ very boldly in and around Kashmir. A good number of people from his village accepted Jesus as their personal savior and Lord.
The village hit the newspaper headlines in March 2003 with the reports of mass conversion to Christianity by the residents. Some of the villagers denied the conversion, but some village elders privately admitted that several families had converted to Christianity.
Kashmir has been witnessing a discreet spurt in conversion from Islam to Christianity over the past 15 years. Sources say that some 15000 Muslims across the valley have converted to Christianity during this period.
Parts of Pulwama, Uri, Karnah, Baramullah and outer areas of Srinagar and Kangan are reported to be main centers of Christian missions. Around a dozen Christian missions and churches involving with the ministries.
Conversions have not encountered any major resistance from Muslim organisations, it has led to tensions among common people, who are increasingly getting vocal against the Christian missionaries. Hundreds of residents gathered outside a missionary school - Good Shepherded School - in Pulwama, holding demonstration against the school management and staff for “converting Muslim students to Christianity”. The protestors attacked the school building causing damage to the building.
Government had to order temporary closure of a missionary school in September this year and ordered probe into the allegations. The school was also target of a grenade attack by militants.
At Anycost Jesus Mission has three mission fields in Northern part of Jammu and Kashmir, doing underground ministries for the evangelisation of Muslims.
Pastor Paul Ciniraj,
Salem Voice Ministries
http://salemvoice.org
posted by Salem Voice @ 4:29 PM
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