The son of a church leader shot dead in north-western India on Saturday (15 July) has revealed that his father had received threats that if he continued to preach, he would be killed.Alisha Masih, 22, who is also training to be a pastor, said his father, Sultan, who was 47, had received threats (from unknown sources) via WhatsApp and Facebook. He added that his father had recently asked a friend to pray for him in light of these threats.Sultan Masih was on the phone when he was shot, standing outside his Temple of God Church in Ludhiana – the largest city in India’s Punjab state.“We don’t know if the phone call was connected to his murder,” Alisha said, “But the people who killed him were surely monitoring his activities because they waited for the time until he was alone.” ...read more: https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2017/07/murdered-pastor-told-stop-preaching-well-kill/
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