BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Javier Segura, the 31-year-old pastor of a Mennonite church located in the La Victoria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia, died instantly Nov. 28 when a bomb was detonated outside a public building near downtown Bogotá. The minister was the only fatality in the 10 p.m. terrorist attack in which six other people suffered injuries.
Segura had just said goodbye to his fiancée, Sandra Figueroa, and was returning to his home, where he lived with his elderly parents. According to the Spanish-language news service ALC — based in Lima, Peru — investigating police initially implicated Segura himself as one of the bombers, but later withdrew the allegation.
“He was a person completely dedicated to his work as a pastor, and it occupied all his time,” Figueroa said.
In the past two years, more than 400 evangelical Christians have died in violent incidents. Of those, 65 were pastors or church leaders.
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