A Baptist pastor in Turkey has been placed on a death list.
Ertan Mesut Cevik, pastor of a Baptist church in Izmir, the modern name for biblical Smyrna, and Turkey’s third most populated city, has received increased police protection after his name was found on a list carried by three suspected terrorists. The three, who are arrested, are suspected of planning wide-scale attacks after a large cache of weapons was found in their possession.
Cevik has been under police protection since April 2007, after he hosted a funeral service for one of three Christians that was killed in Turkey April 18.
The Baptist pastor was also protected after he and the congregation were accused in a newspaper article, published after the three murders in April, of engaging in “coercive evangelism” by using money and drugs to attract young people. These charges were denied by the church. (BWA)
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