“John 16:2-3 In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.  They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.  I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you.”

By Atlas Shrugs BREAKING NEWS: Priest Shot Dead In Zanzibar; Pastor Beheaded On Mainland

ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA (BosNewsLife)– A Catholic priest was shot dead Sunday, February 17, on his way to church in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, just days after a pastor was beheaded by suspected Muslim extremists on the mainland, officials and Christians said.

“Father Evarist Mushi was blocked by two young men at the entrance of the church” in Zanzibar City, the capital, where “one of the attackers shot him in the head,” said the island’s police spokesman Mohammed Mhina in published remarks.

It was the second such attack on the Muslim-majority island of 1.2 million people in recent months. On Christmas Day, gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Catholic priest as he returned home from church.

Police did not know whether both attacks were related, but local Christians said there has been a rise in Islamic attacks against individual believers and churches.

Sunday’s shooting came while on the mainland, in Tanzania’s Geita Region, Christians were mourning the violent death of a pastor of an Assemblies of God Church.

PASTOR BEHEADED

Pastor Mathayo Kachili was reportedly beheaded Monday, February 11,by what witnesses called a mob of Muslim extremists and “radicals”.

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