“The Public Security – the article reads – has been long sounding the alarm against the worrying spread of Christianity in Turkey, in its affirmations that out of a population of 70 million, 10,000 have converted to Christianity, as a result of Protestant missionary work on the ground. Moreover the Minister for Internal Affairs made public that between 1999 and 2001, 334 Muslims chose to be baptised. Looking at the numbers – continues the paper – it doesn’t seem an elevated amount, yet for years now opposition politicians have been crying out red alert. This is the climate of fear which prepared the ground for the Malatya slaughter”.
The young wife and mother of three small, blue eyed children, of the murdered German pastor made an appeal along these lines in a highly touching interview with ATV: “We have been in Malatya for over ten years now, everyone respected and cared for us. I want to forgive my husbands assassins because I believe they don’t know what they have done. My husband was killed in the name of Jesus Christ, and because of his love of Him. We want to go on living here, my children go to school here and I want my husband to be buried here in the city cemetery, so my son can go a place flowers on his grave and in doing so draw strength to go on hoping and believing”.
The wife of Necati Aydin, also assassinated while he was at work in the publishing house in Malatya, expressed her profound sorrow, but without hatred towards his murderers: “God forgive them for their deeds”, she affirmed with determination.
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