Korean evangelist Jinwook Kim was stabbed to death Nov. 19 in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. A 16-year-old suspect has been arrested and an investigation is ongoing, officials said.
According to International Christian Concern, a global human rights organization, Kim was pastoring a small community of Christians.
Officials claim the incident was an attempted robbery but local believers call the attack an assassination.
Kim is the first Christian murdered in Turkey since 2007 but Christians living in Turkey have reported an increase in harassment, threats and other non-violent incidents during the past three years.
Turkey ranks 26th on Open Doors’ 2019 World Watch List of countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. (TAB)
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