Update from India - Missing pastor found dead

Message from India, Hyderabad…..

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From: lata lincoln [mailto:fcmlata@yahoo.co.in]
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Subject: this is news in the local news paper

Missing pastor found dead

Hyderabad, June 2:

Pastor K. Isaac Raj of Rock Church, who went missing on May 24, was found murdered at Errakunta in Shaikpet on Thursday morning. His highly-decomposed body was found among the bushes, tied up with ropes in a gunny bag. The Cyberabad police control room was tipped off by an anonymous caller about a body lying in the bushes of Shaikpet on Wednesday midnight.

Cyberabad police immediately alerted Golconda police who traced out the body. After finding that the address of a tailor from Dargah was printed on his shirt, the Golconda cops informed the Raidurgam police of the matter. A case relating to the disappearance of the pastor had already been registered by the Raidurgam police.

The body was identified by Isaac’s wife, Mrs Satyaveni, and his son Satya Prakash, at the Osmania General Hospital mortuary in the afternoon. Golconda police suspect that he was killed about a week ago. Isaac, a native of Ankapuram village of East Godavari district, had been escorted from his house at Prasanth Hills in Dargah on the night of May 24, by a person who claimed to be Vinod from Toli Chowki.

He told the pastor’s relatives that he was taking Isaac for a prayer meeting in Toli Chowki. This is the second time a pastor has been killed in the city in the last few weeks. Earlier, a preacher, K. Daniel, 28, who went missing from his house at Kumarwadi in Asifnagar on May 19, was found murdered in the bushes in Pedda Shapur a few days later.

Golkonda is my postal address where we have joyland and office and church and Asifnagar is where my school is .Pray for my neighbourhood

Abraham and Lata Lincoln

For perishing souls