Columbia: shot dead

World Watch Monitor  |  World
Date posted:  1 Apr 2019
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Columbia: shot dead

Churches like this one in Cordoba are targeted because they discourage young people from getting involved with criminal activities

A Colombian pastor was shot dead as he left his church on 9 February.

Pastor Leider Molina, 24, had just finished preaching in his church in Caucasia, Antioquia state in northwest Colombia, when he was hit by five bullets.

Molina was known as a passionate preacher and an active youth leader working for his church and city, 670km north of the capital Bogotá. The Caucasia region has suffered an escalation in violence for the last four months, according to the source. Armed groups fight for control of drug-trafficking routes and the ownership of illicit crops.

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