The reason for the murder of the priest Daniel Sysoev was the success
of his mission among the Muslims, says his friend the famous missionary
Father Oleg Stenyaev, according to the news agency Interfax-Religion.
"A man gets killed when he is
feared, when his spiritual superiority is feared. Father Daniel was
threatened 14 times. And even on the day of his murder, he received athreatening call demanding that he must stop preaching among the Muslims. After
his assassination many Muslims were baptized, as priests of other
Churches have told me. The murder produced the opposite effect," says
Father Oleg in an article published by the Orthodox newspaper Krestovsky bridge.
According to Stenayev, "When the warlord
Said Buryatsky sentenced Father Daniel to death two ‘charges’ were
announced—that Father Daniel conducted open debates with Muslims, and
that he had them baptized.
"But the Muslims themselves initiated the debates. And
the fact that they were coming to him to be baptized shows that
something is lacking in Islam, that's why they came," said the author.
The priest emphasized that Father Daniel’s mission never had an aggressive nature, and the videos of those debates are proof of this.
"Unfortunately, the intermissions
were not filmed. During the debates there were periods when everyone in
the lobby started talking to each other. Many Muslims gathered around
Father Daniel and asked him questions which he answered very amicably.
He had no animosity towards people of other confessions and he spoke
about it in his lectures: "I love these people but I do not share their
faith and their beliefs," says the article.
Father Oleg considers his friend to be a saint.
"Saints are difficult people,
they always have an inspirational impulse, and they are ahead of others
in ideas, words, and actions. It looked as if he was in a hurry. But
actually it was us who were behind. Father Daniel was not in a rush, he
was a measured person. But he set the pace and the tension and it
wouldn’t let one rest idly," he wrote.
On November 19, 2009 Father Daniel was shot in the
Church of St. Thomas, where he was the rector. Soon after, on December
1, 2005, a suspect in the murder, a Kyrgyz citizen, was killed in
Makhachkala during his arrest.
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/57085.htm
http://apantaortodoxias.blogspot.gr/2014/11/many-muslims-were-baptized-after-death.html
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