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.