Just weeks after the Ombudsman’s Office in Colombia warned of death threats against religious leaders amid increasing religious freedom violations, a 43-year-old Evangelical pastor and two of his family members were killed after attending a religious service in the Latin American nation.
Pastor Marlon Lora of the Prince of Peace Villaparaguay Church, his 40-year-old wife, Yorley Rincon, and their 24-year-old daughter, Ángela Lora Rincón, were killed by armed gunman who fired repeatedly on the pastor and his family from a motorcycle in the municipality of Aguachica in northern Colombia on December 29, 2024.
The pastor’s 21-year-old son, Santiago Lora Rincón, sustained injuries in the attack, which occurred outside a restaurant following a church service, a stone’s throw from the national police station in Aguachica. Authorities responded swiftly to the atrocities.
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