3 Killed in Muslim Terrorist Attack on Chechen Church

Aleteia ^ | 5/21/18

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Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny. Photo: pravolsavie.ru

“He departed to the Lord with the name of Christ on his lips,” Fr. Sergei said of the murdered parishioner.

Three innocent people, including two Internal Affairs officers, were killed when Muslim terrorists attempted to capture the Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny, the capital city of the Russian Chechen Republic, during the Saturday evening service.

The four militants were also killed by Special Ops forces: “The militants infiltrated the Church of the Archangel Michael to capture the parishioners. As a result of the quickly executed special operation, all four of the militants were killed,” Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax-Religion on Saturday.

The men entered the church with small arms, knives, axes, and plastic bottles with fuel mixtures. Two police officers guarding the church, Vladimir Gorskov and Kairat Akhmetov, were injured by the terrorists at the entrance to the church, repots TASS. Their “courageous actions made it possible to immediately receive information about what was happening around the church,” the Chechen head explained.

Rector Fr. Sergei Abasov explains that the gathered faithful heard shouts of “Allahu Akhbar!” and two loud shots. They rushed to close the doors, although one parishioner was unfortunately killed. The terrorists tried to break into the church, although the parishioners were able to resist until special operations officers arrived.

The injured police officers had expressed a desire to be baptized not long before. One of them, Vladimir, was baptized in the hospital by Fr. Sergei, while the second was undergoing a complicated operation.

The deceased parishioner Artemy had come to Grozny from Uzbekistan in search of his children. He had confessed and communed just days before the on feast of the holy Ascension. “He was sitting in church all day, reading Holy Scripture.....

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The four militants were also killed by Special Ops forces

Say what you want about the Russians but they don't take too many prisoners. Of course no one wants to be taken prisoner by the Russians. Ain't no club Gitmo.

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It is not good to be a hostage in these situations, either. For better or worse, the Russians negotiators don’t spend a lot of time talking to terrorists. It’s sort of like “surrender in the next five minutes, or we are coming in shooting.”

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If I was laying on the ground dying, I’d at least have the satisfaction that my killers would die at least as gruesome death as I. Meanwhile in Western Europe or the USA would see the killers be coddled in prison.

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I’m still pissed about those Somali pirates that were taken prisoner after they killed those 4 Americans in that sailboat. They should have died in a “firefight”. It’s not like they were worth anything alive.