A priest of a church in Lalmonirhat district town filed a report with the local police yesterday after he received death threat through a letter.
Tapan Kumar Barman, Father of Church of God, filed the report with Sadar police station. Officer in-charge Mahfuzur Rahman said Tapan had received death threat through the letter on Thursday.
The letter sender threatened the priest to stay ready to die by December 20.
Meanwhile, shocked by the recent attacks on two priests and threats to some others, Christians in Dhaka submitted a memorandum to the home minister demanding action against them.
Luke Sarker was attacked in Pabna 5 and Piero Parolari was shot in Dinajpur. The two clerics narrowly escaped death.
Parolari is now under treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, while Luke fled his area on October 28 without informing anyone where he was headed to.
Besides, at least 12 priests had received death threats through text messages recently. They now fear attacks on their lives.
Most of them have restricted their movement.
“We will form a human chain in Dhaka in protest against the killing and threats,” Nirmal Rozario, secretary general of Bangladesh Christian Association, told a mass gathering of the community people at Bottomley Home Girls’ High School in Dhaka.
Nirmal and many from the several thousand-strong audience demanded security for clerics.
