Published Thursday, 07 January 2010
North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly said police officers alerted him to the threat from the Orange Volunteers on Wednesday night.
The former republican prisoner said it is the second such warning he has had in the last number of weeks.
The Orange Volunteers are a disparate group of loyalists opposed to the peace process.
"Yesterday I was informed by the PSNI that a death threat had been made against me," said Mr Kelly.
"The threat stated that 'Sinn Féin Chief Gerry Kelly is going to be shot within 48 hours - Orange Volunteers - No Surrender'.
"This is the second threat made against me in recent weeks and obviously, for the sake of my family I must take it seriously. In saying that, no threat will detract me from working on behalf of those who elect me and in working to advance the peace and political process in Ireland."
'Bomb'
Mid Ulster MLA Francie Molloy has stated that he will not be deflected from his duties as an elected representative following a bomb threat phone into the Sinn Féin Coalisland office stating a bomb had been left at his house.
"My office in Coalisland received a bomb warning phoned in this morning by somebody with an English accent stating that a bomb had been left at my family home and would explode in an hour's time," he said.
Police would not comment - stating that it was not policy to give out details on individual security cases.
A PSNI spokeswoman said: "We do not discuss the security of individuals. However, if we receive information that a person's life may be at risk we will inform them accordingly. We never ignore anything which may put an individual at risk."
Mr Kelly and Mr Molloy are the latest Sinn Fein representatives to be warned about threats to their lives in recent months.
Dissident republicans and hard-line loyalists have both been blamed.
In December four members of the party received a telephone death threat from a caller police are understood to have traced to southern Spain.