Weblog: Taliban Kidnaps South Korean Christians
Plus: Priest freed in Philippines, Israeli cable to drop Christian network Daystar, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Ted Olsen | posted 7/20/2007 02:32PM
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Korean Christians kidnapped:
- 18 South Koreans abducted in Afghanistan | Taliban gunmen abducted 18 members of a South Korean church group, and a purported spokesman for the Islamic militia said Friday that it will question the 15 women and three men about their activities in Afghanistan before deciding their fate (Associated Press)
- S. Korean nationals abducted by Taliban in Afghanistan: Foreign Ministry | Some 20 South Koreans were kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, days after they entered the country for Christian volunteer work, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said Friday (Yonhap, South Korea)
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Iraq:
- The death of Iraq's Christians | The United States should welcome Christians fleeing the violence. Muslim refugees may have some hope of returning to a future Iraq that becomes stable if not liberal. The Assyrians are far less likely to find a tolerant and tolerable environment (Doug Bandow, FrontPageMag.com)
- The destruction of Iraq's Christians | We will likely soon find ourselves writing the epitaph of Iraq's Christian community. Indeed, even if the situation were suddenly to improve - a highly unlikely prospect - it is already too late to reverse the effects of the hemorrhaging. (Rayyan al-Shawaf, The Daily Star, Lebanon)
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Israel:
- HOT wants to pull Christian station | Israeli cable television is planning to drop a major Christian TV network which runs missionary advertisements directed at Jews. The move has prompted threats of legal action by the station's representatives (The Jerusalem Post)
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