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How Heather Mercer’s Hostage Stint Turned into Global Hope

Interview by Timothy C. Morgan

After 9/11, the missionary’s ten-year journey leads from the Taliban to Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Double Jeopardy

Stan Guthrie and Wendy Murray Zoba

“Former Taliban hostages Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer talk about the risks they took, the imprisonment they suffered, and their hopes to return to ‘the hardest place on Earth.'”

The Agony of the Families

Jeff M. Sellers

“As aid workers in Afghanistan went from defendants under draconian law to hostages in a war, their loved ones at home also underwent a trial”

Afghanistan: Entrapment Suspected

Deann Alford

Shelter Now leader believes workers were pawns in Taliban scheme

Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry Go Home to Waco

Deann Alford

Church will send short-term mission to Afghanistan in the spring

Afghanistan: Caught in the Crossfire

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Family, churches press for release of American missionaries in Kabul

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Free at Last!

Debate on Salvation Army’s benefits moves inside

Dayna Curry Will Celebrate Her 30th Birthday in a Taliban Prison

Jeff M. Sellers

“With trial indefinitely postponed, the future is murky for Shelter Now hostages.”

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