South Korean Hostages Being Released

Aug 29, 2007 Print This Post

.:mood:. Hopeful
.:itunes:. You Still Love Me by The Seventy Sevens

Just got this link from my friend Rick. He got it from Bloomberg.com

Taliban militants began freeing the 19 South Korean hostages from almost six weeks in captivity in eastern Afghanistan today after the rebels and government officials from Seoul agreed to the terms of their release.

Eight hostages, seven women and one man, were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the head of the ICRC delegation in Afghanistan, Reto Stocker, said by cell phone. He was en route with some of them to the town of Ghazni, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Kabul.

Five newly released captives were in the convoy to Ghazni and were to be transferred to South Korean officials there, Stocker said. Three hostages were released hours earlier. The Red Cross brokered face-to-face talks between the Taliban and the South Korean government.

I’m stoked that the hostages are being released, but secretly (or not so much since I am blogging it), I wonder “at what price?” We can only pray that God intervened in the Taliban’s hearts. I also wonder “what’s next?” We live in a fallen world and these things are just the price of sin.

Let’s keep praying for the hostages, their families, and their captors.

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