I awoke to this good news: S. Korean Hostage Reportedly Alive
An abducted South Korean in Iraq was alive Tuesday, a day after a deadline for his execution had expired, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Choi Sung-gab, head of the South Korean security firm NKTS, told Yonhap his Iraqi business partner contacted the abductee's kidnappers and confirmed that he was still safe and alive. . . .
. . . There was no official word on Kim's fate, and the government said late Tuesday afternoon it had no decisive evidence as to whether he was alive.
I had a sense, as I invoked the intercessions of specific saints and of St. Michael the Archangel last night, of something like confidence my prayers, and those of other Christians, were being heard. I am continuing to pray.
Pray for Kim, for courage and strength to face the darkness and evil with which he is surrounded. Pray for ministering angels to come to his aid and comfort. Pray that he may give a good witness for Christ. And pray for his release and that through it the Gospel might be proclaimed.
Update!
Report: S. Korean's captors extend deadline
Militants holding a South Korean hostage in Iraq have agreed to give more time for talks on his fate, an Iraqi mediator told Reuters on Tuesday.
Mohammed al-Obedi, an Iraqi working for Korean security firm NKTS in Baghdad, said Iraqi clerics who were in talks with the captors of 33-year-old Kim Sun-il had told him a deadline for the hostage's execution had been extended.Posted by Clifton at June 22, 2004 05:54 AM | TrackBack