DISQUS

djchuang.com: Korean hostages held by Taliban in Afghanistan

  • Steve K. · 2 years ago
    DJ,

    We're praying for this situation at SIM (Serving In Mission), and I just posted a YouTube video from July 21 that was created as an appeal for prayer. You can view it on my Kingdom Journalism blog:
    http://knight.with.sim.org/wp/index.php/2007/07...

    The silence is a bit deafening, as you say. Global Voices Online has been posting some interesting links to local reaction, but it's all in Korean so I can only read the English summaries which are usually very brief.

    Did you see this TIME magazine article? (It's not very positive of Christian missions in general):
    http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1...

    Shalom,
    Steve K.
  • stephen shields · 2 years ago
    dj,

    thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will pray.
  • djchuang · 2 years ago
    Steve, there's a good discussion starting up about that TIME magazine article about missionaries over at http://nextgenerasianchurch.com/2007/07/28/camc... , where I expressed my hermeneutics of suspicion on the journalistic enterprise:

    What mainstream media is particularly gifted at is raising awareness and exposure to the minority who have a divergent opinion or less-than-noble motives. It’s as if the media has its own mission to get contrarian opinions and perspectives about any and every issue, which unfairly puts every perspective on equal footing and equal weight.
  • Stacy Harp · 2 years ago
    We cover Christian persecution every single day, not just for this case. You may want to bookmark the persecutionblog.com :)
  • djchuang · 2 years ago
    Stacy, thanks for the diligent on-going blogging as an advocate for the persecuted!
  • Eugene · 2 years ago
    dj:
    let's keep spreading the word. the media won't help so we must bring this to the consicousness of the larger community.