http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04080089.htm
Thursday, August 19, 2004
"NEPALI MISSIONARY ABDUCTED BY MAOISTS"
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEPAL (ANS) -- Gospel For Asia’s Nepali missionary Besh’s life is in danger as radical insurgency group Maoists forcibly abducted him a week ago for their purposes. (Pictured: missionary Besh).
“This morning we received the urgent news. Though we do not know the details of the kidnapping or where he has been taken, we know our brother’s life is on the line. He is well known in the community as a Christian pastor and evangelist, and authorities in an area where he was ministering a year ago noticed his activity and asked him to leave,” writes GFA‘s president K.P. Yohannan.
In the past, more than 200 people—teachers, students, village officials and commoners—have been abducted by the Maoists and killed without mercy."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5751289/
Upated August 19, 2004
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