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An American pastor living in South Africa was reportedly kidnapped from his church mid-sermon by a group of masked gunmen who stole from congregants and whisked the cleric away in his own truck. Josh Sullivan, a 45-year-old Tennessee native, was taken away at gunpoint Thursday night when four men broke into the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell while the pastor was preaching to a congregation of roughly 30 people, which included his wife and six children, multiple outlets reported. The alleged kidnappers, who also stole two cell phones from churchgoers, then sped off with the clergyman in his silver Toyota...

American pastor Josh Sullivan was abducted at gunpoint during a church service in South Africa. The 34-year-old Tennessee native was delivering a sermon at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, Eastern Cape, when four masked gunmen stormed the sanctuary on Thursday evening. The congregation, including Sullivan’s wife and six children, witnessed the terrifying ordeal as the assailants forcibly removed him from the pulpit.

Both sides of his door had been secured with plywood and a lock, the man would later say, to stop him from getting out. For years, he’d only been given two sandwiches – egg or tuna salad, or peanut butter – and a small amount of water each day, he’d recall, in the storage space where he was held. But now, he had a plan. Printer paper for kindling. Hand sanitizer for fuel. And a lighter. Emergency personnel responded February 17 to reports of a burning home in Waterbury, Connecticut, city police said. There, they found a woman – and...

Disturbing video shows a terrified, screaming woman being beaten and kidnapped in broad daylight in California — with drivers ignoring her as she screamed for help. The still-unidentified woman, thought to be in her early 20s, was walking on 98th Street in Oakland around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when a man tried to hit her with his car — then jumped out and started repeatedly punching her, according to cops. The attacker then drags her to his car, forcing her inside “while she yelled that she was being kidnapped,” police said. As the chilling beatdown and snatching occurred, several cars can...

... After President Trump pardoned the J6 political prisoners, Jeremy Brown suddenly disappeared. ... ...Jan 6 defendant Jeremy Brown called his girlfriend at 4:16am to tell her he was being moved. No one has heard from him since – so as of now, his attorney and his family has no idea where he is. His cell mate, another J6 defendant, was also told he was being moved. The White House needs to order the Marshalls to release these people now. Jeremy’s mom, Lisa, (in the blue sweater) wants her son back. He served his country with distinction & refused to...

Lebanese reports on Saturday said that an Israeli military force raided an area near the coastal city of Batroun, and took a senior Hezbollah official captive. An Israeli security source confirmed to Sky News Arabic that "a special operation was carried out, in which a person was taken captive in northern Lebanon." Arab news outlets reported that a large naval force, suspected to be Israeli, arrived at the Batroun coast in northern Lebanon and captured a Hezbollah operative staying in a hut in the area, around 140 kilometers from the Israeli border. According to the reports, the operation included over...

An Oketz dog caused an uproar after it was filmed attacking a Gaza resident in her home in Jabaliya. Israel was attacked in the Arab world and the video of the attack sparked a wave of hatred towards Israel, but it turns out that this is a dog that was kidnapped by Hamas. Hamas kidnapped the dog with all its equipment on it, boobytrapping it with explosives to injure the IDF forces. While the dog was held by Hamas, he was recorded attacking a Gazan woman. The report was published on the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel, which is affiliated with Hamas....

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has released footage obtained by the IDF, showing the abduction of five female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base on October 7 by Hamas terrorists. The clip shows Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy. It has been edited to remove some of the more disturbing images, including the multiple murdered bodies.

The custody dispute between a German steakhouse heiress and her former husband took an unexpected turn over the weekend when their youngest children were abducted while celebrating New Year’s with their father in Denmark, local authorities said. Christina Block’s two children — 13-year-old Klara and Theodor, 10 — were watching fireworks with their father, Block’s ex-husband Stephan Hensel, at a cafe in Gravenstein around 12:15 a.m. Monday when a group of men attacked, Bild newspaper reported. The men knocked Hensel down and forced the children into a car before speeding away in two separate vehicles, the outlet said, citing Danish...

Works under Hamas and cooperated in the attack: this is the organization that is believed to be holding the children of the Bibas family. The IDF spokesman informed in Arabic that the Ni Oz babies, who were kidnapped by a Hamas operative, are apparently being held in Khan Yunis by another faction, and according to estimates in Israel, this is the terrorist organization the Popular Front. Very much in Gaza • On the other hand, in the West Bank his influence is greater with strict discipline, despite his small size Sapir Lipkin| N12 | Published 14:54 29.11.23 The organization that...

Brother Peter Olarewaju recently recounted the horrific kidnapping and torture he and two other monks from a Benedictine monastery in Nigeria underwent, including the murder of one of the monks. Brother Godwin Eze spent his final hours encouraging his brother monks before he was singled out, shot, and his body thrown in a fast-flowing river. Eze was kidnapped Oct. 17 alongside Olarewaju and Brother Anthony Eze from the Benedictine monastery in Eruku in the Ilorin Diocese, tortured, and later killed. Unable to find the murdered monk’s body after days of searching along the river where it was thrown, the monastery...

It’s the “Hangover” — in real life. A Connecticut doctor allegedly kidnapped outside the troubled Brooklyn Mirage music venue described how he was taken on a wild ride by his possibly gun-wielding captor — including on a more than $6,000 shopping spree, The Post has learned. Michael Bautista, a 32-year-old ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon from Norwalk, claimed he was taken hostage by a Bronx man going by the name “Tony G’s,” who threatened to shoot him if he tried “anything funny,” police said. The suspect, Anthony Benjamin, 42, allegedly forced Bautista to traipse with him through the Bronx on July...

"Fact check: He threatened to shoot up his middle school and stab classmates who angered him," tweeted Christina Pushaw ************************************************************* On Thursday, the Miami Herald published a misleading claim about the recent arrest of the 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, the disgraced "whistleblower" who claimed the Florida Department of Health pressured her to manipulate Covid data to the benefit of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the outlet said that the child was arrested over "memes" when he was arrested for threatening to shoot up his school, Holley Navarre Middle School. According to Yahoo News, the boy was arrested for "digital...

Two Indianapolis police officers had spent the day searching in vain for a missing baby in a stolen vehicle when they stopped to eat and gather their wits. A woman suspected of stealing the 2010 black Honda Accord had been taken into custody earlier that day, on December 22, but the vehicle was still missing. More urgently, baby Kason Thomass, who was in the car with his twin Kyair Thomass when it was stolen three days earlier in Columbus, Ohio, had yet to be found. “It was time for us to decompress because we were disappointed that we could not...

Why would you even go to the drive-thru when the drive-thru can come to you? Chick-fil-A. Its customer service humans are said to be exemplars of fine behavior. Yet here is the chain announcing that it's experimenting with robotic delivery. Specifically, the Kiwibot 4.0. The chain told Restaurant Business that Santa Monica -- already a paradise of indolence -- is now being blessed with Chick-fil-A Kiwibot robots that bring your chicken sandwich to you. Because why would you want to stand in line for, say, 10 minutes at a Chick-fil-A when a robot can bring you your order in, oh,...

The U.S. Marshals Service announced the results of 'Operation Not Forgotten' on Thursday. For two weeks in August, U.S. Marshals and other agencies searched the areas around Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, looking for missing and exploited children. As a result, they recovered 26 children and found 13 others who had been missing. Investigators say these children were considered to be some of the most at-risk and challenging recovery cases in the area.

Brian Kilmede is substituting for Tucker Carlson tonight. Is Tucker just taking a long weekend, or is there something else going on?

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST for HarleyLady27’s former neighbor, who has been kidnapped by her ex-husband. Please address your prayers to HARLEYLADY27. A few years ago a young lady with two children moved in to our area of our complex. She worked, no father, her mother came around sometimes, never did see the grandfather... I have a grandson living with me along with my daughter. Our neighbor and children and my grandson fit right together...the mother was nice, we helped when we could, she would come and visit at late afternoon with us old 8 ladies, and we loved her and her...

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has secured the release of 17 prisoners foreign governments had detained. “We’ve had 17 released, and we’re very proud of that record. Very proud. And we have others coming,” Trump said Saturday evening as he welcomed home Joshua Holt, an American citizen who had been detained in Venezuela for two years without trial. Unlike his predecessor, the president has managed to bring these prisoners home without freeing terrorists or paying millions of dollars in suspected ransom payments. 1. Sabrina De Sousa: Portuguese-American Sabrina De Sousa, a former CIA agent, was arrested and...

A man was found beaten and bound in the basement of a Bronx bodega when two cops who were chasing separate suspects entered the cellar early Wednesday morning, police said. While they were searching for the suspects in the store, an employee let them into the basement, where they discovered the kidnapped 49-year-old, cops said. The officers freed the man, who then told them he had been kidnapped three days prior by four people on a Bronx street corner, police said. The victim — who sources said has a lengthy arrest record — said the four suspects forced him into...