South Korean Pastor Shot by Islamofascists

Update (Sep. 12, 2007) S. Korean captives were told "convert (to Islam) or die".
Update (Aug. 28, 2007) Korean hostages will be freed but not without capitulation.
Update (Aug. 8, 2007): Indian Christian comments "on where is the uproar?"

Update (Aug. 1, 2007): Michelle Malkin has a few words to say on this matter:

Across Asia, media coverage is 24/7. Strangers have held nightly prayer vigils. But the human rights crowd in America has been largely AWOL. And so has most of our mainstream media. Among some of the secular elite, no doubt, is a blame-the-victim apathy: The missionaries deserved what they got. What were they thinking bringing their message of faith to a war zone? Didn't they know they were sitting ducks for Muslim head-choppers whose idea of evangelism is "convert or die."

Eric Young

Christian Post Reporter

Wed, Jul. 25 2007 12:23 PM ET

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. -Rev. 6:9-11

Police in central Afghanistan found the bullet-ridden body of a South Korean man after a purported Taliban spokesman claimed the militant group had killed one of its 23 captives.

The victim had 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach, and was discovered in the Mushaki area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni province, said police officer Abdul Rahman, according to The Associated Press. Korean public broadcaster KBS identified the victim as 42-year-old pastor Bae Hyung-kyu, who led the team of Korean volunteers on a humanitarian aid mission to Afghanistan.

"Since Kabul's administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taliban shot dead a male Korean hostage,” Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the alleged news representative for the Taliban, told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.

Ahmadi said earlier that the insurgents would kill “a few” of the hostages before 5:30 a.m. EDT after talks over the fate of the 23 South Korean Christian hostages had stalled. Three deadlines have passed since the Koreans were abducted last Thursday.

Since the last deadline, which was set for Tuesday 10:30 a.m. EDT, some of the Korean hostages have been freed and taken to the U.S. base in Ghazni, according to two Western officials who asked not to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.

Although prepared for martyrdom. , I preferred that it be postponed. -Winston Churchill