Sentences with word «kidnapped»

Again, she doesn't understand how Christians can thank God for the recovery of an unharmed kidnapped child but not blame God for those times when a kidnapped child is not recovered, but horribly abused and viciously killed.

Let's see, the RCC has inst.itutionalized se.xual abuse and has conspired to cover it up and protect the offenders, their stance on reproductive rights and birth control is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, and agents of the Church kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Young men have been kidnapped and forced to fight against loved ones.

I'm going to guess that «kidnapped and sold» are being applied rather liberally and snidely here?

Shortly after the videotaped martyrdoms in February 2015, the Islamist extremists kidnapped more than 200 Assyrian Christians in Syria's Hasakah province as the so - called Islamic State expanded its territory.

Update (Feb. 15): In addition to still holding captive an 81 - year - old Australian missionary in Burkina Faso, the African affiliate of al - Qaeda has confirmed that it also kidnapped a Swiss missionary in Mali last month.

ISIS was responsible for half of all verified casualties (5,403) in Iraq during the first half of 2016, as the group kidnapped, harassed, and killed those of non-Sunni Muslim faiths (or Sunnis who disagreed with their extreme interpretation), the report stated.

Then, on 19th October, on returning from saying a night Mass in Bydgoszcz, Fr Jerzy's car was ambushed and he was kidnapped.

Vatican City (CNN)- The Vatican pushed back Friday against claims that Pope Francis failed to protect two fellow Jesuit priests who were kidnapped during Argentina's military dictatorship.

Last June, pro-Russian separatists raided a Pentecostal church service in eastern Ukraine and kidnapped four Christian leaders.

During the night of March 26 - 27, 1996, a local GIA squad kidnapped de Chergé and six other brothers, held them hostage, and then decapitated them.

(UPDATED) After freeing one of two Australian missionaries, African al - Qaeda reveals it kidnapped Swiss missionary also.

«In the areas they control, the separatists have kidnapped, beaten, and threatened Protestants, Catholics, and members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the [Kiev] Patriarchate,» the report said.

The Facebook group, which already has more than 4,000 likes, describes the impact the Elliotts have had on the town: «Support Dr. Elliott, «The doctor of the poor,» and his wife, helping people for over 40 years in Djibo, Burkina Faso, last kidnapped by AQIM.»

On the same day as the attack, and also in Ouagadougou, an Australian doctor and his wife were kidnapped.

Terrorists Kill Seven Missionaries in Burkina Faso After freeing one of two Australian missionaries, African al - Qaeda reveals it kidnapped Swiss missionary also.

Slivers of good news include the recent release of kidnapped Christians, an attempt in Morocco to protect Christians in Muslim countries, what $ 1 million revealed on Christian coping strategies beyond fight or flight, how Christian «resistance videos» of forgiveness are going viral, and Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill breaking the century - old ice over the issue.

Update (Feb. 8): One of two missionaries kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso has finally been freed.

She was previously kidnapped by Islamist extremists in 2012, and returned to her home in Timbuktu despite the Swiss government warning her not to do so.

There has been no official statement saying where the couple are being held or why they were kidnapped.

Around the first anniversary of the infamous beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, believers worldwide celebrated the release of the kidnapped Assyrian Christians that were feared to become ISIS's next propaganda massacre.

The couple was kidnapped in an attempt to force the «release of our captives who sit behind bars and suffer the paint of imprisonment, as well as being deprived of their basic rights,» a recording from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.

After some provocation from Max's equally competitive brother Brooks (played by Kyle Chandler), our main couple and their close friends (Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, and Kylie Bunbury) meet up for a mystery game played within the real world, where someone gets kidnapped by actors and everyone else has to compete to find him.

Behind the idea of ransom is the idea of men in captivity or, as we would say today, kidnapped by sin.

«There are whole areas where there is fighting that is forgotten because there is so much of it, whole areas which depend on the likes of James Foley and Steven Sotloff [the US journalists murdered after being kidnapped by Isis in Syria] to show some light on what is happening.»

In an interview with Reuters, Iraq's human rights minister said that the Islamic militants executed at least 500 Yazidis and kidnapped 300 women.

The released hostages are the final remaining of the captives who were kidnapped a year ago from villages along the Khabour River in northern Syria.

Men can not free themselves, just as a kidnapped victim is not free to release himself, but must wait for the ransom to be paid.

It's about as absurd as the British fools that keep getting kidnapped by Somalian pirates.

Aliens had kidnapped about one - sixth of mankind.

A six year old Iraqi Christian girl, kidnapped by Islamic State when she was three, has been reunited with her parents.

There has also been, and continues to be, a great threat to foreigner of being kidnapped.

Look into hosting a showing of Invisible Children — which exposes the plight of children kidnapped and forced into war in Uganda — or As We Forgive — which documents the long road to forgiveness after the genocide in Rwanda.

Colleen Stan is a woman who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Cameron Hooker in Red Bluff, California in 1977.

The recent violence followed an apparent ceasefire and an agreement from Boko Haram officials to release the more than 200 girls they kidnapped earlier in the year, sparking the international #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

A priest and a number of churchgoers have been kidnapped by militants linked to Islamic State (IS) in... More

By the time you've completed watching the staggering, true tale of Solomon Northup — a free black man in the pre-Civil War American North who was kidnapped, taken from his family and sold into slavery for 12 years — you'll be shaken to your very core.

On May 19, 1977 Hooker kidnapped Colleen Stan a.k.a. «Carol Smith.»

Children in Uganda are kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, while others in Asian countries such as Burma and the Philippines are forced to join military service.

More than 270 were kidnapped, though 50 soon escaped.

We also kidnapped many from Africa to work as slaves for life.

In a statement, the families of the four hostages said: «Alanna, Ian, David and Shirley were kidnapped in Nigeria some three weeks ago.

Ghonim was kidnapped by Mubarak» security forces, blindfolded, aggressively interrogated and held in solitary confinement for 12 days.

The Anti-Gods power came from these kidnapped souls and it can only use the souls» power after these physical beings dies.

RFK assassination; Munich Olympics massacre; Teheran US embassy takeover; Pan Am Flight 103; US Marine barracks in Beirut blown up; Pope John Paul II shot; cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked — disabled man murdered; TWA 847 hijacked — US Navy diver murdered; WTC bombed; US embassies Kenya Tanzania bombed; USS Cole bombed 17 crew killed; 4 airliners hijacked to destroy WH, Twin Towers, Pentagon; Daniel Pearl kidnapped / beheaded; 13 US Ft Hood Soldiers murdered; Theo Van Gogh murdered for producing film «Submission»; US Ambassador to Libya assassinated; US Embassy in Cairo ransacked; Toulouse, France, 4 Jewish children murdered

They had kidnapped the children to a California ranch, there to witness the slaughter of horses, and to a national park in Montana, and up in a hot - air balloon, and to a local car wash.

John Walsh, father of a young son kidnapped off his own street in a small rural community, channeled his sorrow and his rage into launching the first national organization for missing children.

Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman told CNN, «We stumbled on the girls and may find more,» but added they are «not the Chibok girls,» referring to the group of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last spring that sparked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Kidnapped by the Vatican?