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Action Alert - October 12, 2001

Pray For Protection And Release Of Heather & Dayna

Trial of Detained Aid Workers Set to Begin Saturday in Afghanistan

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October 12, 2001

American Family Association requests special prayers for two Christian women being held in Afghanistan on charges of proselytizing. An AgapePress story today confirmed that they are reported safe amid U.S. air strikes.

Twenty-nine-year-old Dayna Curry and 24-year-old Heather Mercer are among eight foreign aid workers with the German-based Shelter Now facing charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity -- a serious crime in the Islamic country. U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher tells Associated Press that their Pakistani attorney visited with the detainees yesterday, and they appear to be fine.

"He met with all of the detainees for over three hours to go over his response to the indictment," Boucher says. "He's told the U.S. counsel general in Islamabad on the phone that the detainees do continue to appear to be well."

Boucher says the attorney was also told the trial is set to begin tomorrow. "Mr. [Atif] Ali Khan also met with [a] Taliban supreme court justice ... who informed him that the court will begin to hear the detainees' case on Saturday, October 13," he says. "Other than that he had no updates on the trial."

The attorney estimated that the trial could last for two to three days before a verdict is rendered.

Baptist Press reports that Antioch Community Church, the women's home church in Waco, Texas, has maintained a 24-hour prayer vigil for the two graduates of Baylor University since they were arrested on August 3.

AFA also requests special prayers for dear friends of this ministry - Mr. & Mrs. Harold "Bubba" Lollar. "Bubba" serves as the Mississippi District Director for U.S. Rep. Roger F. Wicker.

Bubba writes: "My wife, Rockie, and I have been in the process of adopting internationally for the past several months. We have a six month old baby girl (Myleea Ruth) waiting for us in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is about 200 miles from Afghanistan, so we have been, needless to say, anxious to go. All plans have finally come together as to when we can go get her. We are to arrive in Almaty, Kazakhstan October 15th. We will have a week period of getting "aquatinted" with Myleea at her orphanage. We will then have a court hearing on October 22nd in Almaty to officially adopt her. We are to stay another week in Kazakhstan and depart on October 29th for Moscow, Russia. We will return to the US sometime October 31. I am taking the rest of the week off and will return to the office on November 5th."

ACTION NEEDED

Please pray for the protection and release of Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer. Pray for the safe journey of Bubba and Rockie to get Myleea Ruth and their travel back home.

We are sure that "a box full" of emails to greet them on their return home would be a great blessing.

Harold "Bubba" Lollar, Jr. - District Director
U.S. Representative Roger F. Wicker
Mississippi's First Congressional District
P.O. Box 1482
Tupelo, Mississippi 38802
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