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Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan is the 2003 memoir of Christian aid workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer.The book details their early lives, their humanitarian work in Afghanistan, and their three months of imprisonment by the Taliban in 2001.
Bob Hoskins (born April 15, 1936) is an American Christian missionary, author, and the founder of OneHope (formerly known as 'Book of Hope International') in 1987. [1] He has spent the majority of his life serving as a missionary in the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia and Europe. [2] [failed verification]
Jon Donyae Ponder is an American thrice-convicted bank-robber who after his release in 2009 has founded the Hope for Prisoners program in Nevada which helps former prisoners to reintegrate into society. [1] Ponder's work was put into the national spotlight when President Donald Trump granted him a pardon during the 2020 Republican National ...
Dayna Curry (born November 4, 1971) is an American citizen, who was held a prisoner by Taliban government of Afghanistan in 2001. She befriended fellow aid worker Heather Mercer while attending Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas.
2. The shelter is a house with a shower. Refuge of Hope partnered with Lighthouse Ministries to secure a home in southeast Canton that is roughly a mile from Refuge of Hope’s downtown campus.
On November 15, the women, along with the six other imprisoned aid workers, were freed from prison by anti-Taliban forces and flown to safety in Islamabad, Pakistan. [8] After their release, and upon their return to the U.S., Mercer and Curry met with President George W. Bush at the White House on November 26, 2001. [9]
Four female Israeli soldiers taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October 2023 have been released as part of a ceasefire agreement which also saw 200 Palestinian prisoners freed.
The government has blocked 128 prisoners trapped under cruel indefinite jail terms from moving to open conditions in the past 12 months, The Independent can reveal.. Figures obtained in response ...