Words of Blessing for South Koreans Christians held hostage

last SG · 2007-07-24T23:04:56+00:00

same goes for another group of people

AndrewPKYap SG

Taliban to resume talks over South Korean hostages

Posted 2 hours 39 minutes ago

Afghanistan's Taliban have insisted that they would resume direct talks over 19 South Korean hostages, but only if their demands - chiefly the release of some of their prisoners - are met.

The hardline militant group said telephone contacts between the rebels and South Korean negotiators had resumed, despite the apparent breakdown of face-to-face talks.

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/20/2009137.htm?section=justin

AndrewPKYap SG

Afghan police rescued a female German aid worker just hours after she appeared in a video asking her government to secure her release.

Christina Meier, 31, who works for a small Christian aid organization, was dining with her husband at a restaurant in Kabul on Sunday when four armed assailants carried out the bold midday kidnapping. Unlike the Taliban militants who are currently holding captive 19 South Korean aid volunteers in Afghanistan, the criminal gang behind the latest abduction was reportedly motivated by money.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070820/28978_Afghan_Police_Rescue_German_Christian_Hostage.htm

Remember the Korean Hostages

AndrewPKYap SG

The Taliban said it was losing patience with South Korea officials who have been negotiating for the release of 19 remaining Korean hostages.

The Korean delegation is telling us again and again that they are discussing the issue with the Afghan government and the U.S. authorities, said purported Taliban spokesman Zabeehullah Mujahid to The Korea Times on Monday.

But the kidnappers contend that the Korean side did no[t] seem to be serious about saving the lives of their people because it was not doing enough to press for an exchange of Taliban prisoners for Korean hostages the insurgents main demand.

For its part, South Korea has made efforts to urge the U.S. and Afghan government to free rebel fighters, such as sending a delegation to Washington to meet with U.S. officials and meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to urge more flexibility.

The Korean delegation has repeatedly explained to Taliban negotiators that it is virtually powerless to release the militant fighters who are held by Afghan and U.S. military.

Taliban Losing Patience with Hostage Talks
By
Michelle Vu
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Aug. 21 2007 03:29 PM ET

jackal33 SG

Tayatha Om berkanzeh Berkanzeh Maha Berkanzeh Berkanzeh Rasa Samugate Soha!!!

I pray for these hostages and their family members to be healthy and released from the Taliban quickly.

AndrewPKYap SG

The Medicine Buddha's short mantra:

TAYATHA OM BHEGHANDZE BHEGHANDZE
MAHA BHEGHANDZE BHEGHANDZE
RADZA SAMUDGATE SOHA

The Medicine Buddha's long mantra:

OM NAMO BAGHAWATE BHEGHANDZE
GURU BHEDURYA PRABARAJA TATHAGATAYA
ARHATE SAMKYA SAM BUDDHAYA
TAYATHA OM BHEGHANDZE BHEGHANDZE MAHA
BHEGHANDZE BHEGHANDZE RADZA SAMUDGATE SOHA

The Medicine Buddha's dharani:

TADYATHA GHU ME GHU ME / I MI NI MI HI MA TI MA TI SAPTA TATHAGATA / SA MA DHYA DHIGHITE / AH TE MA TE / PA LE PA PA SHODHANI / SARVA PAPAM NA SHA / YA MA MA BUDDHA BUDDHOTTAME / U ME KU ME / BUDDHA KSHETRA PA SHODHANI / DHA ME NI DHA ME / ME RU ME RU ME RU SHI GHARE / SARVVA AH KA LA MRITU / NI PARANI / BUDDHE SU BUDDHE BUDDHA ADHIKHTHANA / RAKHANTU ME / SARVVA DE WA SA ME AH / SA ME SAMANTA HARANTU / SARVVA BUDDHA BODHISATTVA / SHAME SHAME PRASHAMANTU ME / SARVVA ITU PA DRA PRA BA DYA TA YA / PURANE PURANE PURAYAME / SARVA ASHAYA / BAIDURYA PRATI / BHA SE SARVVA PA PAKHA YADA RE SVAHA

justdoit77 SG

Glad to hear that you pray to medicine buddha for their release, best if the hostages themselves can pray or take refuge to the triple gems.

Herzog_Zwei SG

justdoit77, I highly doubt so as they are christians..... Their captors are muslims and where do the buddhist text come from?

TheGoodEarth SG

The Christians prayed for the release of Korean hostages.
The Talibans prayed for the release of their comrades.
The Buddhists prayed for what?

If prayers can moved mountain, Osama need not go to Afghanistan.

yamizi SG

That can only happen that the hostages did hear about Buddhism when they were in Korea.

Isis SG

Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa

May all sentient beings who are suffering be well and happy!

_/|\_

Compassionate and dharma is boundless, in many ways that we don't understand. Let pray for the best even if the odds are small or not.

AndrewPKYap SG

Thanks Isis, you are the only one that is consistently expressing your kind thoughts for them.

AndrewPKYap SG

Lee Ji-young, 36, the Korean hostage in Afghanistan who volunteered to stay behind so another hostage could be freed in her stead. Kim Kyung-ja, 37, and Kim Ji-na, 32, were freed.

Taliban kidnappers at first decided to release Lee when they freed two women earlier this month.

Al Jazeera said Lee Ji-young showed an astonishing spirit of sacrifice to give another hostage a chance of freedom. The network quoted the two freed women as saying Lee volunteered to stay behind because she has more experience living in Afghanistan.

Lee had worked as a translator and guide for other Korean volunteers in Afghanistan. We were very worried when we heard that Ji-young volunteered to be left behind, Kim Ji-na told Al Jazeera. But the Taliban allowed Ji-young to write a letter to her family which consoled her and gave her some hope that she would come home soon.

Lees family has now made the letter public. I am doing fine, so dont worry about me, she writes. Please dont get sick and be in peace. The two freed women pleaded with the Taliban to let Lee Ji-young, who was left alone when the two were released, join the remaining 18 hostages.

If she can volunteer to stay behind, she must be at peace...

Herzog_Zwei SG

How true.... Only blood and violence can achieve any meaningful ending to this sad situation.

An Eternal Now SG

The more people saved, the more meaningful.

Do you define meaningful as 'everyone dying'?

AndrewPKYap SG

We are all inter-connected in this universe and because of people like this, there are so many problems in this world.

AndrewPKYap SG

Behind The Scene Talks as Doctor Says Hostages Are Well

By Emal Pashtunyar
Special to The Korea Times

KABUL _ After recent failed attempts for the release of the remaining 19 hostages, both Taliban kidnappers and Korean officials are now engaged in behind the scene negotiations through middlemen to secure the safe release of the abductees.

Earlier, sources had told this correspondent that the Taliban leadership was angry at the commander for kidnapping the Koreas, especially the women, and keeping them in custody for such a longer period.

Meanwhile, an Afghan doctor on Friday said all the hostages are in good state of health. Dr. Muhammad Hashim Wahaj, who offered medical help to the hostages a fortnight back, told journalists in Kabul he was told by Taliban commander Abdullah Mansoor that they are well.

The Afghan doctor said he and his team was not allowed to meet the hostages, but was told by the commander that they are in good state of health.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2007/08/116_8958.html

AndrewPKYap SG

Taliban hints at resolution of Korean hostage crisis

By Rahimullah Yusufzai, Correspondent
Published: August 26, 2007, 00:01

On whether the Taliban would release the 19 Korean hostages if the government of South Korea agreed to pull out its troops within a matter of weeks and also withdrew all Korean firms, employees and aid workers as demanded by the Taliban, Abdullah said these were demands, along with the release of Taliban prisoners, had already been articulated.

News reports earlier had stated that the Taliban would release the Korean hostages as part of a Saudi-mediated deal under which South Korea would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan over a few weeks and also prevail on Korean firms and workers in Afghanistan to return home.

Asked to comment on reports that an agreement on the release of Korean hostages would be reached in Ghazni today, Abdullah said: "It may happen tomorrow, the day after or after two to three days."

http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Afghanistan/10149289.html

""It may happen tomorrow, the day after or after two to three days." Jia Yiu Bah!

concerned_man SG

Great News! Again it's always a lot better to settle disputes on table.

Taliban to release all 19 South Korean hostages
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSISL21282020070828?src=082807_0802_TOPSTORY_hostages_to_be_freed

AndrewPKYap SG

All those that have been thinking and expressing kind thoughts for them… give yourself a pat on the back! But please keep doing it until they actually return home, then release your ” bond of universal consciousness ” directed at them, and we can close this thread in joy.

cycle SG

Finally. A happy ending for this thread. Amituofo.

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