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From CBS News: Gunmen in South Africa have abducted a U.S. missionary from his church as he was delivering a sermon, police and a colleague said Friday.
Pastor Josh Sullivan was abducted late Thursday at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell outside the coastal city of Gqeberha in what appeared to be a kidnapping for ransom, a colleague told AFP.
Kidnappings, including by criminal gangs that target people for whom large ransoms can be demanded, have been increasing in South Africa in recent years.
“It is alleged that while a sermon was conducted at the church, four armed and masked male suspects entered the church,” police told CBS News. “They robbed two cell phones and then took the 45-year-old male pastor with them and fled the scene.”
According to Rev. Jeremy Hall, another pastor in the same city, Sullivan was holding a prayer service with about 30 people, including his wife and six children, when the armed kidnappers entered the building and took him away.
The Fellowship Baptist Church in Mossy Grove, TN announced in a Facebook post on Thursday, “Please pray for Josh Sullivan, missionary to South Africa. He was kidnapped at gun point by six men during their church service this evening.”
Josh Sullivan and his family are currently church-planting missionaries in South Africa. Josh has been taken at gunpoint by six men. Please pray for his safe return. I have so many thoughts about this but for now, just pray for his safety. pic.twitter.com/pCPBfj05Kn
— pagemasta (@AdamPage85) April 11, 2025
Please pray for Josh Sullivan, missionary to South Africa. He was kidnapped at gun point by six men during their church service this evening. pic.twitter.com/wLN4uoe3oi
— Daniel Parker (@danielsdiorama) April 10, 2025
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Please pray for church planter missionary Josh Sullivan as he was abducted at gunpoint by 6 men who entered the church and stole everything and took him in his car. This happened in a township in Port Elisabeth, South Africa! Pray that the men would return pic.twitter.com/gjMLpN5S7L
— Daniel Duncan (@DanielDuncan_SC) April 10, 2025
Please pray for Pastor Josh Sullivan. He is a missionary in South Africa.
On Thursday, Josh was preaching at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell when four armed and masked men entered. They kidnapped Josh at gunpoint. So far, no ransom has been demanded. pic.twitter.com/tyVY9Hskz4
— Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ (@JennMGreenberg) April 12, 2025
Gunmen in South Africa have abducted a U.S. missionary from his church as he was delivering a sermon, police and a colleague said Friday. https://t.co/t82AwEtMhS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 12, 2025
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