Christian peace activist, Norman Kember, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months, has offered an insight into his experiences during that time with members of the Middle East Forum of Global Mission Network, which is a part of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
Kember recalled, “It’s a sad country. Iraqis are being kidnapped all the time, and do not receive all the publicity that we had.”
He gave an example that one Iraqi family had 27 members kidnapped. Although all have been released now, five have died as a result of the harsh ordeals they went through.
Norman Kember, James Loney, Harmeet Singh Sooden and Tom Fox were captured in Baghdad on 26 November 2005. Tom Fox was killed on 10 March, two weeks before the other three were released.
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