Pakistani Presbyterian Pastor attacked at gunpoint

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pakistani Presbyterian Pastor attacked at gunpoint



By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special to ASSIST News Service

KARACHI, PAKISTAN
(ANS) – The Rev. Eric Sarwar, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan and director of the Tehillim School of Church Music and Worship, was attacked in Karachi on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm Pakistan time, ANS has learned.

According to an email sent to ANS by the Presbyterian Church in Pakistan some unidentified people kidnapped the pastor at gunpoint.

“The pastor managed to escape and is being treated for his injuries at a hospital in Karachi,” said the message. “Rev. Eric is involved with mission in Pakistan through music and the arts. Kindly pray for his safety and health as his family is still in danger.”

Dan Wooding, 68, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma of 45 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS); and US Bureau Chief for the Missionaries News Service (www.missionariesnews.tv) and Safe Worlds IPTV’s Faith, Hope and Charity channel. He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on UCB UK and Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com.

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