One of the better places to sort out what members of the Presbyterian Bundang Saemmul Church in Korea are doing in Afghanistan and how they got there is The Marmot’s Hole.
The Institute of Asian Culture and Development looks like a secular aid development agency, it has had previous ties to Christian evangelism.
The Koreans went to Afghanistan July 13th to do volunteer work at a kindergarten and hospital in Kandahar. Last year hundreds of South Koreans were expelled from Afghanistan, and the Afghan ambassador to South Korea was sent home for issuing visas. Agence France-Presse reports the group were in the country to evangelize along with doing aid development. It is illegal to prostelyze in Afghanistan.
The Christian Post and OhMyNews have also been doing independent reporting, there have been demonstrations in South Korea, demanding South Korea’s 210 engineering and medical military personnel be pulled from Afghanistan immediately and the church hostages be released. The South Korean military have not been involved in combat missions, and are were due to leave the end of this year.
Joseph Park of The Christian Council of Korea which represents 44 thousand conservative protestant churches in South Korea told news agencies that,”They are young Korean Christians who were engaged in short-term evangelistic activity and service for children in Kandahar.”
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I believe that these extremist (taliban, al qaida others), should be left alone in their own country. Why try to change their ways, that have been with them thousands of years. Let them fend for themselves, let their own people rebel against them and free themselves. It is not up to us to change their way of life. Let them make the change themselves. There is no way that we will be ever change their way of life. They are behind the time by many, many years. There is no way that we can change them. They have a religious conviction that is instilled in them from birth.
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