[GFA Urgent Prayer] Missionary Kidnapped    ------------------------------------------------------ February 1, 2006  -  220,000 Subscribed  ------------------------------------------------------  Dear Mrs. Lawson,  It is my sad duty to share with you the news that one of our Gospel for Asia native missionaries has been kidnapped by terrorists in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.   Pastor Subhash, a young single missionary who has already started five mission stations with 28 believers, was returning home in a taxi with five other people--but they never reached their destination.  Yesterday, Subhash's parents received a letter that said he had been kidnapped by an extremist Marxist group known as the Naxalites.  The letter did not mention any ransom or other demand, but did ask that Subhash's parents "help in order to secure his safe release."  This latest incident comes in a week in which we have received reports of more than two dozen of our native missionaries and Bible college students being badly beaten in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.  It also comes as hundreds of thousands of Hindus are planning to swarm into a tribal area of Gujarat in order to persecute the Christians living there.  Please pray for Subhash's safe release.  Pray also for his parents, that God will be with them through this ordeal.  And please join me and the rest of the GFA family in praying for all of our persecuted brothers and sisters across South Asia who are suffering at the hands of anti-Christian elements.  Yours for the lost of Asia,   K.P. Yohannan  Gospel for Asia  _______________________  ::: About Gospel for Asia: http://www.gfa.org/aboutgfa  ::: Sign-up Information  If you received this email as a forward and would like to sign up, please visit our website at http://www.gfa.org/emailupdate and join over 220,000 Christians around the world who receive GFA's email update!