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Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:21 AM
Subject: PERSECUTION : John Short needs prayers !!
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North Korea has arrested another Christian missionary—this time a 75-year-old Australian on his second trip to the country. He is an Brethren Assembly worker.

During a visit to North Korea's capital city Pyongyang on Wednesday, JOHN SHORT was taken into custody, according to The New York Times. He had religious materials with him that had been translated into Korean.

Short is the second missionary detained by North Korea in recent years. American missionary Kenneth Bae is currently serving his second year of his 15-year prison sentence, despite the U.S. government's efforts to call for his release. In addition to Bae, an 85-year-old Korean war veteran was also arrested in November, but authorities released him about a month later.

Australian officials remain in close contact with the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang for assistance and information on Short's wellbeing, although services in the dictatorship have been "extremely limited," according to an Australian embassy spokesman.

"He won't be intimidated by the communists," his wife, Karen Short, told Reuters. "I'm not upset, we're Christian missionaries, and we have tremendous support for what we do."

Mrs Short said she was initially shocked to receive the news of her husband’s detention, but was now focused on helping him return home. "There’s no point [being] hysterical"', “I’m quite calm," she said. "We’re Christian and I have many Christian friends that are praying and supporting John and myself, so there’s no point to worry, there’s no point [being] hysterical and emotional. He's courageous, this is my husband's character, I hope things get better — he's in God's hands, we both totally believe that."

The Shorts live in Hong Kong with their three children and have spent more than 40 years sharing the gospel in Asia. John Short was arrested by Chinese officials multiple times in the '90s for his misisonary efforts and barred from entering the country for several years. Having converted to Christianity aged 21, Mr Short was inspired by a Chinese evangelist and set sail for Hong Kong in 1964, where he has been based since. He worked with Chinese who fled the mainland for Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution, and made frequent missionary trips to the mainland after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Mrs Short said her husband was arrested twice previously in China, the last time in 1996 when he had his entry visa cancelled, but had since been allowed back.

Bro John Short is an evangelist and missionary commended by Unley Christian Chapel (Australia) and had been working in many Asian countries mainly China for the last 50years. He is based at Hong Kong and has a literature ministry printing and distributing Bibles & Christian literature mainly in Hong Kong and China. He had a big burden for the people of North Korea and went there on an organized tour few days ago but unfortunately was arrested by the authorities as they found Christian literature in his hotel room. His whereabouts are unknown and there is a fear that he can be imprisoned upto 15 years.

We need all Christians everywhere to lift their hands and hearts in prayer for this servant of God. Please pray for Australian authorities and other countries like S Korea and China to help with the negotiations.

(Source : Santhosh Daniel/Various)

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