The President of Open Doors USA, Dr. Carl Moeller, has expressed concern about the concession being made by the South Korean President to the Taliban kidnappers in exchange for releasing the 19 Christian hostages.
Dr. Moeller told Mission Network News what he found troubling was the condition that the South Korean government had made to restrict South Korean Christian missionary activity in Afghanistan.
"The most troubling aspect of this announcement for us is that there is an apparent commitment by the South Korean government to restrict missionary activity on the part of Christians from South Korea," he said.
No major concessions were made to the kidnappers by the government except for reaffirming its existing position of withdrawing the troops out of the Muslim-nation and also preventing its Christian missionaries from working there, reported AP.
Regardless of the government restriction, Dr. Moeller expected that Christians would still go there no matter how high the cost was.
"Governments may want to use this in future cases as an opportunity to appease the Taliban or other extremist groups, but I can say also clearly that there are always going to be Christians who go where faith costs the most, no matter what the government's restrictions might be," he said.
The Taliban militants had freed three female South Korean hostages and handed them to the Red Cross, reported Bloomberg. The Open Doors is a Christian ministry which serves persecuted Christians around the world.