「主必親自在你們前面行，必與你們同在；祂永遠不會離開你，也不會拋棄你。不要害怕；不要氣餒”
（申 31:8）
At least 18 staffers from the International Assistance Mission (IAM) office in Ghor province, central Afghanistan were detained by the Taliban in September. According to a government source, the Taliban’s intelligence agency conducted two separate raids on 3 and 13 September as part of an ongoing crackdown on international aid agencies. All of the staffers, including a female American surgeon, are still being detained in Kabul.
IAM 表示，他們不知道導致這次突襲的情況，並正在向政府請願，並與聯合國和阿富汗救濟和發展機構協調機構合作，要求釋放他們的工人。
IAM 表示：“同事的健康和安全對我們來說至關重要，我們正在竭盡全力確保他們的安全並確保他們迅速獲釋。”
The Taliban’s provincial government spokesman, Abdul Wahid Hamas, was quoted in local media as saying that the agency staff, including several women, had been taken into custody based on the charge of “propagating and promoting Christianity” in Afghanistan. Local reports said agents from the Taliban’s intelligence agency had a list of names when they raided the premises.
IAM 駁斥了這些指控，並保證他們在國家管理法律的範圍內運作援助機構，不會利用其來推進特定的政治或宗教觀點。
「我們所有員工都遵守阿富汗法律。我們處於震驚狀態。我們被指控了一些我從未想過的事情。我們只是在等著看接下來會發生什麼，」一位 IAM 工作人員表示。
In the past two years, since the withdrawal of US forces and the fall of the US-backed Afghan government, the Taliban has reimposed Sharia (Islamic law), and severely restricted the rights and freedoms of women in the country. They have also cracked down on the operations of international aid agencies, despite an increasingly concerning humanitarian situation. The spread of Christianity is a violation of the Taliban’s strict regulations and can be punished under strict interpretations of Sharia in Afghanistan.
去年 12 月，塔利班禁止婦女在國內外援助機構工作，這極大地影響了他們為當地人提供營養、醫療保健和教育方面的幫助，因為塔利班傳統上僱用了許多當地婦女。
Registered in Switzerland, IAM has been operating in Afghanistan since 1966 and helped more than 4 million Afghans. They claim to have spent over US$40 million in the last decade alone “on initiatives aimed at improving healthcare, education, and community development throughout Afghanistan”. In August 2010, 10 IAM team members were murdered by gunmen as they returned from Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, where they had been providing healthcare.
家庭小組禱告
親愛的主，
我們祈求您保護您所有忠實的僕人，特別是這些此時被拘留的婦女。 我們請求您照顧他們，保護他們免受傷害，並安全、迅速地將他們帶回家人身邊。 讓他們強烈感受到你安慰的存在並堅定他們的信念。
我們感謝阿富汗所有基督徒的努力。 我們感謝您，您的偉大愛心激勵他們不顧危險和風險，去幫助有需要的人。當他們努力透過他們的工作來榮耀你時，請照顧並保護他們。
我們為阿富汗國家和全體人民祈禱。 我們祈求您向他們越來越多地展現自己，並引導他們認識和熱愛您，因為您是唯一的真神。 我們祈禱和平變革並結束現任掌權者的壓迫和黑暗統治。
阿門。