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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- After months in an Afghan prison with the "fire of fear" in her bones, Heather Mercer said she was finally ready to give up and die. But then she heard a voice. "I heard God tell me to trust," Curry told more...
...Taliban jails and weeks without contact with the outside world, aid workers prayed, sang and even killed flies, Heather Mercer said Friday, a day after departing Afghanistan in a dramatic end to a three-month ordeal. The thunder of U.S...
...calling the women's experience "a story of joy, story of hope." Bush met privately in the Oval Office with Heather Mercer, 24, and Dayna Curry, 30, who arrived in the United States on Sunday. Vice President Dick Cheney was also on...
...faith without violating the laws and customs of their host nation. The case of American aid workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, jailed then freed in Afghanistan, has prompted debate about the right approach. "Churches have to be aware that...
...American women, 29-year-old Dayna Curry, said when reporters asked whether she was afraid. The other American, Heather Mercer, 24, clutched her father's hand through most of the one-hour proceeding. No date was set for a return appearance...
...proselytizing charges. "Obviously to me this is rather devastating news," John Mercer, the father of American aid worker Heather Mercer, 24, said from Islamabad, the capital of neighboring Pakistan. "We were hoping that the trial would have been...
...Title IX, once a woman is allowed to participate, she must be treated equally. Duke University was sued in 1997 by Heather Mercer, who made the football team in 1995 but the next year. Nystrom said Gophers coaches cited Mercer's lawsuit as...
...near Ghazni in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday. In addition to Taubmann, the other aid workers are: Americans Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry; three Germans, Margrit Stebnar, Kati Jelinek and Silke Duerrkopf; and Australians Diana Thomas...
...up conventioneers' missionary fervor, Tuesday's session will feature an address by aid workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, who were imprisoned by the Taliban last year for allegedly proselytizing in Afghanistan. Resolutions inspired by...