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By MICHELLE GUMEDE 1:26 AM EDT, April 17, 2025 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An American pastor who was kidnapped last week by armed and masked men during a sermon in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa was rescued on Tuesday after three of his abductors engaged in gunfire with officials and were killed, police said Wednesday. The 45-year-old American, Josh Sullivan from Tennessee, has been based in the Motherwell township branch of the Fellowship Baptist Church since 2018 alongside his wife and two children. The missionary was abducted on Thursday when four men broke into the church. They stole two cellphones from members of the congregation before seizing Sullivan from the pulpit and bundling him out of the building. His truck was found abandoned a few hours later. A multi-agency task force, including the Anti-Gang Unit and the Serious Organised Crime Unit, took over the investigation. On Tuesday night they approached the location where they suspected Sullivan was being held, a ho...

Here we have the 7th EP from Buffalo, New York emcee, songwriter, entrepreneur, curator & now professional wrestling promoter after forming the 4th Rope independent circuit promotion  Westside Gunn . Proving his legend status & that he’s to be a force to be reckoned with all in nearly a decade whether it be running one of the hottest hip hop labels in recent memory to his first 2 full-lengths  FLYGOD  &  Supreme Blientele . Last we heard from West was  And Then You Pray for Me  which as a trap-heavy sequel to  Pray for Paris , dropping  Hitler Wears Hermes XI  on Halloween & in 24 hours’ notice of  Still Praying . A joint pay-per-view between 4th Rope & Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) called For the Culture will be taking place in Las Vegas tonight ahead of WrestleMania XLI live on the Comcast Corporation & NBCUniversal-owned streaming service peacock, surprise-releasing Heels Have Eyes  to coincide ...

Here's a rather unusual episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars Seals and Crofts, but also has two guest acts, England Dan and John Ford Coley, and Walter Heath. In the early 1970s, Seals and Crofts were pretty much the epitome of mellow soft rock. They had a bunch of hits, with the biggest being "Diamond Girl" and "Summer Breeze."   I remember hearing their songs on the radio, and I didn't think much about them. They seemed to be pretty typical poppy romantic fare. But what I didn't realize until putting this album together was that they had a pretty heavy religious agenda. It turns out both Seals and Crofts were members of the Bahai faith. There's nothing wrong with that; people can believe whatever they want. But I'm not a fan of proselytizing. It seems Seals and Crofts concerts doubled as efforts for them to gain new concerts to the faith they believed in, to the point that the concerts were usually followed by ...