free and back home. he was committed for a serious crime . the north core koreans saying he expressed guilt but he has never provided details of his alleged crime. it is said the american businessman was accused of trying to spread christianity. and setting the stage for a diplomatic clash this fall. the palestinians will now seek full membership in the united nations in september. meanwhile, egypt is easing its blockade of gaza. and the move is sparking new concerns from israel about security. here is more from gaza city.
they say medical workers were actually spies who were trying to spread christianity. the head of the charity that organized the relief mission says despite it, there are no plans to bull out of afghanistan. ngo has worked here for well over four decades and there was a time when security was much worse than it is right now. as long as we re welcome here, we will stay and continue to serve the people of afghanistan. i have been reading a lot about the international aid agencies and they all seem at this point to want to stay in afghanistan, they question in fact the taliban s claim of responsibility, the taliban has generally in the past had sort of a tacit agreement to leave aid workers alone because they did work in areas where other people wouldn t or couldn t go.
spread christianity. the director of iam has denied that saying they ve been working here since 1966, that they re known that they re a christian organization. but the work they do is not missionary work. the work they do is medical. so i ve also spoken to people here in the kabul community who know some of the people. this is a well-publicized trip. there were fundraisers. i got an e-mail about it before they left for the trip. even though we re still waiting for confirmation and waiting for the bodies to get back before we can have official confirmation, it s already really striking the community here in kabul. you can bet. you know, this driver from whom all this information is coming, how did he manage to escape? reporter: what he has told the police chief in the province is that he started reciting verses from the koran and saying he was muslim and parentally they took pitty on him. now we don t know exactly how that may have worked. there were two afghans in the
they countered the group, the group tried to run away, and then they opened fire and killed them. the taliban are also saying they found documents and bibles, which proved the group was spying and trying to spread christianity. it s going to take longer for us to get actual confirmation and the identities because this happened in this remote region. we have spoken to the american embassy and the organizations involved. they re doing everything they can to try to get the bodies back as soon as possible to kabul so they can start that process. alex? this has to come with absolute confirmation first. do we know how long it s going to take to get that? we don t. we ve heard conflicting rumors. we ve heard that they re using helicopters to try to bring them back. but it happened in a very remote area. they re talking about it in a jungle. one police spokesman said they needed to load the bodies on to donkeys in order to get them part of the way. we re not exactly sure. we re keeping in
how it was storm washing paul the apostle ashore on what is now called st paul s bay in the three months that he had to wait here before continuing on to rome he managed to convert the whole island to christianity kit. to give his side foreign policy the maltese are very proud that the island was converted to christianity by paul the apostle himself i m not even today almost all the inhabitants of the island are catholics st paul is their patron saint sometimes and i was one to this day the most holy place for his worship is the church of st paul in robot outside malta s former capital. dean beneath the church there s a grotto where paul is said to have lived after his shipwreck noffs and i m sure tons of. globalised christianity he turned a small jewish sect into a world religion how did he do it against all adversity and who was this superman of antiquity. at least that s what i want to find out of.