Abducted Pastor, who was presumed dead, released by Arakan army
U Tun Nu was a pastor at Believers Church Myanmar before he was abducted at gunpoint in January 2019. Gospel for Asia,the nonprofit mission organization that worked closely with him, confirmed his death on February 1. However, ICC learned that Pastor U Tun Nu is alive and was released recently.
On the night before his release, the chief of the squad who administered him summoned and informed him that he would be released the next morning. The soldiers brought him out and handed him over to the village elders, who were so excited to see him. Some even cried, he recounted.
His wife told ICC that she has been waiting for her husband and praying for him every night for his return. Now that he has returned, she will ask him to focus on mission work only, forgoing other work. For months, people were saying with surety that her husband was already dead and that she was just in denial. However, she stated time and again to ICC her prayer request for her husband’s safe return. When all his acquaintances thought he went to be with the Lord, him coming back alive after 14 months is truly a miracle.
U Tun Nu said, “Those 14 months were the [most] hellish time of my life, be it spiritually, mentally and in particular physically. Sometimes I even prayed to God that I could not stand any longer and asked God to just take my life.”
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