An American preacher who was taken hostage by armed men while preaching a sermon in a South African township last week has been rescued in a fierce gun battle with his kidnappers, police said ...

An American pastor was rescued after a deadly shootout at a house in KwaMagxaki, Gqeberha, where he was being held. Authorities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa made the announcement ...

Sullivan was identified as the kidnapping victim by Tennessee church's pastor Tom Hatley, at the request of Josh Sullivan's wife Meagan Witt Sullivan—the South African police have not confirmed his ...

Five days after he was kidnapped by armed men from his church in Motherwell, South Africa, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan was rescued and “miraculously unharmed” following a “high-intensity ...