Heather Mercer

After 9/11, the missionary's ten-year journey leads from the Taliban to Iraqi Kurdistan.

"Former Taliban hostages Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer talk about the risks they took, the imprisonment they suffered, and their hopes to return to 'the hardest place on Earth.'"

"As aid workers in Afghanistan went from defendants under draconian law to hostages in a war, their loved ones at home also underwent a trial"

Shelter Now leader believes workers were pawns in Taliban scheme

Church will send short-term mission to Afghanistan in the spring

Family, churches press for release of American missionaries in Kabul

Debate on Salvation Army's benefits moves inside

"With trial indefinitely postponed, the future is murky for Shelter Now hostages."