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                    [ArticleID] => 207503
                    [Title] => The Burnhams: Mission Accomplished
                    [Summary] => "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You lay a table before me in the presence of my enemies." – Psalm 23: 4, 5

[DatePublished] => 2003-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1544839 [AuthorName] => Nena Benigno [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205419 [Title] => ‘Each time the guns went off, we said goodbye’ [Summary] => (The STAR is reprinting excerpts from the continuation of the Christian Broadcasting Network News interview with former Abu Sayyaf hostage Gracia Burnham, who spoke of her life with the Abu Sayyaf. The interview is posted on the CBN website www.cbn.com)

In her book, "In the Presence of My Enemies," Gracia reveals that Martin’s handcuffs had rusted out and actually didn’t work anymore. He could have escaped if he had wanted to, but he chose not to.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205299 [Title] => If God gave me a burger, I’m outta here — Gracia [Summary] => (The STAR is reprinting from the www.cbn.com website the Christian Broadcasting Network News’ interview in the United States with former Abu Sayyaf hostage Gracia Burnham. Gracia spoke with CBN News recently about life with the Abu Sayyaf.)

The Kidnapping

May 27, 2001

Dos Palmas Resort, Palawan

[DatePublished] => 2003-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 164449 [Title] => Update on the Burnhams [Summary] => Thanks to the marvel of Internet, friends from all over the world are being updated on what has happened to the Burnhams. A good friend e-mailed me a message dated June 10, 2002, which was forwarded from Bob and Becky Meisel, members of the New Tribe Mission. I’d like to forward this to readers in the hope that they will appreciate again the power of prayer.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159130 [Title] => Arroyo to Burnhams: I told you so [Summary] => She told them so.

President Arroyo said yesterday the families of kidnapped missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham should have heeded the Phi-lippine government’s no-ransom policy and desisted from dealing with the couple’s Abu Sayyaf captors.

Martin’s parents Paul and Oreta Burnham did not categorically deny that they paid ransom.

"We don’t want to comment on anything like that... We are hoping they will be released," Paul told the ABS-CBN News Channel yesterday, evading a question on who was brokering the ransom payment.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1497215 [AuthorName] => Marichu Villanueva and Lito Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158611 [Title] => Sayyaf reneged on secret deal with Burnham family [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY – Can anyone trust the Abu Sayyaf?

The father of American hostage Martin Burnham revealed yesterday that he had cut a deal with the kidnappers, whom he now accuses of reneging on their promise to release his son.

Paul Burnham of Kansas called Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) here, saying the Abu Sayyaf had added extra, unspecified conditions to a deal that included the release of Martin, his wife Gracia and Filipina nurse Deborah Yap.

In a phone call from the US aired by the dxRZ radio station, the elder Burnham said an agreement [DatePublished] => 2002-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148742 [Title] => ‘We have no money to pay for ransom’ [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — As US troops prepared to help flush out the Abu Sayyaf, the younger sister of one of the American hostages appealed to the terrorists yesterday to release their captives.

"We have no money for ransom," Mary Jones, the younger sister of American missionary Gracia Burnham, said on radio.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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