Armed men storm South African church during sermon to kidnap American pastor in front of his wife and children, officials say

Armed men stormed into a church in South Africa last week and kidnapped an American pastor from Tennessee, according to authorities.

Late Thursday, 34-year-old pastor Josh Sullivan was giving a sermon for about 30 people — including his wife, Meagan, and their six children — at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, a township near the seaport city of Gqeberha in the country’s Eastern Cape province.

‘We’re in a really tense situation right now.’

Suddenly, four armed men stormed into the church and kidnapped the pastor in the middle of his sermon.

“It is alleged that while a sermon was conducted at the church, four armed and masked male suspects entered the church,” police told CBS News.

Jeremy Hall, spokesman for the Sullivan family, told local newspaper

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