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Delegates from the United States and Iran are holding talks in Oman Saturday in a delicate effort to restart negotiations over Tehran's controversial nuclear program....                        ...                        ...                            ...Delegates from the United States and Iran are holding talks in Oman on Saturday in a delicate effort to restart negotiations over Tehran's controversial You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......The talks, between a mediator to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, come nearly seven years after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018. Since then, indirect talks between the two adversaries have made zero progress.......Trump has imposed new sanctions on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as part of his "maximum pressure" campaign and has suggested military action remained a possibility. Despite this, the president has said he still believed a new deal could be reached by writing a letter to Iran's 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which he sent early last month. ......Khamenei, meanwhile, has warned that Iran would respond to any U.S.-led attack with an attack of its own.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"They threaten to commit acts of mischief, but we are not entirely certain that such actions will take place," the supreme leader said. "We do not consider it highly likely that trouble will come from the outside. However, if it does, they will undoubtedly face a strong retaliatory strike."......Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei called such threats against Iran "a shocking affront to the very essence of International Peace and Security."......"Violence breeds violence, peace begets peace. The US can choose the course...; and concede to CONSEQUENCES," he wrote on X.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program......."We don't avoid talks; it's the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far," Pezeshkian said in televised remarks during a Cabinet meeting. "They must prove that they can build trust."......Once allies, both countries have been hostile to one another for nearly half a century, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution that saw the creation of a theocratic government led by Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.......Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose rule was cemented in a CIA-led coup in 1953, had fled Iran before the revolution, ill with cancer, as demonstrations swelled against his rule. Late in 1979, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah's extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that severed diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......In the decades since, Iran-U.S. relations have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy, with relations peaking when Tehran made the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers before Trump withdrew from the deal, sparking more tensions in the Mideast that persist today.......Under the original 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium up to 3.67% purity and to maintain a uranium stockpile of 661 pounds. The last report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran's program put its stockpile at 18,286 pounds as it enriches a fraction of it to 60% purity.......U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has "undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so."......Iran has insisted for decades that its nuclear program is peaceful. However, its officials increasingly threaten to pursue a nuclear weapon. Iran now enriches uranium to near weapons-grade levels of 60%, the only country in the world without a nuclear weapons program to do so....

Faith-based animated film "The King of Kings" has set the record for the biggest biblical animated movie opening ever, just in pre-sales alone....                        ...                        ...                            ..."The Kings of Kings," a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login that retells the story of Jesus, has set a record for the biggest biblical animated movie opening ever — beating out 1998's "The Prince of Egypt" — even before it officially opened this weekend. ......By Thursday, the film had taken in more than $14.6 million in domestic pre-sales, showing that there's "clearly an audience and a market for faith-based entertainment," Fox News contributor and host of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Raymond Arroyo told Fox News Digital.......The movie is based on a Charles Dickens book called "The Life of Our Lord," which Dickens actually read to his children, as the character Dickens does in the movie. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"I know there is an enormous yearning in the audience for this kind of content that is both faith-inflected — doesn't mean that it has to be evangelical, or it has be, you know, beating you over the head with a religious message — but just that it acknowledges that faith is an element in human life and history," Arroyo, who noted he has produced faith-based content in the past, added. ......The movie also has an A-list voice cast, including You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Uma Thurman, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Hamill, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker and Oscar Isaac. ......"It's an incredible cast they've assembled," Arroyo said, adding that it's also an accessible framework "for families in that it's a father telling a story to a child."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......He said that the movie educates children "on two levels: You're teaching them not only about the faith that you adhere to, but you're weaving in this incredible, iconic novelist that you're introducing them to on some level, and it just becomes a frame of reference for families."......"They've smartly identified and understood that there is a massive underserved audience there of not only faithful people looking for depictions of faith on the screen and in their entertainment, but you also have families with very few options of places they can take their family to be entertained," he explained.......Arroyo said that, given the combination of the "yearning for religious content" and a movie that's "that's fun and engaging for a family and their timing before Easter," "The Kings of Kings" has got "winner written all over."......"When your audience wants something, you have to find a way to give it to them," he added. "There's clearly an audience and a market for this." ......Public relations expert Matt Wolf agreed, telling Fox News Digital, "You can make the argument that Americans are definitely looking for more faith in their entertainment, especially content that reflects their values and beliefs. Data also shows that this market is consistently growing. And what makes 'The King of Kings' particularly unique is that it's animated."......Doug Eldridge, another PR expert, said the film's buzz is "reflective both of its timing (a week before Easter) and the seeming shift in national sentiment, towards a more open-armed embrace of traditional Christian values and creative content."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"For context, in 2004, 'The Passion of the Christ' generated $612 million at the global box office," he said. "In 2014, 'Heaven Is for Real' generated $101 million at the global box office, on a $2 million budget. Now, in 2025, an animated retelling of the story of Jesus — especially one featuring the voice talent of notable Hollywood names — is arriving at the right time, for the right audience."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login proved 20 years ago that faith-based movies can be successful "when Hollywood kind of turned its back on this audience and Gibson put his own money" towards "The Passion of the Christ," and "took a chance on a narrative that was, you know, set in a foreign tongue, you know, 2,000-year-old stories set in foreign tongue and broke box office records," Arroyo said. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"These works will rise or fall on their own merits," Arroyo said of faith-based entertainment. "If the narrative is tight, if the story is well imparted, you are dealing with an individual, Jesus Christ, who, for more than two millennia now, shaped all of human history in an incredible way. And I think that no matter whether you believe it or not, or whether you're an adherent of Christianity or not, there is something to be examined here in this person."......Arroyo continued: "There's a reason that he continues to arrest the imagination of artists through time, through history. And I think this is just another iteration. And I think it's kind of cool that they've decided to frame it within the very accessible You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login box. ... It's a neat on-ramp for children into a story that is so profound and filled with such complexity."......Arroyo said that people don't want to be "lectured to" in a religious film. "They just want to be acknowledged and have their sensibilities respected. And that's what I think the best of these, what are called 'faith-based projects,' end up doing. They are high art in the case of, you know, 'You are not allowed to view links. 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Garth Brooks details his 2014 comeback to country music and the way technology "gutted" the music industry in his new book, "The Anthology Part V."...                        ...                        ...                            ...In 2014, when You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login made the decision to return to country music after leaving the industry for 14 years to raise his children, he found a remarkably different world than the one he'd known.......The singer-songwriter announced his retirement in 2000 when he was at the top of his game, having released mega-hits like "Friends in Low Places" and "The River" during the '90s. After several years out of the spotlight spent taking care of his three daughters in his home state of Oklahoma, Brooks moved to Nashville after his youngest child made the decision to attend Belmont University in the city.......When he arrived, he found that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login had turned into a "gutted town."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......As Brooks wrote in his new book, "The Anthology Part V," after he and his wife, fellow country superstar You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, made the move back to Nashville, "I saw that we'd lost over 80 percent of our songwriters. They were gone."......He continued, "It was a gutted town when it came to songwriters. And, I'm sorry, try and feed the world without farmers. The songwriters? They're the farmers that feed music, and they were gone. So you kind of said, okay, you're getting back into this thing. But there's a lot I am not happy about that's happened in the last fourteen years. ... It created a mood. Things got darker."......Brooks touched on the same topic again in another portion of the book, once again saying that Nashville had been "gutted" when he returned from Oklahoma. He wrote that he'd seen before "how songwriters made a living and how dreams come true," but in 2014, all he could see "was all we had lost."......Later in the book, when discussing his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and its title track, "Man Against Machine," Brooks explained more about what had changed in the 14 years he'd been gone: technology......."As much as I love songwriting, and as much as I love the publishers that independently push their songs, what's happened to the songwriter is technology," the singer-songwriter explained. "For fourteen years I watched from the sidelines as music fell a victim to technology."......"The iPod comes out, which leads to the smartphone. And music made the mistake of backing down to technology, because the threat that technology made to music was this: 'If you're not going to play our game, then all the iPods and smartphones will be filled with illegally downloaded stuff. And there's nothing we can do about that.'"......He added, "Music blinked, and bam!, they let technology price their product. And all I can say is, can you believe You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is worth only 99 cents? ... We understood that technology was taking over music, would eventually choke and damn near kill music while the technology prospered."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Brooks struggled with navigating the change in the music industry as he also dealt with all the changes in his personal life — the move from Oklahoma to Tennessee and his last child leaving home (he admitted that "the empty nest hit me a lot harder than I ever dreamed it would") — but he said that the idea of streaming music "might have been the hardest to get my head around."......Coming from a time when fans had to buy physical copies of albums and singles and entering into a new era when so much was focused on digital products was something that he admitted he "wasn't seeing a way through."......To combat the issues he saw with digital music, Brooks launched GhostTunes in September 2014, his own digital music store, with the intent of giving a greater portion of money from the sales of the music to songwriters and artists. In 2017, GhostTunes was absorbed into Amazon Music, but as he wrote in "The Anthology Part V," he doesn't consider it a failed business venture......."Anybody that calls GhostTunes a mistake can't see the writing on the wall, that technology is f---ing music over. The genie is so far out of the bottle at this point. I never want to offend anyone. With that said, my opinion is technology has You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. None whatsoever. It just has a love for something that can sell its hardware and software," he explained.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Also in September 2014, Brooks kicked off The Garth Brooks World Tour — his first since his previous world tour wrapped in 1998. He recalled being "scared s---less that no one would show up" when he first announced new concerts, and when a ticket queue was set up for the first show, which took place You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, he told his team that he'd be happy to see 100,000 people waiting online to buy tickets.......By the time the tickets went on sale, there were over 300,000 in line.......Brooks added shows to meet the demand, eventually performing 11 concerts in Chicago alone. As for the decision to kick off the tour in the city, Marci Braun, a program director for US99, a Chicago radio station that helped promote the tour, explained, "Put Garth's first comeback show in Nashville, and it's a country story. Put it in Oklahoma, it's a Garth story. Put it in Chicago? It's an American story."......In the end, the comeback tour went on for three years, concluding with seven Nashville shows in December 2017. Randy Bernard, one of Brooks' managers, said, "Garth came back bigger than when he left. It made a difference for country music as a whole, just like what he did in the '90s made a difference. ... There was no one in the world doing the numbers he was doing."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......In 2016, Brooks won the Country Music Association's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login award — something he'd won four times before in the '90s, but that he pushed for in 2016 for the sake of his band and crew, who he said "were doing something nobody had done before. They were killing it. I mean killing it. Three-hundred-ninenty-one shows in something like seventy-two cities. It was absolutely nuts."......Brooks won the award again in 2017 and 2019. In 2020, he announced that he no longer You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for the honor.......Brooks believes that, being an entertainer, the work he and his team did during that lengthy comeback tour is what ultimately made his return to music such a big success story......."The one thing that no one can take away, that nobody rules but you, is live," he shared. "The live show, that's when it's just you and the people that determine whether your stuff is a success or a failure. ... It's about passion. It's all on the line every time. You're just going straight to the people."......Brooks continued: "Live music was there before radio, before records, probably goes back further than any of us might even believe. One person throwing down You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for another: I'm guessing that if there was love — and surely if there was sex! — there had to have been music. Something like the age of streaming will never be powerful enough to take that away. Live music will win every time. When I think about this, really think about it, I stop worrying about the future of the music business."...

After Jojo Siwa blasted Mickey Rourke for an alleged homophobic slur on "Celebrity Big Brother UK," Bella Thorne accused him of mistakenly smashing her genitals with a metal grinder....                        ...                        ...                            ...Mickey Rourke is back in the hot seat with his former co-star, Bella Thorne, who accused the actor of misconduct after You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login claims.......On Friday, Thorne took to Instagram to share her experience working with Rourke on the movie "Girl" in 2020.......She included a screenshot of Siwa's accusations against the actor and shared her thoughts on "this f---ing dude."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"GROSS. I had to work with this man – In a scene where I'm on my knees with my hands zip tied around my back. He's supposed to take a metal grinder to my kneecap and instead he used it on my genitals thru my jeans," Thorne wrote......."Hitting them over and over again. I had bruises on my pelvic bone – Working with Mickey was one of the all time worst experiences of my life working as an actress."......The former Disney Channel actress shared a separate slide of testimony against Rourke. Thorne claimed she has "so many gross stories" working with Rourke on the movie in 2020.......In the final scene, Thorne said, Rourke re...This TV Show is available upon demand...This means if you want the download link for this show, you should  reply here and we will reply  for you the download link ASAP...So please if you want to download this please don't hesitate reply here and we will be more than happy to post it for you....ed his engine to "cover" her in dirt. ......"IDK I guess he thought it was funny to humiliate me in front of the entire crew," she said.......She also said she went into Rourke's trailer "completely alone" to convince him to continue with the movie since he wouldn't speak to the director or producers.......Thorne said she felt like she had to "beg" Rourke to remain in the movie. ......She continued, "Everyone's work would've been lost and completely for nothing. I didn't wanna do it. I was uncomfortable, but I did what I was asked to do and what was best for the [movie]."......Representatives for Rourke told Fox News Digital, "We are aware of the deeply troubling statements made by Bella Thorne regarding her experience on set with Mr. Rourke during the production of a past film......."These allegations are extremely serious. Mr. Rourke adamantly denies any intentional misconduct. He has not been contacted previously with any claims of this nature and was unaware of any discomfort expressed by Ms. Thorne at the time.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Out of respect for all parties involved and in light of the gravity of the claims, Mr. Rourke will refrain from commenting further at this time. He is prepared to cooperate fully with any appropriate inquiry," the statement added. "We extend our support to all professionals who deserve to feel safe and respected in their workplace."......Thorne's representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.......Earlier this week, Rourke received a formal warning on U.K.'s "Celebrity Big Brother" after the producers said comments he made to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginwere "offensive and unacceptable."......Siwa, a 21-year-old dancer and actress, revealed to Rourke You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login after he asked her if she likes "boys or girls" when they met on the show. ......"I could tell," he answered. ......Later, while the cast hung out in the house's yard, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Siwa, "If I stay longer than four days, you won't be gay anymore." ......"I can guarantee you I will still be gay, and I will still be in a very happy relationship," she answered with a laugh. ......Rourke then joked that he might tie her up, and Siwa jokingly "dared" him to try, saying he'd be the one to end up getting tied up. ......After a few minutes, Rourke then told some of the other cast members he planned to "vote the lesbian out."......"That's homophobic, if that's your reasoning," Siwa shouted after overhearing the conversation. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login after asking some of the castmates about Siwa. They called her a "lovely lady."......"I need a fag," he said, so Siwa could hear from across the yard. "I'm not talking to you," he added, pointing to her. ......Fag is used by the British as a slang term for cigarettes, not a homophobic slur. ......"You can't say that, Mickey," British TV host Chris Hughes told "The Wrestler" star, who claimed he was "talking about a cigarette." ......After Rourke went back inside the house, Hughes remarked that "he's just from a different planet." ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Siwa then quickly thanked Hughes for defending her during the conversation with Rourke despite not knowing her before she started crying, and he said it was a matter of "right and wrong."......Immediately after, Rourke was called to the show's Diary Room, where cast members make video confessions about the show and can talk to Big Brother, and he received an official warning. ......Rourke told Siwa he wanted to "apologize. I just have a bad habit of having a short fuse. I don't mean nothing by it."......The pair shook hands, and Siwa told him, "Thank you, I appreciate your apology." ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson contributed to this report....

Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson's romantic relationship ended over 30 years ago, but the actress says the two are still great friends, even if they can't see each other frequently....                        ...                        ...                            ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login remains close with ex-boyfriend Jack Nicholson, calling their friendship an "important" one.......During an interview with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, the 73-year-old actress shared that she and Nicholson, who dated on and off from 1973 to 1990, have remained friends. However, she admitted it's become more difficult for them to see each other in person as time has gone on......."Life gets in the way," she explained. "Also, for some reason, they've been doing endless rerouting and road work near his house, so it takes hours to get to him, and that's always irritating. I always managed to be late going to see him, which is very irritating for him."......While they may not see each other as often as she would like, Nicholson has become someone she can rely on even during her toughest times.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......She also explained that as she was fleeing the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginin early January, her "phone just rang out of nowhere," and it was Nicholson calling, adding "it's always a comfort when he calls."......She said Nicholson was calling to check up on her and offer her a place to stay if she needed one during the evacuation period. The actress was forced to evacuate from her ranch with all her pets when the fires broke out.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"It was heartbreakingly sweet," Huston explained. "I've gone back over it �several times in my head, and I think next time I'd accept the invitation."......She also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in an interview published Wednesday that she privately battled cancer but has been "in the clear" for four years.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The "Prizzi's Honor" star chose not to share the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login but told the outlet that reaching the milestone "means so much to me," saying "it's a fantastic thing" and "I'm very proud of myself." ......She described herself as "very lucky" and gave her medical team a shoutout, saying her "doctors have been wonderful."......"It's not something that came lightly," Huston added. "It came as a big shock, but it made me conscious of what I shouldn't do, of places I shouldn't go. One of those places was taking life too seriously. So now, when the opportunity arises, I laugh, and I try not to make a big deal out of things."......Huston received her diagnosis in 2019 after completing work on "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum."......The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login-winning actress shared that while it is common to "feel like you don't want to talk about it," Huston hopes sharing her story and "celebrating the fact that one's come through" might inspire others in similar situations......."Life is tenuous and wonderful. It also gives you the idea that the world is big, and you can somehow match up to it. That you're ready for whatever happens."...

An Australian woman gave birth to another couple's baby after an IVF embryo mix-up at Monash clinic, now under investigation for what it calls "human error."...                        ...                        ...                            ...A fertility clinic in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login a critical error in which one woman gave birth to another couple's child after an embryo transfer went wrong.......The incident occurred at Monash IVF's Brisbane clinic and is being described as the result of "human error," despite what the company says are strict protocols in place.......Monash IVF revealed that the mistake was identified in February, after the birth parents requested their remaining embryos be transferred to another clinic. During that process, an extra embryo was found in storage, sparking an internal investigation.......It was then confirmed that an embryo belonging to a different couple had been incorrectly thawed and transferred, ultimately resulting in the birth of a child.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Monash IVF can confirm that an incident has occurred at our Brisbane clinic, where the embryo of one patient was incorrectly transferred to another patient, resulting in the birth of a child," Monash IVF said in a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to Fox News Digital. "Our focus is on supporting our patients through this extremely distressing time. We are devastated about what has happened and apologize to everyone involved......."We are truly sorry."......The clinic stressed that it is prioritizing the privacy of the families involved, including the child, and confirmed that the information being shared publicly has been de-identified with their knowledge.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......According to the clinic, the situation was escalated to senior leadership within hours, prompting an immediate investigation. ......"The investigation confirmed that an You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login had previously been incorrectly thawed and transferred to the birth parents, which resulted in the birth of a child," according to the statement. "The investigation also found that despite strict laboratory safety protocols being in place, including multi-step identification processes being conducted, a human error was made."......Monash IVF said its Crisis Management Team was activated as soon as the issue was identified. Within a week, the Medical Director of the Brisbane clinic began meeting with the affected patients to offer apologies and support. ......The company said it conducts regular compliance audits and is now undertaking full process reviews while reinforcing safeguards across You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......."On behalf of Monash IVF, I want to say how truly sorry I am for what has happened. All of us at Monash IVF are devastated and we apologize to everyone involved. We will continue to support the patients through this extremely distressing time," Monash IVF Group CEO Michael Knaap said. "Since becoming aware of this incident, we have undertaken additional audits and we're confident that this is an isolated incident. ......"We are reinforcing all our safeguards across our clinics – we also commissioned an independent investigation and are committed to implementing its recommendations in full."......Monash IVF has not released further information about how the child was returned to the biological parents or the current legal status of the case.......The case echoes a similar incident in the U.S. involving a Georgia woman. ......In 2023, Krystena Murray underwent IVF treatment at Coastal Fertility Specialists and gave birth to a baby who was not biologically hers. A DNA test confirmed the error, and after a custody battle, Murray was compelled to give the child, a boy, to his biological parents. ......Murray has since filed a lawsuit against the clinic, citing emotional distress and negligence.......It is unclear if the families involved will be compensated for the Monash IVF Group's error....

Retired FBI agent and hostage negotiator Jason Pack talks to Fox News Digital about a Tennessee pastor who was abducted this week by by armed kidnappers in South Africa....                        ...                        ...                            ...There should be "no rush" in negotiations after a Tennessee pastor was kidnapped while preaching at a church in South Africa, a retired You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and hostage negotiator from Knoxville told Fox News Digital. ......"There's no rush into this," Jason Pack told Fox News Digital on Friday evening. "Calming things down, slowing things down and just having that dialogue and listening to see what [the hostage takers] want is really the key here."......He said he's sure the U.S. authorities are in close contact with the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login authorities, who are leading the investigation, adding that along with the U.S. embassy there, the FBI also has a legal attaché office there that will be involved.......Pack explained, "Negotiators want to buy time and slow things down. Generally speaking, when an incident like this happens, there's a lot of adrenaline pumping, a lot risk for violence. So generally, at the time when these incidents happen, that's the highest risk for violence. So now there's time, hopefully there's an open line of communication and there's opportunity to make this end safely for everybody."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Josh Sullivan, 45, was kidnapped by several armed, masked men who broke into his church in the Eastern Cape Province Thursday evening, took cellphones from parishioners and drove away with Sullivan in his own truck. ......Sullivan, a missionary, came to South Africa with his wife and two children in 2018. ......"The main goal now both from the South African government and from the U.S. government is the safe return of Pastor Sullivan to his family and his loved ones without anyone getting hurt," Pack stressed. "That's the key goal here right now." ......He added that "if there is a silver lining in any of this" it would be that "none of the other family members were hurt."......Pack said that may mean the kidnapping was for money rather than a "political statement" against Americans or missionaries. ......"So hopefully that's indicative of an open line and an open dialogue that the folks who are involved with this will want to do and so everybody can come home safely," he said. ......Pack added that Sullivan and his family are from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as him and the "community is rallying around them. They're praying for the safe return of the pastor and his family to his loved ones and for his family here in East Tennessee, there are certainly prayers."......He told Fox News Digital that "most of these things are settled with words and not force. So, the more you can have open dialogue, the more we can talk and listen, I think the more successful you can be in these type situations."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......He added that while apprehending his captors is important, "Right now it's not about catching the bad guys, it's about the safety of Mr. Sullivan, and it's the safety the folks involved. So we can work on that later."...