41.   A US Christian missionary couple and an Italian Roman Catholic priest spent Christmas Day in the hands of separate kidnappers in the southern Philippines, officials said.

42.   Abu Sayyaf gunmen are still holding US Christian missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and a Filipina nurse in Basilan.

43.   Abu Sayyaf, a particularly ruthless organization that specializes in kidnappings, is holding a US missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage.

44.   Abu Sayyaf guerrillas are still holding a US missionary couple and a Filipina nurse somewhere in the Muslim-majority south of the Philippines.

45.   Abu Sayyaf gunmen have held a US Christian missionary couple hostage on Basilan for seven months.

46.   Abu Sayyaf, a ruthless organization that specializes in kidnappings, is holding a US missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage.

47.   Abu Sayyaf guerrillas with links to terror suspect Osama bin Laden are holding three hostages including an American Christian missionary couple on the small island of Basilan off Mindanao.

48.   Abu Sayyaf gunmen are holding hostage a US missionary couple in Basilan for seven months.

49.   Abu Sayyaf is holding American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and a Filipina nurse, the remaining hostages from a kidnapping spree the group launched in May.

50.   Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrillas are holding a US Christian missionary couple hostage on Basilan island in the south.