Terry Waite's biography. Waite, a native of Cheshire, England, became involved in international negotiation as adviser to the first African archbishop of Uganda.

Terry Waite, now 82, who lives in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, was working on behalf of Robert Runcie to try to secure the release of several British prisoners, including journalist John McCarthy ...

Church of England envoy Terry Waite, believed to have been kidnaped by Islamic extremists in Beirut, ignored warnings by his archbishop and the British ambassador to Lebanon to stay out of the ...

Today, Terry Waite turns 80 and he is in a reflective mood. It is now more than 32 years since he was kidnapped in Beirut on January 20 1987, and almost 28 years since his release on November 18 ...

Terry Waite has met the leadership of Hizbollah, the militant group accused of kidnapping and holding him for five years, in an extraordinary gesture of “reconciliation”.

Terry Waite says Shamima Begum and her baby 'must be allowed to return to UK' The former hostage was held captive between 1987 and 1991, and has now had his say on the debate about the ISIS bride.

Terry Waite was one of 104 foreign hostages kidnapped in Lebanon between 1982 and 1992 when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height. The hostages were mainly Americans and Western Europeans, ...

Former hostage Terry Waite had one opportunity to escape from captivity, but didn't take it because doing so would have led to violence - what he most opposed, Waite told about 650 people at ...

After nearly five years of torture and being held hostage in a ­darkened cell in Beirut, Terry Waite knows the value of hope. It is what kept him alive through his 1,763 days of lonely hell.

You get the feeling that we`ll never know what happened to Terry Waite, the British hostage who was released Nov. 18 after spending five years in captivity inside Lebanon.You know we`ll hear a lot ...

Six months ago this week, Anglican Church peace envoy Terry Waite sent his bodyguards home for the day and went to meet two Americans being held by kidnappers in Lebanon. He has not been seen or ...

terry waite, the last british hostage in lebanon, flew home today to the rain and to the cheers. >> that was 1991, five years after waite, an envoy for the archbishop of canterbury, ...