{"id":104264,"date":"2021-07-21T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104264"},"modified":"2021-07-21T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:39:15","slug":"cna-coptic-orthodox-church-in-british-columbia-destroyed-in-suspicious-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104264","title":{"rendered":"(CNA) Coptic Orthodox church in British Columbia destroyed in \u2018suspicious\u2019 fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Coptic Orthodox church in British Columbia was destroyed in a fire on Monday, July 19, just days after an attempted arson attack damaged the church\u2019s door. <\/p>\n<p>Local police said they were alerted to a fire at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey around 3:17 a.m. on Monday. By the time the fire was extinguished, the building was almost entirely demolished and only a single wall was left standing. No one was reported injured in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile today is a day of sadness, we will not be deterred and we will rebuild,\u201d said Bishop Mina of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver and Western Canada in a statement on Monday. \u201cOur church will always be open for all and continue to be a beacon of light and hope for all in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Angaelos, the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, stated Monday on Twitter that he was \u201csaddened\u201d by news of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/248436\/coptic-orthodox-church-in-british-columbia-destroyed-in-suspicious-fire\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Coptic Orthodox church in British Columbia was destroyed in a fire on Monday, July 19, just days after an attempted arson attack damaged the church\u2019s door. Local police said they were alerted to a fire at St. George Coptic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104264\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104265,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104264\/revisions\/104265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}