{"id":11645,"date":"2009-03-11T01:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T01:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chichester_bishops_warning_over_middle_east_church\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T01:23:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T01:23:49","slug":"chichester_bishops_warning_over_middle_east_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11645","title":{"rendered":"Chichester Bishop\u2019s warning over Middle East Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian church in its homelands in the Middle East is undergoing a \u201crapid attrition\u201d\u009d, the Anglican Bishop of Chichester has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop John Hind, in a House of Lords debate on religious persecution, pointed to the &#8220;extreme deprivation&#8221; suffered by Christians in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn places where different faiths have coexisted for centuries we see the rapid attrition of the Christian church in its ancestral homelands,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Iraq, Christians have suffered extreme deprivation, sometimes due to sheer religious hatred, sometimes just caught in the cross-fire, sometimes because, amazingly and quite wrongly, they are regarded as representatives of a western faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=4076\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian church in its homelands in the Middle East is undergoing a \u201crapid attrition\u201d\u009d, the Anglican Bishop of Chichester has warned. Bishop John Hind, in a House of Lords debate on religious persecution, pointed to the &#8220;extreme deprivation&#8221; suffered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11645\">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":[36,50,74,389,635,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645","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=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}