{"id":1283,"date":"2007-08-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/paul_kengor_carrying_the_cross_in_iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:01:00","slug":"paul_kengor_carrying_the_cross_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kengor: Carrying the Cross In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Iraq are today facing serious persecution, as detailed in a number of recent reports, including in this publication.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, some of these accounts are filed by sources that were against the war in Iraq, dislike President Bush at a level bordering on hatred, and are more than happy to revel in another example of where they believe the White House has failed in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, to be sure, many of the accounts come from fair-minded observers with no political agenda \u201d\u201d such as this publication \u201d\u201d not to mention the actual victims of the repression.<\/p>\n<p>One very alarming report by the Assyrian International News Agency cites hundreds of killings and an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncregister.com\/site\/article\/3291\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Iraq are today facing serious persecution, as detailed in a number of recent reports, including in this publication. Predictably, some of these accounts are filed by sources that were against the war in Iraq, dislike President Bush at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1283\">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":[39,40,141,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-iraq-war","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}