{"id":16049,"date":"2009-11-11T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_mexican_clergy_seek_global_help_as_violence_grows\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:28:04","slug":"ap_mexican_clergy_seek_global_help_as_violence_grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16049","title":{"rendered":"AP: Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s Roman Catholic clergy, increasingly caught in the middle of the nation&#8217;s drug war, are meeting this week to draft a strategy for coping with the violence, aided by advice from colleagues who faced similar threats in Colombia and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have become hostages in these violent confrontations between the drug cartels living among us,&#8221; said Archbishop Felipe Aguirre, who works in Acapulco, located in Guerrero state where the priest and seminary students were killed in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/?nid=105&#038;sid=1808121\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional. Mexico&#8217;s Roman Catholic clergy,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16049\">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":[39,50,42,197,154,108,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-mexico","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","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=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}