{"id":20176,"date":"2010-06-06T23:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vicar_of_baghdad_tells_of_horrifying_challenges_in_iraq\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:14:34","slug":"vicar_of_baghdad_tells_of_horrifying_challenges_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20176","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Vicar of Baghdad&#39; tells of horrifying challenges in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cvicar of Baghdad\u201d\u009d has told a Hampshire congregation about the horrifying challenges facing his mission of Christianity in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew White, the Anglican Chaplain to the Iraqi capital, told fellow Christians at Southampton\u2019s Highfield Church of the terrorism and violence that blights the lives of ordinary citizens and the church where he preaches.<\/p>\n<p>During a series of addresses he said the number of Christian followers in the country has dwindled to around 200,000, from more than a million before the 2003 invasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/8204066._Vicar_of_Baghdad__tells_of_horrifying_challenges_in_Iraq\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cvicar of Baghdad\u201d\u009d has told a Hampshire congregation about the horrifying challenges facing his mission of Christianity in Iraq. Andrew White, the Anglican Chaplain to the Iraqi capital, told fellow Christians at Southampton\u2019s Highfield Church of the terrorism and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20176\">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":[36,48,50,72,74,389,557,203,184,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-latest-news","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-parish-ministry","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176","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=20176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}