{"id":21244,"date":"2010-08-13T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-christian_aid_groups_tread_lightly_in_muslim_world\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:30:28","slug":"npr-christian_aid_groups_tread_lightly_in_muslim_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21244","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;Christian Aid Groups Tread Lightly In Muslim World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attack on a Christian aid group in Afghanistan that left 10 medical workers dead a week ago underscores the perils of faith-based organizations that operate in Muslim nations and the perception that they are promoting a Western agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton working for the International Assistance Mission were gunned down in northern Badakhshan province in what Afghan officials say is the worst such attack in the country&#8217;s history. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the medical workers were trying to convert Muslims and were carrying Bibles written in Dari, one of the country&#8217;s two main languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129155780\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attack on a Christian aid group in Afghanistan that left 10 medical workers dead a week ago underscores the perils of faith-based organizations that operate in Muslim nations and the perception that they are promoting a Western agenda. Six<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21244\">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":[48,42,426,182,659,154,155,184,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-missions","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244","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=21244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}