{"id":22665,"date":"2010-11-01T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns-pope_calls_on_world_community_to_help_end_savage_violence_in_iraq\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:32:55","slug":"cns-pope_calls_on_world_community_to_help_end_savage_violence_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22665","title":{"rendered":"CNS&#8211;Pope calls on world community to help end savage violence in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A deadly militant siege of a Catholic church in Baghdad, Iraq, was a &#8220;savage&#8221; act of &#8220;absurd violence,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI said.<\/p>\n<p>The pope urged international and national authorities and all people of good will to work together to end the &#8220;heinous episodes of violence that continue to ravage the people of the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a very grave attack on the Syrian Catholic cathedral of Baghdad, dozens of people were killed and injured, among them two priests and a group of faithful gathered for Sunday Mass&#8221;, the pope said of the Oct. 31 incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pray for the victims of this absurd violence, which is even more savage because it struck defenseless people, gathered in God&#8217;s house, which is a house of love and reconciliation,&#8221; he said after praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter&#8217;s Square Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1004474.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly militant siege of a Catholic church in Baghdad, Iraq, was a &#8220;savage&#8221; act of &#8220;absurd violence,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope urged international and national authorities and all people of good will to work together to end<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22665\">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":[39,50,42,557,203,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665","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=22665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}