{"id":23414,"date":"2010-12-13T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_with_new_violence_more_christians_are_fleeing_iraq\/"},"modified":"2010-12-13T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:33:43","slug":"ny_times_with_new_violence_more_christians_are_fleeing_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23414","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) With New Violence, More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country\u2019s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>The flight \u201d\u201d involving thousands of residents from Baghdad and Mosul, in particular \u201d\u201d followed an Oct. 31 siege at a church in Baghdad that killed 51 worshipers and 2 priests and a subsequent series of bombings and assassinations singling out Christians. This new exodus, which is not the first, highlights the continuing displacement of Iraqis despite improved security over all and the near-resolution of the political impasse that gripped the country after elections in March.<\/p>\n<p>It threatens to reduce further what Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East called \u201ca community whose roots were in Iraq even before Christ.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/13\/world\/middleeast\/13iraq.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country\u2019s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them. The flight \u201d\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23414\">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":[39,40,50,42,557,141,426,203,659,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-iraq","category-iraq-war","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414","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=23414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}