{"id":23781,"date":"2011-01-02T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_coptic_church_bombing_in_egypt_is_latest_assault_on_mideast_christ\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T16:46:52","slug":"la_times_coptic_church_bombing_in_egypt_is_latest_assault_on_mideast_christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23781","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Coptic church bombing in Egypt is latest assault on Mideast Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating New Year&#8217;s Day terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt that killed 21 people was the latest in a spate of violent assaults against the Middle East&#8217;s vulnerable Christian communities.<\/p>\n<p>The car bomb explosion also injured 79 people just after midnight Saturday as worshipers were leaving a New Year&#8217;s Mass at the Saints Church in east Alexandria, Egyptian officials said. The bombing sparked street clashes between police and angry Copts, who hurled stones, stormed a nearby mosque and threw some of its books into the street.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces cordoned off the area and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. A witness told the state-run newspaper Al Ahram that a priest calmed the Copts and urged them to stay inside the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-egypt-church-attack-20110102,0,2931888.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating New Year&#8217;s Day terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt that killed 21 people was the latest in a spate of violent assaults against the Middle East&#8217;s vulnerable Christian communities. The car bomb explosion also injured 79<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23781\">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":[39,50,42,411,560,203,154,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781","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=23781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}