{"id":31484,"date":"2012-03-20T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/why_pope_shenoudas_death_matters_to_egyptian_protestants\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:44:59","slug":"why_pope_shenoudas_death_matters_to_egyptian_protestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31484","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Why Pope Shenouda&#39;s Death Matters to Egyptian Protestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Shenouda, the controversial yet beloved head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, died Saturday after 40 years of leading and reforming the ancient Christian communion. His death complicates the uncertain position of Orthodox believers\u201d\u201dwho represent 90 percent of Egyptian Christians\u201d\u201dnow that Islamists have surged to leadership following Egypt&#8217;s revolution last January.<\/p>\n<p>Coptic Protestants respected and appreciated the pope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shenouda was a pope of the Bible,&#8221; said Ramez Atallah, head of the Bible Society of Egypt. &#8220;We are the fifth-largest Bible society in the world because [he] created a hunger for the Scriptures among Copts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/marchweb-only\/shenouda-protestants.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Shenouda, the controversial yet beloved head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, died Saturday after 40 years of leading and reforming the ancient Christian communion. His death complicates the uncertain position of Orthodox believers\u201d\u201dwho represent 90 percent of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31484\">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":[48,39,50,42,411,438,158,560,203,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ecumenical-relations","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484","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=31484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}