{"id":35477,"date":"2012-11-04T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_bishop_tawadros_new_pope_of_egypts_coptic_christians\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T17:22:53","slug":"bbc_bishop_tawadros_new_pope_of_egypts_coptic_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bishop Tawadros chosen to be New Pope of Egypt&#39;s Coptic Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Tawadros has been chosen as the new pope of Egypt&#8217;s Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>His name was selected from a glass bowl by a blindfolded boy at a ceremony in Cairo&#8217;s St Mark&#8217;s Cathedral. Three candidates had been shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old succeeds Pope Shenouda III, who died in March aged 88.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-20192922\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Tawadros has been chosen as the new pope of Egypt&#8217;s Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. His name was selected from a glass bowl by a blindfolded boy at a ceremony in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35477\">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":[39,50,42,101,411,560,203,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","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=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}