{"id":37791,"date":"2013-04-13T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_egypts_coptic_christians_live_in_fear_of_islamic_extremists\/"},"modified":"2013-04-13T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:22:16","slug":"la_times_egypts_coptic_christians_live_in_fear_of_islamic_extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37791","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Egypt&#39;s Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Samir knelt and prayed for the Coptic Christians killed in a spasm of sectarian violence that has further shaken a nation engulfed in economic and political anxieties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel unsafe,&#8221; said Samir, a high school philosophy teacher with a cross tattooed on her wrist. &#8220;The Islamists want war. They want strife. But this is our land too. It is a country blessed by God, and there&#8217;s no way we&#8217;ll leave it to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-egypt-worried-copts-20130413,0,4893173.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37791\">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":[39,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,154,155,129,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37791","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-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791","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=37791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}