{"id":39768,"date":"2013-08-28T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_the_almost_unremarked_tragedy_of_christians_persecuted_in_the_mid\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T02:22:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:22:40","slug":"telegraph_the_almost_unremarked_tragedy_of_christians_persecuted_in_the_mid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39768","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) The &#39;almost unremarked&#39; tragedy of Christians persecuted in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple attacks by Islamists on St George\u2019s has prompted the Iraqi government to set up three checkpoints to protect the church.<\/p>\n<p>The new security measures make it virtually impossible to attack the building and show \u201cthe government here cares about us,\u201d\u009d Canon White &#8211; known as the \u201cvicar of Baghdad\u201d\u009d &#8211; says.<\/p>\n<p>However the violence targeted against Christians in Baghdad and elsewhere in the region continues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10264499\/The-almost-unremarked-tragedy-of-Christians-persecuted-in-the-Middle-East.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple attacks by Islamists on St George\u2019s has prompted the Iraqi government to set up three checkpoints to protect the church. The new security measures make it virtually impossible to attack the building and show \u201cthe government here cares about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39768\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,411,168,161,557,426,203,659,154,155,108,404,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-coptic-church","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768","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=39768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}