{"id":39798,"date":"2013-08-30T01:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_pope_francis_jordan_king_say_dialogue_is_only_option_in_syria_conflict\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:59:02","slug":"rns_pope_francis_jordan_king_say_dialogue_is_only_option_in_syria_conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39798","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Pope Francis, Jordan king say dialogue is \u201d\u02dconly option\u2019 in Syria conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has been following with concern the radicalization of Syria\u2019s civil war. The country hosts a sizable Christian minority, which has mostly sided with Assad during the two-year long conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Vatican Radio, Archbishop Maroun Lahham, the vicar for Jordan of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said he hoped the \u201cworld\u2019s \u201d\u02dcbigs\u2019\u201d\u009d would \u201cmake peace instead of war and find a peaceful solution.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Other Syrian Catholic leaders have been even more vocal in condemning a possible Western intervention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/pope-francis-jordan-king-say-dialogue-is-only-option-in-syria-conflict\/2013\/08\/29\/70882542-10eb-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has been following with concern the radicalization of Syria\u2019s civil war. The country hosts a sizable Christian minority, which has mostly sided with Assad during the two-year long conflict. In an interview with Vatican Radio, Archbishop Maroun<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39798\">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":[39,40,50,42,175,143,560,168,144,119,558,203,154,151,637,108,364,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-jordan","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798","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=39798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}