{"id":41984,"date":"2014-01-09T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_deaths_of_christian_martyrs_reportedly_doubled_in_2013\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:45:17","slug":"reuters_deaths_of_christian_martyrs_reportedly_doubled_in_2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41984","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Deaths of Christian \u201d\u02dcMartyrs\u2019 reportedly Doubled in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity is the largest and most widely spread faith in the world, with 2.2 billion followers, or 32 percent of the world population, according to a survey by the U.S.-based Pew Forum on religion and Public Life.<\/p>\n<p>It faces restrictions and hostility in 111 countries, ahead of the 90 countries limiting or harassing the second-largest faith, Islam, another Pew survey has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Varton, head of Open Doors France, told journalists in Strasbourg that failing states with civil wars or persistent internal tensions were often the most dangerous for Christians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Syria, another war is thriving in the shadow of the civil war &#8212; the war against the church,&#8221; he said while presenting the Open Doors report there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/08\/us-christianity-persecution-report-idUSBREA070PB20140108\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity is the largest and most widely spread faith in the world, with 2.2 billion followers, or 32 percent of the world population, according to a survey by the U.S.-based Pew Forum on religion and Public Life. It faces restrictions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41984\">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":[48,39,42,438,178,161,426,659,154,155,184,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984","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=41984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}