{"id":42664,"date":"2014-02-18T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_suicide_bus_bombing_kills_south_korean_christians_on_holy_land_pilgrimag\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:00:38","slug":"ct_suicide_bus_bombing_kills_south_korean_christians_on_holy_land_pilgrimag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42664","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Suicide Bus Bombing Kills South Korean Christians on Holy Land Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bus full of South Korean Christians who saved money for years in order to visit biblical sites in Egypt and Israel were attacked Sunday by a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were killed in the bombing, including the Egyptian driver, a church member, and two South Korean guides. At least 14 others were injured, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time South Korean Christians have been the target of violence in a foreign country. In 2007, after a 43-day hostage situation left two South Korean missionaries dead in Afghanistan, South Korea subsequently banned citizens from traveling to certain majority-Muslim countries\u201d\u201dwhich proved to be a blessing in disguise for Korean Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2014\/february\/suicide-bus-bombing-south-korea-christians-sinai-pilgrimage.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus full of South Korean Christians who saved money for years in order to visit biblical sites in Egypt and Israel were attacked Sunday by a suicide bomber. Four people were killed in the bombing, including the Egyptian driver,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42664\">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":[39,50,42,201,560,419,565,203,154,484,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-egypt","category-evangelicals","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-south-korea","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664","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=42664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}