{"id":44362,"date":"2014-05-31T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/statement_from_bishop_mouneer_anis_on_the_election_of_president_sisi_of_egy\/"},"modified":"2014-05-31T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T19:00:50","slug":"statement_from_bishop_mouneer_anis_on_the_election_of_president_sisi_of_egy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44362","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Bishop Mouneer Anis on the Election of President Sisi of Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the voters went to the poles on the second and third days of voting. However, young people were reluctant to vote because they were worried that the rule of Al Sisi will be similar to that of former President Hosni Mubarak who was also from a military background.<\/p>\n<p>I personally think that President Al Sisi is the right choice at this time because Egypt needs a president who can reestablish the security of the country. Without security, tourism and the economic situation will not improve. The new president has to work hard in order to meet the many challenges that are facing Egypt, including the financial situation and the concerns of those who think that Egypt will be ruled in a military-like way.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for Egypt and the new President so that we cross over this difficult time into more stability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dioceseofegypt.org\/2014\/05\/egyptians-celebrate-new-president\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the voters went to the poles on the second and third days of voting. However, young people were reluctant to vote because they were worried that the rule of Al Sisi will be similar to that of former<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44362\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,560,168,114,203,151,108,404,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44362","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=44362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}