{"id":45193,"date":"2014-07-20T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_christians_flee_iraqs_mosul_after_islamists_tell_them_convert_pay\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T00:05:44","slug":"telegraph_christians_flee_iraqs_mosul_after_islamists_tell_them_convert_pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45193","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Christians flee Iraq&#39;s Mosul after Islamists tell them: convert, pay or die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian families streamed out of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday after Islamist fighters said they would be killed if they did not pay a protection tax or convert to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians,\u201d\u009d Patriarch Louis Sako lamented as hundreds of families fled ahead of a noon deadline set by Islamic State for them to submit or leave.<\/p>\n<p>The warning was read out in Mosul\u2019s mosques on Friday afternoon, and broadcast throughout the city on loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iraq\/10977698\/Christians-flee-Iraqs-Mosul-after-Islamists-tell-them-convert-pay-or-die.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian families streamed out of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday after Islamist fighters said they would be killed if they did not pay a protection tax or convert to Islam. \u201cFor the first time in the history<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45193\">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":[39,40,50,42,144,557,426,203,659,155,151,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193","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=45193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}