{"id":45230,"date":"2014-07-21T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_francis_laments_exodus_of_last_christians_from_mosul\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T21:01:19","slug":"pope_francis_laments_exodus_of_last_christians_from_mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45230","title":{"rendered":"(CNA) Pope Francis laments exodus of last Christians from Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In his weekly Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis mourned the fleeing of the last Christians from the Iraqi city of Mosul, who were told by ISIS forces last week to either convert, pay the Jizya tax or leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are persecuted; our brothers are persecuted, they are driven out, they have to leave their houses without having the possibility of taking anything with them,\u201d\u009d Pope Francis voiced in his July 20 Angelus address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to express my closeness and my constant prayer to these families and these people,\u201d\u009d he continued. \u201cDear brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/pope-laments-exodus-of-last-christians-from-mosul-48952\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his weekly Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis mourned the fleeing of the last Christians from the Iraqi city of Mosul, who were told by ISIS forces last week to either convert, pay the Jizya tax or leave. \u201cThey are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45230\">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":[39,40,50,42,175,168,161,557,426,203,659,154,155,637,364,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45230","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45230","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=45230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}