{"id":45257,"date":"2014-07-23T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_herald_thousands_of_children_traumatised_amid_central_african_repu\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:30:06","slug":"catholic_herald_thousands_of_children_traumatised_amid_central_african_repu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45257","title":{"rendered":"(Catholic Herald) Thousands of children traumatised amid Central African Republic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among almost a million people displaced from their homes through conflict in the Central African Republic are 9,000 people who have found refuge at a seminary in the capital, Bangui.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cunbelievable number of children\u201d\u009d are among these refugees at St Mark\u2019s Major Seminary, said Bishop Richard E Pates of Des Moines, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone there has been traumatised. They have all witnessed atrocities,\u201d\u009d he said, noting that the \u201cgenerosity and kindness\u201d\u009d of the Church authorities who keep the seminary\u2019s gates open to those fleeing violence \u201cserve as an example of how to react in a crisis.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Pates, chairman of the US bishops\u2019 Committee on International Justice and Peace, visited the conflict-ridden neighbours South Sudan and the Central African Republic from July 10 to 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2014\/07\/23\/thousands-of-children-traumatised-amid-central-african-republic-violence\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among almost a million people displaced from their homes through conflict in the Central African Republic are 9,000 people who have found refuge at a seminary in the capital, Bangui. An \u201cunbelievable number of children\u201d\u009d are among these refugees at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45257\">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":[39,40,50,202,545,101,143,168,144,151,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-central-african-republic","category-children","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45257","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=45257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}