{"id":45550,"date":"2014-08-09T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/acns_anglican_vicar_of_baghdad_child_i_baptised_cut_in_half_by_isis\/"},"modified":"2014-08-09T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:31:46","slug":"acns_anglican_vicar_of_baghdad_child_i_baptised_cut_in_half_by_isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45550","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Anglican Vicar of Baghdad: \u201cChild I baptised cut in half by ISIS\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad\u2019s Anglican church was cut in half during an attack by the Islamic State1 on the Christian town of Qaraqosh.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview today, an emotional Canon Andrew White told ACNS that he christened the boy several years ago, and that the child\u2019s parents had named the lad Andrew after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m almost in tears because I\u2019ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cI baptised his child in my church in Baghdad2. This little boy, they named him after me \u201d\u201c he was called Andrew.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/08\/anglican-vicar-of-baghdad-%E2%80%9Cchild-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis%E2%80%9D.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad\u2019s Anglican church was cut in half during an attack by the Islamic State1 on the Christian town of Qaraqosh. In an interview today, an emotional Canon Andrew White told ACNS that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45550\">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":[36,48,39,40,42,74,168,161,426,155,184,177,108,148,404,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550","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=45550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}