{"id":45552,"date":"2014-08-10T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_ireland_bishop_harold_miller_issues_a_plea_as_the_iraq_horror_esc\/"},"modified":"2014-08-10T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:00:36","slug":"church_of_ireland_bishop_harold_miller_issues_a_plea_as_the_iraq_horror_esc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45552","title":{"rendered":"Church of Ireland Bishop Harold Miller issues a plea as the Iraq horror escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Dromore, Harold Miller, called for a united effort to help Christians in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really very important for the world at large to be supportive of Christians in Iraq,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Christianity has been in Iraq for a very long time and what I have observed is that people are now being beheaded for their faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main Christian town has had most Christians expelled from it, like they did with Jewish people during the Nazi era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are marking the houses of all the Christians with the letter &#8216;N&#8217; because it comes from following Jesus of Nazareth. It&#8217;s profoundly shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/northern-ireland\/church-plea-as-iraq-horror-escalates-30494786.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Dromore, Harold Miller, called for a united effort to help Christians in the war-torn country. &#8220;It&#8217;s really very important for the world at large to be supportive of Christians in Iraq,&#8221; he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45552\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,74,409,557,426,203,154,155,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552","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=45552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}