{"id":45724,"date":"2014-09-06T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mark_lawrence_calls_for_fastingpraying_for_the_persecuted_church_sep\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T18:00:39","slug":"bishop_mark_lawrence_calls_for_fastingpraying_for_the_persecuted_church_sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45724","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mark Lawrence Calls for Fasting+Praying for the Persecuted Church September 14-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Many of us have been following with alarm the persecution of Christians in various countries of the Middle East and Africa. Concern has been expressed within our diocese by priests and laity of the need for us to have a diocesan response to this current crisis.<\/p>\n<p>At our Diocesan Council Meeting last week all concurred that as Bishop I would appoint an upcoming Sunday to be set aside for specific prayer and intercession for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are in the midst of this persecution as well as a day for fasting on their behalf.  I have appointed September 14th as a Sunday for such diocesan wide intercession.  It is the Sunday nearest to Holy Cross Day which is transferred this year to be observed on Monday, September 15th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=609:bishop-lawrence-calls-for-fasting-and-praying-for-the-persecuted-church-september-14-15&#038;catid=1:latest-news&#038;Itemid=75\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends in Christ, Many of us have been following with alarm the persecution of Christians in various countries of the Middle East and Africa. Concern has been expressed within our diocese by priests and laity of the need for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45724\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,42,54,161,426,203,659,155,108,188,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45724","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=45724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}