{"id":45994,"date":"2014-09-22T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_jerry_kramer-the_suffering_of_iraqi_christians_is_beyond_description\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:45:14","slug":"cen_jerry_kramer-the_suffering_of_iraqi_christians_is_beyond_description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45994","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Jerry Kramer&#8211;The &#39;Suffering of Iraqi Christians is beyond description\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suffering of Iraqi Christian refugees fleeing the depredations of the Islamic State (ISIS) are beyond description, the vicar-general of the Diocese of Zanzibar reports following a visit to Kurdistan last week. The Rev Jerry Kramer writes: \u201cRight now we\u2019re processing all that we saw and experienced firsthand. Honestly, we don\u2019t have the words at the moment. The suffering is so immense. The magnitude of the disaster is beyond comprehension.\u201d\u009d Fr Kramer, who served as the rector of an Episcopal congregation in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and was one of the leaders in the grassroots campaign to rebuild the city, but currently is a missionary in Tanzania with Love for the Least ministries stated: \u201cChristians were given 48 hours to leave their homes. \u201cSome paid to stay or converted to Islam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/38950\/archives\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suffering of Iraqi Christian refugees fleeing the depredations of the Islamic State (ISIS) are beyond description, the vicar-general of the Diocese of Zanzibar reports following a visit to Kurdistan last week. The Rev Jerry Kramer writes: \u201cRight now we\u2019re<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45994\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,202,557,426,203,659,155,108,347,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45994","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-africa","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-tanzania","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45994","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=45994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}