{"id":46159,"date":"2014-10-02T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/acns_despite_isis_threat_baghdad_christians_are_still_seeking_baptism\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:00:09","slug":"acns_despite_isis_threat_baghdad_christians_are_still_seeking_baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46159","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Despite ISIS threat, Baghdad Christians are still seeking baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Baghdad are still being baptised despite the threat of execution by the radical Islamist group Islamic State* (IS) which is currently fighting to get to the Iraqi capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican priest who has served the beleaguered city for more than a decade, Canon Andrew White, today told ACNS he thought the threat posed by IS was actually one reason the believers wanted to be undergo baptism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople really wanted to demonstrate their faith and that\u2019s good,\u201d\u009d he said. Publicly identifying oneself as a Christian is a particularly courageous move in a country where IS has been intentionally targeting religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/10\/despite-is-threat,-baghdad-christians-are-still-seeking-baptism.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Baghdad are still being baptised despite the threat of execution by the radical Islamist group Islamic State* (IS) which is currently fighting to get to the Iraqi capital. The Anglican priest who has served the beleaguered city for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46159\">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":[36,48,50,581,557,203,435,184,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46159","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=46159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}