{"id":46166,"date":"2014-10-02T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wwm_how_the_arab_regions_largest_christian_minority_is_helping_iraqi_christ\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:00:11","slug":"wwm_how_the_arab_regions_largest_christian_minority_is_helping_iraqi_christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46166","title":{"rendered":"(WWM) How the Arab region\u2019s largest Christian minority is helping Iraqi Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a coalition of Western and Arab countries continues military action to try to defeat Islamic State (IS), it\u2019s timely to hear how the region\u2019s largest Christian minority &#8211; in Egypt &#8211; is helping to provide humanitarian relief in Northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Coptic Christians themselves faced an onslaught from Islamic extremists only a year ago, but are now providing much-needed practical and psychological support to other Arab speakers in ways that Westerners cannot.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest churches in the Arab world, Kasr el-Dobara church in Cairo, is delivering aid alongside agencies such as the UNHCR, Caritas and many others, thanks to its relatively well-paid and well-connected membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2014\/10\/3408343\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a coalition of Western and Arab countries continues military action to try to defeat Islamic State (IS), it\u2019s timely to hear how the region\u2019s largest Christian minority &#8211; in Egypt &#8211; is helping to provide humanitarian relief in Northern<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46166\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,411,560,168,557,203,154,184,177,108,441,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46166","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=46166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}