{"id":47167,"date":"2014-12-02T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_cristina_odone-isis_is_killing_christians-_time_to_acknowledge_i\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:00:52","slug":"telegraph_cristina_odone-isis_is_killing_christians-_time_to_acknowledge_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47167","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Cristina Odone&#8211;ISIS is killing Christians. Time to acknowledge it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;Let my people go.&#8221; Pope Francis could not have been clearer in his message to Isil: the group\u2019s persecution of Christians in the Middle East has claimed thousands of lives and turned the region into a no-go area for a faith rooted in that soil. Martyrdom has become routine in Christ\u2019s birth place.<\/p>\n<p>In echoing Moses\u2019s plea to the Pharaoh, Francis acknowledged that this kind of dark sectarianism has been part of our history for millennia. Trust an MP to use this tragic history to score a political point. Desmond Swayne, Tory MP for New Forest West and minister for international development, has come out with the crass claim that Isil is acting no worse than Christians have done through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Swayne\u2019s statement is deeply offensive and morally wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/islamic-state\/11265175\/Isil-persecution-is-killing-Christians.-Time-to-acknowledge-it.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let my people go.&#8221; Pope Francis could not have been clearer in his message to Isil: the group\u2019s persecution of Christians in the Middle East has claimed thousands of lives and turned the region into a no-go area for a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47167\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,186,199,168,133,161,426,659,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47167","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-church-history","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167","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=47167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}