{"id":48412,"date":"2015-02-16T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_egyptian_church_confirms_21_killed_in_libya_after_isis_issues_video\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T03:30:12","slug":"reuters_egyptian_church_confirms_21_killed_in_libya_after_isis_issues_video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48412","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Egyptian Church confirms 21 killed in Libya after ISIS issues video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo&#8217;s concerns over security threats from militants thriving in the neighbouring country&#8217;s chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirming that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic State were dead.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, militants in black marched the captives, dressed in orange jump suits, to a beach the group said was near Tripoli. They were forced down onto their knees, then beheaded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/15\/uk-mideast-crisis-libya-egypt-idUKKBN0LJ10F20150215\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo&#8217;s concerns over security threats from militants thriving in the neighbouring country&#8217;s chaos. Egypt&#8217;s state<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48412\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,411,438,560,168,203,154,184,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48412","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-death-burial-funerals","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48412","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=48412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}