{"id":48414,"date":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sky_news_why_are_egypts_christians_being_targeted\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","slug":"sky_news_why_are_egypts_christians_being_targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48414","title":{"rendered":"(Sky News) Why Are Egypt&#39;s Christians Being Targeted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Copts are the largest Christian community in the Middle East and are estimated to account for around 15% of the country&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coptic&#8221; is used to describe the native Christians living in the country, where Christianity is a large minority religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Coptic Orthodox Church was founded in the first century by Saint Mark the apostle, who wrote the second Gospel of the New Testament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1428311\/why-are-egypts-christians-being-targeted\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Copts are the largest Christian community in the Middle East and are estimated to account for around 15% of the country&#8217;s population. &#8220;Coptic&#8221; is used to describe the native Christians living in the country, where Christianity is a large<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48414\">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":[39,40,50,42,411,560,168,133,426,203,154,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48414","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=48414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}