{"id":48419,"date":"2015-02-16T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_francis_the_blood_of_murdered_copts_a_witness_that_cries_out\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:30:45","slug":"pope_francis_the_blood_of_murdered_copts_a_witness_that_cries_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48419","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: The blood of murdered Copts a &#34;witness that cries out&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Monday denounced the murder of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIL militants in Libya. The Islamist terrorist organization released a video of the killings on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Spanish to an ecumenical delegation from the Church of Scotland, the Holy Father noted those killed only said \u201cJesus help me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were murdered just for the fact they were Christians,\u201d\u009d Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out,\u201d\u009d said the Pope.  \u201cIf they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important: They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.va\/en\/news\/pope-francis-the-blood-of-murdered-copts-a-witness\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Monday denounced the murder of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIL militants in Libya. The Islamist terrorist organization released a video of the killings on Sunday. Speaking in Spanish to an ecumenical delegation from the Church of Scotland,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48419\">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":[39,40,50,42,411,560,168,426,203,154,155,637,108,364,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48419","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-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48419","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=48419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}