{"id":49384,"date":"2015-04-15T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_vincent_nichols_to_have_a_stable_future_iraq_needs_christians\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:30:24","slug":"cardinal_vincent_nichols_to_have_a_stable_future_iraq_needs_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49384","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Cardinal Vincent Nichols: To have a stable future, Iraq needs Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is impossible to go there, and to meet especially the children, without being determined that they must have a future,&#8221; the Cardinal said.<\/p>\n<p>But the task ahead is vast: regaining land from Islamic State, rebuilding ruined town and cities, establishing law and order and rebuilding society.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols said that in the project to rebuild Iraq, &#8220;the presence of the Christian community is essential&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say that not out of a nostalgic sense that this is a Christian community that&#8217;s 2,000 years old. This not a cultural, historical, or an archaeological issue. This is an issue of how do you build a stable, balanced society, in that region, and I think&#8230; the Christian presence is essential to that mosaic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/cardinal.vincent.nichols.we.need.christians.in.iraq.to.build.a.stable.future\/52066.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is impossible to go there, and to meet especially the children, without being determined that they must have a future,&#8221; the Cardinal said. But the task ahead is vast: regaining land from Islamic State, rebuilding ruined town and cities,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49384\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,133,161,557,426,203,154,155,108,364,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","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\/49384","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=49384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}