{"id":49388,"date":"2015-04-15T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_could_christianity_be_driven_from_middle_east\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:30:22","slug":"bbc_could_christianity_be_driven_from_middle_east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49388","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Could Christianity be driven from Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of families have taken refuge in the monastery, as Christians have done for centuries since Islamic armies first swept across the plain in the 7th Century with the Arab conquest.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen-year-old Nardine is all too aware of what IS fighters do to girls they regard as infidels. &#8220;They are very cruel, they are very harsh,&#8221; Nardine whispered fearfully. &#8220;Everyone knows, they took the Yazidi girls and sold them in the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isis have no mercy for anyone. They select women to rape them,&#8221; said Nardine&#8217;s mother. &#8220;We were afraid for our daughters so we ran away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-32287806\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of families have taken refuge in the monastery, as Christians have done for centuries since Islamic armies first swept across the plain in the 7th Century with the Arab conquest. Thirteen-year-old Nardine is all too aware of what<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49388\">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":[39,40,50,42,143,168,144,426,203,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","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\/49388","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=49388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}