{"id":51156,"date":"2015-08-10T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_iraqi_christians_who_fled_isis_living_in_limbo_while_in_exile\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:45:03","slug":"ap_iraqi_christians_who_fled_isis_living_in_limbo_while_in_exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51156","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Iraqi Christians who fled ISIS living in limbo while in exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled communities overtaken by Islamic State militants, their lives are on hold in exile: They won&#8217;t go back to Iraq, saying it&#8217;s not safe for Christians, but as refugees they&#8217;re barred from working in temporary asylum countries such as Jordan. Expectations of quick resettlement to the West have been dashed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve lost hope in everything,&#8221; said Hinda Ablahat, a 67-year-old widow who lives with dozens of fellow refugees in plywood cubicles set up in a church compound in downtown Amman, the capital of Jordan. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been sitting here for a year and nothing&#8217;s happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 7,000 Christians from northern Iraq have found refuge in Jordan, including about 2,000 living in church-sponsored shelters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/urn:publicid:ap.org:fdb0af5368794d98990e1d31f17bd875\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled communities overtaken by Islamic State militants, their lives are on hold in exile: They won&#8217;t go back to Iraq, saying it&#8217;s not safe for Christians, but as refugees they&#8217;re barred<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51156\">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":[39,40,50,42,168,144,557,426,203,154,155,177,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pastoral-theology","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\/51156","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=51156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}