{"id":51589,"date":"2015-09-14T00:22:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_why_christianity_is_surging_in_the_heart_of_islam\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:22:06","slug":"ct_why_christianity_is_surging_in_the_heart_of_islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51589","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Why Christianity Is Surging in the Heart of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Espada led friends in a chorus of \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d\u009d for his sombrero-wearing brother at a Mexican restaurant. After dinner, they saw the latest Hollywood blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>The five-story mall could have been anywhere in America, except that every storefront sign was in Arabic as well as English. The group was in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place is like Disneyland,\u201d\u009d said Espada, a Christian from New Jersey. \u201cBut I don\u2019t feel fully free. You can definitely tell you are living in a Muslim country.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2015\/september\/christianity-islam-saudi-arabia-uae-migrant-workers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Espada led friends in a chorus of \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d\u009d for his sombrero-wearing brother at a Mexican restaurant. After dinner, they saw the latest Hollywood blockbuster. The five-story mall could have been anywhere in America, except that every storefront sign<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51589\">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":[39,40,50,42,162,149,119,426,597,203,659,154,155,561,108,559,164,34,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-christology","category-economy","category-globalization","category-islam","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-qatar","category-religion-culture","category-saudi-arabia","category-soteriology","category-theology","category-uae-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589","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=51589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}