{"id":52497,"date":"2015-12-04T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_meps_hear_of_persecution_of_christians\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:00:46","slug":"church_times_meps_hear_of_persecution_of_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52497","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) MEPs hear of persecution of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200 churches or places of worship are attacked every single day, a vice-president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, said this week, at a high-level meeting in Brussels investigating the persecution of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tajani, an Italian MEP in the Parliament\u2019s European People\u2019s Party (Christian Democrats) group, said on Tuesday that \u201cevery day, in every region of our planet, we register new cases of systematic violence and persecution against Christians. No other religious community is faced with such hatred, violence, and aggression as is the Christian community.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A report prepared by the Parliament\u2019s research unit highlighted the \u201cparadoxical aspect of contemporary Christianity\u201d\u009d in that, while Christians were in a majority across the world, they were in a minority in places of conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/4-december\/news\/world\/meps-hear-of-persecution-of-christians\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200 churches or places of worship are attacked every single day, a vice-president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, said this week, at a high-level meeting in Brussels investigating the persecution of Christians. Mr Tajani, an Italian MEP<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52497\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,168,200,144,119,426,203,659,154,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","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\/52497","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=52497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}