{"id":52671,"date":"2015-12-20T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_op-ed_nicholas_kristof_-for_many_faith_comes_at_a_high_price\/"},"modified":"2015-12-20T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:00:47","slug":"nyt_op-ed_nicholas_kristof_-for_many_faith_comes_at_a_high_price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52671","title":{"rendered":"(NYT Op-ed) Nicholas Kristof &#8211;For Many, Faith Comes at a High Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State in October released a video that is a stomach-wrenching glimpse of the worst kind of religious repression. Three Syrian Christian men, one a doctor, are made to kneel in the desert in orange jumpsuits and state their religion. Behind each is an executioner who then uses a handgun to fire a bullet into the back of each Christian\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>Some Christian leaders in America want President Obama to declare that a genocide is underway against Christians in the Middle East. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d call it a genocide, but it is absolutely the religious version of an ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>In 1910, Christians made up 14 percent of the population of the Middle East. Today they are about 4 percent, the result of emigration, lower birthrates \u201d\u201d and religious repression that threatens the viability of Christianity in much of the region where it was born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/for-many-faith-comes-at-a-high-price.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State in October released a video that is a stomach-wrenching glimpse of the worst kind of religious repression. Three Syrian Christian men, one a doctor, are made to kneel in the desert in orange jumpsuits and state their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52671\">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":[39,40,42,168,119,161,426,659,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52671","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=52671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}