{"id":53913,"date":"2016-03-29T02:39:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pakistans_christians_the_precarious_position_of_a_minority_community\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:39:18","slug":"pakistans_christians_the_precarious_position_of_a_minority_community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53913","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#39;s Christians: the precarious position of a minority community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suicide bombing Sunday in Pakistan&#8217;s eastern city of Lahore, along with published comments attributed to the militant Muslim group that claimed to carry it out, have served to grimly underscore the precarious position of Pakistan&#8217;s Christians.<\/p>\n<p>At least 70 people were killed in the Easter attack, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-e-Ahrar, a breakaway Taliban faction in Pakistan, said the attack specifically targeted Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-South-Central\/2016\/0328\/Pakistan-s-Christians-the-precarious-position-of-a-minority-community\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suicide bombing Sunday in Pakistan&#8217;s eastern city of Lahore, along with published comments attributed to the militant Muslim group that claimed to carry it out, have served to grimly underscore the precarious position of Pakistan&#8217;s Christians. At least 70<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53913\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,168,426,659,155,343,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","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\/53913","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=53913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}