{"id":55580,"date":"2016-09-08T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chaldean_catholic_patriarch_louis_raphael-give_christians_in_iraq_a_say_in\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:15:35","slug":"chaldean_catholic_patriarch_louis_raphael-give_christians_in_iraq_a_say_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55580","title":{"rendered":"Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael&#8211;Give Christians in Iraq a say in their future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Iraq should be given independent rule or allowed to join a region of their choice in a post-war settlement, the leader of the country&#8217;s largest Church has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I says in a report this week that should Iraq be reclaimed from Islamic State, there should be an interim political settlement allowing Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain to become &#8220;self-administrative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Christians who have been forced to flee could return to their homes if Islamic State is defeated, he says.<\/p>\n<p>He calls for a referendum to give Christians a choice on whether they want to be governed from Baghdad, to be part of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan or even place themselves under a &#8220;Sunni state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/give.christians.in.iraq.a.say.in.their.future.after.islamic.state.urges.church.leader\/94913.htm\">Read it all<\/a> from Christian Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Iraq should be given independent rule or allowed to join a region of their choice in a post-war settlement, the leader of the country&#8217;s largest Church has suggested. The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I says in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55580\">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":[39,40,50,42,168,557,426,203,659,154,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55580","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-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","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\/55580","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=55580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}