{"id":56203,"date":"2016-11-02T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_why_christianitys_holiest_shrine_is_guarded_by_two_muslim_f\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:00:51","slug":"washington_post_why_christianitys_holiest_shrine_is_guarded_by_two_muslim_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56203","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Why Christianity\u2019s holiest shrine is guarded by two Muslim families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Adeeb Joudeh, the current keeper of the key \u201d\u201d an old, cast-iron object that&#8217;s a foot long \u201d\u201d considered his family&#8217;s hereditary task to be a metaphor for religious tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the source of coexistence for Islamic and Christian religions is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His counterpart, Wajeeh Nuseibeh, described the vital role of these two Muslim families in Jerusalem to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like all brothers, they sometimes have problems,&#8221; he said, referring to the feuding Christian sects. &#8220;We help them settle their disputes. We are the neutral people in the church. We are the United Nations. We help preserve peace in this holy place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/11\/01\/why-christianitys-holiest-shrine-is-guarded-by-two-muslim-families\/?tid=pm_world_pop_b\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Adeeb Joudeh, the current keeper of the key \u201d\u201d an old, cast-iron object that&#8217;s a foot long \u201d\u201d considered his family&#8217;s hereditary task to be a metaphor for religious tolerance. &#8220;For me,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56203\">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":[39,50,42,133,161,426,565,203,659,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56203","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=56203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}