{"id":56583,"date":"2016-12-05T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_cranmer_blog_persecuted_middle_east_bishops_banned_from_visiting\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:00:38","slug":"archbishop_cranmer_blog_persecuted_middle_east_bishops_banned_from_visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56583","title":{"rendered":"(Archbishop Cranmer Blog) Persecuted Middle East bishops banned from visiting UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Archbishops from Iraq were denied visas to enter the UK as they may have claimed asylum <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XWO8h5GrX3\">https:\/\/t.co\/XWO8h5GrX3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MR7Oeaui6p\">pic.twitter.com\/MR7Oeaui6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Times of London (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/805732203976159232\">December 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why are suffering Syrian and Iraqi bishops banned from visiting the UK? They only wanted to attend the consecration of the country\u2019s first Syriac Orthodox cathedral, dedicated to St Thomas. They might even have met the Prince of Wales for a cup of tea, but after that they\u2019d have surely returned to serve their rapidly-diminishing flocks and lead them through their daily crucifixions, beheadings, enslavement, murder, rape\u201d\u00a6 Surely the Sunday Express has got this story completely wrong. Bishops banned? Why on earth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishopcranmer.com\/persecuted-middle-east-bishops-banned-visiting-uk\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishops from Iraq were denied visas to enter the UK as they may have claimed asylum https:\/\/t.co\/XWO8h5GrX3 pic.twitter.com\/MR7Oeaui6p &mdash; The Times of London (@thetimes) December 5, 2016 Why are suffering Syrian and Iraqi bishops banned from visiting the UK? They<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56583\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,168,144,203,418,154,151,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583","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=56583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}