{"id":59122,"date":"2017-04-18T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59122"},"modified":"2017-04-18T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:48:01","slug":"iraqi-christians-hold-easter-celebrations-at-a-church-damaged-by-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59122","title":{"rendered":"(NDTV) Iraqi Christians Hold Easter Celebrations At A Church Damaged By ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and rising-up of the Christians in Iraq,&#8221; said Kyriacos Isho, 75, who was accompanied by his 12 children and grandchildren at Mar Gewargis (St George) Chaldean Catholic church in Tel Esqof.<\/p>\n<p>Tel Esqof, or Bishop&#8217;s Hill in Arabic, did not sustain the same amount of damage as other Christian towns overrun by the terrorists three years ago in the plain of Nineveh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/iraqi-christians-marks-easter-celebrations-at-a-church-damaged-by-isis-1682128\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014. &#8220;God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59122\">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":[571,557,183,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-iraq","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122","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=59122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59124,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122\/revisions\/59124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}