{"id":59375,"date":"2017-04-28T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59375"},"modified":"2017-04-28T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:32:08","slug":"bbc-egyptian-christians-living-in-fear-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59375","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Egyptian Christians living in fear for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the ancient Monastery of St Mina in the desert sands of Egypt, a low concrete tomb holds the remains of Christians slaughtered for their faith &#8211; not in Roman times, but earlier this month.<br \/>\nThey were among almost 50 people killed in co-ordinated attacks at two churches. The bombings &#8211; on Palm Sunday &#8211; were claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS).<br \/>\nPriests at the monastery say persecution is as old as the faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The history of the Christians is like this,&#8221; said Father Elijah Ava Mina, his flowing white beard contrasting with his black robes. &#8220;Jesus told us &#8216;narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-39694408\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ancient Monastery of St Mina in the desert sands of Egypt, a low concrete tomb holds the remains of Christians slaughtered for their faith &#8211; not in Roman times, but earlier this month. They were among almost 50<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59375\">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":[411,560,203,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59375","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=59375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59377,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59375\/revisions\/59377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}