{"id":59728,"date":"2017-05-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59728"},"modified":"2017-05-09T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:50:09","slug":"telegraph-lord-george-carey-christians-face-extinction-in-the-middle-east-the-next-government-must-prevent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59728","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Lord George Carey&#8211;Christians face extinction in the Middle East &#8211; the next Government must prevent it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw images of the hauntingly empty Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, near Mosul, which was taken by ISIS in 2014. It had a population of 50,000 mostly Assyrian Christians, but is now totally abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The militants have used every means to erase the town of its Christian identity defiling and destroying its beautiful church buildings.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2014, the militants swept through towns around Mosul and forced thousands to flee. Qaraqosh\u2019s Christians abandoned their homes and have still not returned, even though the town has now been liberated from IS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/08\/george-carey-christians-face-extinction-middle-east-next-government\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Carey: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Middleeast?src=hash\">#Middleeast<\/a> Christians face extinction-the next Govt must prevent it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uGS1az7al1\">https:\/\/t.co\/uGS1az7al1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/terrorism?src=hash\">#terrorism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/persecutedchurch?src=hash\">#persecutedchurch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uk?src=hash\">#uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/861886792362065920\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw images of the hauntingly empty Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, near Mosul, which was taken by ISIS in 2014. It had a population of 50,000 mostly Assyrian Christians, but is now totally abandoned. The militants have used every<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59728\">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":[203,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59728","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=59728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59731,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59728\/revisions\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}