{"id":66526,"date":"2017-12-23T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66526"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:41:20","slug":"wwm-egypt-teenagers-murder-aimed-to-intimidate-copts-ahead-of-christmas-says-his-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66526","title":{"rendered":"(WWM) Egypt teenager\u2019s murder \u2018aimed to intimidate Copts ahead of Christmas\u2019, says his pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church\u2019s pastor, Rev. Adel Rafaat, told World Watch Monitor: \u201cIshak was a very good young man, he was one of our church members. He was loved by all of us and he loved everybody. He always had a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIshak was targeted and killed because of his faith, because he is Christian. They wanted to spoil the joy of our coming Christmas. Extremists chose a young man from our village specifically because our village is a big Christian village and their aim was to turn Christmas joy of the villagers to sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2017\/12\/26796\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Egypt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Egypt<\/a> teenager\u2019s murder \u2018aimed to intimidate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Copts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Copts<\/a> ahead of Christmas\u2019, says his pastor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RCGUi2sRiv\">https:\/\/t.co\/RCGUi2sRiv<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwmonitor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wwmonitor<\/a> &#39;Ishak was targeted and killed because of his faith, because he is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christian<\/a>&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/944692494691983361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church\u2019s pastor, Rev. Adel Rafaat, told World Watch Monitor: \u201cIshak was a very good young man, he was one of our church members. He was loved by all of us and he loved everybody. He always had a smile.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66526\">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":[560,203,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66526","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=66526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66528,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66526\/revisions\/66528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}