{"id":69423,"date":"2018-03-25T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69423"},"modified":"2018-03-25T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T21:44:06","slug":"express-christianity-on-the-brink-religion-decimated-from-its-middle-eastern-birthplace-we-need-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69423","title":{"rendered":"(Express) Christianity on the brink: Religion DECIMATED from its Middle eastern birthplace &#8211; &#8216;We NEED help&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity, a leading Catholic charity has warned, could be reduced to a \u201ctoken religion\u201d in the country unless worshippers receive urgent aid.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic extremists have driven tens of thousands of Christians from their homes, with Islamic State (ISIS) destroying towns and churches.<\/p>\n<p>As the sick death cult retreats further and further in Iraq and Syria, some Christians are returning home to find devastation and destruction, with urgent funds needed to rebuild communities.<\/p>\n<p>However despite this, foreign governments are giving \u201cno help\u201d to Christian communities, leading to tens of thousands of believers to abandon their homelands.<\/p>\n<p>One priest said believers could leave Iraq for good unless desperately needed aid was given to help rebuild nine Christian towns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/936544\/christianity-iraq-middle-east-christian-persecution-isis\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity, a leading Catholic charity has warned, could be reduced to a \u201ctoken religion\u201d in the country unless worshippers receive urgent aid. Islamic extremists have driven tens of thousands of Christians from their homes, with Islamic State (ISIS) destroying towns<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69423\">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":[203,154,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423","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=69423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69425,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423\/revisions\/69425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}