{"id":1512,"date":"2016-12-04T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T05:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2016-12-04T05:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T05:18:53","slug":"christians-worship-again-near-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/christians-worship-again-near-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Worship Again Near Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"

With ISIS forces retreating, a handful of Christians were able to worship once again in the ruins of a church near Mosul. <\/p>\n

Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from Islamic State.<\/p>\n

Church bells rang out in the town on the southeastern approaches to Mosul where Iraqi troops, backed by U.S.-led air and ground forces, have been driving back the Sunni Muslim jihadists ahead of a battle for the city itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We pray for God\u2019s blessings upon his people in Iraq.<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With ISIS forces retreating, a handful of Christians were able to worship once again in the ruins of a church near Mosul. Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[131,109,132,58,702],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persecution-of-christians","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-mosul","tag-persecution-of-christians","tag-qaraqosh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}