{"id":218,"date":"2015-04-16T00:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:52:36","slug":"persecution-of-iraqi-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/persecution-of-iraqi-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecution of Iraqi Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body>This is a story that deserves a wider hearing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpWJjPOPip4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>According to the reporter:<\/p>\n<p>There are few places on earth where Christianity is as old as it is in Iraq. Christians there trace their history to the first century apostles. But today, their existence has been threatened by the terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State. More than 125,000 Christians \u2014 men, women and children \u2014 have been forced from their homes over the last 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iraq-christians-persecuted-by-isis-60-minutes\/\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iraq-christians-persecuted-by-isis-60-minutes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One part I found especially sad is the cultural losses:<\/p>\n<p><em>Archbishop Nicodemus Sharaf: \u201cI think they burn all the books. And we have books from the first century of the Christianity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lara Logan: \u201cYou had from the first century..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Archbishop Nicodemus Sharaf: \u201cYes, of the Christianity. When I remember this, I cannot \u2026\u201d(crying) \u201cfrom the beginning the Christianity, this is the first time we cannot pray in our churches.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You just can\u2019t get back centuries old manuscripts that are burned. Some things are irreplaceable.<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story that deserves a wider hearing. According to the reporter: There are few places on earth where Christianity is as old as it is in Iraq. Christians there trace their history to the first century apostles. But today, their existence has been threatened by the terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State. [&hellip;]<\/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":[131,109,59,132],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persecution-of-christians","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-islamic-extremists","tag-mosul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}