{"id":416,"date":"2015-09-14T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-09-14T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:52:31","slug":"isis-destroys-another-ancient-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/isis-destroys-another-ancient-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Destroys Another Ancient Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This occurred a few weeks ago, in late August:<\/p>\n

Islamic State said it bulldozed a fifth-century Assyrian Christian monastery in the southeastern Syrian town of Qaryatain as the jihadist group pressed on with efforts to wipe out traces of what it considers un-Islamic archaeological and cultural treasures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Islamic State\u2019s media office distributed photographs on social media sites of what it said was the destruction on Thursday of the Mar Elian monastery. A headline on the photographs reads, \u201cMar Elian monastery, worshiped without God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A number of Christians were captured. Their fate is unknown.<\/p>\n

Read more: Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

The photo is from Catholic Herald<\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This occurred a few weeks ago, in late August: Islamic State said it bulldozed a fifth-century Assyrian Christian monastery in the southeastern Syrian town of Qaryatain as the jihadist group pressed on with efforts to wipe out traces of what it considers un-Islamic archaeological and cultural treasures.\u201d Islamic State\u2019s media office distributed photographs on social […]<\/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":[109,230],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persecution-of-christians","tag-isis","tag-mar-elian-monastery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}