{"id":38196,"date":"2016-11-21T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=38196"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:52:07","slug":"in-biblical-lands-of-iraq-christianity-in-peril-after-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/11\/in-biblical-lands-of-iraq-christianity-in-peril-after-isis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38197\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/11\/Iraqvillagebartella.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38197\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38197\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/11\/Iraqvillagebartella.jpg\" alt=\"Bartella church\" width=\"596\" height=\"415\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Church of St. George, in Bartella, Iraq, as it appeared in 2006<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People in the West \u2014 in what was once called \u201cthe Christian world\u201d or \u201cChristendom\u201d \u2014 should be paying closer attention to this situation than we seem to be:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/20\/middleeast\/iraq-christianity-peril\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/20\/middleeast\/iraq-christianity-peril\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Atlanta, Georgia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 People in the West \u2014 in what was once called \u201cthe Christian world\u201d or \u201cChristendom\u201d \u2014 should be paying closer attention to this situation than we seem to be: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/20\/middleeast\/iraq-christianity-peril\/index.html \u00a0 Posted from Atlanta, Georgia \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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