{"id":42901,"date":"2017-06-16T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42901"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:36:40","slug":"iraqi-christians-not-deported-become-victims-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/iraqi-christians-not-deported-become-victims-isis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Iraqi Christians should not be deported to become victims of 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_41927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41927\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Capitol_Building_Full_View.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41927\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41927\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Capitol_Building_Full_View.jpg\" alt=\"Capitol Building in DC\" width=\"597\" height=\"256\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United States Capitol at Washington DC \u00a0 \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back when I was deeply involved in what was then still called the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, one of the things that I headed up was its Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART). \u00a0And one of the projects\u00a0that CPART undertook was the digitizing of Syriac religious documents in the Vatican Apostolic Library.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man responsible for initiating the contact between us and the Vatican \u2014 it was his idea, originally \u2014 was Mar Bawai Soro. \u00a0He was pivotal. \u00a0He was living in Rome at the time, pursuing graduate studies there. \u00a0He is also a remarkably kind, generous, and open man for whom I have enormous respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he wrote this important article:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/international\/337966-iraqi-christians-should-not-be-deported-to-become-victims-of\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/international\/337966-iraqi-christians-should-not-be-deported-to-become-victims-of<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You might want to consider writing or calling your representative in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Back when I was deeply involved in what was then still called the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, one of the things that I headed up was its Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART). \u00a0And one of the projects\u00a0that CPART undertook was the digitizing of Syriac religious documents [&hellip;]<\/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-42901","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;Iraqi Christians should not be deported to become victims of ISIS&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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