{"id":2780,"date":"2010-11-16T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/petition-for-the-mandaeans\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:14:00","slug":"petition-for-the-mandaeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/petition-for-the-mandaeans.html","title":{"rendered":"Petition for the Mandaeans"},"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>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/8\/save-the-mandaean\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">petition<\/a> has been created to lobby for the Mandaeans still suffering persecution in Iraq and elsewhere to be allowed to emigrate to the United States as refugees. 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