{"id":1018,"date":"2014-10-09T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2014-10-09T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T06:12:14","slug":"we-are-prepared-to-die-here-now-priest-kidnapped-christian-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"We are Prepared to Die Here & Now, Priest Kidnapped, Christian Bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iraq's<\/a>There are a lot of Christians\u00c2\u00a0bravely facing death in the Middle East\u00c2\u00a0these days.<\/p>\n

“We are Prepared to Die Here and Now” said one Iraqi Christian woman to ISIL marauders when they\u00c2\u00a0demanded she\u00c2\u00a0and her friends convert. Read about it in the Catholic Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meantime in Syria, a country that is 10% Christian (a hundred years ago like Lebanon, it was\u00c2\u00a0over 60% Christian) a Priest and 20 of his church members have been kidnapped<\/a>, another priest and nuns have gone into hiding, and it is not looking good for them.\u00c2\u00a0There are no\u00c2\u00a0Christian special forces\u00c2\u00a0 to go in and rescue the\u00c2\u00a0kidnapped ones, nor those being ethnically cleansed.<\/p>\n

Then there is this great story<\/a> of a very brave 28-year-old from Wisconsin who said, “I was sick of just sitting and watching Christians getting slaughtered,” and took off to fight ISIL in Syria. He ran into another American guy doing the same thing and barely had time to get his name before ISIL shelled their position.<\/p>\n

“Like many Americans, Jordan Matson is outraged by the brutality of the Islamic State. But unlike virtually every other American, he decided to take the militants head-on.”<\/p>\n

* * * * * * *<\/p>\n

Are we going to allow\u00c2\u00a0ethnic cleansing in the Middle East?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One cannot resign oneself to conceiving the Middle East without Christians,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Vatican ambassadors sent by the Pope said in an official\u00c2\u00a0statement. They\u00c2\u00a0reminded everyone of\u00c2\u00a0the 2,000-year history of Christians inhabiting the Middle East. Two thousand years is a long time to just throw away. Jews have been there even longer, of course.<\/p>\n

I really like this giant Detroit billboard, “Save the Iraqi Christians!”<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of Christians\u00c2\u00a0bravely facing death in the Middle East\u00c2\u00a0these days. “We are Prepared to Die Here and Now” said one Iraqi Christian woman to ISIL marauders when they\u00c2\u00a0demanded she\u00c2\u00a0and her friends convert. Read about it in the Catholic Herald. Meantime in Syria, a country that is 10% Christian (a hundred years ago … Continue reading We are Prepared to Die Here & Now, Priest Kidnapped, Christian Bravery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[249,250],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-iraqi-christians","tag-priest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}