{"id":30688,"date":"2015-01-07T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30688"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:46:12","slug":"missionaries-continue-work-in-afghanistan-post-drawdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/missionaries-continue-work-in-afghanistan-post-drawdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries Continue Work in Afghanistan Post-Drawdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article from the Kentucky <em>Gleaner<\/em> (published at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-missionaries-remain-committed-to-work-in-afghanistan-amid-troop-drawdown-1.316546\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>) notes that some missionaries in Afghanistan will continue to serve there even as US forces withdraw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four missionaries from Henderson and Evansville just returned from a visit there, where Uncharted International, a nonprofit mission agency based in Evansville, sponsors a school for Afghan children.<\/p>\n<p>They represent just a portion of local missionaries&#8230; \u2014 many of whom are members at One Life Church in Henderson and other churches \u2014 who have made repeated trips Afghanistan, Myanmar and China in recent years through Uncharted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While the US-supported government in Afghanistan supposedly protects religious freedom, it is officially an Islamic state, and persecution of non-Muslims is both routine and sometimes officially sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>It can be a dangerous environment in which to be a Christian.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article from the Kentucky Gleaner (published at the Stars and Stripes) notes that some missionaries in Afghanistan will continue to serve there even as US forces withdraw: Four missionaries from Henderson and Evansville just returned from a visit there, where Uncharted International, a nonprofit mission agency based in Evansville, sponsors a school for Afghan children. They represent just a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,96,2,22,10,4998],"class_list":["post-30688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-christian","tag-military","tag-missionary","tag-religion","tag-uncharted-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}