{"id":30797,"date":"2015-01-12T00:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30797"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:42:23","slug":"iraq-afghanistan-top-christian-persecution-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/iraq-afghanistan-top-christian-persecution-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq, Afghanistan Top Christian Persecution List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/january\/not-forgotten-top-50-countries-world-watch-list-open-doors.html\">Christianity Today<\/a>, Open Doors&#8217; World Watch List details<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the top 50 countries &#8220;where Christians face the most persecution,&#8221; aiming to create &#8220;effective anger&#8221; on believers&#8217; behalf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alongside North Korea, Syria, and Iran are two notables: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#3: Iraq<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n#5: Afghanistan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of 50 countries worldwide that rank high in persecution of Christians, two were under the complete control, direct influence, and tutelage of the United States for many recent years.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 US troops died installing and protecting governments who top the list of nations persecuting Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly something to celebrate.<\/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>As reported at Christianity Today, Open Doors&#8217; World Watch List details the top 50 countries &#8220;where Christians face the most persecution,&#8221; aiming to create &#8220;effective anger&#8221; on believers&#8217; behalf. Alongside North Korea, Syria, and Iran are two notables:<\/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":[58,96,52,2,1179,5001,10,171,4958],"class_list":["post-30797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-christian","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-north-korea","tag-open-doors","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797","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=30797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}