{"id":144,"date":"2017-03-10T05:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple4.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T12:12:44","slug":"a-church-in-damascus-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/a-church-in-damascus-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"A church in Damascus, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Edward a pastor of a church, in Damascus, Syria.&nbsp;His congregants walk down sniper alleys just to worship together. Recently, a few weeks before a conference in Britain, a bomb exploded not far from his church &#8211; killing 157 people.<\/p>\n<p>The moderator of the conference asked Brother Edward why he doesn\u2019t leave Syria.<\/p>\n<p>He answered: \u201cWhen one country pulls its ambassadors out of another country, you know it\u2019s bad. God is not calling His ambassadors out of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Chase the Lion, Mark Batterson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Edward a pastor of a church, in Damascus, Syria.&nbsp;His congregants walk down sniper alleys just to worship together. Recently, a few weeks before a conference in Britain, a bomb exploded not far from his church &#8211; killing 157 people. The moderator of the conference asked Brother Edward why he doesn\u2019t leave Syria. He answered: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}