{"id":2284,"date":"2011-11-12T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2012-04-03T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T03:55:54","slug":"pastors-hiding-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/pastors-hiding-persecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastors Hiding Persecution?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so&#8230;ah&#8230;despicable. Well, maybe that&#8217;s too strong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAbout half of all the pastors in America\u2019s churches today do not want to tell their congregations that there are forces in the world that persecute Christians for their beliefs, because it\u2019s a \u2018downer,\u2019 according to the results of a startling new poll. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Barna Research Associates survey, commissioned by Open Doors USA, says a significant majority of American Christians, some three out of four, want to hear about the persecuted church.<\/p>\n<p>But the same study showed that 52 percent of America\u2019s pastors don\u2019t want to talk about persecution and have no plans to talk about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/midnightwatcher.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/06\/persecuted-christian-dont-expect-these-pastors-to-speak-up-about-a-downer-issue\/\">MidnightWatcher&#8217;s Blogspot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>HT:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.org\/2011\/11\/13\/persecuted-christian-dont-expect-these-pastors-to-speak-up\/\" title=\"persecution.org\">International Christian Concern<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so&#8230;ah&#8230;despicable. Well, maybe that&#8217;s too strong. \u201cAbout half of all the pastors in America\u2019s churches today do not want to tell their congregations that there are forces in the world that persecute Christians for their beliefs, because it\u2019s a \u2018downer,\u2019 according to the results of a startling new poll.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,580],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-christians","tag-persecution","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-AQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}