{"id":218370,"date":"2010-01-21T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/exodus-of-iraqi-christians\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:28:09","slug":"exodus-of-iraqi-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218370","title":{"rendered":"Exodus of Iraqi Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Iraqi archbishop has predicted a new wave of emigration from Iraq involving Christians who have tired of waiting for their situation to improve.  Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk said many Christians taking refuge in Northern Iraq were determined &#8220;to leave the country for good&#8221; after concluding that, nearly seven years after the invasion of Iraq by a US-led Coalition, it was still unsafe to return to their homes in the South.<\/p>\n<p>He told the British branch of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a charity set up to help suffering and persecuted Christians, that a lack of jobs and services in the Kurdish north would speed emigration.  <span class=\"caps\">ACN<\/span> says the Christian population in Iraq has dropped from 1.4 million in 1987 to barely 300,000 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi archbishop has predicted a new wave of emigration from Iraq involving Christians who have tired of waiting for their situation to improve. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk said many Christians taking refuge in Northern Iraq were determined &#8220;to leave the country for good&#8221; after concluding that, nearly seven years after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}