{"id":913,"date":"2012-01-26T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:46:44","slug":"syrian-priest-killed-while-helping-the-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/syrian-priest-killed-while-helping-the-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Priest Killed While Helping the Wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father Bassilius Nassar, a Greek Orthodox priest who was helping a wounded man, was\u00a0shot and killed in Hama on Wednesday.\u00a0 Both the government and the opposition blamed the killing on the other.\u00a0 This was the same day the Secretary General of the Syrian Red Cross, along with 23 others, were\u00a0killed.\u00a0 Reports of what really happened with both murders are contradictory.\u00a0\u00a0We send our condolences to members of the Greek Orthodox Church and Christian community, as well as to the people of\u00a0Syria who are experiencing such brutal violence and fear.\u00a0 More than 5000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in mid-March of 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are also with the people of Egypt, as they celebrated one year since the January 25 uprising of last year.\u00a0 We hope and pray that the outcomes of this Arab Spring bring peace, tolerance, justice\u00a0and a better tomorrow for the people of Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Bassilius Nassar, a Greek Orthodox priest who was helping a wounded man, was\u00a0shot and killed in Hama on Wednesday.\u00a0 Both the government and the opposition blamed the killing on the other.\u00a0 This was the same day the Secretary General of the Syrian Red Cross, along with 23 others, were\u00a0killed.\u00a0 Reports of what really happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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