{"id":50991,"date":"2014-07-16T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/07\/16\/helping-persecuted-christians\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:58:00","slug":"helping-persecuted-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/07\/16\/helping-persecuted-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian persecution is a reality thousands of families are facing. \u00a0From being forced to flee their homes, to being limited in the practice of their faith, it's a reality that's been played out in many countries, from Asia and Africa to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\tSTEPAHNIE DOLE<br \/>\n\tBarnabas Fund<br \/>\n\t'It\u00e2??s very difficult or if their children, sometimes they can\u00e2??t even go to school. Of if they are a family trying to support their family it\u00e2??s so hard to do because they get the worse of the worse jobs.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\tIn Pakistan for example, Christians are often targeted. From indirect oppression to out right abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tSTEPAHNIE DOLE<br \/>\n\tBarnabas Fund<br \/>\n\t'Girls get kidnapped a lot in Pakistan. I think there are over 700 cases a girl, every year how are kidnapped and forced to convert to another religion.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tAmong the organizations helping these persecuted Christians, is 'Barnabas Fund.' It helps support Christians who suffer from discrimination, oppression or direct persecution because of their faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tThrough financial support, it backs different programs that empower Christians in marginalized communities. Everywhere from Pakistan and China, to Irak and Uganda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tThe support can include basic needs like food, shelter, medicine and disaster relief services, to managing orphanages, constructing parishes and educating Christian leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tOne of their main goals is to not only help Christians survive\u00e2??but also thrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tKLH\u00a0<br \/>\n\tRR\/UN Feed<br \/>\n\tFA<br \/>\n\t-PR<br \/>\n\tUp: MAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 16, 2014. ;Barnabas Fund helps Christian minorities who are discriminated against because of their faith. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PbiXZTMw4Qc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bbarnabasint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}