{"id":23519,"date":"2014-07-11T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=23519"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:16:44","slug":"july-11-2014-wounded-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/07\/11\/july-11-2014-wounded-priest\/23519\/","title":{"rendered":" Wounded Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father Michael Lapsley is an Anglican priest who was sent to South Africa during the institutionalized racial segregation of apartheid. He became a chaplain to Nelson Mandela&#8217;s African National Congress and a target of the white supremacy government. One day Lapsley opened a package that turned out to be a bomb. He lost both hands and one eye in the attack on his life, but his faith survived. 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