{"id":25752,"date":"2015-04-10T18:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=25752"},"modified":"2015-04-13T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:46:13","slug":"april-10-2015-rising-christian-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/04\/10\/april-10-2015-rising-christian-persecution\/25752\/","title":{"rendered":" Rising Christian Persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of last week&#8217;s deadly attack against Christians at a college in Kenya, we talk with Rev. Thomas Reese, senior analyst at the National Catholic Reporter and a member of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, about growing concerns over anti-Christian violence around the world and the need for governments to protect religious communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have not seen these kinds of attacks on Christians all over the world in a long time,&#8221; according to Rev. Thomas Reese, SJ, a member of the US Commission on International\u00a0Religious Freedom. \u201cWe have to focus the attention of the world on the crisis that Christians face, and we need governments to recognize this is an issue they have to deal with.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/04\/10\/april-10-2015-rising-christian-persecution\/25752\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":25760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[4689,17824,11,6753,9833,4926],"class_list":["post-25752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-christianity","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-religious-persecution","tag-religious-violence","tag-thomas-reese","topics-international","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>April 10, 2015 ~ Rising Christian Persecution | April 10, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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