{"id":25996,"date":"2015-05-08T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=25996"},"modified":"2015-05-08T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T23:04:40","slug":"may-8-2015-mark-burnett-christian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/05\/08\/may-8-2015-mark-burnett-christian-refugees\/25996\/","title":{"rendered":" Mark Burnett on the Cradle of Christianity Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian groups are urging donors not to ignore ongoing crises in the Middle East, especially the millions of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in need of help. After hearing reports of Christian and other minority religious communities in Iraq and Syria being targeted by ISIS, reality TV producer Mark Burnett, who recently produced the NBC series &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/04\/03\/mark-burnett-nbcs-d\/25694\/\">A.D. The Bible Continues<\/a>,&#8221; and his wife, actress Roma Downey, launched &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cradlefund.org\/\">The Cradle of Christianity Fund<\/a>\u201d to assist refugees fleeing violence, and they donated the first million dollars. <em>&#8220;A.D. The Bible Continues&#8221; footage provided by NBC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have managed through our fund to help 72,000 Christians get through the harsh Syrian winter. Imagine surviving persecution and the threats of death, only to freeze to death.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/05\/08\/may-8-2015-mark-burnett-christian-refugees\/25996\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":26024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1283,1857,17824,1390,326],"class_list":["post-25996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-refugees","tag-syria","topics-humanitarian","topics-literature-and-the-arts","topics-war-and-peace","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>May 8, 2015 ~ Mark Burnett on the Cradle of Christianity Fund | May 8, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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