{"id":2531,"date":"2010-12-24T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2010-12-24T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T21:47:07","slug":"count_your_blessings_as_you_ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Count Your Blessings As You Celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101222\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq;_ylt=A0LEapclkxJNWA0Azgms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFocWV1bXNwBHBvcwMyNwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNpcmFxaWNodXJjaGU-\">Yahoo News<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story about the Christian churches in Iraq that are not celebrating Christmas this year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The story reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as its Catholic congregation was celebrating Sunday Mass. Sixty-eight people were killed. Days later Islamic insurgents bombed Christian <\/em><em>homes and neighborhoods across the capital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;On Tuesday, al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on Iraq&#8217;s beleaguered Christians, many of whom have fled their homes or the country since the church attack. A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to cancel public celebrations of Christmas out of concern for their lives and as a show of mourning for the victims.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There is a picture in the article of American soldiers guarding a church during a Mass in Baghdad.&nbsp; Please pray for the persecuted church around the world and&nbsp;thank God for&nbsp;the blessings we have in America that allow us to celebrate Christmas without fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story about the Christian churches in Iraq that are not celebrating Christmas this year.&nbsp; The story reports: &#8220;Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}