{"id":53422,"date":"2017-12-23T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=53422"},"modified":"2017-12-24T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T09:28:13","slug":"%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d8%b7%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%ad-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%ab%d9%88%d8%b0%d9%83%d8%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d8%b7%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%ad-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%ab%d9%88%d8%b0%d9%83%d8%b3\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Diocese of Atfih regarding the attack on St. Tadros Church in Al-Waslin village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">On December 22, 2017,\u00a0St. Tadros Church, in the village of Kafr al-Waselin in Atfih, was attacked by hundreds of people who gathered in front of the building after Friday prayers, chanting hostile slogans demanding the destruction of the church. They then stormed the place and destroyed its contents\u00a0and assaulted the Christians who were present.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">After the security forces arrived, they dispersed the demonstrators\u00a0and secured the area.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">It is worth mentioning that\u00a0attacked place has been holding prayers for nearly 15 years.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The Diocese had officially sought to legalize the building\u2019s status under a 2016 law that laid down the rules for building churches.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Asking for\u00a0calm and peace for our country.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 22, 2017,\u00a0St. Tadros Church, in the village of Kafr al-Waselin in Atfih, was attacked by hundreds of people who gathered in front of the building after Friday prayers, chanting hostile slogans demanding the destruction of the church. They then stormed the place and destroyed its contents\u00a0and assaulted the Christians who were present. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":53423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74,39],"tags":[10271,4280,10270,10266,3887],"class_list":["post-53422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","category-videos","tag-al-waslin-village","tag-attack","tag-diocese-of-atfih","tag-st-tadros-church","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53454,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422\/revisions\/53454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}