{"id":25362,"date":"2010-02-25T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/iragi-christian-community-the\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:19:38","slug":"iragi-christian-community-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/iragi-christian-community-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Iragi Christian community &#038; the Dominican sisters in danger: Urgent prayers needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This afternoon, I received a request for prayers, which I now recommend to you, for the Christians in Iraq. The following note was sent by Sister Donna Markham, the Prioress of the Adrian Dominicans:<\/i><\/p>\n<div>This evening I have received very tragic news about\u00a0the situation in Iraq . I have just returned from being with the 5 Iraqi\u00a0sisters who are with us in Adrian . Today, all the Christians have fled from Mosul.\u00a0There have been murders and rapes of Christians there and for now they are\u00a0fleeing to the Christian villages. Sister Maria is very frightened about the\u00a0safety of the sisters and the Christian people. As of now, the five elderly\u00a0sisters who have been holding down the Motherhouse are choosing to remain there\u00a0because they do not want to lose their Motherhouse to the terrorists. She said\u00a0most Christians are making plans to evacuate from Iraq and, as a consequence,\u00a0she does not know what will happen with her Congregation. She said they will\u00a0follow the Christian people where they go, but where that will be is uncertain.\u00a0The sisters&#8217; families remain in grave danger and, as you can imagine, the young\u00a0ones with us and with Springfield are terrified. As of now, nothing is being\u00a0reported in the US press.\u00a0She asks if any of us know people in Washington whom\u00a0we could contact and tell the story, to please do so. Most importantly, she\u00a0asks for our prayers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Join the Facebook page &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2209368176&amp;v=info\">Save Christians in Iraq<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><b>May Our Lady of Peace, pray for us.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><b>Saint Dominic and Dominican saints and blesseds, pray for us.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, I received a request for prayers, which I now recommend to you, for the Christians in Iraq. The following note was sent by Sister Donna Markham, the Prioress of the Adrian Dominicans: This evening I have received very tragic news about\u00a0the situation in Iraq . I have just returned from being with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/iragi-christian-community-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iragi Christian community &#038; the Dominican sisters in danger: Urgent prayers needed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1887,1723,2316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28541,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25362\/revisions\/28541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}