{"id":19177,"date":"2013-04-12T22:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19177"},"modified":"2013-04-12T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:19:37","slug":"the-vicar-of-baghdad-all-is-terrible-but-god-is-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-vicar-of-baghdad-all-is-terrible-but-god-is-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vicar of Baghdad: all is terrible, but God is there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable Canon Andrew White:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MUrLH-Sh4IE?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He is visiting Israel at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/the-vicar-of-baghdad-comes-to-jerusalem-andrew-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cVicar of Baghdad\u201d is visiting Israel this week, and he\u2019s brought a little good news, a great deal of bad, and endless reserves of faith.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">The Vicar of Baghdad is a larger-than-life figure \u2014 a big, exuberant presence with a cane (he suffers from multiple sclerosis), a large silver cross around his neck, and today a deafening bow tie \u2014 and he needs to be. He\u2019s lived in the constant shadow of death for eight years in a heavily barricaded compound surrounded by razor wire in the Iraqi capital, prevented by the Iraqi Army from taking so much as a step outside, with bombs exploding all around. He is permanently surrounded by dozens of army guards. When he wants to leave \u2014 like he did just now, to come to Israel \u2014 he is driven out of the compound in an Iraqi army convoy.<\/p>\n<p>The Vicar of Baghdad reopened the Iraqi capital\u2019s St. George\u2019s Church in 2003, along with Justin Welby, a fellow member of the Anglican clergy with whom he had worked at England\u2019s Coventry Cathedral. Welby is a good ally to have; three weeks ago he was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican church. St George\u2019s, which was founded in 1863, was closed down by Saddam Hussein. It now has the largest congregation of any church in Iraq, at 6,500. About 600 of its regulars are Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable Canon Andrew White: He is visiting Israel at the moment. More here: The \u201cVicar of Baghdad\u201d is visiting Israel this week, and he\u2019s brought a little good news, a great deal of bad, and endless reserves of faith. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-vicar-of-baghdad-all-is-terrible-but-god-is-there\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1529],"class_list":["post-19177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-the-vicar-of-baghdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}