{"id":21886,"date":"2014-08-08T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:57:31","slug":"vicar-of-baghdad-child-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/vicar-of-baghdad-child-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicar of Baghdad: \u201cChild I baptised cut in half by ISIS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonic evil at work.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/08\/anglican-vicar-of-baghdad-%E2%80%9Cchild-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis%E2%80%9D.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad\u2019s Anglican church was cut in half during an attack by the Islamic State<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/08\/anglican-vicar-of-baghdad-%E2%80%9Cchild-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis%E2%80%9D.aspx#_ftn1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> on the Christian town of Qaraqosh.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview today, an emotional Canon Andrew White told ACNS that he christened the boy several years ago, and that the child\u2019s parents had named the lad Andrew after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m almost in tears because I\u2019ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half,\u201d he said. \u201cI baptised his child in my church in Baghdad<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/08\/anglican-vicar-of-baghdad-%E2%80%9Cchild-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis%E2%80%9D.aspx#_ftn2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>. This little boy, they named him after me \u2013 he was called Andrew.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canon Andrew White interviewed by the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The plight of minorities in Iraq - Newsnight\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BweJKj2DHkw?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To donate go to <a href=\"http:\/\/frrme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonic evil at work. From here: The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad\u2019s Anglican church was cut in half during an attack by the Islamic State1 on the Christian town of Qaraqosh. In an interview today, an emotional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/vicar-of-baghdad-child-i-baptised-cut-in-half-by-isis\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[554,2177],"class_list":["post-21886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","tag-canon-andrew-white","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886","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=21886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}