{"id":301,"date":"2014-09-30T20:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=301"},"modified":"2014-09-30T20:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:46:25","slug":"iraqi-patriarch-what-kind-of-pastoral-care-will-you-get-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Patriarch: What Kind of Pastoral Care Will You Get in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Baghdad Patriarch Louis Sako continues to warn<\/a> against Christians leaving Iraq. Catholic Culture reports. Apparently the bishop does not see such a decision as being necessarily helpful to the state of their souls.<\/p>\n

Patriarch Sako also objected to a suggestion that American Catholics should provide homes for Iraqi refugees. He said that he is trying to persuade the faithful to remain in Iraq, to endure the current trials, and to maintain the Christian presence. \u201cBut many fall victim to this \u2018leaving\u2019 frenzy,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Migration is not the solution, the Patriarch said. Many refugees, he said, are \u201ctransferred from one bleak situation to another.\u201d Away from their home and their culture and without proper pastoral care, they might be in worse condition abroad. \u201cAs if the migration of thousands of Iraqi Christians to the US was something to ask God\u2019s blessing for!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Baghdad Patriarch Louis Sako continues to warn against Christians leaving Iraq. Catholic Culture reports. Apparently the bishop does not see such a decision as being necessarily helpful to the state of their souls. Patriarch Sako also objected to a suggestion that American Catholics should provide homes for Iraqi refugees. He said that he is …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}