{"id":24962,"date":"2024-05-04T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24962"},"modified":"2024-05-04T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:35:52","slug":"we-are-frogs-in-the-kettle-persecution-watchdog-sounds-alarm-on-growing-threat-facing-american-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-are-frogs-in-the-kettle-persecution-watchdog-sounds-alarm-on-growing-threat-facing-american-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are frogs in the kettle&#8217;: Persecution watchdog sounds alarm on growing threat facing American Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Doors, the watchdog group born of an effort to smuggle Bibles into communist-occupied Poland, indicated in its\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsus.org\/en-US\/persecution\/countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest annual report<\/a>\u00a0that one in seven Christians worldwide faces &#8220;high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.&#8221; That amounts to over 365 million Christians with targets on their backs. Things appear to be getting progressively worse, granted five years ago, the statistic was one in nine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/persecution-watchdog-sounds-alarm-on-growing-threat-facing-american-christians\">theblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Doors, the watchdog group born of an effort to smuggle Bibles into communist-occupied Poland, indicated in its\u00a0latest annual report\u00a0that one in seven Christians worldwide faces &#8220;high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.&#8221; That amounts to over 365 million Christians with targets on their backs. Things appear to be getting progressively worse, granted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-are-frogs-in-the-kettle-persecution-watchdog-sounds-alarm-on-growing-threat-facing-american-christians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;We are frogs in the kettle&#8217;: Persecution watchdog sounds alarm on growing threat facing American Christians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24963,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/24963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}