{"id":71691,"date":"2016-12-20T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=71691"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T22:04:51","slug":"whos-ministering-in-mosul-persecuted-christians-from-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2016\/12\/20\/whos-ministering-in-mosul-persecuted-christians-from-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Today: &#8220;Who&#8217;s Ministering in Mosul? Persecuted Christians from Burma&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Christianity Today: &#8220;Who&#8217;s Ministering in Mosul? Persecuted Christians from Burma&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"article-deck\"><em><span class=\"article-postDate\">December 19, 2016<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-deck\"><span class=\"article-postDate\">Christianity Today,\u00a0<\/span>Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-byline js-addReadermode\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_71693\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mosul-residents-coming-for-food-delivery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71693\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mosul-residents-coming-for-food-delivery.jpg\" alt=\"Mosul residents coming for food delivered by FBR.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mosul-residents-coming-for-food-delivery.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mosul-residents-coming-for-food-delivery-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Mosul residents coming for food delivered by FBR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text\">As Iraqi coalition forces claw their way into Mosul, the retreating ISIS fighters have booby trapped streets, sent suicide bombers against the liberating army, and used civilians as human shields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The civilians left in their wake are <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/10\/islamic-state-isis-iraq-mosul-syria-offensive\/\">hungry, thirsty, terrified, and exhausted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One of the first humanitarian groups to aid Iraq\u2019s once second-largest city, moving in even as ISIS moves out, has been a group of persecuted Christians from Burma (also known as Myanmar).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a Christian group originally formed to bring humanitarian aid to the Burmese minorities displaced by <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/2016\/11\/30\/multiple-fronts-fighting-is-everywhere-in-northern-burma\/\">ongoing persecution<\/a> from their military government. Led by David Eubank, a former US Army Ranger officer, the group <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/2016\/11\/30\/multiple-fronts-fighting-is-everywhere-in-northern-burma\/\">supplies<\/a> medical assistance, food, and shelter to combat areas. It also documents human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-byline js-addReadermode\">[Read the full article at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/december-web-only\/ministering-mosul-persecuted-christians-burma-myanmar-fbr.html\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/december-web-only\/ministering-mosul-persecuted-christians-burma-myanmar-fbr.html<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":71691,\"title\":\"Christianity Today: &#8220;Who&#8217;s Ministering in Mosul? Persecuted Christians from Burma&#8221;\",\"subject\":\"FBR: Christianity Today: &#8220;Who&#8217;s Ministering in Mosul? 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Persecuted Christians from Burma&#8221; December 19, 2016 Christianity Today,\u00a0Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra As Iraqi coalition forces claw their way into Mosul, the retreating ISIS fighters have booby trapped streets, sent suicide bombers against the liberating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2016\/12\/20\/whos-ministering-in-mosul-persecuted-christians-from-burma\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71691"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72630,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71691\/revisions\/72630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}