{"id":13172,"date":"2024-08-07T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:47:58","slug":"news-briefs-strange-stories-surprising-reversals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13172","title":{"rendered":"News Briefs: Strange Stories &amp; Surprising Reversals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13152\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13152\">Editor\u2019s Note: Surprising Stories and Strange Reversals<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13166\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13166\">Nigeria: Christian Remained in Captivity to Aid Elderly Muslim Woman<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13163\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13163\">Taiwan: Widowed Missionary Returns to the Field as a Single Mom<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13161\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13161\">Japan: Keys to Revival in a Resistant Nation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13158\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13158\">UK: What Are So Many Iranians Doing Here?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/missionscatalyst\/world-news-2024-08-07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read or share the email edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: Read or share the email edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13173,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions\/13173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}