{"id":4249,"date":"2014-01-22T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2014-01-27T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:39:48","slug":"israel-jews-for-jesus-worker-recounts-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4249","title":{"rendered":"ISRAEL: Jews for Jesus Worker Recounts Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Star News<\/a>, January 16, 2014<\/p>\n<p>As Barry Barnett&#8217;s plane lifted off from Tel Aviv, Israel&#8217;s Ben Gurion International Airport last month, he sat torn with emotion. Over the prior two weeks the British citizen had been harassed, arrested, interrogated, locked in jail, and deported from a country that he had loved deeply since childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he was filled with an unquenchable desire to continue doing that for which Israel had deported him &#8211; proclaiming Christ to his fellow Jews.<\/p>\n<p>If the deportation order stands, not only may Barnett never set foot in Israel again but, more importantly, it could set a legal precedent to limit missionary work or other forms of religious expression by foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/2014\/01\/jews-for-jesus-worker-recounts-deportation-fights-potential-legal-precedent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a> with picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Morning Star News, January 16, 2014 As Barry Barnett&#8217;s plane lifted off from Tel Aviv, Israel&#8217;s Ben Gurion International Airport last month, he sat torn with emotion. Over the prior two weeks the British citizen had been harassed, arrested, interrogated, locked in jail, and deported from a country that he had loved deeply since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRAEL: Jews for Jesus Worker Recounts Deportation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}