{"id":6761,"date":"2016-11-02T15:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2016-11-02T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:50:37","slug":"world-politics-and-the-persecuted-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"USA: Politics and the Persecuted Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Pat Noble, News Brief Editor<\/p>\n<p>The news is full of persecution stories for the twentieth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/idop.org\/web\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/idop.org\/web\/\">International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church<\/a> which will be observed on the Sundays before and after the day of the US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>While the Missions Catalyst <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=583\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=583\">approach to content<\/a> steers us clear of politics, we thought some readers might be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/incontextministries.org\/images\/10USelectionsPC.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/incontextministries.org\/images\/10USelectionsPC.pdf\">Trump or Clinton: How Might Their Policies Affect the Persecuted Church?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The source, INcontext Ministries, does not promote or support either of these candidates, but offers a perspective you may not have considered and reminds us that God\u2019s agendas are bigger than human agendas. I find it refreshing to consider what the winner of this election (or others) might do for the persecuted church rather than what he or she will do for <em>me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/181457263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IDOP-Ad.jpg\" alt=\"idop-ad\" width=\"895\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IDOP-Ad.jpg 895w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IDOP-Ad-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IDOP-Ad-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/resources-mindsets-upcoming-international-day-prayer\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/resources-mindsets-upcoming-international-day-prayer\/\">Resources and Mindsets for the Upcoming International Day of Prayer<\/a> (Mission Network News).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Pat Noble, News Brief Editor The news is full of persecution stories for the twentieth annual International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church which will be observed on the Sundays before and after the day of the US presidential election. While the Missions Catalyst approach to content steers us clear of politics, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: Politics and the Persecuted Church<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}