{"id":6901,"date":"2017-01-18T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:09:03","slug":"world-news-briefs-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4515\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png\" alt=\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\" width=\"620\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png 620w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6902\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pakistan-basketball-trimmed.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan basketball trimmed\" width=\"718\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pakistan-basketball-trimmed.jpg 718w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pakistan-basketball-trimmed-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/strong><em>Pakistan\u2019s first national Christian basketball team shares pre-match prayers. See story below. Image: Pakistan Bible Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Missions Catalyst News Briefs 01.18.17<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6899\">WORLD: 50 Countries Where Christian Are Most Persecuted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6897\">PAKISTAN: First National Christian Basketball Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6895\">UGANDA: Sheikh Sent to Kill Pastor Becomes Christian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6893\">ALGERIA: A Year in Prison Due to Facebook Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6891\">GHANA: Saving the Life of an \u201cEvil Child\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s first national Christian basketball team shares pre-match prayers. See story below. Image: Pakistan Bible Society. Missions Catalyst News Briefs 01.18.17 WORLD: 50 Countries Where Christian Are Most Persecuted PAKISTAN: First National Christian Basketball Team UGANDA: Sheikh Sent to Kill Pastor Becomes Christian ALGERIA: A Year in Prison Due to Facebook Post GHANA: Saving the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World News Briefs<\/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-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}