{"id":26739,"date":"2021-01-13T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/christian-persecution-rises-as-people-refused-aid-in-covid-crisis-report"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:00:57","slug":"christian-persecution-rises-as-people-refused-aid-in-covid-crisis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26739","title":{"rendered":"Christian persecution rises as people refused aid in Covid crisis \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy group Open Doors says hardline regimes across world exploit pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Persecution of Christians around the world has increased during the Covid pandemic, with followers being refused aid in many countries, authoritarian governments stepping up surveillance, and Islamic militants exploiting the crisis, a report says.<\/p>\n<p>More than 340 million Christians \u2013 one in eight \u2013 face high levels of persecution and discrimination because of their faith, according to the 2021 World Watch List compiled by the Christian advocacy group Open Doors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/christian-persecution-rises-as-people-refused-aid-in-covid-crisis-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy group Open Doors says hardline regimes across world exploit pandemicCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePersecution of Christians around the world has increased during the Covid pandemic, with followers being refused ai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,370,1066,1196,53,62,447,40,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-christianity","category-coronavirus","category-freedom-of-religion","category-human-rights","category-india","category-islam","category-north-korea","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions\/26742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}