{"id":61527,"date":"2013-12-25T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=61527"},"modified":"2013-12-25T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:43:02","slug":"bomb-attacks-on-christians-in-baghdad-kill-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=61527","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Attacks on Christians in Baghdad Kill 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 37 people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church during Christmas Mass in the capital&#8217;s southern Dora neighborhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit earlier, a bomb ripped through an outdoor market in the nearby Christian section of Athorien, killing 11 people and wounding 21, the officer added.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but Iraq&#8217;s dwindling Christian community, which is estimated to number about 400,000 to 600,000 people, has often been targeted by al-Qaida and other insurgents who see the Christians as unbelievers.<\/p>\n<p>A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}