{"id":861,"date":"2018-01-10T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/?p=861"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:25:29","slug":"2018-world-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/2018-world-watch-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 World Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 10, Open Doors released the new 2018 World Watch List<\/a>, the most comprehensive, authoritative report of the top 50 countries where Christian persecution is most severe.<\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019ll use the list to support, connect with, and pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ who are living and dying for their faith. While it\u2019s easy to move through life disconnected from what happens to believers in other parts of the world, the World Watch List helps us close the gap between us and our persecuted family.<\/p>\n

As Open Doors Founder Brother Andrew says, \u201cOur prayers can go where we cannot \u2026 there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 10, Open Doors released the new 2018 World Watch List, the most comprehensive, authoritative report of the top 50 countries where Christian persecution is most severe. We hope you\u2019ll use the list to support, connect with, and pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ who are living and dying for their faith. While it\u2019s easy to move through life disconnected from what happens to believers in other parts of the world, the World Watch List helps us close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-world","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WWL2018.jpg?fit=831%2C653&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vaGn-dT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":866,"url":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/the-fourth-gift\/","url_meta":{"origin":861,"position":0},"title":"The Fourth Gift","author":"Garry Gardner","date":"January 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Phil Morgan (used by permission) On January 6th we celebrated Epiphany, commemorating the visit of the wise men to check out the newborn baby Jesus.\u00a0 Quick quiz - what gifts did the wise men bring?\u00a0 If you just yelled out \"gold, frankincense and myrrh,\" you got it!\u00a0 But do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Devotional"","block_context":{"text":"Devotional","link":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/category\/devotional\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/WiseMen.jpg?fit=500%2C340&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2086,"url":"https:\/\/bethelcma.org\/bethel\/bothersome-to-beautiful\/","url_meta":{"origin":861,"position":1},"title":"Bothersome to Beautiful","author":"Garry Gardner","date":"June 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Devotional by Phil Morgan I have to admit, Jeremiah 29:11 has always bothered me. 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