{"id":257808,"date":"2014-09-24T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=257808"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T10:23:19","slug":"us-embassy-yerevan-condemns-armenian-church-destruction-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/09\/24\/us-embassy-yerevan-condemns-armenian-church-destruction-in-syria.html","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy Yerevan condemns Armenian Church Destruction in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;\">Yesterday, the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan released a statement in strongly&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;\">condemning the destruction of the Armenian Church in Deir Ez-zor, Syria.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey stated that, &ldquo;this senseless act of destruction demonstrates yet again the utter disregard the terrorist organization ISIL has for the rich religious and cultural heritage of the Middle East.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe embassy cited their Secretary of State John Kerry, who stated that ISIL systematically committed abuses in regards to human rights and international law and is a global terrorist threat. Due to the threat, the United States urges the international community to contribute to the strengthening of the &ldquo;united effort to degrade and destroy ISIL.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;\">The official status of the church and memorial was questioned by some experts due to the lack of evidence proving its destruction. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztagdaily.com\/archives\/205272\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">Aztag daily<\/span><\/a> released a photo of the church and its surrounding complex in ruins.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-zor1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"der-zor1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-257809\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-zor1.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They stated that, \u201cthis senseless act of destruction demonstrates yet again the utter disregard the terrorist organization ISIL has for the rich religious and cultural heritage of the Middle East&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11777,57683,23837,11348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}