{"id":181205,"date":"2017-11-07T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=181205"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:50:28","slug":"we-hurt-grieve-loss-life-innocent-people-archbishop-demetrios-statement-on-texas-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/we-hurt-grieve-loss-life-innocent-people-archbishop-demetrios-statement-on-texas-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We hurt and grieve for the loss of life of innocent people&#8221; &#8211; Archbishop Demetrios\u2019 statement on the Texas attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, on behalf of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, expressed the disbelief, outrage, pain, and sorrow of the entirety of the faithful, at this latest manifestation of evil and violence at a small church in rural Sutherland Springs of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Demetrios made the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are in total shock and disbelief in this unfathomable explosion of violence. We hurt and grieve for the loss of life of innocent people just at the time of prayer and Sunday worship. We, as a nation are in mourning; we stand in unity and solidarity and we embrace the people of Sutherland Springs, the survivors, the families and friends of those who unjustly and prematurely lost their lives. We, as a nation and we the Orthodox Christians in the United States are again in a constant state of fervent prayer and supplication to Almighty God for healing, solace and guidance to the living and for the repose of the souls of those who perished.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-metropolitan-nicolae-of-the-americas-offers-prayers-for-new-york-texas-victims\/\">Romanian Metropolitan Nicolae of the Americas offers prayers for New York, Texas victims<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-patriarchate-expresses-compassion-offers-prayers-for-the-texas-terror-attack-victims\/\">Romanian Patriarchate expresses compassion, offers prayers for the Texas terror attack victims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 goarch \/ YouTube caption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, on behalf of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, expressed the disbelief, outrage, pain, and sorrow of the entirety of the faithful, at this latest manifestation of evil and violence at a small church in rural Sutherland Springs of Texas. Archbishop Demetrios made the following statement: \u201cWe are in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[877,12007,12790,12788,967,12789,8272,12782,12787,8611],"class_list":["post-181205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-america","tag-archbishop-demetrios","tag-church-attack","tag-greek-orthodox-archdiocese-of-america","tag-statement","tag-sutherland-springs","tag-terror-attack","tag-texas-attack","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"better_featured_image":{"id":181204,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":576,"file":"2017\/11\/dimitrios1.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"dimitrios1-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dimitrios1-890x501.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"dimitrios1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dimitrios1-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":181203,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dimitrios1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181205\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=181205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181205\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181204\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=181205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=181205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=181205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}