{"id":20413,"date":"2026-08-28T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/archbishop-elpidophoros-discusses-halki-reopening-middle-east-christians-at-state-department\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:48:48","slug":"archbishop-elpidophoros-discusses-halki-reopening-middle-east-christians-at-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/archbishop-elpidophoros-discusses-halki-reopening-middle-east-christians-at-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Elpidophoros discusses Halki reopening, Middle East Christians at State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The potential reopening of the Halki Theological Seminary near Istanbul and the protection of Christian communities in the Middle East were at the center of a meeting between Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Riley Barnes at the State Department.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/foreign-policy\/1313621\/archbishop-elpidophoros-discusses-halki-reopening-middle-east-christians-at-state-department\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential reopening of the Halki Theological Seminary near Istanbul and the protection of Christian communities in the Middle East were at the center of a meeting between Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Riley Barnes at the State Department. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}