{"id":378,"date":"2008-06-12T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/worlds-first-church-unearthed-in-jordan\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T04:08:31","slug":"worlds-first-church-unearthed-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/worlds-first-church-unearthed-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World&#8217;s first church&#8217; unearthed in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"first\">Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they claim is the world&#8217;s first church, dating back almost 2,000 years, The Jordan Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px\">&#8220;We have uncovered what we believe to be the first church in the world, dating from 33 AD to 70 AD,&#8221; Jordan Rihab Centre for Archaeological Studies spokesman Abdul Qader al-Husan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px\">He said it was uncovered under Saint Georgeous Church, which itself dates back to 230 AD, in Rihab in northern Jordan near the Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px\">&#8220;We have evidence to believe this church sheltered the early Christians &#8211; the 70 disciples of Jesus Christ,&#8221; Mr Husan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/06\/11\/2270757.htm\" title=\"ABC news\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they claim is the world&#8217;s first church, dating back almost 2,000 years, The Jordan Times reported on Tuesday. &#8220;We have uncovered what we believe to be the first church in the world, dating from 33 AD to 70 AD,&#8221; Jordan Rihab Centre for Archaeological Studies spokesman Abdul Qader al-Husan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}