{"id":302,"date":"2022-11-17T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:18:21","slug":"kokab-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/kokab-church\/","title":{"rendered":"KOKAB CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KOKAB CHURCH &amp; The story of Apostle Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the very first years of Christianity, &nbsp;the Jewish community&nbsp; of Damascus was important and all attempts to promote the new religion were&nbsp; persecuted. For this precise&nbsp; reason,&nbsp; Saul &nbsp;came to&nbsp; Damascus from Tarsus.&nbsp; On his way to Damascus,&nbsp; Saoul saw this incredible light,&nbsp; that blinded him and he &nbsp;fell off&nbsp;his horse. At the same time he heard a voice saying &#8220;Saoul why do you persecute me?&#8221;&nbsp; His companions &nbsp;carried&nbsp; blind&nbsp; Saul to the house of Judas&nbsp; in Damascus. Ananias, a Christian disciple, had a vision where God appeared and asked him to go &#8220;to the straight street and look out for Saul of&nbsp;Tarsus who was staying&nbsp;in the house of Judas&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ananias went to Juda&#8217;s house,&nbsp; placed his hands on &nbsp;Saul&#8217;s face,&nbsp; baptized him and &nbsp;immediately &nbsp;Saoul &nbsp;saw &nbsp;the light&nbsp; again. &nbsp;He was &nbsp;no longer blind. &nbsp;Saoul became Paul and dedicated his whole &nbsp;life to &nbsp;the message&nbsp; of Christ, teaching the new religion in the synagogues of Damascus.&nbsp; The Jews wanted to kill him, and the Christians managed to take him away, by hiding him in a basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They lowered the basked from the walls of Damascus, \u00a0and Paul was able to continue his preaching passing through Cyprus, Crete, Malta He ended up in Rome and succeeded in spreading the word of Christ \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kokab-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kokab-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kokab-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kokab-2-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kokab Church <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/stpaul-kokab1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/stpaul-kokab1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/stpaul-kokab1-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/stpaul-kokab1-79x150.jpg 79w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOKAB CHURCH &amp; The story of Apostle Paul During the very first years of Christianity, &nbsp;the Jewish community&nbsp; of Damascus was important and all attempts to promote the new religion were&nbsp; persecuted. For this precise&nbsp; reason,&nbsp; Saul &nbsp;came to&nbsp; Damascus from Tarsus.&nbsp; On his way to Damascus,&nbsp; Saoul saw this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/kokab-church\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}