{"id":15628,"date":"2020-09-25T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=15628"},"modified":"2020-09-25T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:09:53","slug":"church-in-spain-requests-prayer-for-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2020\/church-in-spain-requests-prayer-for-covid-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Church in Spain requests prayer for outbreak of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iglesia de los Hermanos \u201cUna Luz en las Naciones\u201d (the Church of the Brethren in Spain, \u201cA Light to the Nations\u201d) is seeking prayer for church members affected by an outbreak of COVID-19 at its congregation in Gijon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, five COVID-19 cases had been confirmed among church members as of Monday, Sept. 21. Today, Sept. 25, the Church of the Brethren Global Mission office received word that 33 church members have tested positive and another 12 have symptoms but are awaiting test results. Some church members are hospitalized including the mother of pastor Fausto Carrasco. The congregation has a total of about 70 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour prayers will come and the family will thank you,\u201d Carrasco wrote to the Brethren in the US in a Facebook post today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/new-interim-leadership-positions\/\">Madalyn Metzger and Rhonda Pittman Gingrich to serve in new interim positions with the Church of the Brethren<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-church-of-the-brethren-communion-meets\/\">Global Church of the Brethren Communion meets in Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/grant-of-500000-to-church-supports-bdm\/\">Grant of $500,000 to the Church of the Brethren will support Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-at-work-in-the-dr\/\">Discovering joys, challenges, and God at work with the churches in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-mission-executive-visits-burundi\/\">Global Mission executive visits Church of the Brethren in Burundi, meets with church leaders from Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iglesia de los Hermanos \u201cUna Luz en las Naciones\u201d (the Church of the Brethren in Spain, \u201cA Light to the Nations\u201d) is seeking prayer for church members affected by an outbreak of COVID-19 at its congregation in Gijon. Initially, five COVID-19 cases had been confirmed among church members as of Monday, Sept. 21. Today, Sept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1657,1749,1745,1468,163,1747,1748,1063,1746,1744],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-15628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-covid-19","tag-fausto-carrasco","tag-gijon","tag-global-mission","tag-iglesia-de-los-hermanos","tag-outbreak","tag-prayer-request","tag-spain","tag-spanish-brethren","tag-una-luz-en-las-naciones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15630,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions\/15630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=15628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}