{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\/cds-deploys-volunteers-to-support-families-affected-by-washington-wildfires\/\">Children&#8217;s Disaster Services deploys volunteers to support families affected by Washington wildfires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-begins-new-rebuilding-project-in-yancey-county-n-c\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries begins new rebuilding project in Yancey County, N.C.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fall-2026-scripture-practice-cohort\/\">Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church program offers fall 2026 Scripture Practice cohort<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/john-fillmore-named-director-of-ministry\/\">John Fillmore named director of ministry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/standing-with-haitian-church-family\/\">Standing with our Haitian church family: A pastoral message from the General Secretary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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}]}}