{"id":807,"date":"2011-07-27T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/07\/27\/apostle-philips-tomb-found-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:03:55","slug":"apostle-philips-tomb-found-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/apostle-philips-tomb-found-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostle Philip&#8217;s tomb &#8216;found in Turkey&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have discovered the tomb of Saint Philip, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ, in western Turkey, Anatolia news agency said on Wednesday, quoting the team leader.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We have been looking for Saint Philip&#8217;s tomb for years,&#8221; Italian Francesco d&#8217;Andria told the agency. &#8220;We finally found it in the ruins of a church which we excavated a month ago.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The church is located at Pamukkale, known as Hierapolis in ancient times, where Philip was said to have been martyred after preaching across Asia Minor.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">D&#8217;Andria said the tomb had not been opened.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;One day it will be, no doubt,&#8221; he said, describing the discovery as &#8220;a major development both for archeology and the Christian world&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Pamukkale is now a spa and tourist centre.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have discovered the tomb of Saint Philip, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ, in western Turkey, Anatolia news agency said on Wednesday, quoting the team leader. &#8220;We have been looking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}