{"id":3193,"date":"2026-10-23T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:03:52","slug":"at-least-seven-killed-in-attack-at-church-in-jordan-state-owned-outlet-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3193","title":{"rendered":"At least seven killed in attack at church in Jordan, state-owned outlet says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least seven people were killed and 10 others \u200binjured on Friday when gunmen opened fire \u200cduring a funeral at a church in Jordan\u2019s Karak governorate, the state-owned television station <em>Al-Mamlaka<\/em> reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Security forces had \u200bdeployed at the church and were pursuing \u200bthe suspects, the station reported. It said \u2060two gunmen got out of a vehicle and \u200bopened fire during a funeral procession at the \u200bHamoud church in Karak.<\/p>\n<p>Khaled Burqan, a man who had been attending the funeral, told <em>Al-Mamlaka<\/em> that dozens of people \u200bhad been attending the funeral and two men \u2014 \u200bone carrying a rifle and another carrying a pistol \u2014 opened \u200cfire \u2060on them for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, and Jordanian authorities did not say who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Such attacks \u200bare extremely \u200brare in \u2060Jordan, which is relatively stable but has been increasingly targeted by Iranian attacks \u200bthis year since the US and \u200bIsrael \u2060launched strikes against Iran in February.<\/p>\n<p>Christians make up a minority of Jordan\u2019s population, though the country is \u2060home \u200bto several biblical sites that \u200battract Christian pilgrims from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people were killed and 10 others \u200binjured on Friday when gunmen opened fire \u200cduring a funeral at a church in Jordan\u2019s Karak governorate, the state-owned television station Al-Mamlaka reported. Security forces had \u200bdeployed at the church and were pursuing \u200bthe suspects, the station reported. It said \u2060two gunmen got out of a vehicle and \u200bopened fire during a funeral procession at the \u200bHamoud church in Karak. Khaled Burqan, a man who had been attending the funeral, told Al-Mamlaka that dozens of people \u200bhad been attending the funeral&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}