{"id":10069,"date":"2008-12-09T19:57:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_bishop_warns_on_uk_immigration_changes\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T19:57:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:57:53","slug":"church_of_england_bishop_warns_on_uk_immigration_changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10069","title":{"rendered":"Church of England Bishop warns on UK immigration changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be much more difficult for clergy from foreign churches to be brought into this country under new immigration laws, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop John Packer has criticised the Government\u2019s new scheme, which is aimed at tightening immigration controls and allowing the implementation of the points-based system.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new system immigrants from outside the European Union can enter under one of five new tiers, depending on their skills and occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe restriction on charitable and religious workers will affect how people of faith from other countries come here and experience and contribute to the life of faith in this country,\u201d\u009d Bishop Packer during a debate on the new rules in the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=3451\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be much more difficult for clergy from foreign churches to be brought into this country under new immigration laws, the Anglican Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has warned. Bishop John Packer has criticised the Government\u2019s new scheme, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10069\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}