{"id":110875,"date":"2022-03-28T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110875"},"modified":"2022-03-28T17:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:59:05","slug":"bbc-bishop-of-coventry-wants-to-retain-ties-with-volgograd-despite-twinning-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110875","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bishop of Coventry wants to retain ties with Volgograd despite twinning pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Coventry wants the city to retain its link with Volgograd.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry council voted on Tuesday to suspend the city&#8217;s 80-year twinning arrangement with the Russian city due to the Ukrainian war, despite an appeal by the Right Reverend Christopher Cocksworth for it to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop said it was important to &#8220;draw a distinction between the Putin state and the people of Russia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would keep in contact with friends in the Russian city.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour-run council said it was pausing its twinning links &#8220;with a heavy heart&#8221; until &#8220;such a time&#8221; they could resume.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-60872449\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bishop of Coventry wants the city to retain its link with Volgograd.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7b1Nkv5w1K\">https:\/\/t.co\/7b1Nkv5w1K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Midlands Today (@bbcmtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcmtd\/status\/1507317371404525570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Coventry wants the city to retain its link with Volgograd. Coventry council voted on Tuesday to suspend the city&#8217;s 80-year twinning arrangement with the Russian city due to the Ukrainian war, despite an appeal by the Right<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110875\">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":[389,635,199,168,144,106,151,108,479,469,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110875","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=110875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110877,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110875\/revisions\/110877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}