{"id":113604,"date":"2022-07-05T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113604"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:56:53","slug":"church-times-foreign-secretary-liz-truss-backs-drive-for-foreign-office-to-take-religious-persecution-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113604","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Foreign Secretary Liz Truss backs drive for Foreign Office to take religious persecution more seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s support for persecuted believers is improving, an independent review has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Five public-law academics undertook to review the implementation of recommendations contained in the report on the persecution of Christians and others around the world produced in 2019 by the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, said: \u201cWe welcome and accept this expert review on progress and . . . accept their assessment for the need to continue to work to promote and strengthen Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) as a fundamental human right for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work on this important human rights issue will never be complete, and we will continue to champion global efforts on FoRB,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/8-july\/news\/uk\/truss-backs-drive-for-foreign-office-to-take-religious-persecution-more-seriously\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good evening &#x1f942; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1PRuq6kCP0\">pic.twitter.com\/1PRuq6kCP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M\u00e5rten Bj\u00f6rkgren &#x1f499;&#x1f49b; (@MartenBjorkgren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartenBjorkgren\/status\/1544375158164668416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 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 Government\u2019s support for persecuted believers is improving, an independent review has concluded. Five public-law academics undertook to review the implementation of recommendations contained in the report on the persecution of Christians and others around the world produced in 2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113604\">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":[389,635,199,168,144,119,151,108,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113604","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-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113604","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=113604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113613,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113604\/revisions\/113613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}