{"id":12061,"date":"2009-04-03T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_dr_nazir_ali_steps_down_to_work_in_persecuted_church\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:00:32","slug":"church_times_dr_nazir_ali_steps_down_to_work_in_persecuted_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12061","title":{"rendered":"Church Times: Dr Nazir-Ali steps down to work in persecuted Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, has announced his resignation. He is leaving to under\u00c2\u00adtake a new global ministry in places where the Church is under pressure and Christians are in a minority. The Archbishop of Canter\u00c2\u00adbury has described his move as \u201ca courageous initiative and a timely one\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The news, which was announced in a statement on Saturday, appears to have come as a complete surprise to many.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=72721\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, has announced his resignation. He is leaving to under\u00c2\u00adtake a new global ministry in places where the Church is under pressure and Christians are in a minority. The Archbishop of Canter\u00c2\u00adbury has described<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12061\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","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=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}