{"id":121291,"date":"2023-06-13T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121291"},"modified":"2023-06-13T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:57:19","slug":"bbc-two-watford-church-pastors-suspended-in-safeguarding-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121291","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Two Watford church pastors suspended in safeguarding probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two church pastors have been suspended as part of a Church of England probe into &#8220;safeguarding concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Canon Mike Pilavachi, who led Soul Survivor Church in Watford, as well as a national Christian youth festival, stepped down earlier this year after the investigation began.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Pastor Andy Croft and Assistant Pastor Ali Martin of Soul Survivor have been suspended as part of the probe.<\/p>\n<p>The church said it related to concerns about the handling of allegations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65849931\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two church pastors have been suspended as part of a Church of England probe into &#8220;safeguarding concerns&#8221;. The Reverend Canon Mike Pilavachi, who led Soul Survivor Church in Watford, as well as a national Christian youth festival, stepped down earlier<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121291\">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":[324,199,168,184,177,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121291","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=121291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121292,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121291\/revisions\/121292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}