{"id":122170,"date":"2023-07-19T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122170"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:49:10","slug":"ct-indian-politicians-promised-relief-for-persecuted-christians-so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122170","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Indian Politicians Promised Relief for Persecuted Christians. So Far, So Good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recently as 2021, the southern India state of Karnataka recorded more than 30 cases of violence against Christians and their property. As recently as 2022, its government used a legislative loophole to pass an anticonversion law.<\/p>\n<p>But this month, Christians are rejoicing after a newly elected state government has announced a significant financial investment in the community and promised to repeal the anticonversion law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is evident change in the approach of the government,\u201d said Atul Aghamkar, the national director of the Evangelical Fellowship of India\u2019s National Center for Urban Transformation, based out of Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka. \u201cThat will make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/july\/karnataka-christians-national-congress-party-elections-bjp.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe are looking forward to improvements in education opportunities, health care, employment, and overall advancement.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2t9KK5HUU\">https:\/\/t.co\/r2t9KK5HUU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1681679041412100097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/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>As recently as 2021, the southern India state of Karnataka recorded more than 30 cases of violence against Christians and their property. As recently as 2022, its government used a legislative loophole to pass an anticonversion law. But this month,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122170\">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":[481,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122170","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=122170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122173,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122170\/revisions\/122173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}