{"id":12313,"date":"2009-04-16T16:50:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_thriving_in_cuba_episcopal_bishop_says\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:50:58","slug":"religion_thriving_in_cuba_episcopal_bishop_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12313","title":{"rendered":"Religion thriving in Cuba, Episcopal bishop says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The idea of religion prospering in a communist country defies credibility, but, according to Bishop Frank T. Griswold III, the former head of the Episcopal Church in the United States, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Griswold, who from 1998 to 2006 was the 25th presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, has made three trips to the island nation in the past few years and finds that \u201cthere\u2019s no overt hostility to religion.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently,\u201d\u009d he reported, \u201cparticularly after the recent hurricanes, the [Cuban] government is realizing that the social services that many of the churches provide [and] rural projects of sustainable agriculture, that all these are positives.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chestnuthilllocal.com\/issues\/2009.04.16\/news2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of religion prospering in a communist country defies credibility, but, according to Bishop Frank T. Griswold III, the former head of the Episcopal Church in the United States, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening in Cuba. Griswold, who from 1998<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12313\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","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=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}