{"id":126930,"date":"2024-02-15T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126930"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:05:57","slug":"church-times-ukrainian-mood-dour-but-determined-says-archbishop-welby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126930","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Ukrainian mood dour but determined, says Archbishop Justin Welby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, concluding his five-day visit to Ukraine on Friday, said: \u201cWe must long for peace \u2014 but not peace that increases the likelihood of more war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UK, he said, \u201cneeds to show that we are committed as a nation to justice, to peace, to reconciliation on the basis of security, and respect for international law\u201d, but he was \u201cnot capable of trotting out an answer that would probably be wrong\u201d about exactly how this could be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he thought the trip had been worth the time, expense, and risk, he said that he saw it as a \u201cbiblical and theological imperative to stand \u2014 as much as one is able \u2014 with those who are oppressed\u201d and to say: \u201cYou\u2019re not forgotten: we love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/16-february\/news\/world\/ukrainian-mood-dour-but-determined-says-archbishop-welby\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhrancisMartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhrancisMartin<\/a> joined the Archbishop of Canterbury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinWelby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinWelby<\/a> on his pastoral visit to Ukraine last week <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eE5vplLG7P\">https:\/\/t.co\/eE5vplLG7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1757742824366149900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/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 Archbishop of Canterbury, concluding his five-day visit to Ukraine on Friday, said: \u201cWe must long for peace \u2014 but not peace that increases the likelihood of more war.\u201d The UK, he said, \u201cneeds to show that we are committed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126930\">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":[382,67,324,199,144,106,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126930","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=126930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126934,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126930\/revisions\/126934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}