{"id":127098,"date":"2024-02-21T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127098"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:47:41","slug":"church-times-navalny-commemorated-by-christians-worldwide-after-death-in-prison-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127098","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Alexei Navalny commemorated by Christians worldwide after death in prison camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians around the world have marked the death in a remote prison camp of the Russian opposi\u00adtion leader Alexei Navalny. Armed po\u00ad\u00ad\u00adlice dispersed citizens trying to do so publicly in Russia last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Rome, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said that news of the death of Mr Navalny, at the age of 47, had caused \u201castonishment and sadness\u201d. The Cardinal had hoped that the dissident\u2019s plight could be \u201cresolved differently\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Finland\u2019s Orthodox Church attended a memorial service for Mr Navalny in the Cathedral of the Assumption, Helsinki, led by Archbishop Leo (Makkonen). Dr Markus Dr\u00f6ge, the former Evangelical Bishop of Berlin, where Mr Navalny was treated for Novichok nerve-agent poisoning in August 2020, called for a street or square to be named after him in recognition of his \u201cindomitable and fearless commitment to freedom and democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/23-february\/news\/world\/navalny-commemorated-by-christians-worldwide-after-death-in-prison-camp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christians worldwide have marked the death in a remote prison camp of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Armed police in Russia dispersed citizens attempting to do so publicly last Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N0Z71GuddX\">https:\/\/t.co\/N0Z71GuddX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1760356038757294108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 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>Christians around the world have marked the death in a remote prison camp of the Russian opposi\u00adtion leader Alexei Navalny. Armed po\u00ad\u00ad\u00adlice dispersed citizens trying to do so publicly in Russia last Friday. Speaking in Rome, the Vatican Secretary of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127098\">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":[438,102,108,479,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-russia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127098","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=127098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127102,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127098\/revisions\/127102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}