{"id":127563,"date":"2024-03-11T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127563"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:29:27","slug":"premier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127563","title":{"rendered":"(Premier) Bishop of Blackburn welcomes new eco status for Church in Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England in Lancashire has achieved an important milestone in developing its environmental credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Blackburn has been awarded the Bronze status of the national A Rocha Eco Church programme, which encourages churches, schools and dioceses throughout the UK to take practical action in \u2018caring for God\u2019s Creation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collective award follows individual bronze awards for Blackburn Cathedral; the Diocesan Offices in Blackburn and the Centre for Christian Discipleship and Prayer at Whalley Abbey, along with 15 parishes in their own right across Lancashire. A further three churches in the Diocese have already achieved silver status; while another 36 have registered and are working towards their bronze status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/bishop-of-blackburn-welcomes-new-eco-status-for-church-in-lancashire\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cofelancs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cofelancs<\/a> on their Bronze Eco Diocese! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ecochurch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ecochurch<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pECAWKNI6y\">https:\/\/t.co\/pECAWKNI6y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church of England Environment Programme (@CofEEnvironment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CofEEnvironment\/status\/1767131252241346623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 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 Church of England in Lancashire has achieved an important milestone in developing its environmental credentials. The Diocese of Blackburn has been awarded the Bronze status of the national A Rocha Eco Church programme, which encourages churches, schools and dioceses<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127563\">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":[389,635,683,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ecology","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127563","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=127563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127567,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127563\/revisions\/127567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}