{"id":140200,"date":"2025-10-02T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140200"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:26:17","slug":"church-times-church-leaders-offer-prayers-and-support-after-manchester-synagogue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140200","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Church leaders offer prayers and support after Manchester synagogue attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-manchester\">Bishop of Manchester<\/a>, Dr David Walker, has urged communities to \u201cdraw closer to one another in love\u201d, after two people were killed, and four left in hospital, in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHate can never defeat hate, only love can conquer hate. Today, we stand in solidarity with our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/judaismjewish-people\">Jewish<\/a>&nbsp;neighbours and reaffirm our shared commitment to peace and safety for all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, at about 9.30 a.m. on Friday a car was driven towards worshippers who had gathered outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, and at least one person was stabbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police firearms officers shot and killed a man who is believed to be the suspect, and it was later reported that two other people had been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/3-october\/news\/uk\/church-leaders-offer-prayers-and-support-after-manchester-synagogue-attack\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bishop of Manchester (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishManchester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BishManchester<\/a>), Dr David Walker, has urged communities to \u201cdraw closer to one another in love\u201d, after two people were killed, and four left in hospital, in an attack on a synagogue in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Manchester?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manchester<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QI44cIMNhf\">https:\/\/t.co\/QI44cIMNhf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1973791168191148077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, has urged communities to \u201cdraw closer to one another in love\u201d, after two people were killed, and four left in hospital, in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester. \u201cHate can never defeat<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140200\">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":[389,635,199,161,429,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-inter-faith-relations","category-judaism","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200","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=140200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140203,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200\/revisions\/140203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}