{"id":21819,"date":"2010-09-14T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belgium_amid_sex_scandals_de-baptism_gains_favor\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:29:55","slug":"belgium_amid_sex_scandals_de-baptism_gains_favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21819","title":{"rendered":"Belgium: Amid sex scandals, de-baptism gains favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with ever-more harrowing revelations of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergymen, Belgians are turning in record numbers to apostasy \u201d\u201d formally breaking with their religion through a process of \u201cde-baptism.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has increased enormously since the cases of child abuse. It keeps going up,\u201d\u009d said Bjorn Siffer, deputy director of Flemish Humanist-Secular Society. \u201cWe know from the bishops&#8217; secretaries that they can\u2019t cope with all the requests they are getting for de-baptism.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/benelux\/100910\/catholic-church-belgium-sexual-abuse-priests\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with ever-more harrowing revelations of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergymen, Belgians are turning in record numbers to apostasy \u201d\u201d formally breaking with their religion through a process of \u201cde-baptism.\u201d\u009d \u201cIt has increased enormously since the cases of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21819\">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":[39,50,42,425,463,200,154,155,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-belgium","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","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=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}