{"id":24957,"date":"2011-03-08T03:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kristin_butler_shahbaz_bhatti-pakistans_man_of_courage_remembered\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:40:27","slug":"kristin_butler_shahbaz_bhatti-pakistans_man_of_courage_remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24957","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Butler: Shahbaz Bhatti&#8211;Pakistan&#39;s Man of Courage Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shahbaz Bhatti will not be remembered as a quiet man. As Pakistan\u2019s outspoken Minister for Minorities Affairs, the only Christian member of Parliament, and a tireless advocate for Pakistan\u2019s imperiled Christian community, Bhatti was accustomed to standing out in a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Bhatti\u2019s impassioned defense of Pakistan\u2019s minority Christian community moved and motivated human rights advocates and government officials around the world. \u201cHe never achieved what he dedicated his life to \u201d\u201c the eventual repeal of Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy laws,\u201d\u009d saidStuart Windsor, National Director of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, \u201cBut he tried, bravely and with indefatigable spirit, and his life was a blessing to many.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/news\/religiontoday\/11646632\/page0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahbaz Bhatti will not be remembered as a quiet man. As Pakistan\u2019s outspoken Minister for Minorities Affairs, the only Christian member of Parliament, and a tireless advocate for Pakistan\u2019s imperiled Christian community, Bhatti was accustomed to standing out in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24957\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,201,438,426,659,154,155,343,184,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-death-burial-funerals","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957","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=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}