{"id":25692,"date":"2011-04-18T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cdn_religious_conversion_worst_form_of_intolerance_bhutan_pm_says\/"},"modified":"2011-04-18T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:00:38","slug":"cdn_religious_conversion_worst_form_of_intolerance_bhutan_pm_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25692","title":{"rendered":"(CDN) Religious Conversion Worst Form of &#39;Intolerance,&#39; Bhutan PM Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kingdom of Bhutan, where Christianity is still awaiting legal recognition, Christians have the right to proclaim their faith but must not use coercion or claim religious superiority to seek conversions, the country\u2019s prime minister told Compass in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view conversions very negatively, because conversion is the worst form of intolerance,\u201d\u009d Jigmi Yoser Thinley said in his office in the capital of the predominantly Buddhist nation.<\/p>\n<p>Christian leaders in Bhutan have told Compass that they enjoy certain freedoms to practice their faith in private homes, but, because of a prohibition against church buildings and other restrictions, they were not sure if proclamation of their faith \u201d\u201c included in international human rights codes \u201d\u201c was allowed in Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/religious-conversion-worst-form-of-intolerance-bhutan-pm-says-49830\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kingdom of Bhutan, where Christianity is still awaiting legal recognition, Christians have the right to proclaim their faith but must not use coercion or claim religious superiority to seek conversions, the country\u2019s prime minister told Compass in an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25692\">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":[39,50,42,201,494,430,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-bhutan","category-buddhism","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692","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=25692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}