{"id":27300,"date":"2011-07-16T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/malaysian_prime_minister_to_meet_with_pope_in_gesture_to_christians\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:01:20","slug":"malaysian_prime_minister_to_meet_with_pope_in_gesture_to_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27300","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Prime Minister to Meet With Pope in Gesture to Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decision by Prime Minister Najib Razak to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on Monday signals a wish to mend ties with Malaysia\u2019s Christians following a series of incidents, including the firebombing of churches, that have strained interfaith relations in this Muslim-majority nation, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Najib is scheduled to visit Benedict at Castel Gandolfo, the pope\u2019s summer residence near Rome, for talks that are expected to touch on the possibility of Malaysia establishing diplomatic relations with the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/16\/world\/asia\/16iht-malaysia16.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision by Prime Minister Najib Razak to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on Monday signals a wish to mend ties with Malaysia\u2019s Christians following a series of incidents, including the firebombing of churches, that have strained interfaith relations in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27300\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,144,426,482,659,154,155,151,636,108,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-malaysia","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300","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=27300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}