{"id":31896,"date":"2012-04-10T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_register_a_muslim_finds_the_catholic_faith_through_geography_and_theolog\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:00:32","slug":"nc_register_a_muslim_finds_the_catholic_faith_through_geography_and_theolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31896","title":{"rendered":"(NC Register) A Muslim Finds the Catholic Faith \u201d\u00a6 Through Geography and Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar was instrumental in helping Ilyas Khan, a British philanthropist and former Muslim, to become Catholic. But so too were many other distinctly Catholic influences, all amounting to a \u201cpull\u201d\u009d towards the faith rather than a \u201cpush\u201d\u009d away from Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, a merchant banker by training and the owner of the Accrington Stanley soccer team, is also chairman of the prominent British charity Leonard Cheshire Disability \u201d\u201d the largest organization in the world helping people with disabilities. In a revealing interview with Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, Khan explains in more detail what drew him to the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/a-muslim-finds-the-catholic-faith-through-geography-and-theology\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar was instrumental in helping Ilyas Khan, a British philanthropist and former Muslim, to become Catholic. But so too were many other distinctly Catholic influences, all amounting to a \u201cpull\u201d\u009d towards the faith rather than<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31896\">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":[39,42,174,161,426,154,155,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-apologetics","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896","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=31896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}