{"id":33159,"date":"2012-06-21T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_stock-african_clergy_being_denied_entry_to_the_uk_because_of_their_\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T01:55:31","slug":"bishop_stock-african_clergy_being_denied_entry_to_the_uk_because_of_their_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33159","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Stock&#8211;&#34;African clergy being denied entry to the UK because of their sacrificial stipends&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Revd Nigel Stock, speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, said that despite having endorsements from senior English bishops, Africa Christians responding to invitations to enter the country are failing to get the required visa.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;It seems that a new economic test is being applied to them. Able, well qualified Africans are being invited to conferences in this country and endorsed even by bishops and the Archbishop of Canterbury, but are being turned down because their personal income is low. As most African clergy live on sacrificial stipends that are intermittently paid, we are wondering whether we can ever invite anyone again from Tanzania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2012\/6\/20\/ACNS5124\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Revd Nigel Stock, speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, said that despite having endorsements from senior English bishops, Africa Christians responding to invitations to enter the country are failing to get the required visa. He said, &#8220;It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33159\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159","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=33159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}