{"id":34656,"date":"2012-09-19T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_as_muslims_rage_pakistan_scrutinised_by_churches\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T15:30:34","slug":"reuters_as_muslims_rage_pakistan_scrutinised_by_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34656","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) As Muslims rage, Pakistan scrutinised by churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s &#8220;Blasphemy Law&#8221; has driven the country&#8217;s religious minorities &#8211; Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis, a dissenting Islamic group &#8211; into &#8220;a state of fear and terror&#8221;, said the World Council of Churches (WCC), organisers of a 3-day conference on the law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/17\/film-protests-blasphemy-idINL5E8KHA9Z20120917\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions. Pakistan&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34656\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,158,161,114,154,343,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34656","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-ecumenical-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656","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=34656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}