{"id":39996,"date":"2013-09-11T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chr-_post_recently_closed_conn-_tec_church_leased_to_muslim_group_for_inter\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T02:42:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:42:19","slug":"chr-_post_recently_closed_conn-_tec_church_leased_to_muslim_group_for_inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39996","title":{"rendered":"(Chr. Post) Recently Closed Conn. TEC Church Leased to Muslim Group for Interfaith Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Khamis Abu-Hasaballah, president of the FVAMC, told The Christian Post that they are &#8220;thrilled&#8221; by the interfaith partnership and plan to move into the Avon property soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to move in in the coming weeks. Since we&#8217;re leasing the facility, we&#8217;re keeping the modifications to the bare minimum needed to accommodate our activities,&#8221; said Abu-Hasaballah. &#8220;The facility has been de-consecrated by the bishop and the altar removed. We are also relocating some pews to free up enough space for Muslim congregational prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the agreement over the building, FVAMC members had used various the church&#8217;s facilities for events and prayer, Abu-Hasaballah told CP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/recently-closed-conn-episcopal-church-leased-to-muslim-group-as-part-of-interfaith-partnership-104226\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Khamis Abu-Hasaballah, president of the FVAMC, told The Christian Post that they are &#8220;thrilled&#8221; by the interfaith partnership and plan to move into the Avon property soon. &#8220;We hope to move in in the coming weeks. Since we&#8217;re leasing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39996\">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":[36,48,42,66,161,426,659,155,184,441,372,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996","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=39996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}