{"id":41170,"date":"2013-11-21T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_the_chinese_province_of_henan_protestant_pastor_arrested_for_defending_f\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:45:45","slug":"in_the_chinese_province_of_henan_protestant_pastor_arrested_for_defending_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41170","title":{"rendered":"In the Chinese province of Henan, Protestant pastor arrested for defending faithful from authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the central province of Henan arrested the pastor Zhang Shaojie, leader of the Church of Nanle County , and more than 20 Christian staff and faithful. The authorities have not stated the reason for detention, but some sources speaking to ChinaAid argue that the pastor has &#8220;angered&#8221; the authorities for the defense of his faithful against the abuses committed by Communist officials.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang is part of the Three-Self Movement, the &#8220;official&#8221; Protestant Church built by Mao Zedong in the early years of his government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Henan,-Protestant-pastor-arrested-for-defending-faithful-from-authorities-29598.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the central province of Henan arrested the pastor Zhang Shaojie, leader of the Church of Nanle County , and more than 20 Christian staff and faithful. The authorities have not stated the reason for detention, but some sources<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41170\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,201,502,168,114,435,154,184,578,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41170","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=41170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}