{"id":42936,"date":"2014-03-06T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/osv_ukrainian_churches_in_middle_of_upheaval\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:30:05","slug":"osv_ukrainian_churches_in_middle_of_upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42936","title":{"rendered":"(OSV) Ukrainian churches in middle of upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the political situation in Ukraine\u2019s Crimean peninsula heats up and Ukrainians are still reeling from three months of determined occupation protests in Kiev that culminated in dozens of deaths and injuries, churches and religious officials have taken an active role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur own Church stayed with the people as the struggle widened from a political one over integration with Europe into a larger one for basic human rights and dignity,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, from Ukraine\u2019s Greek Catholic Church, which combines the Eastern Rite with loyalty to Rome. \u201cIt supported the people\u2019s just aspirations throughout, while our priests led prayers and administered sacraments. It\u2019s important we now look at things in a Christian way \u201d\u201d seeking justice without revenge.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/OSVNewsweekly\/ByIssue\/Article\/TabId\/735\/artmid\/13636\/articleid\/14222\/Default.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the political situation in Ukraine\u2019s Crimean peninsula heats up and Ukrainians are still reeling from three months of determined occupation protests in Kiev that culminated in dozens of deaths and injuries, churches and religious officials have taken an active<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42936\">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":[48,39,40,50,168,200,144,184,151,108,479,34,469,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-russia","category-theology","category-ukraine","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42936","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=42936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}