{"id":44347,"date":"2014-05-30T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_tight_security_for_archbishop_welby_in_pakistan\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:15:53","slug":"church_times_tight_security_for_archbishop_welby_in_pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44347","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Tight security for Archbishop Welby in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The threat facing minorities in Pakistan was laid bare on Monday, the day of the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s arrival in the country, when an American doctor was shot dead in the Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Ali, a volunteer cardiologist born in Pakistan, was a member of the minority Ahmadi community, which faces persecution in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Security is tight for Archbishop Welby&#8217;s visit to the country. On Tuesday, he met the diocesan bishops of the Church of Pakistan, the Governor of Punjab, and leaders from a range of faith communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/30-may\/news\/world\/tight-security-for-archbishop-welby-in-pakistan\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat facing minorities in Pakistan was laid bare on Monday, the day of the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s arrival in the country, when an American doctor was shot dead in the Punjab province. Mehdi Ali, a volunteer cardiologist born in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44347\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,382,67,201,168,144,161,114,343,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44347","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=44347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}