{"id":44349,"date":"2014-05-30T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_anglican_leader_says_minorities_in_pakistan_under_siege\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:45:41","slug":"reuters_anglican_leader_says_minorities_in_pakistan_under_siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44349","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Anglican leader says minorities in Pakistan &#34;under siege&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a considerable sense of anxiety, of being under siege,&#8221; Justin Welby, a former oil executive, told Reuters outside a church in the eastern city of Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a very clear sense that people were nervous about the misuse of the blasphemy law, as a sort of a tool of politics, a way of gaining attention, or as a mob thing,&#8221; he added, flanked by two Pakistani bishops.<\/p>\n<p>He earlier told reporters: &#8220;Equality under the law is very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/05\/28\/uk-pakistan-archbishop-idINKBN0E81BJ20140528\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a considerable sense of anxiety, of being under siege,&#8221; Justin Welby, a former oil executive, told Reuters outside a church in the eastern city of Lahore. &#8220;There was a very clear sense that people were nervous about the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44349\">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":[36,39,42,382,67,168,161,114,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349","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=44349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}