{"id":46417,"date":"2014-10-17T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/en_churches_seek_to_be_more_pastorally_effective_for_people_with_disabiliti\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:45:42","slug":"en_churches_seek_to_be_more_pastorally_effective_for_people_with_disabiliti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46417","title":{"rendered":"(EN) Churches seek to be more pastorally effective for people with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Samuel Kabue, coordinator of the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network says, &#8220;The inclusion of persons with disability is not an option but a defining characteristic of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of EDAN, a program of the World Council of Churches, met in the Netherlands to develop a new statement with the working title &#8220;Gift of Being: Called to be a Church of All and for All.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new document aims to build on the WCC interim statement on disability &#8220;A Church of All and for All&#8221; issued in 2003, the WCC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecumenicalnews.com\/article\/churches-seek-to-be-more-inclusive-of-people-with-disabilities-26891\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Samuel Kabue, coordinator of the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network says, &#8220;The inclusion of persons with disability is not an option but a defining characteristic of the Church.&#8221; Members of EDAN, a program of the World Council of Churches, met<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46417\">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":[48,39,175,104,184,436,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417","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=46417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}