{"id":47469,"date":"2014-12-20T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbc_the_dilemma_downtown_churches_face_with_dwindling_congregations\/"},"modified":"2014-12-20T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:22:34","slug":"cbc_the_dilemma_downtown_churches_face_with_dwindling_congregations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47469","title":{"rendered":"(CBC) The dilemma Newfoundland and Labrador downtown churches face with dwindling congregations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning a visit to an old church during the Christmas season? Maybe you&#8217;re a regular church goer or you might only set foot inside a religious sanctuary once a year.<\/p>\n<p>However often you attend, administrators of downtown churches in St. John&#8217;s say everyone should be concerned about the future of these historic buildings. Congregations are struggling with structural problems, exorbitant heating costs and fewer and fewer people in pews.<\/p>\n<p>Between Patrick Street in the west end and King&#8217;s Bridge Road in the east, there are nine churches. One church is Presbyterian, two are Anglican, two are Catholic and four are United Churches. St. Thomas&#8217;s Anglican church is the oldest, built in 1836. The newest is Cochrane Street United, opened in 1915 during the First World War.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/the-dilemma-downtown-churches-face-with-dwindling-congregations-1.2879003\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning a visit to an old church during the Christmas season? Maybe you&#8217;re a regular church goer or you might only set foot inside a religious sanctuary once a year. However often you attend, administrators of downtown churches<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47469\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469","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=47469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}