{"id":48447,"date":"2015-02-18T05:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/prime_minister_narendra_modi_condemns_religious_violence_in_india\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T05:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:34:39","slug":"prime_minister_narendra_modi_condemns_religious_violence_in_india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48447","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi Condemns Religious Violence in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India said on Tuesday that his government would not \u201caccept violence against any religion, on any pretext\u201d\u009d and that it would take forceful steps to prevent and prosecute such crimes, in a speech widely interpreted as a response to a series of attacks on Roman Catholic churches in and around New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy government will not allow any religious group, belonging to the minority or the majority, to incite hatred against others, overtly or covertly,\u201d\u009d Mr. Modi said at a New Delhi ceremony to honor the recent canonization of two Indians by the Vatican. \u201cI strongly condemn such violence. My government will act strongly in this regard.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, church officials and rights campaigners have urged Mr. Modi to address a growing sense of insecurity among the country\u2019s religious minorities, which include large populations of Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/18\/world\/asia\/india-narendra-modi-religious-violence.html?ref=world&#038;_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India said on Tuesday that his government would not \u201caccept violence against any religion, on any pretext\u201d\u009d and that it would take forceful steps to prevent and prosecute such crimes, in a speech widely interpreted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48447\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,168,431,481,161,426,154,155,151,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-hinduism","category-india","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447","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=48447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}