{"id":49682,"date":"2015-05-04T21:11:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_nepal_christians_return_to_worship_after_earthquake_turns_churches_into_\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:11:47","slug":"ct_nepal_christians_return_to_worship_after_earthquake_turns_churches_into_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49682","title":{"rendered":"[CT] Nepal Christians Return to Worship after Earthquake Turns Churches into Tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it is clear that many Christians died in their churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am getting reports of entire Christian families being wiped out in Kathmandu and outside,\u201d\u009d Simon Pandey, chairman of the National Christian Fellowship of Nepal, told CT in an interview from his concrete house in a Lalitpur suburb.<\/p>\n<p>If the quake had occurred half an hour earlier, he noted, the casualties in churches would have been much higher. (Many Hindus died during worship services also.)<\/p>\n<p>Of Nepal\u2019s Christians\u201d\u201dwhich comprise just over one percent of the country\u2019s 30-million population\u201d\u201dProtestants were disproportionately affected by the disaster, a Catholic leader told CT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2015\/may-web-only\/nepal-christians-return-worship-after-earthquake-churches.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it is clear that many Christians died in their churches. \u201cI am getting reports of entire Christian families being wiped out in Kathmandu and outside,\u201d\u009d Simon Pandey, chairman of the National Christian Fellowship of Nepal, told CT in an interview<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49682\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-the-anglican-church-in-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49682","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}