{"id":50453,"date":"2015-06-23T22:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/condolences_of_the_russian_orthodox_church_over_the_tragedy_in_south_caroli\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T22:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:13:22","slug":"condolences_of_the_russian_orthodox_church_over_the_tragedy_in_south_caroli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50453","title":{"rendered":"Condolences of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Tragedy in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please accept my sincere condolences over the tragedy that happened at the Emanuel Parish of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, as a result of which the blood of innocent Christians was shed.<\/p>\n<p>More and more frequently we become witnesses to criminal actions committed on the grounds of intolerance and pointing to the growth of strife and hate in the world. In this connection, one of the primary tasks facing those who confess the name of Christ is to assert the ideals of goodness and love of the neighbour in today\u2019s society, as the Gospel calls us to do.<\/p>\n<p>I am praying to the Lord for the repose of the souls of the dead and for the consolation of the bereaved relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>With love in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk<br \/>\nChairman of the Department for External Church Relations<br \/>\nMoscow Patriarchate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/en\/2015\/06\/19\/news120282\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please accept my sincere condolences over the tragedy that happened at the Emanuel Parish of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, as a result of which the blood of innocent Christians was shed. More<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50453\">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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50453","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=50453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}