{"id":52697,"date":"2015-12-24T04:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_church_of_england_and_church_of_scotland_forge_pact\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T04:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T04:47:04","slug":"telegraph_church_of_england_and_church_of_scotland_forge_pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52697","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England and Church of Scotland forge pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England and Church of Scotland are preparing a landmark pact committing the UK\u2019s two official \u201cnational\u201d\u009d churches to work closely together for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Leading clerics hope the move could help forge new ties between the people of England and Scotland in the wake of last year\u2019s independence referendum and the 2015 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph has learnt that a formal agreement between the two churches \u201d\u201c which emerged separately from the Reformation in the 16th Century \u201d\u201c is set be put before their two governing bodies, the General Synod and General Assembly, early next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/12066726\/Church-of-England-and-Church-of-Scotland-forge-pact.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England and Church of Scotland are preparing a landmark pact committing the UK\u2019s two official \u201cnational\u201d\u009d churches to work closely together for the first time. Leading clerics hope the move could help forge new ties between the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52697\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,389,158,199,154,417,108,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52697","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=52697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}