{"id":53533,"date":"2016-03-01T01:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/c_of_e_parishes_encouraged_to_support_work_to_resettle_vulnerable_syrian_re\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T01:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:11:01","slug":"c_of_e_parishes_encouraged_to_support_work_to_resettle_vulnerable_syrian_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53533","title":{"rendered":"C of E Parishes encouraged to support work to resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporting efforts to resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees is part of the Church of England&#8217;s mission alongside its work with food banks, street pastors and debt advice services, one its leading bishops says today.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in a blog, Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford, says church groups can provide the &#8216;welcoming flesh on the bones&#8217; to efforts by local authorities and other agencies to resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are talking about a careful, realistic, grown-up setting about the task of welcoming Syrian refugees, just people in extreme need with all the complexities and riches of any human being. This is not the church saying &#8216;look at us being charitable&#8217;, but the people of God letting their deeds speak for Him,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2016\/02\/parishes-encouraged-to-support-work-to-resettle-vulnerable-syrian-refugees.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporting efforts to resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees is part of the Church of England&#8217;s mission alongside its work with food banks, street pastors and debt advice services, one its leading bishops says today. Writing in a blog, Stephen Cottrell, Bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53533\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,389,635,200,144,557,203,184,436,151,108,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533","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=53533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}