{"id":54007,"date":"2016-04-07T18:42:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_canada_thinks_it_has_a_better_way_to_defend_religious_freedom\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:42:51","slug":"ct_canada_thinks_it_has_a_better_way_to_defend_religious_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54007","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Canada Thinks It Has a Better Way to Defend Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first attempt to replicate the United States\u2019s diplomatic advocacy for beleaguered believers worldwide has come to an end.<br \/>\nFive years ago, Canada\u2019s Conservative party campaigned for a new office to champion the cause of international religious freedom (IRF). The office opened in 2013, looking to complement the strengths of the US State Department\u2019s IRF office that it was modeled after.<br \/>\nBut six months after the Conservatives lost national elections to the Liberal party, the four-person, $5 million Office of Religious Freedom (ORF) has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2016\/april\/canada-closes-office-religious-freedom-orf-andrew-bennett.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first attempt to replicate the United States\u2019s diplomatic advocacy for beleaguered believers worldwide has come to an end. Five years ago, Canada\u2019s Conservative party campaigned for a new office to champion the cause of international religious freedom (IRF). The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54007\">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":[39,40,50,209,207,168,114,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54007","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=54007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}