{"id":54890,"date":"2016-06-26T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/moscow_times_ukrainian_orthodox_church_seeks_to_cut_ties_with_russia\/"},"modified":"2016-06-26T04:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:42:29","slug":"moscow_times_ukrainian_orthodox_church_seeks_to_cut_ties_with_russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54890","title":{"rendered":"[Moscow Times] Ukrainian Orthodox Church Seeks to Cut Ties With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian parliament has requested that Constantinople recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church&#8217;s independence from Russia, the parliament website reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople \u201d\u201d the head of the Orthodox Church\u201d\u201d was supported by 245 deputies, with 20 deputies voting against. The move is hoped to speed up \u201cchanges that will grant the Ukrainian church independence from an aggressor state,\u201d\u009d the Kommersant newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/arts_n_ideas\/news\/article\/ukrainian-orthodox-church-seeks-to-cut-ties-with-russia\/572744.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian parliament has requested that Constantinople recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church&#8217;s independence from Russia, the parliament website reported Thursday. The appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople \u201d\u201d the head of the Orthodox Church\u201d\u201d was supported by 245 deputies, with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54890\">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":[42,418,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54890","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=54890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}