{"id":55454,"date":"2016-08-29T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chinas_zhejiang_bans_religious_activities_in_hospitals_as_crackdown_widens\/"},"modified":"2016-08-29T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T01:00:02","slug":"chinas_zhejiang_bans_religious_activities_in_hospitals_as_crackdown_widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55454","title":{"rendered":"China&#39;s Zhejiang Bans Religious Activities in Hospitals as Crackdown Widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have banned all forms of religious activity in hospitals in an ongoing crackdown targeting the region&#8217;s burgeoning Protestant Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>A public notice posted at the Central Hospital in Zhejiang&#8217;s Wenzhou, a city that has been dubbed &#8220;China&#8217;s Jerusalem&#8221; because of its high concentration of Christians, made patients and their visitors unequivocally aware of the new rules this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religious activities are banned in this hospital,&#8221; the notice said. The Wenzhou Central Hospital was originally set up as a Protestant hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An employee who answered the phone at the same hospital&#8230;confirmed the new measures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/religious-08182016132355.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have banned all forms of religious activity in hospitals in an ongoing crackdown targeting the region&#8217;s burgeoning Protestant Christian community. A public notice posted at the Central Hospital in Zhejiang&#8217;s Wenzhou, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55454\">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":[39,40,50,201,502,104,133,114,151,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55454","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=55454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}