{"id":57007,"date":"2017-01-10T21:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_michael_nazir-ali_condemns_koran_reading_at_anglican_cathedral_epiphany_\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T21:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:12:55","slug":"bp_michael_nazir-ali_condemns_koran_reading_at_anglican_cathedral_epiphany_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57007","title":{"rendered":"Bp Michael Nazir-Ali Condemns Koran Reading At Anglican Cathedral Epiphany Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester condemned the reading and called for discipline against those involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The authorities of the Scottish Episcopal Church should immediately repudiate this ill-advised invitation,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to publicly distance the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion from the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Christians should know what their fellow citizens believe and this can include reading the Qur&#8217;an for themselves, whether in the original or in translation. This is not, however, the same thing as having it read in Church in the context of public worship,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/bishop.michael.nazir.ali.condemns.koran.reading.at.anglican.cathedral.epiphany.service\/103716.htm\">Read it all<\/a> from Christian Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester condemned the reading and called for discipline against those involved. &#8220;The authorities of the Scottish Episcopal Church should immediately repudiate this ill-advised invitation,&#8221; he said in a statement. He also called for the Archbishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57007\">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":[36,48,39,42,74,92,389,635,161,426,183,659,155,184,398,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-books","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007","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=57007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}