{"id":61873,"date":"2017-07-27T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61873"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:05:30","slug":"cbc-leamington-ontario-anglican-church-opens-doors-to-muslim-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61873","title":{"rendered":"(CBC) Leamington, Ontario, Anglican church opens doors to Muslim worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Asghar kneeled on the floor alongside a couple of dozen fellow Muslims last week silently praying. When he looked up and turned his head, he smiled at the Anglican priest kneeling behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To my amazement, he came and joined me in the prayer,&#8221; Asghar said.<\/p>\n<p>A Christian clergyman kneeling inside a mosque would normally be an unusual occurrence, but in Leamington \u2014 the small farming community in southwestern Ontario \u2014 it&#8217;s become a common sight.<\/p>\n<p>Asghar and many others regularly pray at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, where the Muslim community has set up a mosque, thanks to a deal worked out between the two religious communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/leamington-ont-anglican-church-opens-doors-to-muslim-worshippers-1.4221661\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Asghar kneeled on the floor alongside a couple of dozen fellow Muslims last week silently praying. When he looked up and turned his head, he smiled at the Anglican priest kneeling behind him. &#8220;To my amazement, he came and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61873\">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":[332,207,426,659,47,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-provinces-other-than-tec","category-canada","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-provinces-other-than-tec","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61873","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=61873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61874,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61873\/revisions\/61874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}