{"id":64780,"date":"2017-10-27T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64780"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T17:30:09","slug":"church-times-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-must-be-protected-say-mps-and-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64780","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Freedom of religion or belief must be protected, say MPs and peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks on the freedom of religion are on the rise around the world, and protecting that freedom must become a priority of both the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfID), a new report by a parliamentary committee argues.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for International Freedom of Religion or Belief released the report, Article 18: From rhetoric to reality, on Wednesday, to mark International Freedom of Religion or Belief Day, which is today.<\/p>\n<p>Among the contributors to the report was the UN\u2019s special rapporteur for freedom of religion and belief, Dr Ahmed Shaheed, who wrote: \u201cThis report comes at a time when acts of intolerance involving religion or belief are on the rise globally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/27-october\/news\/uk\/freedom-of-religion-or-belief-must-be-protected-says-report\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks on the freedom of religion are on the rise around the world, and protecting that freedom must become a priority of both the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfID), a new report by a parliamentary committee<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64780\">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":[168,119,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780","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=64780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64785,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780\/revisions\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}