{"id":65743,"date":"2017-11-27T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65743"},"modified":"2017-11-27T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:46:47","slug":"indian-express-electoral-commission-serves-notice-to-r-catholic-archbishop-for-letter-seeking-prayers-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65743","title":{"rendered":"(Indian Express) Electoral Commission serves notice to R Catholic archbishop for letter seeking prayers for election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Election Commission on Saturday served a notice on Thomas Macwan, Archbishop of Gandhinagar and sought an explanation on his letter issued to the Catholic community\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/elections\/gujarat-assembly-elections-2017\/gandhinagar-archbishop-to-followers-pray-for-election-of-humane-leaders-4950410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking prayers to ensure<\/a>\u00a0the election of leaders who \u201cremain faithful to the Indian Constitution\u201d so that the country can be \u201csaved of nationalist forces\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The notice, served through the District Election Officer of Gandhinagar, asks the Archbishop to explain why his appeal should not be viewed as a violation of the Model Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/elections\/gujarat-assembly-elections-2017\/ec-notice-to-archbishop-for-letter-seeking-prayers-for-election-4954875\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Election Commission on Saturday served a notice on Thomas Macwan, Archbishop of Gandhinagar and sought an explanation on his letter issued to the Catholic community\u00a0seeking prayers to ensure\u00a0the election of leaders who \u201cremain faithful to the Indian Constitution\u201d so<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65743\">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":[481,114,151,108,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743","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=65743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65745,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743\/revisions\/65745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}