{"id":65869,"date":"2017-11-30T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65869"},"modified":"2017-11-30T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:00:31","slug":"wwm-egypt-21-churches-receive-long-delayed-government-approval-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65869","title":{"rendered":"(WWM) Egypt: 21 churches receive long-delayed government approval to build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one churches in Egypt\u2019s southern rural Minya governorate can restore, expand and rebuild their churches after receiving approval from the Minya Governor.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Essam al-Bedeiwi approved the 21 applications\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wataninet.com\/coptic-affairs-coptic-affairs\/sectarian\/minya-evangelical-church-gets-21-renovation-permits\/22036\/\">over the last\u00a0six months<\/a>. Some of the churches had been waiting for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2017\/11\/egypt-church-reopening-22-years-geopolitical-gesture-us\/\">more than 20 years<\/a>\u00a0for a permit to come through.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 November an evangelical church in Tama, Sohag governorate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elwatannews.com\/news\/details\/2733770\">also received permission<\/a>\u00a0to renovate its building.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts note that the approvals have preceded several visits by international evangelical delegations to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2017\/11\/egypt-21-churches-receive-long-delayed-government-approval-to-build\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one churches in Egypt\u2019s southern rural Minya governorate can restore, expand and rebuild their churches after receiving approval from the Minya Governor. Governor Essam al-Bedeiwi approved the 21 applications\u00a0over the last\u00a0six months. Some of the churches had been waiting for\u00a0more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65869\">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":[560,203,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-middle-east","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869","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=65869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65872,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions\/65872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}