{"id":69981,"date":"2018-04-07T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69981"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:26:19","slug":"afp-china-enforces-ban-on-online-bible-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69981","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) China enforces ban on online Bible sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bibles have been pulled from Chinese online retailers in &#8220;recent days&#8221;, merchants told AFP on Friday, as Communist authorities ramp up control over religious worship.<\/p>\n<p>The clamp down on &#8220;illegally published books&#8221; also comes as the Vatican and Beijing negotiate a historic agreement on the appointment of bishops in China<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bibles and books without publication numbers have all been removed in recent days,&#8221; a merchant on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao told AFP, without giving details on how authorities have enforced the ban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/826\/china-enforces-ban-online-bible-sales-doc-13q9qm1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibles have been pulled from Chinese online retailers in &#8220;recent days&#8221;, merchants told AFP on Friday, as Communist authorities ramp up control over religious worship. The clamp down on &#8220;illegally published books&#8221; also comes as the Vatican and Beijing negotiate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69981\">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":[94,92,502,168,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-china","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981","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=69981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69982,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions\/69982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}