{"id":80384,"date":"2019-04-17T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80384"},"modified":"2019-04-17T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:32:36","slug":"anglicans-and-catholics-make-joint-submission-to-foreign-office-review-on-persecuted-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80384","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans and Catholics make joint submission to Foreign Office review on persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/news\/latest-news\/anglicans-and-catholics-make-joint-submission-foreign-office-review-persecuted\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church of England and the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales have made a joint submission to the Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office support for persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint letter accompanying the submission, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said that in many places \u201cour Christian sisters and brothers face persecution of an intensity and extent unprecedented in many centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Archbishops added that these threats to freedom of religion or belief are not restricted to Christians alone, but are a widespread experience of the followers of other faiths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government to take note of the practical recommendations offered by our Churches in this Submission and to take meaningful action not only in protecting Christians facing persecution but also in promoting freedom of religion and belief more widely,\u201d they said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(follow the link to see the 2 full letters).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anglicans and Catholics make joint submission to Foreign Office review on persecuted Christians<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bWT5KbFH4E\">https:\/\/t.co\/bWT5KbFH4E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The submission was accompanied by a joint letter from the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YBFTsd9ufE\">pic.twitter.com\/YBFTsd9ufE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 churchstate (@churchstate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchstate\/status\/1118473852131192837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: The Church of England and the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales have made a joint submission to the Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office support for persecuted Christians. In a joint letter accompanying the submission,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80384\">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":[324,158,119,157,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-ecumenical-relations","category-globalization","category-religious-freedom-persecution","category-roman-catholic-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80384","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=80384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80386,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80384\/revisions\/80386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}