{"id":21227,"date":"2014-04-02T19:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2014-04-02T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:23:47","slug":"the-diocese-of-new-westminster-sells-a-church-to-make-way-for-a-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-sells-a-church-to-make-way-for-a-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of New Westminster sells a church to make way for a mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/news\/call-to-prayer-1.370682\" target=\"_blank\">sold St. Richard&#8217;s Anglican Church<\/a> to the North Vancouver Islamic Association for $3.05 million as a site for the Ar-Rahman mosque.<\/p>\n<p>After selling a church to a competing religion, the next obvious step for members of the diocese is to start attending the mosque. After all, all religions are equally valid; there are many ways to God; we don\u2019t want to exclude anyone; everyone knows Michael Ingham&#8217;s book <em>should<\/em> have been titled &#8220;Mosques of the Spirit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21228\" alt=\"3 Women's Prayer Room\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/3-Womens-Prayer-Room.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"169\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.anglican.ca\/Home\/tabid\/161\/ArticleId\/1994\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday March 30th, forty-five Anglicans and Lutherans were guests at Masjid Ar-Ramnan, the mosque in the former St. Richard&#8217;s building in North Vancouver. As part of a North Vancouver Lenten Visiting Program &#8220;Who is my neighbour?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese sold St. Richard&#8217;s Anglican Church to the North Vancouver Islamic Association for $3.05 million as a site for the Ar-Rahman mosque. After selling a church to a competing religion, the next obvious step for members of the diocese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-sells-a-church-to-make-way-for-a-mosque\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[2110,2178,1784],"class_list":["post-21227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-islam","tag-st-richards-anglican-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}