{"id":23365,"date":"2015-10-02T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23365"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:08:03","slug":"anglican-priest-and-imam-officiate-at-a-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-priest-and-imam-officiate-at-a-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican priest and imam officiate at a wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23366\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DwayneBos.ImamDemiray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DwayneBos.ImamDemiray.jpg 514w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DwayneBos.ImamDemiray-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DwayneBos.ImamDemiray-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More inclusion from the Anglican Church of Canada: Rev. Dwayne Bos and Imam Suleyman Demiray officiated at a wedding between a Christian and a Muslim. Apparently, the precedent for this was set some time ago when the Church married a Christian to a Wiccan. The Anglican Church of Canada is easing its way into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chrislam\" target=\"_blank\">Chrislam <\/a>via Wicca, a belief system which already strongly resembles that of the ACoC.<\/p>\n<p>The imam recited a passage from the Al-Fatiha in the Quran, not to be confused with the Quran 8:12 passage which invites Mohammed\u2019s followers to behead the infidel \u2013 a bit of a downer just before the honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/-in-cfb-borden-anglican-priest-imam-officiate-interfaith-wedding\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>History was made this summer at Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ont., with a unique interfaith wedding, the officiating clerics say.<\/p>\n<p>On August 29, Capt. Georgette Mink, a physiotherapist in the Canadian military, was married to Ahmad Osman, a soldier in the Lebanese army. Although technically a Christian marriage, it was attended by representatives from both the Christian and Muslim religions, and was followed by a Muslim blessing of the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. the Rev. Dwayne Bos, the Anglican padre who officiated, said he believes other weddings may have been done in the Canadian military involving Christians and non-Christians\u2014he has heard of some involving one Wiccan partner, for example. But the fact that clerics from both faith traditions co-performed the liturgy made this one unique, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what we understand and know, this would be the first one of this type that\u2019s ever been done in the Canadian Forces,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More inclusion from the Anglican Church of Canada: Rev. Dwayne Bos and Imam Suleyman Demiray officiated at a wedding between a Christian and a Muslim. Apparently, the precedent for this was set some time ago when the Church married a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-priest-and-imam-officiate-at-a-wedding\/\">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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,2315,2178],"class_list":["post-23365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-chrislam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365","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=23365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}