{"id":5433,"date":"2009-08-30T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2009-08-30T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:13:17","slug":"startling-news-from-the-world-council-of-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/startling-news-from-the-world-council-of-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Startling news from the World Council of Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WCC has a new General Secretary with a \u201cNew Agenda\u201d and \u2013 everyone should sit down for this bit \u2013 he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/news\/news-management\/eng\/a\/article\/\/the-new-agenda-unity-rem.html\" target=\"_blank\">noticed<\/a> that Christians are often in the minority and suffer from persecution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tveit said many Christians today are minorities in the communities and countries where they live, or in areas that are suffering from violence or extreme poverty, or both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After this unusual flash of insight, the WCC GS makes a quick recovery to note that we really must do something about climate change, have dialogue with Islam and see each other as human.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny spark of insight that was quickly extinguished by the familiar deadening blanket of bombastic clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WCC has a new General Secretary with a \u201cNew Agenda\u201d and \u2013 everyone should sit down for this bit \u2013 he has noticed that Christians are often in the minority and suffer from persecution: Tveit said many Christians today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/startling-news-from-the-world-council-of-churches\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","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=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}