{"id":33550,"date":"2016-01-14T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=33550"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:05:44","slug":"%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d9%85%d8%a6%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d9%85%d8%a6%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi Christians protest construction of court building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Bangladeshi Christian community in Barisal Jan. 10 staged a hunger strike to protest against a government decision to construct a court building by filling a historical pond owned by a church.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The protesters also handed a memorandum to the local government calling for construction to be stopped on the 10-story building.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A multi-denominational group of Christians formed a human chain in front of government offices and marched through the city before handing the memorandum to government officials.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The pond has belonged to St. Peter\u2019s Church since 1849. It was originally used for baptisms. It later years it was used as a reserve pond for drinking water.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A previous protest against filling the pond last April 12 turned violent, with 13 people injured in clashes<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi Christian community in Barisal Jan. 10 staged a hunger strike to protest against a government decision to construct a court building by filling a historical pond owned by a church. The protesters also handed a memorandum to the local government calling for construction to be stopped on the 10-story building. A multi-denominational group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[3565,3564,292,3562,3566,3563],"class_list":["post-33550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-3565","tag-3564","tag-292","tag-3562","tag-3566","tag-3563"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33552,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33550\/revisions\/33552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}