{"id":51493,"date":"2017-10-30T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=51493"},"modified":"2017-10-30T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:28:50","slug":"%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d9%85%d9%86-6-%d8%a8%d9%86%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d9%85%d9%86-6-%d8%a8%d9%86%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor of Minya issues a statement on the crisis of \u00abclosing churches\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Minya Governor Major General Essam al-Badawi issued a statement on the closure of four churches in the province\u00a0due to extremists attacks referring to the\u00a0churches a &#8220;houses&#8221;!!!.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The statement stressed that the province of Minya with all its authorities, officials and governors firmly believe in the right of every Egyptian to perform his religious rites freely and easily.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The statement stressed that since the the governor of Minya\u00a0took office in September 2016, he puts the issue worship places and facilitate prayer in it, especially Christian\u00a0one, on the priority of his concerns in the belief that there will be no real development for the province of Minya in particular and our beloved Egypt in general if we do not solve our internal problems.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He added that the high status of His Grace Bishop Makarios, Bishop of Minya and Abu Qorkas, in the hearts of the people of Minya governorate makes us point to the need to ascertain the information presented to him, especially with regard to the practice of religious rites in unlicensed homes before issuing statements.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The statement\u00a0underestimate the crisis of attacks on churches and Copts in the province and described the churches as houses and unlicensed places\u00a0where praying forbidden.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minya Governor Major General Essam al-Badawi issued a statement on the closure of four churches in the province\u00a0due to extremists attacks referring to the\u00a0churches a &#8220;houses&#8221;!!!. The statement stressed that the province of Minya with all its authorities, officials and governors firmly believe in the right of every Egyptian to perform his religious rites freely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":51494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,40,74],"tags":[9880,5303,5301,9801,3887,2418,754,310,9863,8933,1526],"class_list":["post-51493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-74","tag-closing-churches","tag-crisis","tag-governor-of-minya","tag-issues","tag-statement","tag-2418","tag-754","tag-310","tag-9863","tag-8933","tag-1526"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51532,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493\/revisions\/51532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}