{"id":44156,"date":"2016-04-12T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=44156"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:58:29","slug":"catholicos-baselios-paulose-ii-bans-firework-display-at-orthodox-church-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=44156","title":{"rendered":"Catholicos Baselios Paulose II Bans Firework Display at Orthodox Church Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44157\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"HH_Paulose_II_catholicos1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HH_Paulose_II_catholicos1.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/paulose_ii_fireworks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44189\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/paulose_ii_fireworks-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"paulose_ii_fireworks\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/paulose_ii_fireworks-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/paulose_ii_fireworks.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Kerala- India:<\/strong> Kerala- India: Following a national tragedy at the Kollam Temple (Kerala State) fire incident, His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II \u2013 Catholicos on the Apostolic Throne of St. Thomas and Malankara Metropolitan \u2013 Primate of the Indian Orthodox Malankara Church has banned fireworks from all Orthodox church festivals. A statement was issued by the office of the Catholicos asking faithful and leaders to refrain from displaying fire works during festivals and church processions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Catholicos urged his faithful to extend their help, support &amp; prayers to the victims of the fire accident. The Prelate extended his prayers and condolences to the family members\u00a0of the departed ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<br \/>\nOCP News Service<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala- India: Kerala- India: Following a national tragedy at the Kollam Temple (Kerala State) fire incident, His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II \u2013 Catholicos on the Apostolic Throne of St. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-hh-marthoma-paulose-ii-catholicos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44190,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44156\/revisions\/44190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}