{"id":50075,"date":"2017-01-09T08:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=50075"},"modified":"2017-01-09T08:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:13:37","slug":"elections-to-our-church-bodies-prof-dr-m-p-mathai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=50075","title":{"rendered":"Elections to our church bodies  \/ Prof. Dr. M. P. Mathai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/M-P-Mathai.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50076\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/M-P-Mathai.jpg\" alt=\"m-p-mathai\" width=\"216\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dear Friends, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Elections to our church bodies are turning out to be worse than political elections. Unless sane and sober people in the church,particularly the laity, stand up and speak out situation would drift and deteriorate further. Let us be vigilant and do our best to identify the genuine and promote them.\u00a0 Let us wipe out those who shamelessly try to hang on to positions of power and thus set an example this time. That will, hopefully, become a healthy precedent. It looks, it is a now or never situation. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Let me also humbly remind all that &#8220;eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prof. Dr. M. P. Mathai<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Elections to our church bodies are turning out to be worse than political elections. Unless sane and sober people in the church,particularly the laity, stand up and speak &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malankara-association-2017-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075","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=50075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50077,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions\/50077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}