{"id":56668,"date":"2017-10-20T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=56668"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:41:11","slug":"diwali-celebration-at-st-thomas-orthodox-theological-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=56668","title":{"rendered":"Diwali celebration at St Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/malankaratv\/posts\/10212427830842103<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DIWALI CELEBRATION AT STOTS, NAGPUR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Festival of Diwali &#8211; one of the most important festival of India was celebrated at the St. Thomas<br \/>\nOrthodox Theological Seminary, Nagpur on October 19, 2017. The feast was celebrated in all its glory at<br \/>\nthe Seminary Campus with the neighbouring villagers participating along with the Seminary students and<br \/>\nthe staff members of the Prerana Special School. The traditional Diya was lit in hundreds of numbers all<br \/>\naround the Campus along with minimal number of fire crackers keeping in mind its cultural significance.<br \/>\nThe prayers, songs and messages delivered on the festive evening served as an enriching experience for<br \/>\nthe neighbours of the Seminary. The important underlying aspect of weeding out the inner darkness and<br \/>\nspreading the light of the joy of Christ was well highlighted. The Diwali celebration at the Seminary<br \/>\nindicates the sensitivity of the Orthodox Church to the local cultures and the approach of Inculturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/malankaratv\/posts\/10212427830842103 DIWALI CELEBRATION AT STOTS, NAGPUR The Festival of Diwali &#8211; one of the most important festival of India was celebrated at the St. Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary, Nagpur on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-st-thomas-seminary-nagpur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56668","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=56668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56670,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56668\/revisions\/56670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}