{"id":62538,"date":"2018-08-04T05:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=62538"},"modified":"2018-08-06T05:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:19:57","slug":"orthodox-church-to-observe-protest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=62538","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Church to observe \u2018protest day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">NCW suggestion on confession<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62286\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession-768x438.jpg 768w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession-1024x584.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession-70x40.jpg 70w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/confession.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-24605421\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church will observe August 5 as \u2018day of protest\u2019 against a recommendation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) to ban the sacrament of confession in churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The commission made the suggestion recently following a sex scandal involving four priests of the Orthodox Church, who allegedly misused the secret confession by a laywoman to blackmail and sexually exploit her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In a statement on Saturday, Church authorities said confession was one of the important sacraments of the Church and the government should reject the recommendation. The recommendation was immature and taken without proper study, discussion or analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A resolution demanding the rejection of the suggestion would be adopted by believers during the Sunday mass on August 5, the press note said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The resolution said the recommendation was a blemish on the rich Indian culture which had always viewed the values of the Christian faith with respect and tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/orthodox-church-to-observe-protest-day\/article24605421.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCW suggestion on confession The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church will observe August 5 as \u2018day of protest\u2019 against a recommendation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) to ban the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-general-news","category-priests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538","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=62538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62539,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538\/revisions\/62539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}