{"id":194635,"date":"2022-07-05T02:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=194635"},"modified":"2022-07-05T02:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T20:38:01","slug":"christian-leaders-to-meet-over-tawang-church-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/christian-leaders-to-meet-over-tawang-church-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian leaders to meet over Tawang church issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 4 Jul:<\/strong> Christian leaders from across the state will hold a &#8216;mega consultative meeting&#8217; here on 16 July to discuss the way forward vis-\u00e0-vis the Tawang church issue and the three-member committee&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing reporters at the Arunachal Press Club here on Monday, Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) vice president James Techi Tara said that the ACF has rejected the committee&#8217;s report, stating that the state&#8217;s land law should be equal for everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on Chief Minister Pema Khandu&#8217;s response that the Tawang DC would take the final call in the matter of allotting land for the church, Tara said that &#8220;the DC has already done his work by submitting to the land allotment board for the approval of the report and now it is on the disposal of the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ACF has also sought &#8220;the full-fledged report from the government, with proper signature on it,&#8221; and urged the Tawang DC not to accept the recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to the CM&#8217;s purported remark that &#8220;desecration lies upon the people of Tawang,&#8221; Tara said that &#8220;the capital region is a Nyishi inhabited area. However, it has allowed people of all religions to construct their respective places of worship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ACF, however, expressed hope that an amicable solution to the issue would be reached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on 18 June, the ACF had staged protest marches in all 21 districts of the state over the Tawang church issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 4 Jul: Christian leaders from across the state will hold a &#8216;mega consultative meeting&#8217; here on 16 July to discuss the way forward vis-\u00e0-vis the Tawang church issue and the three-member committee&#8217;s report. Addressing reporters at the Arunachal Press Club here on Monday, Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) vice president James Techi Tara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}