{"id":199969,"date":"2022-09-08T00:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=199969"},"modified":"2022-09-08T00:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:13:17","slug":"rev-tanya-riram-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/rev-tanya-riram-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev Tanya Riram passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Litem Eshi Ori ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BILAT, 7 Sep:<\/strong> Reverend Tanya Riram, who was popularly known as &#8216;Riram Yai&#8217;, passed away on Wednesday at his home here in East Siang district after a prolonged illness. He was 94.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riram was born in 1928 in Sago village in West Siang district. He took baptism in October 1969 in Gogamukh, Assam, and served as a pastor from 1970 to 1985.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was inducted as an evangelist in April 1985 at the Sille Baptist church. He also served as the president of the Adi Baptist Bane Kebang from 1983 to 1985.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riram was ordained as a reverend in February 2010 in Bilat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He leaves behind his wife, two sons and four daughters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a condolence message, Adi Baptist Council executive secretary Tatem Modi said, &#8220;It is with great sadness that we have lost reverend Riram. We thank god for Rev Riram&#8217;s life and witness during the past several decades. In his passing away, we have lost a good soldier of Jesus Christ. His demise has created a huge vacuum in the religious organisation of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local MLA Ninong Ering also offered heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rev Riram&#8217;s last rites will be performed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Litem Eshi Ori ] BILAT, 7 Sep: Reverend Tanya Riram, who was popularly known as &#8216;Riram Yai&#8217;, passed away on Wednesday at his home here in East Siang district after a prolonged illness. He was 94. Riram was born in 1928 in Sago village in West Siang district. He took baptism in October 1969 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199969","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\/199969","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=199969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}