{"id":63111,"date":"2019-03-29T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=63111"},"modified":"2019-03-29T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:08:10","slug":"neirbc-says-church-not-aligned-with-any-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/neirbc-says-church-not-aligned-with-any-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"NEIRBC says church not aligned with any political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, Mar 28:<\/strong> The Catholic leaders of Northeast India have issued a statement saying the church does not identify itself with any political party.<br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to the Catholic faithful of the region, Rev Dominic Jala, the president of the North East India Regional Bishop&#8217;s Council (NEIRBC), called upon everyone to exercise their franchise.<br \/>\n&#8220;Voting at every election is a sacred duty and obligation of every citizen,&#8221; the letter said, and urged everyone to rise above religion, culture and caste to participate in the democratic process.<br \/>\nHe highlighted some of the growing concerns in the country, like the huge gap between the rich and the poor, the meagre wages for the unorganized labourers, farmers&#8217; distress, and corruption at all levels.<br \/>\nRev Jala also issued a seven-point guideline to church leaders, which includes, among other things, working for an economy that seeks to help the poor and the underprivileged, promoting probity in public life, ensuring a safe environment for all, safeguarding the rights of the tribals over their land, water and forests, promoting communal harmony and the spirit of national integrity through inter-religious dialogue and understanding, and taking steps to protect the environment.<br \/>\nThe letter ended with a prayer to the leaders from the Northeast to work together to bring the concerns of the region to the national arena for the overall development of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, Mar 28: The Catholic leaders of Northeast India have issued a statement saying the church does not identify itself with any political party. In a letter addressed to the Catholic faithful of the region, Rev Dominic Jala, the president of the North East India Regional Bishop&#8217;s Council (NEIRBC), called upon everyone to exercise their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63111","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=63111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}