{"id":37217,"date":"2015-01-12T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37217"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:57:22","slug":"the-sri-lanka-muslim-congress-welcomes-his-holiness-pope-francis-on-his-inaugural-visit-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37217","title":{"rendered":"The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress welcomes His Holiness Pope Francis on his inaugural visit to Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Text of Media Release Issued by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress on 12 January 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37230\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/POPE1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37230\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/POPE1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"His Holiness Pope Francis Arrives in Sri Lanka-facebook.com\/popevisitsrilanka2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37230\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Holiness Pope Francis Arrives in Sri Lanka-facebook.com\/popevisitsrilanka2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress welcomes His Holiness Pope Francis on his inaugural visit to Sri Lanka.<br \/>\nHis Holiness, the first pope from the Global South, has played an important role in fostering understanding and harmony between communities based on the principles of mutual respect and dialogue. <\/p>\n<p>His concern for the oppressed and his commitment to social justice has been appreciated by the disadvantaged around the world, including in Sri Lanka.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe hope that His Holiness\u2019 presence, advice and example will help make this critical opportunity in our democratic history a turning point in the struggle for equality, justice and freedom. We also hope that it will renew our society\u2019s commitment to compassion, peace and virtue. <\/p>\n<p><em>M.T. Hasen Ali MP<br \/>\nSecretary-General<br \/>\nSri Lanka Muslim Congress<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton37217\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D37217&amp;text=The%20Sri%20Lanka%20Muslim%20Congress%20welcomes%20His%20Holiness%20Pope%20Francis%20on%20his%20inaugural%20visit%20to%20Sri%20Lanka.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Text of Media Release Issued by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress on 12 January 2015) The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress welcomes His Holiness Pope Francis on his inaugural visit to Sri Lanka. His Holiness, the first pope from the Global South, has played an important role in fostering understanding and harmony between communities based on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress welcomes His Holiness Pope Francis on his inaugural visit to Sri Lanka.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37231,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions\/37231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}