{"id":10662,"date":"2021-04-02T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2021-04-02T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:26:10","slug":"outspoken-mannar-bishop-rayappu-joseph-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/outspoken-mannar-bishop-rayappu-joseph-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Outspoken Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outspoken Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph has passed away. He was 80-years-old at the time of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Bishop was very open on his views during the war against the LTTE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was mostly seen as being a critic of the military\u2019s conduct during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bishop Rayappu Joseph was born on April 16, 1940 in Jaffna. He was ordained a priest on Dec. 13, 1967, and appointed Bishop of Mannar on July 6, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bishop Rayappu obtained a doctorate in Canon law at the Pontifical Urban University, Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was later appointed Professor at St Xavier\u2019s Seminary Jaffna. He is the Vice President of the Bishops\u2019 Conference in Sri Lanka and chairman for the Catholic National Commission for Laity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is fluent in Italian, German and English. Bishop Rayappu worked in close collaboration with the Vatican, international Caritas agencies and countries of the European Union to promote peace in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph has passed away. He was 80-years-old at the time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10664,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/10664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}