{"id":6043,"date":"2019-04-18T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:00:53","slug":"pm-to-meet-bishop-igp-over-church-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/pm-to-meet-bishop-igp-over-church-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"PM to meet Bishop, IGP over church attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to meet with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Methodist Church Bishop Asiri Perera and others over the Anuradhapura Methodist church attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Methodist prayer centre was attacked on Palm Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution, Dr. Harsha de Silva tweeted saying the Police must take swuft action over the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also condemned some statements made by the IGP over the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIGP story that this is \u2018library\u2019 converted to a church n reason for neighbours to react absolutely not true according to Bishop. IGP, religious freedom has to be guaranteed. PM n relevant officials meeting Bishop Asiri tomorrow. IGP story that this is \u2018library\u2019 converted to a church n reason for neighbours to react absolutely not true according to Bishop. IGP, religious freedom has to be guaranteed,\u201d Harsha de Silva tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A group of about 25 people had threatened the Bishop and then attacked the church with stones and firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to meet with the Inspector General of Police (IGP),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","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=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}