{"id":183,"date":"2007-11-19T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2007\/11\/19\/sudanese-refugees-welcome\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T02:01:01","slug":"sudanese-refugees-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/11\/19\/sudanese-refugees-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Refugees Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" width=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.international.mq.edu.au\/globe\/admin\/images\/Edition%2045\/Sudan%20childRZ.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Young Sudanese Australian\" height=\"171\" style=\"width: 216px; height: 171px\" title=\"Young Sudanese Australian\" \/>The historic Anglican church of St John&#8217;s in Footscray in Melbourne&#8217;s west is discovering the generous spirit of local Sudanese refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Sudanese Bari community have collected money to assist with reconstruction of the church&#8217;s arch. Earlier this month this money was presented to Bishop Philip Huggins.<\/p>\n<p>Many members of the Sudaneses community are subject to harrassment and race-related threats. Following the welcome gift, there were prayers in the church about this issue. Since arriving in Australia, many of these people have been praying regularly in this church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Anglican church of St John&#8217;s in Footscray in Melbourne&#8217;s west is discovering the generous spirit of local Sudanese refugees. Members of the Sudanese Bari community have collected money to assist with reconstruction of the church&#8217;s arch. Earlier this month this money was presented to Bishop Philip Huggins. Many members of the Sudaneses community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}