{"id":112,"date":"2006-01-03T20:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/01\/03\/merry-christmas-from-santas-elves\/"},"modified":"2006-01-03T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T00:30:46","slug":"merry-christmas-from-santas-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/01\/03\/merry-christmas-from-santas-elves\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from Santa&#8217;s Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a156'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">from: China Reform Monitor No. 611, January 2, 2006 American Foreign Policy Council<br \/>\n<\/span>Police in northwest China have carried out Christmas raids on<br \/>\n&#8220;underground&#8221; churches, arresting 12 parish leaders and deliberately<br \/>\ndisrupting celebrations, the Agence France Presse reports. On Christmas<br \/>\nEve, six police officers in Korla city, in the central part of Xinjiang<br \/>\nProvince, interrupted a church meeting and ordered 100 worshippers to<br \/>\ngo to a government-sanctioned church service instead. At another<br \/>\nchurch, police declared Christmas mass to be an &#8220;illegal religious<br \/>\ngathering&#8221; before arresting church leaders and confiscating private<br \/>\nproperty.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from: China Reform Monitor No. 611, January 2, 2006 American Foreign Policy Council Police in northwest China have carried out Christmas raids on &#8220;underground&#8221; churches, arresting 12 parish leaders and deliberately disrupting celebrations, the Agence France Presse reports. On Christmas Eve, six police officers in Korla city, in the central part of Xinjiang Province, interrupted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}