{"id":378,"date":"2021-01-20T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=378"},"modified":"2021-02-21T19:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:57:37","slug":"tightening-of-the-screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Tightening of the screw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h3>Increasing anti-Christian regulations worldwide provide a sharp reminder of our troubled times.<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bulgarian Parliament has agreed not to pass into law prohibitive amendments to the nation\u2019s Religious Denominations Act after thousands of Christians protested against a crackdown on the religious activity of minority religions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian parliamentary&nbsp;<em>Committee for Religion and Human Rights<\/em>&nbsp;met on the 19th December 2018 to discuss changes to the&nbsp;<em>Religious Denominations Act<\/em>&nbsp;with representatives of minority religions, including members of the Bulgarian Evangelical Alliance. The final vote on the changes, without the severe amendments, took place two days later on 21st December.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing anti-Christian regulations worldwide provide a sharp reminder of our troubled times. The Bulgarian Parliament has agreed not to pass into law prohibitive amendments to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}