{"id":10470,"date":"2021-09-15T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:39:51","slug":"a-day-of-atonement-japans-minister-of-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10470","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Atonement | Japan&#8217;s Minister of Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In this edition:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Editor\u2019s Note: A Day of Atonement<\/li><li>Afghanistan: Has the Taliban Opened a Back Door for Chinese Missionaries?<\/li><li>Philippines: Rival Factions Sow Seeds of the Kingdom<\/li><li>Japan: The Surprising Appointment of a Minister of Loneliness<\/li><li>South Africa: God Sends Christian Leaders on Mission of Healing<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/missionscatalyst\/jewish-day-of-atonement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read or share the email version<\/a> or scroll down for individual stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition: Editor\u2019s Note: A Day of Atonement Afghanistan: Has the Taliban Opened a Back Door for Chinese Missionaries? Philippines: Rival Factions Sow Seeds of the Kingdom Japan: The Surprising Appointment of a Minister of Loneliness South Africa: God Sends Christian Leaders on Mission of Healing Read or share the email version or scroll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Day of Atonement | Japan&#8217;s Minister of Loneliness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}