{"id":12658,"date":"2024-01-24T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:47:08","slug":"editors-note-dedication-of-a-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12658","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: Dedication of a Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you catch the live stream of the big temple dedication? It was celebrated globally. More than a billion people around the world watched and 8,000 were present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, it wasn\u2019t the temple in Israel. It was India\u2019s new temple of Ram, built on the site of a former mosque and dedicated last Monday in what some see as a symbol of the nation\u2019s turn away from the secular, multicultural vision of its founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/01\/22\/hindu-temple-ayodhya-india-modi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Modi\u2019s consecration of controversial Hindu temple caps years-long campaign<\/a> (Washington Post; may require login).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consider how <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2024\/01\/19\/american-hindus-gear-up-for-indias-ram-temple-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in India\u2019s new Ram temple, some American Hindus see a new beginning<\/a> (Religion News Service).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q0BLpR4I2kU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a video about Indians in the diaspora celebrating the event<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you take it in, ask the Lord to guide you in praying for India and the watching world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also be interested in news about <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2024\/01\/19\/gazas-oldest-mosque-was-once-a-temple-to-philistine-and-roman-gods-a-byzantine-and-catholic-church-and-had-engravings-of-jewish-ritual-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a mosque destroyed last month in Gaza<\/a>. Previously, it was the site of the Dagon temple we read about Samson destroying in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=judges+16%3A25-30&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Judges 16:25-30<\/a> (perhaps the sort of thing described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/Isaiah%2042%3A8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isaiah 42:8<\/a>) and after that a Byzantine church and a Catholic cathedral (Religion News).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for praying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pat Noble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! Did you catch the live stream of the big temple dedication? It was celebrated globally. More than a billion people around the world watched and 8,000 were present. No, it wasn\u2019t the temple in Israel. It was India\u2019s new temple of Ram, built on the site of a former mosque and dedicated last Monday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Editor\u2019s Note: Dedication of a Temple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12659,"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-12658","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\/12658","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=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12660,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions\/12660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}