{"id":4875,"date":"2014-08-06T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:30:10","slug":"philippines-village-of-christians-seeks-exclusion-from-islamic-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"PHILIPPINES: Village of Christians Seeks Exclusion from Islamic Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/\">Worthy News<\/a>, August 4, 2014<\/p>\n<p>A Christian town in Mindanao is protesting its incorporation into the newly created, semi-independent Islamic region of Bangsamoro in the Philippines, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/barnabasaid.org\/\">Barnabas Aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wao&#8217;s mayor, Elvino Balicao, is seeking an exemption from Bangsamoro&#8217;s Islamic law and has asked that his town remain directly under the administration of the Philippine government.<\/p>\n<p>Wao is located in the middle of the Muslim-majority province of Lanao del Sur; Wao is the only Christian-majority town in the province.<\/p>\n<p>After a decades-long insurgency, the Philippines signed off on a peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to establish Bangsamoro.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/17492-christian-town-seeks-exclusion-from-islamic-region\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Worthy News, August 4, 2014 A Christian town in Mindanao is protesting its incorporation into the newly created, semi-independent Islamic region of Bangsamoro in the Philippines, according to Barnabas Aid. Wao&#8217;s mayor, Elvino Balicao, is seeking an exemption from Bangsamoro&#8217;s Islamic law and has asked that his town remain directly under the administration of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PHILIPPINES: Village of Christians Seeks Exclusion from Islamic Region<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}