{"id":11313,"date":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/10\/fiji-hindu-group-rejects-christian-state-calls\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","slug":"fiji-hindu-group-rejects-christian-state-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/10\/fiji-hindu-group-rejects-christian-state-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Hindu Group Rejects Christian State Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/international\/2012-09-06\/fiji-hindu-group-rejects-christian-state-calls\/1012008\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FIJI, September 6, 2012 (Radio Australia): Calls for Fiji to become an officially Christian state have been rejected by one of the country&#8217;s main Hindu groups. It comes after the president of Fiji&#8217;s Methodist Church yesterday said the country was ceded to God by the chiefs and was therefore a Christian nation.<\/p>\n<p>Vijendra Prakash, general secretary of Sanatan Dharam, told Radio Australia his members would prefer Fiji be a secular state where religion does not mix with politics. &#8220;Because this country is multicultural religion and a multilingual country, and we have been living so happily,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All the religious organisations are given respect and rights and no one is given supremacy over another or try to undermine the others.&#8221; Mr. Prakash said all citizens had a right to worship, regardless of their religion. <\/p>\n<p>Fiji Methodist Church&#8217;s new president, Tuikilakila Waqairatu, on Wednesday said he supported the idea of of Fiji becoming a Christian state. &#8220;Fiji was given to God,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When we say that Fiji is a Christian state &#8230; we say it was decided by our chiefs who ceded Fiji to Great Britain that Fiji be a Christian country. &#8220;When it was given to God, it has already established its covenant relationship with God, and that covenant relationship is eternal &#8211; it cannot be withdrawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FIJI, September 6, 2012 (Radio Australia): Calls for Fiji to become an officially Christian state have been rejected by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}